Never Again: Exchanging Vicious Terrorists For Innocent Hostages

October 15, 2025 By Robin M. Itzler

 There are some things we can predict: the sun will rise in the east, California’s Governor Gavin Newsom will make idiotic statements, and Hamas (Gazans) or other terrorists will try to break the ceasefire once they get back all their murderous thugs.

In the days immediately following President Donald Trump’s historic announcement regarding a Middle East peace plan, the world applauded. Suddenly, the global community saw celebratory dancing in the streets of Israel and Gaza and ignorantly assumed both sides were celebrating peace.

However, in Gaza, they were chanting, “Khaybar, Khaybar, ya Yahood, jaish Muhammad sa yaoud.” That is, “Khaybar, Khaybar, O Jews, the army of Muhammad will return.” It is a call to exterminate the Jewish people.

The Gazans were dancing with joy that thousands of guilty Palestinians will be returned, along with 250-plus murderous thugs who tortured, raped, and murdered Israelis...in exchange for 20 Israeli hostages. Kidnapping Israelis is the way to go for Hamas (or any Muslim terrorist organization, as they continually pop up with new names). This is why there’s a rational concern that what’s happening is more of a pause than a peace plan.

It’s already reported that Hamas has taken thousands of its members out of “uniform” and into civilian clothing to serve in its rebranded “Gaza Security Forces” as they reestablish control in Gaza when the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) move out. Time will tell.

History might guide us on whether this is a peace or a pause plan. In the late 1930s, with Adolph Hitler ignoring World War I treaties following Germany’s surrender, the anxious world wanted to avoid another global conflict. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain foolishly went to Berlin to meet with Hitler, who signed a document (“Munich Agreement”) stating that Germany would not invade other nations.

Chamberlain returned to London on September 30, 1938, and held up the document, infamously proclaiming, “Peace for our time.” One year later, on September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and the world was once again at war.

But we should be hopeful about this peace plan and grateful that our nation has the astounding President Donald Trump in the White House to lead us.

Whether or not the 2025 peace deal materializes into a long-term positive change for the Middle East, one thing that must change is Israel’s practice of exchanging terrorists for hostages. Hamas (and all Muslim terrorists) know that kidnapping works. That’s why they do it.

At the very least, Israel could avoid ever again having to exchange convicted murderers for hostages by implementing the death penalty. Many of the released terrorists who murdered Israelis are receiving a hero’s welcome. Some (many?) are sure to again take up arms against Israel as Yahya Sinwar did.

In 1989, Sinwar was convicted on multiple counts of murder and conspiracy. He received four life sentences. After spending 22 years in Israeli prisons, Sinwar was released in a previous “terrorist for hostage” swap and became the mastermind behind the October 7, 2023, Massacre. Israel killed Sinwar on October 16, 2024, but they should have killed him in 1989!

Guy Miller, US Army LTC, retired, of North Carolina, sends out an informative daily news report that includes his exceptional views on current events. His extensive military background means that his analyses are always spot on. Miller said:

It was always all about the hostages. As long as the Israeli government cared more about the hostages, which Hamas was torturing and murdering, than they did about their own national security, Hamas was guaranteed to win.

As I said at the very beginning, if Israel on October 8 had accepted that the hostages were already dead, as most of them wound up being, they could have prevailed. But Israel surrendered all leverage by consenting to make the hostages the only factor of consideration.

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In eight decades of existence surrounded by hostile, murderous neighbors, Israel has never before allowed world opinion to override their national security. But this time they surrendered all control to Hamas.

From this day forward, Israel will always be beholden to public opinion regarding hostages. Israel surrendered all its national sovereignty to Hamas hostage takers. It can never end.

Gregg Roman, in “Why Israel Must Never Negotiate for Hostages Again,” explains that Israel’s social contract with its citizens must evolve so that instead of terrorists knowing they will get a trade for those they kidnap, they will now know that Israel will destroy them. He concludes his article this way:

Israel’s enemies have learned that kidnapping works. The only way to unlearn this lesson is through decisive action making hostage-taking suicidal for those who attempt it. History will judge Israel not by how many hostages it recovers through negotiation but by whether it finds the courage to end the hostage crisis permanently. Sometimes the most humanitarian act is refusing to negotiate with those who weaponize humanity itself. Israel’s moral responsibility demands nothing less than complete victory over the infrastructure of terror. The social contract must evolve from a promise to trade for captives to a promise to annihilate their captors—only then will the cycle finally break.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s brother-in-law, Dr. Hagai Ben-Artzi, spoke to Arutz Sheva – Israel National News on October 9, several days before hostages were released:

[US] President [Donald] gave us the right solution immediately after taking office – ‘conquer and we’ll start a process of emigration.’ But because of our hostage psychosis, we wanted another ten or twenty hostages freed and lost the chance for a strategic solution.

Asked if he felt joy at the hostages being released, Ben-Artzi said:

There is always joy. I rejoiced when the three soldiers were freed in the Jibril Deal, and I rejoiced when Gilad Shalit returned. But at the time, even back then and even more so today, I knew that with our own hands we were signing the next kidnapping, the next massacre, and the next murders.

We can only pray that the agreement President Trump signed in Egypt on October 13 with the other Arab nations will truly be peace for our time.

Robin M. Itzler is a regular contributor to American Thinker. She is the founder and editor of Patriot Neighbors, a free weekly national newsletter. Robin can be reached at PatriotNeighbors@yahoo.com.

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There is NO Dealmaking with Islamists, No Matter How ‘Artful’

By Tom Budds 

Editor's Note:  This is a commentary in Robin's weekly newsletter Patriot Neighbors.  . If you wish to get the full edition, E-mail her at PatriotNeighbors@yahoo.com to get on her list, it's free. RK 

 I support Israel's complete and total defeat of the Islamist culture of death that seeks the annihilation of the Judeo-Christian "Enlightenment" of the West, but are the broken hearts of Israel's hostage families being successfully exploited by the "Intifada" apparatus extending the war and its casualties? Haven't "negotiations" proven to be a cascade of Islamist lies, further exacerbated with loose talk of "Nobel Prizes"?

The "hostage" protests in Israel deserve some clear-eyed discussion as it relates to war fighting, the "costs" to be paid for victory, and by whom. Innocent hostages and their families everywhere deserve our best efforts for rescue, but what constitutes best efforts and priority when faced with issues of hostage taking while engaged in kinetic hostilities?

Communist influenced protests during the Vietnam War accomplished what the enemy couldn’t, breaking America's determination for victory. America's restraint of Israel Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu's strategic war plan seems to be snatching defeat from a swift victory.

President Trump stated no more endless wars proving the point with the swift defeat of ISIS. Where has that quick decisive victory strategy and no negotiating with terrorists’ policy gone? Suddenly, talk of Nobel Prizes seems to be influencing hostage negotiation tactics, putting Israel’s military juggernaut on hold while soldier in harm's way keep dying.

It's also fair to ask whether you want your son or daughter dying for the "rescue" of hostage 'remains', or are they more safely collected following victory? How many "neighbors' kids must die attempting the rescue of the remaining rather than minimizing all loss of life with a swift victory?

Bibi Netanyahu has been unable to proceed to a swift and decisive victory because of leftists protests and an unwise attempt to apply "The Art of the Deal" to barbarian devils. In subscribing to this war fighting template, terrorists will no longer have to commit suicide flying into buildings when they can merely seize America and Israel hostages and watch the leftists of the world demand surrender of all Western values for their return.

