COMMENTARY / OPINION
To be Continued – or Else by Emmanuel Shiloh, editor of the Besheva newspaper, translated by Hillel Fendel.
The release of some of the hostages is a sacred goal, achieved in the merit of the successful military campaign – but the destruction of Hamas is absolutely critical to the very existence of the State of Israel.
1. The release of some 60 of our brothers and sisters from Hamas captivity is primarily a clear sign of the great success of our forces’ successful ground operation in Gaza City and throughout the northern Gaza Strip.
Each of our hostages comes at the price of three freed Palestinian terrorist prisoners, not including – for now – those who actually murdered Jews. This is a very problematic price ethically, as well as a security danger – but it is still a low price compared to other exchanges in the past. Most notably, our soldier Gilad Shalit’s freedom was achieved after over five years at the price of more than 1,000 (!) terrorist prisoners. Among them, incidentally or not, was current Hamas PalestiNazi chieftain arch-murderer Yihye Sinwar. He clearly would not have agreed to such a low price in the current deal if his military situation were not so desperate, threatening not only his own life but also that of the entire Hamas regime in Gaza.
2. The ground attack in Gaza, with great Divine help, support from the Israel Air Force, and cooperation from many different IDF units, has dealt Hamas a decisive blow. We have killed thousands of terrorists and destroyed weapons and arms production facilities on a huge scale. We have conquered fortified strongholds and large areas, and taken over symbols of government such as the Gaza parliament building, the main court, and the particularly problematic Shifa Hospital. Yes, dozens of wonderful young soldiers and commanders have paid with their lives – each of whom was an entire world unto himself – but the number of casualties is significantly lower than what we feared and what our enemies hoped.
The cruel Sinwar and his henchmen also understand that even the elaborate tunnels enterprise that they have built up for years so that they can hide out like rats [keep in mind that Hizbullah chief Nasrallah has reportedly not left his bunker in Beirut since 2006, for fear of Israeli assassination] will not last long. It has been severely damaged over the weeks of war, and with G-d’s help our forces will soon totally destroy it. And so, just days before Israel was to complete its conquest of above-ground Gaza and begin dealing in earnest with the underground Gaza, suddenly Hamas showed its willingness to release hostages at bargain prices. This is because what most interests Sinwar is not the release of his Hamas comrades, but a ceasefire.
3. Israel set for itself two major objectives in the current war: the destruction of Hamas, both militarily and politically, and the release of all the 240 or so Israelis and others taken hostage on Simchat Torah, October 7th. Israel has made good progress in both these areas, showing that the military pressure helps advance the goal of freeing our hostages.
Sinwar is hoping that the ceasefire will extricate him from his hopeless predicament.
Brace Yourself For What’s Coming In 2024: Victor Davis Hanson Warns The Left Knows They’re “Cooked” If “Vampire” Trump Wins [10:34] BY TYLER DURDEN
MONDAY, NOV 27, 2023 – 10:25 AM – In his ubiquitously calm, reasoned, non-ad-hominem, and ruthlessly fact-driven few minutes, Victor Davis Hanson dives into the left’s apparent hysteria at the looming shadow of Donald Trump’s potential return.
Hanson articulates a sense of deep-rooted fear among Trump’s opponents, summed up perfectly as follows:
“they look at Trump as a vampire and they put a stake in his heart but they’re afraid that that stake could come out any time.”
This vivid imagery sets the stage for a discussion about the intense paranoia and strategic maneuvering in the political arena, particularly among those who view Trump not just as a political rival, but as an existential threat to their vision of America.
Hanson argues that there is a perception among Trump’s adversaries that he is now more formidable and justified in his anger due to perceived injustices against him:
“They are terrified of him because they think he’s smarter this time and he has just cause to really get angry because of what they did to him.”
They rightly fear that Trump’s potential comeback would be fueled not just by political ambition, but by a personal vendetta, which could make him a more unpredictable and determined opponent.
“…if a MAGA candidate wins and they win the house and the Senate, we’re cooked.”
They are likely right! And Hanson posits a political landscape where power dynamics could shift dramatically, leading to aggressive investigations and possibly even retribution against figures in the current administration.
It’s hard to argue that Trump’s retribution would be unjustified. As Hanson points out in detail, the Democratic party’s strategies and policies – prioritizing ideology over practical governance – are detached from reality and any concept of effectiveness.
He asserts, “nobody in their right mind would do that,” referring to a range of policy decisions from border control to economic management.
In a broader reflection on the state of American politics, Hanson portrays a polarized environment where allegiance to party ideology trumps objective assessment of policies:
“They start with a deductive principle we are better… and therefore the following must happen.”
This reinforces the perceived dogmatism in the political process, where decisions are driven more by ideological conformity than by rational deliberation or public interest.
Rather ominously, Hanson concludes a bleak picture of the current political climate, drawing parallels to authoritarian regimes, suggesting a mentality of ‘us versus them,’ where belonging to the right political faction offers protection and benefits, while dissent leads to persecution.
Indeed, the political landscape is now a battleground of ideologies, with high stakes for those who choose to engage in it.
“Join the winning side, it’s sort of like in the Soviet Union, if you’re part of the nomenclature and you join the party, you’re exempt; if you’re not, well, you’re on your own.”
Watch the full clip below:
The Brutal Reality About Palestinians the Media Ignores | David M. Friedman [37:32] THE SIT DOWN | RUBIN REPORT
Nov 26, 2023 – Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” talks to former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David M. Friedman about the current situation in Israel and the Middle East; his experiences during the recent conflict; his criticisms of the current U.S. administration for its perceived weakness and for lifting sanctions on Iran, which he believes has emboldened groups like Hamas; the challenges Israel faces in dealing with Hamas and the Palestinian Authority; the rise of anti-Semitism and anti-Israel sentiment in the West; the importance of Israel’s biblical heritage and the need to protect it; and much more.
“Bibi Swore He Would Destroy Hamas” An Interview with Father of Fallen Soldier | Caroline Glick Show [57:54]
On November 9, Maj Moshe Yedidya Leiter, a commander in the IDF’s special forces was killed in Gaza along with three of his men when they discovered an opening to a Hamas tunnel that was booby-trapped. Caroline’s guest this week was her old friend, colleague, political commentator and Moshe’s Father Yechiel Leiter, Yechiel discussed his son’s life, and his loss and he placed both in the context of the larger war for Israel’s survival and the role of the Jewish state as the first line in the war for human freedom.
Invasion of the