On July 7, 1944, Jewish leaders and others begged the War Department to bomb the rail lines leading to Auschwitz; they were denied. On the subject, General Eisenhower said, the best way to save the Jews was to win the war...the way to save the loss of more Allied lives was to win the war. A friend of mine opined, "you don't have to drown an enemy, just hold his head underwater long enough to make your point."

That seems to be a reasonable consideration in the "enlightened" West, but not applicable to the Islamists' culture of death; they require drowning! I say, turn Israel’s 'Juggernaut of Lions" loose to secure the 'Noblest' of prizes VICTORY over evil in the Middle East!

Working for the Los Angeles LA Sheriff, I supervised the Asian Organized Crime Unit, solving multiple serial murders and supervising 16 ransom kidnappings, safely rescuing all victims. Proud President Donald Trump supporter.

Hamas Peace Plan. No, We're Not There Yet, If Ever!

By Rich Kozlovich

Donald Trump has put forth a peace plan to end the Hamas/Israeli war in Gaza, which the Hamas military leadership opposes in spite of the fact the population of Gaza is begging Hamas to agree since, quote unquote, they've been through hell, and have even been abused and exploited by aid workers.  Hamas is so busy trying to kill Jews they don't seem to notice these abuses....actually, they don't care..... and in point of fact, have abused their fellow Gazans worse than these aid workers.

Trump gave Hamas a few days to make up their minds on his plan, a plan Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Indonesia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and even the Palestinian Authority supports.  

The world is ready to stop the bloodshed.  And yet — predictably, infuriatingly — Hamas shrugs and says, “Yes, but...”Every time there’s a glimmer of peace, Hamas moves the goalposts.  Another round of haggling.  Another round of delay.  Another chance to keep the chaos going — because chaos is the only currency Hamas knows how to spend.  And here’s the question no one seems to ask: Where are the protesters now?

For months, we’ve seen mobs in the streets screaming, “Ceasefire now!”  They chained themselves to bridges.  They stormed college campuses.  They shouted down Jewish students and politicians.  But now — when there’s actually a ceasefire deal that Israel and the Arab world have signed off on — the silence is deafening.

They bring up all these cease fire protestors from around the world, most likely professional protestors, but I have to ask; where are all the marching, screaming, ceasefire Israeli activists now? 

Trump has made it clear if they don't agree, then Israel will be turned loose to finish the job.   But, if Hamas agrees they will have to give up their arms, totally disarming their movement, permanently ending their militarization of Gaza, a difficult proposition given the massive underground tunnel system throughout Gaza, and historically, Hamas is a military movement that came into existence to destroy Israel, and has existed with that as their sole purpose for their existence for decades.

The plan also forbids Hamas to have any future role in the governance of Gaza, and a multinational security force composed of Muslim nations in collusion with the Israeli Defense Force, will be in charge of Gaza's security, and will do so over many years. And even if Hamas agreed, are we really to believe that will work?  

I started this piece talking about how Gazans are suffering and want peace, but no matter what appears in the media, and the jabberwocky about peace plans that are touted, I keep coming back to how October seventh has become a distant memory?   

What I remember is these are the same people who danced in the streets as they watched videos of these Hamas monsters raping and murdering innocent women, children, unarmed men, and ever baking a baby alive in an oven.  These are the same people who danced in the streets when they paraded coffins with dead hostages in them.  And we're supposed to bleed all over ourselves regarding their suffering?  All of which they brought onto themselves.   But I have to ask; why is it the world can't seem to notice the Christian genocide being perpetrated in Nigeria.  People who did nothing to deserve being murdered by.... Muslims.... just like the Muslims in Gaza who murdered all those innocent unarmed civilian Israelis, and laughed about it.

 Conclusion?  Whether of not Hamas agrees is meaningless, as they will never honor any agreement that prevents them from murdering Jews, or anyone else for that matter.  The only answer is for Israel to kick out all the Muslim Gazans, totally absorb Gaza into the nation of Israel, build settlements filled with Israelis and tell the world to shove it, and start looking at the same solution for the Palestinian Authority. 

It won't happen, and this will never end as a result.   Hamas is nothing more than a complete reflection of what Islam is all about.  They'll just rename themselves, rearm themselves, and continue their murderous onslaught against unarmed innocent civilians.  That's history, and that history is incontestable.

Rabbis for Appeasing Hamas

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog

The Chief Bee Whisperer, a leftist UCLA ‘rabbi’ who kicked a pro-Israel Jewish woman, the lecturer behind ‘an Introduction to Islam for Jews’ and a rabbi who claimed Hamas is ready for ‘peaceful coexistence’ signed a letter attacking Israel’s campaign against Hamas after Oct 7.

The ‘open letter’, billed as a “Jewish Orthodox response” and a “call for moral clarity” against Israel has been written up by anti-Israel outlets like the New York Times is mostly made up of anti-Israel activists and leftists, appeasers and the completely deluded.

“In my assessment it is possible to make peace with Hamas,” Rabbi Michael Melchior, the fourth signatory (his sons Jair and Joav are also signatories) had argued, claiming that the Muslim Brotherhood was open to co-existing with Israel but “that of course has never been reported here, because it doesn’t fit into our picture of Islam” and insisted that Hamas had “always kept their parts of the agreements”.

After Oct 7, Melchior claimed to be “shocked and disappointed” by the atrocities, but went on defending Hamas. “It was a personal disappointment because I know that there were very strong forces within Hamas who didn’t want the attack.”

Another of the signatories is ‘Rabbi’ Chaim Seidler-Feller, a former UCLA Hillel boss, currently with the fringe leftist Shalom Hartman Institute, whose own moral clarity manifested when he, in his own words, “hit, kicked and scratched” female pro-Israel journalist Rachel Neuwirth.

“I saw my rabbi take swings to Neuwirth’s face and kicks to her legs,” one eyewitness described after the assault provoked by the woman’s support for Israel and opposition to terrorists. Seidler-Feller had to be pulled off the diminutive woman by “three or four large college men.”

Since then, Seidler-Feller has continued signing letters condemning Israel for defending itself.

While Seidler-Feller had attended an Orthodox seminary at Yeshiva University in 1971, he stopped being an Orthodox Rabbi a few years later and was not actually ordained until he was later sent an ordination certificate in appreciation for soliciting money from Barbara Streisand.

This still makes Seidler-Feller more of an ‘Orthodox rabbi’ than many of the signatories.

A quarter of the ‘rabbis’ signing on to the letter, like ‘Rabba Amalia Haas’, the Chief Bee Whisperer of a company that “teaches about climate change through Jewish texts”, Rabba Aliza Libman Baronofsky, Rabbi Dina Najman, Rabba Melissa Scholten-Gutierrez, Rabbi Emily Goldberg Winer, among 20 female ‘Rabbis’ signing on, were never Orthodox rabbis at all.

Orthodox Judaism does not ordain or maintain female rabbis as a basic matter of Torah, tradition and law. A significant number of the signatories to the letter are therefore non-Orthodox clergy posing as Orthodox clergy in order to undermine Israel’s fight against terrorism, and to make it appear that there is actual opposition to the fight within the Orthodox community.

Who’s actually behind the letter which falsely claims that Israel is responsible for “starvation” and complains that “Israeli extremists” responded to Oct 7 (which was backed by the vast majority of the enemy population) with “blanket suspicion of the entire population of Gaza”?

The anti-Israel letter was posted on the website of Torat Chayim, a front group for Uri L’Tzedek, a radical leftist spinoff of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, a non-orthodox social justice seminary pretending to be Orthodox which is responsible for ordaining many of the signatories.

Uri L’Tzedek was set up by ‘Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz’, a leftist activist who had converted to Judaism, who had previously laid out his vision for “an Orthodox Judaism rooted in social justice” and who has claimed credit for working to produce the anti-Israel letter while claiming that he has concerns about Israel’s “moral compass” and the “humanitarian crisis in Gaza”.

Yanklowitz had held study sessions with ‘Rabbi’ Jill Jacobs, the head and member of anti-Israel groups, including J Street’s Rabbinic Cabinet and T’ruah which promotes boycotts of parts of Israel. Some signatories of the anti-Israel letter like ‘Rabbi’ Jonah Winer (He/Him) of T’ruah, are also members of anti-Israel hate groups. (Jonah’s wife, ‘Rabbi’ Emily Goldberg Winer of Beth Sholom is also a signatory.)

The anti-Israel letter tears the mask off Uri L’Tzedek which after Oct 7 had pretended to be pro-Israel. The group even fielded a ‘slate’ for the World Zionist Congress under the completely misleading name of Dorshei Torah Ve’Tzion (Seekers of Torah and Zion) which on a field of waving Israeli flags laid out a platform that claimed to include ‘Zionism and Support for Israel’ (alongside “LGBTQ Inclusion” and a call for “security and dignity” for the “Palestinian people”.)

The Uri L’Tzedek, Eshel (LGBTQ), JOFA (feminist) and Yeshivat Maharat (a feminist seminary) slate included multiple signatories to the anti-Israel letter including ‘Rabbi’ Aliza Libman Baronofsky, Rabbanit Leah Sarna, Rabbi Max Davis and Rabbi Barry Dolinger.

Uri L’Tzedek, like other post-Orthodox groups, claim that it draws support from an underrepresented part of the Orthodox Jewish community, but who’s really funding it?

The list of sponsors for Uri L’Tzedek consists of non-Orthodox leftist groups and includes the Nathan Cummings Foundation, tied to the Soros network, and was the funder for a variety of anti-Israel groups including J Street, the Israel Policy Forum and Americans for Peace Now.

Other backers include the liberal Koch’s Stand Together Foundation. The Koch libertarian network does not normally back Jewish groups with the exception of anti-Israel ones.

Finally, Uri L’Tzedek is funded by one of the most notorious backers of the most extreme anti-Israel groups: the Puffin Foundation. Puffin, which blatantly celebrates Communism as an ideal, funds Jewish Currents, a spinoff of the old Communist Party’s Yiddish paper, which accused Israel of “genocide” and described Hamas atrocities as “resistance”.

Simone Zimmerman, a former employee of Uri L’Tzedek and a founder of the anti-Israel hate group If Not Now, wrote in the publication, calling for a communal endorsement of BDS and declaring that “Jewish communities should ask themselves ‘What would you have done to stop the annihilation of the Jews of Europe?’ and should do just that for Palestinians now. You are either for genocide or against it.”

Uri L’Tzedek vet Zimmerman had described immigration authorities as “the American Gestapo” for deporting Hamas supporters and slurred Jews fighting antisemitism as “Nazi collaborators” for supporting Jewish students being assaulted by antisemitic mobs on college campuses.

This is the money and the real agenda lurking behind the latest anti-Israel letter.

Despite the media hype, the anti-Israel letter does not represent Orthodox Jews or any kind of legitimate rabbinic movement. Many of the ‘rabbis’ signing the letter are not qualified to be Orthodox rabbis, their ordination disproportionately comes from the non-Orthodox Yeshivat Chovevei Torah social justice institution, or from Yeshivat Maharat, which had been set up by the YCT network to ordain female rabbis. Many are not practicing rabbis, but are academics and activists who use a ‘rabbi’ title to bolster their credibility. Some have entirely different professions in medicine or law. Few actually have functioning congregations. A number are ‘campus rabbis’ or teach at various non-Orthodox institutions where there are no religious standards.

Their views are not those of Torah or the Orthodox Jewish religious tradition.

Despite claiming to be Orthodox rabbis, a number are affiliated with non-Orthodox institutions like ‘Rabbi Wendy Zierler, PhD she/her’ who teaches Feminist Studies at the Reform movement’s Hebrew Union College. Rabbi Dr. Michael Chernick also teaches at HUC.

As the Coalition for Jewish Values, an actual Orthodox Jewish organization notes, the signatories include “several openly gay clergy” like Steven Greenberg, a gay man, as well as Rabbi Daniel Landes who had ordained a gay man, also incompatible with traditional Jewish practice. Rabba Melissa Scholten-Gutierrez serves on the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), a group that defended collaborating with anti-semitic and anti-Israel activists Rabbis for Repro Advisory Board and has advocated for abortion as a “Jewish right”.

The list is full of fringe leftists involved in feminist theory, gender theory and queer theory like Tyson Herberger, who studies “queer issues in Judaism”. Rabbi Dr. Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz is a feminist scholar who offers online courses such as ‘An Introduction to Islam for Jews’. Rabbi Dr. Joshua Feigelson runs the Institute for Jewish Spirituality which promotes mindfulness and meditation. Rabbi Dr. Alon Goshen-Gottstein has promoted using Hinduism to “stretch Jewish thought”. Rabba Aliza Libman Baronofsky claims to be the parent of a “non-binary child”.

All of these are fringe views that are as representative of Orthodox Judaism as a ham sandwich.

The vast majority of Orthodox Jews stand with Israel. Just as the vast majority support President Trump. Unlike the majority of American Jews, they do not believe that Judaism must defer to liberalism and that it must adopt leftist definitions of justice to be a moral foundation. And the more they stand strong, the more the Left, under its various guises, tries to get in.

The New York Times may promote the lie that these leftist front groups taking a stand against Israel represent Orthodox Judaism, but actual Orthodox Jews will always know better.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.  Thank you for reading.

 

 

Western Stupidity and the Two State Solution

By Rich Kozlovich

 Over a large part of my life this idea of a two state solution involving Israel and so-called Palestinians has been touted over and over again.  Thirty years ago it was thought possible by a substantial number of Israeli's.   Then the riots, the relentless acts of terror, bombs being exploded in public places, missile attacks killing civilians indiscriminately.  This idea of "land for peace" has turned into an abject failure, and the Two-State Solution Died on October 7, as it was clear any independent Islamic state within Israel's borders was nothing more than a staging area for Israel's enemies to attack and destroy Israel. 

Western liberals, and even conservatives, embraced the two state concept, but the Muslims never wanted a separate state with Israel, they wanted Israel destroyed.  That should have been obvious to the most casual observer, yet these “leaders” still won’t abandon that idiotic idea. Why? Because they understand the only real solution is for Israel to kick out these Arabs who claim they’re Palestinians just as the surrounding Arab nations have done in the past, and they’re unwilling to embrace that truth.

The only answer is Hamas must be destroyed, Gaza must become completely occupied, then filled with Israeli settlements and become a permanent part of Israel, and kick out any so-called Palestinians, just like their Arab Muslim “brothers” have done all over the Middle East, and that includes the West Bank. Anything else is a capitulation to terrorists monsters.

Let's start with the incontestable fact that the true peacemaker among the world's leaders is Donald Trump, and United Nations really is a "hive of scum and villainy", and then proceed to the insanity being promoted by western "leaders" proclaiming they will recognize a Palestinian state. 

• The U.N. Betrays Its Own Charter with Premature Palestine Recognition  No Palestinian Membership Application Has Passed Muster in the U.N. Security Council, Rendering Statehood a Legal and Political Impossibility.....
• Emmanuel Macron, who has never been the brightest pebble in the brook, you can't negotiate with terrorists, and now the Netherlands is banning two Israeli officials over Gaza “rhetoric”. 
• Prime minister Starmer is threatening to also recognize Palestine if Netanyahu doesn’t take “substantive measures” in Gaza, whatever the heck that means, except as an open ended platform for “substantive” demands that will never end.
• Canada’s Recognition of a Palestinian State Betrays Western Values - Canada is preparing to recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations as early as September 2025. Prime Minister Mark Carney has framed the decision as both a moral obligation and a diplomatic necessity. In reality, it represents a sharp break from Canada’s democratic principles—and a betrayal of its closest ally, the United States......
• Australia to recognise Palestinian state in September -  Australia will recognise a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly in September, following similar moves by the UK, France and Canada, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said. Albanese said Australia received commitments from the Palestinian Authority (PA) including to demilitarise, hold general elections and continue to recognise Israel's right to exist. "A two-state solution is humanity's best hope to break the cycle of violence in the Middle East and to bring an end to the conflict, suffering and starvation in Gaza,"............ 

The man actually said "A two-state solution is humanity's best hope to break the cycle of violence in the Middle East and to bring an end to the conflict, suffering and starvation in Gaza."  It really is true, you can't fix stupid.  

• The Eurabian Push for a Hamas State -  The hostility toward Israel in Europe is matched only by the enthusiasm for establishing a Palestinian state controlled by Hamas. Leading this effort is France: President Emmanuel Macron announced on July 25 that his country would recognize a Palestinian state later this year. Knesset member Dan Illouz rightly opposed such a state as “a gift to the terrorists of October 7.” Four days later, at a U.N. conference, France and Saudi Arabia led the New York Declaration, aiming for a “tangible, time-bound and irreversible” step toward the creation of Palestine. The 26-page document, a study in mendacious one-sidedness, is the latest sign of Europe’s anti-Israel sentiment, which has been prevalent since the founding of the Jewish state........
• The Mirage of Palestinian Statehood – On the face of it, winning international recognition would seem to be a victory for Palestinian diplomacy—a strategic success won despite battlefield defeat at the hands of Israel. Many have criticized the Canadian, French, and British on these same grounds, arguing that recognition is effectively rewarding Hamas, granting them what they wanted despite the fact that they started the most recent war with their bloody incursion into Israel in October 2023. .........Whatever violence may or may not be legitimate in establishing national independence, we can be sure that violence that establishes fictional states—states whose only existence is on the NGO conference circuit—is not only morally reprehensible but also politically futile. .....
• Ambassador Huckabee Blasts Weak European Leaders Backing Hamas  Hamas is a doomsday terrorist organization. It will never surrender so long as one member is still alive.   "There is one reason there is suffering in Gaza, it's the same reason that 1200 people were massacred on October the 7th. It's the same reason that 250 people were taken hostage, 50 of them continue to be held hostage and tortured and that's because of Hamas. They are a terror organization and they've acted like it," Huckabee said during an interview with Fox News over the weekend, blasting weak European politicians. "All of this time, Israel has done everything it can. They've made I don't know ow many offers in order to get the hostages out, to end this." "Hamas always walks away, always says no,"

Perhaps they need to start reading the history between Europe and Islam.  Europe’s Forgotten Enslavement: The Brutal Islamic Slave Raids That Captured Millions. That’s who they were, that’s who they are, and that’s who they will always be. After almost 1500 years of incontestable history why is that so hard to get?

• World Rewards Hamas for Its Atrocities 

All of these nations are heavily infected with Islamists, and soon Israel will be the least of their concerns. Also, Trump said Macron’s views are meaningless, and that goes for the rest of them also. Trump has tamed their egos and made it clear, Europe no longer counts, it's a second rate continent working dilligently to become a third rate continent with a dead culture.  If they keep allowing unrestricted Islamic immigration, Europe will no longer exist as we know Europe, and there will be three Islamic nations with nuclear weapons. Iran, France, and the UK.

 

They are in point of fact rewarding terrorism, and by their demands they're creating standards that will prevent winning wars against monsters, totally losing sight of this one incontrovertible fact that what happens in Gaza won't stay in Gaza.

  

To quote a man who calls himself Granpa: 

All the shouting about a two-state solution is, as from Macbeth: “"It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” 

 One final thought about the UN.  They're stunned, stunned I tell you, to find the Taliban oppress women.  Imagine that, and these are leaders?  How can anyone be so ignorant and  so stupid?  How can anyone take anything anyone that ignorant and stupid seriously?  Then again, maybe their lying.  Not much of a recommendation.

The Gaza Starvation and Genocide Farce

By Rich Kozlovich

I keep reading where mental midgets on the left and their media catspaws keep screaming how Israel is perpetrating genocide against Gazans.  The word genocide has been cheapened by these claims. There is no genocide in Gaza, unless you consider the fact that Hamas has willingly sacrificed their own people for political gain, including stealing their food.   

Has there been civilian loss of life among Gazans in this war? Yes, that's why they call it war, and it was a war the Gaza leadership started, and it was Gazans who celebrated dancing in the streets at the atrocities Hamas perpetrated against Israeli civilians in including baking a baby alive in an oven, filming it for public consumption, and Gazans cheered.  

What did the world think was going to happen after the atrocities of October 7th?   There are no innocent Gazans as there were no innocent Germans during WWII with the fire bombing of Dresden, or innocent Japanese during the bombing raids of Japan and the dropping of two atom bombs.  That's the horror of war, and if people don't want to face that horror, they shouldn't start a war.  

If Israel was actually wanting to perpetrate Gazan genocide they could have done it on day one of their retaliation.  If they wanted to perpetrated genocide why is Israel providing massive levels of aid to Gazans, something no military has ever done for an enemy population, and Gazans are Israel's enemy, and yet we've seen a massive public relations effort to claim Israel is attemptiong to starve Gazans to death. 

Democrat Senator from Delaware Chris Van Hollen, whose record for idiotic leftist views is almost legendary, claims Netanyahu is using food as a weapon of war, as if that's never been done before, but is it true?

• ‘Global Campaign of Lies’: Netanyahu Rejects Starvation Allegations, Says IDF Will Open Gaza to Journalists – National Review

The fact is this claim of wide spread starvation among Gazans was invented by Hamas and the United Nations.   If aid isn't getting to the civilian population is being caused by "a combination of United Nations policies, Hamas looting, and black-market profiteering."  

• Anti-Israel Photographer Stages Photographs of Hunger in Gaza

This article by Daniel Greenfield, UN Admits 95% of its Gaza Aid Trucks Were “Intercepted”, clearly depicts just how corrupt the UN has been over this issue saying:

Back when the UN had been in charge it had faked its own famine by refusing to deliver food and letting it pile up instead. Since then the UN’s food aid has kept on piling up even while GHF, an American Christian aid group, has managed to deliver millions of meals to Gaza residents, despite being smeared by the media as “controversial” for feeding those whom the UN wouldn’t........... 

The UNOPS ‘Mechanism for Gaza’ revealed that of the around 2,600 aid trucks entering Gaza, only 300 made it to their destination. 2,310 trucks or 88% of them were ‘intercepted’............ The UN’s WFP recently claimed that it has run out of food stocks and needs $265 million for just the next 6 months to feed Gaza. Where did its food stocks go? Certainly not to aid stations............ 

The best evidence of it is that Hamas made the restoration of UN control over aid into Gaza one of its conditions for a deal. Why would an Islamic terrorist group care who distributes the aid?.........After an aid delivery success ratio in the single digits, the UN is terrible at delivering aid in Gaza, but it’s a stunning success when it comes to its political and economic support of Hamas.

As for this starvation .... the children are dying.... scheme we're seeing in Gaza, it's not unique to Gaza.  In fact it seems to be one of the go to plans used by these terrorist monsters, much of which are predicated on deliberate and outright lies. 

Do you want to see real starvation and genocide? 

• Hypocrisy Exposed: International Outlets Largely Ignore Emaciated Israeli Hostages After Featuring False Starving Gaza Children Pictures
•  Israel Challenges New York Times to Publish Photo of Starving Hostage 
• Report: Hamas Video Shows Israeli Hostage Forced to ’Dig Own Grave’

 Hamas could not defeat Israel militarily, so their go to plan is to claim they're the real victims, not the hostages and innocent men they murdered, the innocent women they raped and murdered, and the innocent children they murdered, all actions lauded by Gazans.  And they get away with it because they understand western leaders live in a moral vacuum.  

• Hamas Understands the Myopia and Moral Imbecility of the West: Hamas understands that if it forces the suffering of its own people, if it maximizes and even falsifies media coverage of that suffering, then the West will rehabilitate Hamas and grant it its demands.  Hamas understands that Westerners are utterly ignorant to the true evil of Hamas, their willingness to multiply the suffering of Palestinians and Israelis alike, to starve their own citizens as well as Israeli hostages, to sacrifice Palestinian children by placing them in the line of fire, all for the cameras; Hamas understands that myopic and self-centered Westerners will simply project their own biases and values onto Hamas, thus granting them unearned innocence and sympathy; Hamas understands that the media would facilitate all of this, elevating a false oppressor/oppressed narrative above the truth.

Hamas is death cult, it really is that simple. 

The Jihad Against Israel is Genocide

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog

On Oct 7, 2023, thousands of Muslim Jihadis swept from Gaza into Israel, killing, torturing, raping and kidnapping anyone in their path. The victims included not only Israelis or Jews, but Americans and Europeans, Christians and Buddhists, as well as those Bedouins whom the Hamas, PLO and Islamic Jihad attackers did not consider Muslims.

Their rationale was not a “Palestinian” cause or any of the later war propaganda myths about an “open air prison”, but an Islamic religious imperative to drive out infidels. That’s why they named their genocidal campaign, ‘Al-Aqsa Flood’ after their occupation mosque planted in Jerusalem that they hoped to reclaim when they had killed or enslaved all the infidels in Israel.

In their earliest statements when they thought they were winning, Hamas leaders emphasized their religious agenda, of seizing the Al Aqsa Mosque and driving out the infidels, not a ‘Palestinian’ cause or the partial Israeli embargo on its limited border with Gaza.

That was the only ‘genocide’ that occured in the last two years. It just isn’t being called one.

The Oct 7 genocide had nothing to do with any ‘national liberation’ for some imaginary ‘Palestinian’ people. It followed over a thousand years of Islamic invasions, mass slaughters, slavery and mass rape across the region. The Jews, once a conquered people, had been the ones to rebel against Islamic rule in Israel through groups such as NILI (Netzach Israel Lo Yishaker – The Eternal One of Israel Does Not Lie) and fight for freedom from Islamic rule.

Muslim Jihads against Jews began shortly afterward. The wars against Israel by Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Muslim countries from as far away as Iraq, Iran and Yemen were not about an imaginary ‘Palestinian’ nationality at a time when Gaza, Judea and Samaria were occupied by Arab Muslim nations, but about the religious and tribal genocide aimed at any ‘Other’ group.

No one in the international community who spreads the lie that Israel’s self-defense is ‘genocide’ has dared to apply that label to the Turkish Islamic campaign against the Kurds, the Syrian Arab Islamic massacre of the Druze or any of the other numerous ongoing Islamic tribal ethnic cleansing campaigns that have made the region what it is. When Muslims claim that they’re the ‘indigenous’ people, it’s because they massacred and enslaved everyone else.

Including the Jews.

Even when ISIS openly declared that it was enslaving and killing the Yazidi people in line with the teachings of Islam, the same voices slurring ‘Zionism’ as genocidal, loudly declared that the Islamic scholars of the Islamic State were completely wrong about Islam. But what ISIS was doing is exactly what was done to the Druze, the Kurds, the Armenians, the Christians of the region, along with numerous other minorities, and the Jews. Jihad is Arabic for genocide.

Since Oct 7, the only tool in the Jihad propaganda playbook has been moral inversion.

Hamas accuses Israel of killing children and then parades the coffins of murdered Jewish children about. It claims genocide, cries famine and cruelty, and demands a ceasefire, even as its leaders promise that once they’re ready, they’ll finish the job and wipe out the Jews.

This discourse is whitewashed and laundered by the media which attributes Hamas war propaganda to “Gaza officials”, “health officials”, “journalists”, “rescue workers”, “police” and anyone else tasked by Hamas with serving as an interface between it and the outside world.

Politicians unthinkingly parrot Hamas lies, including its ceaseless campaign to reclaim control over food aid coming into Gaza by spreading the myth that Israel keeps killing civilians at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation food distribution sites, and the media builds them into towering narratives, propping up the moral inversion of genocide to cover the actual Islamic genocide.

Every accusation coming out of the Jihad propaganda machine is really a confession.

And if there were any doubts that Hamas rhetoric about wiping out Israel and its Jewish population is sincere, the Muslim Brotherhood terror group got a chance to show it on Oct 7. Apologists for Islamic terrorism previously argued that the terrorists acted out of “desperation”, that they had no choice but to set off suicide bombs on buses and pizzerias, but there was no desperation in the massacres that occured when the Jihadis found a civilian population at their mercy. They murdered women, children and the elderly, they beheaded foreign workers, and in their glee, they engaged in brutal atrocities that undermined the larger aims of their campaign.

Lazy journalists might be tempted to call them “senseless”, but that’s because they don’t understand Islam. When the Jihadis chant “Allahu Akbar” while killing non-Muslims, they are engaged in a transcendent religious experience that allows them to feel that they are bringing the power of the murderous deity they worship into this world by defeating non-Muslims. And when they chant “Khaybar Ya Yahood” or “Remember Khaybar, O Jews”, a common event at anti-Israel rallies, they are connecting Mohammed’s ancient ethnic cleansing of the Jews of Arabia to their planned ethnic cleansing of the Jews of Israel and of the world in the present.

The Jihad is genocidal. But that’s because the worship of Islam is fundamentally genocide.

Unlike other religions, the primary mission of Islam is to enforce the will of Allah by destroying the power of all other religions and cultures, subjugating them to the will of an Islamic master race, enforced civilly by the codes of Sharia religious law and militarily through Jihad. Muslim Brotherhood front groups use moral inversion to denounce such statements of the historical and present day beliefs of Islam as ‘Islamophobia’ or hateful conspiracy theories, but they can be seen in the entire history of Islam, in the present day actions of Muslim nations and in the future plans of Islamic movements to spread across the rest of the world and subjugate all of it.

Muslims are currently in a state of religious war with not only Jews or even Christians, but also with Hindus in India and Buddhists in Burma. When a single ideology representing a quarter of humanity has been in a state of endless war with the religions representing at least another 60% of the planet, it’s pretty clear who has the problem here. And it’s not the Christians, Jews, Hindus and Buddhists being bombed, beheaded, stabbed and shot at all around the world.

Israel, America, Russia, China and the rest of the world aren’t saints, but there’s a reason that Muslims typically enjoy more rights in non-Muslim countries than non-Muslims do in Muslim countries like Pakistan, Saudi Arabia or Iran. There’s also a reason why many Muslims move to non-Muslim countries while few non-Muslims move to Muslim ones. The hate is mostly one way.

Muslim propagandists pretend that like the Arab Muslim Jihad against Israel, branded a ‘special case’ of a ‘Palestinian’ minority fighting against the Jews, all their Jihads are special cases. When Muslims massacre Hindu tourists, it’s because they’re fighting for Kashmir, when they randomly stab people in Europe, it’s because their ‘asylum seekers’ are denied citizenship, and when they bomb churches in Nigeria, it’s because the government insists on fighting terrorism.

There’s always an excuse that positions Muslims as victims and a minority group, a ‘special case’ of a persecuted people desperately rising up in self-defense, but that big lie, a lie so big that Goebbels would quail at it, falls apart the moment you look at how Muslim countries treat non-Muslims, at the way that they ally together to attack non-Muslims outside their borders, and at the mission statement of Islamic terrorists to gather the ‘Ummah’, the collective Muslims of the world, to unite under a ‘Caliphate’ to rule the world. This isn’t victimhood. It’s genocide.

No one dares call Jihad ‘genocide’. Instead the ‘genocide’ label is most often applied to those courageous nations that, alone and isolated, resist the genocidal Islamic Jihad against them.

Israel is one of them.

The Jihad propaganda machine claims that its genocide is ‘resistance’ and that resistance to its genocide is genocide. The truth is as always the opposite. Resisting Islamic genocide is the best defense against genocide. The entire Oct 7 war was set off by an Islamic genocide plot. The closer Israel comes to destroying the genocidal Jihadis, the more they and their useful idiots across the world, shout “genocide”, and traffic in the most outlandish lies and smears to save the Jihadis so that they can launch an actual genocide against the people of Israel.

A few million Jews in Israel have stood off the genocidal campaign of the 400 million Muslim majority of the region in a miraculous and heroic campaign of resistance against utter evil. They won every war, but lost every argument, and the monsters who came to wipe out every last man, woman and child in Israel shout that they are the real victims of genocide, they brandish papers full of fake numbers, they tweet AI atrocity photos and put on makeup for the cameras.

But if anyone wants to see a real genocide, look at the Middle East, a region that was once rich in religious diversity where 91% of the population is now Muslim. How did that happen? Was the prospect of being able to take four wives, marry girls as young as seven years old and bask in virgins with eternally regenerating hymens in paradise so appealing that everyone converted?

History tells us a very different and much uglier story that is still going on to this very day. It’s a story written in bombed churches, captured girls and streams of refugees fleeing the region.

But where everyone else fled or submitted, the Jews of Israel are still resisting the Jihad. They’re not committing genocide. They’re resisting the Islamic genocide that overran the region.

Jihad is genocide. Fighting Jihad is not genocide. It’s resistance.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.  Thank you for reading.

 

 

An Unconventional Warrior For Israel and Civilization

Shurat HaDin carries our legal warfare to target terrorists and protect Israel and Jews

By Paul Driessen

Not long after Hamas terrorists slaughtered 1,200 Israelis and guest workers and kidnapped 250, my wife and I joined other Jewish National Fund volunteers in Israel, bearing witness to the atrocities at multiple locations, meeting survivors, tending and picking crops, painting and repairing kibbutzim so displaced residents could return, and cooking meals for soldiers.

We recently returned to Israel with Shurat HaDin, the Israel Law Center, and people from nine countries. We visited kibbutzim and a security checkpoint, spoke with firefighters, police, soldiers and civilians, and heard talks by former Mossad agents.

Daylong tours took us to the police station memorial in Sderot and the Syrian border overlooking areas where ISIS, Islamist Bedouins and other factions are now butchering Druze families in genocidal massacres. From Misgav Am above the Lebanon border, we saw Kiryat Shmona and a Hezbollah “village” that had housed men (no women or children), Kalashnikovs, rockets and missiles, next to a UN outpost that ignored everything the terrorists were doing.

In Magdal Shams, we visited the school where a Hezbollah rocket had murdered 12 young Druze soccer players and met survivors and families. At the Nova Music Festival massacre site, a survivor told her heartrending story of hiding in bushes and hearing other women raped, murdered and mutilated. The nearby “burnt car lot” holds 1,560 cars that Hamas incinerated, often burning passengers alive.

At Camp Shura Sgt. Bentzi Mann told us how victims were lovingly identified and prepared for burial.

The realities of the war, of decades of terror attacks, of Israelis living surrounded by countries and terrorists committed to their extermination, were even more indelibly etched in our memories.

Shurat HaDin is a unique combatant in this ongoing war against Israel’s people and existence.

Co-founder and president Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, her husband Aviel Leitner and their staff of legal warriors have brought actions against Hamas and PLO leaders, the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement, the International Red Cross (for refusing to help October 7 kidnap victims), UNRWA (UN Relief and Works Agency) for aiding Hamas, the International Criminal Court, and other proponents and defenders of terrorism against Israel. They also defend Israeli soldiers against bogus war crime charges.

They defend – and they attack. Shurat HaDin attorneys and staff actively pursue terrorists, state sponsors of terror, and anyone trying to delegitimize Israel. Instead of guns, warplanes and drones, their weapons are Israeli, US, international and other laws. From freezing terrorist assets to suing foreign governments and organizations, they take the fight to the Jewish State’s enemies, in courtrooms worldwide.

IDF soldiers on vacation or at music festivals, sometimes long after their service, are being targeted and arrested on politically motivated war crimes charges in foreign cities. Shurat HaDin is often the only organization standing between men and women who risk their lives defending Israel against those who would criminalize them for doing so.

The toxic absurdity of these cases is underscored by the absence of “international community” war crime indictments, arrests or comparable outrage over Russia’s attacks on Ukrainian civilians; Islamist butchering of Christians in Nigeria, Sudan, Congo and Syria; Hamas and Hezbollah atrocities on October 7 and decades before that; Islamist beheading and burning alive of Yazidi children; and many others.

Further underscoring the absurdity and duplicity of singling out Israel is the ways Hamas has deliberately maximized civilian casualties by using them as human shields, turning them into “martyrs,” and putting their terror tunnels, rocket launchers, sniper posts and weapons storehouses in and under almost every home, apartment building, school, hospital, shop and mosque in Gaza.

Hamas deliberately converted every foot of the Gaza Strip into a fortification – and thus into legitimate and necessary targets. For decades it targeted Israeli civilians with rockets, missiles, guns and suicide bombings. But few blame Hamas. They all blame Israel.

This what Shurat HaDin is up against, and why it sues banks, states, organizations and corporations that funnel money to Hamas, Hezbollah and other terror groups, making it harder for them to get weapons and explosives or reward their killers. The legal actions also hold terror leaders and enablers accountable.

Shurat HaDin can translate as “going above and beyond the letter of the law” to protect Jews and Israel. The Center works alongside Israeli and other intelligence and law enforcement agencies – along with a global network of volunteer lawyers and investigators – to assist victims of Jew-hatred and terrorism. It sues social media giants and other institutions that help terrorists recruit new followers and incite attacks, antisemitism, Israel bashing and campaigns to delegitimize the Jewish state.

Unlike government agencies and bureaucratic NGOs, Shurat is agile, dauntless and inspired by a sense of protective purpose. It is 100% funded by private donations, and every dollar supports its David-versus-Goliath legal battles on behalf of Israel and Jewish people everywhere.

The Law Center knows Israel could win on the battlefields against Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and Grand Satan of Terrorism Iran – and still lose the war in the arenas of courtrooms, the United Nations and public opinion. It is determined not to let that happen.

Shurat HaDin’s historic victories have shaped international legal norms around anti-terror law, civil liability and sovereign immunity. They’re not just symbolic; they are impactful and precedent-setting.

Unfortunately, they are also just a blessed match in a world gone insane. That match must now ignite fires of outrage and resistance to what happened on and since October 7, 2023.

Hamas promises to “repeat the October 7 attack time and again until Israel is annihilated” “from the river to the sea” make it clear that this evil will rage on until the terror groups and their genocidal ideologies are eliminated.

Following the worst massacres of Jews since the Holocaust, the historic scourge of antisemitism and Israel hatred has expanded, metastasized and become not merely accepted, but expected, admired and demanded. Jews – who have lived in what is now Israel for 3,400 years – have somehow become invaders and colonizers. They’re falsely accused of starving Gaza children. But human rights groups say virtually nothing about kidnapped and starving Israelis.

Jewish scholars, musicians and athletes are increasingly banned from associations, conferences and events. Jewish businesses are defaced and vandalized. Israelis trying to enjoy a meal are kicked out of European restaurants. French Jewish children are kicked off a Spanish jetliner for singing in Hebrew.

Jews are gunned down on a Washington, DC street and burned to death in a Boulder, Colorado park.

Instead of being condemned, the perpetrators are praised by “Globalize the Intifada” Jew haters.

Emmanuel Macron (France) and Keir Starmer (Britain) intend to recognize a “State of Palestine” that doesn’t exist. Their plan may placate assimilation-rejecting Muslim immigrants. But it will also reward and embolden Hamas and Hezbollah, fuel more antisemitism, and prolong the war, destruction and death.

Israel and the world Jewish community have not faced such threats since the Nazis’ “Final Solution.” So Shurat HaDin and its allies will continue battling terrorists and their accomplices with truth, resolve and laws – to defend Israel and humanity.

Paul Driessen has been to Israel multiple times and seen its archeological treasures, modern innovations, amazing multi-ethnic people and sites of recent tragedies firsthand. He is the author of articles on energy, environmental, human rights and Israel issues.

 

How to End “Forever Wars”

President Trump may soon get his wish, not from negotiations, but from a short, brutal war

By Paul Driessen

President Trump detests “forever wars,” such as Israel’s 77-years-and-counting war with the PLO, Hamas, Hezbollah and Houthis – prodded, armed and funded primarily by Iran. On June 10 he again told Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to “end the war” and avoid more death and destruction.

Two days later, Hamas terrorists murdered eight Palestinian aid workers from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the US-Israel organization that has distributed over 30,000,000 meals since it launched May 26. The GHF replaced corrupt UN aid groups that let Hamas steal food and sell it at ridiculous prices, to feed and fund its terror operations.

Hamas is still launching rockets, ambushing Israeli troops and civilians, planting IEDs, booby-trapping buildings, and refusing to return hostages or bodies. That’s after two decades and tens of thousands of rockets and missiles, plus suicide bombings, shootings, stabbings, and maiming of thousands of Israelis. Families often had just seconds to reach bomb shelters before rockets and missiles struck.

The fundamental problem is that Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis, Iran and Qatar want a one-state solution – with Israel gone. “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free” actually means: “From the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, Palestine will be Muslim” – Free of Jews, Christians, Bahais and Druze.

Hamas’s Charter is blunt. 

“Palestine … was seized by a racist, anti-human and colonial Zionist project…. The Palestinian cause [is the] cause of an occupied land and a displaced people…. There shall be no recognition of the legitimacy of the Zionist entity….

“Hamas rejects any alternative to the full and complete liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea…. Resisting the occupation with all means and methods is a legitimate right guaranteed by divine laws and by international norms and laws. At the heart of these lies armed resistance….”

That theological, revisionist history is how Hamas justified its barbaric October 7, 2023 slaughter of 1,200 Israelis and foreign guest workers and kidnapping of 250 others. Hamas and Israel’s other enemies have no intention of ending the war, death and destruction, except by eradicating Israel.

Hamas official Ghazi Hamad made that absolutely clear during an interview shortly after the massacre.

“Israel has no place on our land. We must remove that country,” Hamad said. “We will repeat the October 7 attack time and again until Israel is annihilated…. The existence of Israel is what causes all that pain, blood and tears. It’s Israel, not us…. We are the victims of the occupation. Nobody should blame us [for] October 7, October 10, October one million. Everything we do is justified.”

But then came June 13. Maybe it won’t be a “forever war,” after all.

It was round five of negotiations, Day 61 of the 60 days President Trump had given the Iranian regime to agree to end its nuclear weapons program. For PM Netanyahu it was a powerful reaffirmation of the post-Holocaust promise: Never Again!

Days after the ayatollahs again promised to terminate the Jewish state, Israeli jets, missiles and drones systematically eliminated Iran’s missiles, launchers, storehouses, factories, air bases, command centers and nuclear sites; its military commanders, leading nuclear scientists and the mullahs’ key advisors … and their successors; its ability to send overwhelming waves of missiles into Israeli population centers.

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) jets disrupted a live anti-Israel rant from Iran’s propaganda ministry.

The IDF carried out Operation Rising Lion without American help, except assistance in shooting down Iranian missiles aimed not at military targets but at homes, hospitals and cancer research labs. Will Israel have enough high-altitude interceptors to continue hitting most incoming ballistic missiles?

Israel’s unprecedented demolition of the Iranian war machine began with brilliant deceptions and amazing intelligence capabilities. Israel knew precisely where Iran’s generals and scientists were sleeping and meeting. It tricked the top military brass into attending a meeting, where they got blown up together.

Iran’s special anti-Mossad unit was led by – a Mossad agent! Mossad units built drone and missile systems in Iran’s deserts, to destroy radar units, missiles and launchers on command.

The IDF’s incredible exploding pagers caper turns out to have been just a small-scale prelude to what’s been done to the head of the snake of international terrorism.

Iran’s ayatollahs and various “international leaders” now reportedly want a ceasefire. Vladimir Putin doesn’t want to get involved. Trump and Netanyahu want to end the war and nuclear threats, permanently. Unconditional surrender, as in 1945 Germany and Japan. President Trump has frequently emphasized he doesn’t want a ceasefire; he wants a “real end” to both the war and Iran’s nuclear program.

What might come after that may be hard to predict. But the theocratic, tyrannical, genocidal regime must be replaced – without Iran descending into Libyan/Syrian/Iraqi chaos.

Israel and others were certain that Iran was very close to enriching enough uranium for several bombs and actually assembling weapons. Its attacks were thus legitimate preemptive strikes against a regional and global power that has repeatedly vowed to eradicate Israel – and was getting ready to do so.

Failing to finish the job now – permitting these enemies of humanity to live, rearm and fight another day – would guarantee that this forever war may pause but will soon erupt again, next time with nuclear weapons in the hands of a regime bent on revenge.

The United Nations might condemn Israel yet again, more often than all other nations combined. European politicians might tell Israel to stop battling the Hamas-Hezbollah-Houthi-Iran axis of evil – and let it continue its Holocaust ambitions. Campus and street mobs might rage and riot for Hamas’s river-to-sea genocide. But Israel is resolute: Never Again means Never Again!

Ponder what this war on Iran has already accomplished, and could still accomplish:

* The military and political leadership of the top Islamist terror state decapitated;

* Uranium enrichment terminated, with centrifuges, uranium stockpiles and bomb parts destroyed;

* No more rockets, missiles, drones, guns, money or explosives for Hamas, Hezbollah or the Houthis;

* No more Iranian/proxy attacks on US Marines, embassies, air bases and other interests;

* Perhaps fewer Iranian drones for Russia to send into Ukrainian homes, schools and hospitals;

* Averted risks of small nukes going to Iranian proxies, to detonate in Israel or America;

* Fewer Christians slaughtered by Iran-backed Islamists in Nigeria and Sudan;

* Hopefully fewer river-to-sea antisemitic mobs.

Hamas is down to its last money, food, weapons and diehard terrorists. Hezbollah told Iran’s mullahs it would not engage Israel in an additional warfront, because both Israel and Lebanon would take out what’s left of the terror group. The Houthis could soon lack the wherewithal to attack shipping.

The Abraham Accords may soon have new signatories. Peace, cooperation and prosperity could come to a region that has fought and stagnated for over a century. Arab tribes and political-ideological factions will likely battle on, but assaults on Israel could end, at least for many years.

It may be too much to hope for. But even a portion of these good tidings would be an unexpected gift.

Paul Driessen is senior policy advisor for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (www.CFACT.org) and author of books and articles on energy, climate change, environmental protection and human rights.

 

Liberal Jewish Groups Fight for Hamas Supporters

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog 

Ahead of Passover, the Jewish Democratic Council of America sent out a mailing headlined, “Pharaoh in the White House”.

According to JDCA's head Halie Soifer, Trump was the reincarnation of the ancient tyrant at the heart of the Passover story because he was deporting antisemites.

"Legal residents and others are being illegally detained and, in some cases, deported without due process. Much of this is happening in our name, ostensibly to “fight antisemitism,” the former foreign policy advisor to Kamala complained.

“Even if we disagree with the content of the speech, freedom should mean the same thing for all people, and due process must be granted. Enough is enough of Donald Trump using the Jewish community as an excuse to deprive people of their rights and deport people ‘for their beliefs.'”

The beliefs include forcing Jews off campuses like Columbia and UCLA, assaulting Jewish students and faculty, cheering for the mass murder of Jews on Oct 7 and calling for the destruction of Israel.

The true meaning of Passover is not for Jews to stand up to those who want to kill them, but to stand up for them instead.

This attitude has permeated the liberal Jewish establishment which has tried to make the case for why Jews should be rallying for those who want to kill them.

Bend the Arc, run by Alex Soros, rewrote the famous WWII era poem to argue that “after detaining immigrants, activists, and trans people, the Nazi regime in Germany came for Jews.” The ‘activists’ in this case are the ones who want to come for the Jews making it more like, “First they came for the Nazis, then the Jews”.

“It may be pro-Palestinian protestors who are targeted and denied their rights today, but we don’t know who will be next. If we support the selective denial of protected speech and rights of others, even those with whom we strongly disagree, we fall into a dangerous trap that will only come at our own peril,” Soifer warned.

“Any Jew who thinks this is going to start and stop with a few ‘Palestinian’ activists is fooling themselves,” Amy Spitalnick, the former press secretary for the anti-Israel J Street group who now runs the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, told the New York Times.

This line of argument might have been more compelling if the supporters of killing Jews, whom Soifer and Spitalnick whitewash as 'Palestinian' 'activists' and 'protesters' had not already demonstrated that the Jews are 'first' not 'next'.

The entire 'first they came' line of argument denies the fact that Jews had been targeted on college campuses, in corporate environments and in our synagogues, resteurants and even homes with virtually no government action and hardly a word of protest from the same establishment figures warning us that we could be next.

We are first. And we always have been.

It's much too late to warn us that we could be next when Jewish professors and students have left campuses. Jews have been assaulted in front of synagogues and Holocaust museums with very little in the way of consequences. Not all that long ago, I watched Jewish community members in Los Angeles being beaten by a mob of terrorist supporters in keffiyehs while the LAPD watched and did nothing. Jewish students at UCLA were assaulted while campus security refused to intervene, CNN hunted down the few Jews who were willing to stand up to the pro-terrorist mob and the LA Board of Supervisors paid the legal bills of the mob.

It’s a little too late to warn us about the dreadful consequences for Jews that might arise from Hamas supporters being deported. The consequences of their presence is far worse than their absence. Violent bigots have always existed, but this particular set has the support of much of the liberal establishment along with a good deal of its liberal Jewish organizational contingent.

“The administration is rounding up people with no evidence of crimes or even of violating the standard of damage to foreign policy and national security they have cited,” David Saperstein, the former director of Reform’s Religious Action Center, told a Congressional hearing on antisemitism.

Wesleyan president Michael S. Roth contended in a New York Times op-ed titled ‘Trump’s Crusade Against Antisemitism Is Extremely Bad for the Jews’ that, “Abductions by government agents; unexplained, indefinite detentions; the targeting of allegedly dangerous ideas; lists of those under government scrutiny; official proclamations full of bluster and bile — Jews have been here before, many times, and it does not end well for us.”

These amateur prophecies by a college president who a little over a week after Oct 7 was suggesting that “Muslim students on campus are feeling particularly vulnerable right now… they feel targeted as terrorist sympathizers or anti-Semites” and emphasizing ‘Islamophobia’ are unconvincing and also largely irrelevant in the face of the actual antisemitism here and now.

All this concern about slippery slopes and government crackdowns didn't exist when the FBI was targeting the KKK or non-violent abortion protesters. The same establishment figures telling us to our face that arresting Hamas supporters will endanger our civil rights applauded when elderly women were locked up for blocking abortion clinics. They're not concerned about slippery slopes or government abuses, only with protecting their political allies.

And those allies are calling for the murder of Jews.

Some American Jews are still willing to believe something as abysmally suicidal as the notion that unless they rally for the civil rights of those who want to kill them, they may be next, but growing numbers are waking up to the fact that they’ve been sold out by the Schumers, Spitalnicks, Sapersteins and Soifers who aren’t standing up for them, but for the antisemitic Left. 

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.  Thank you for reading.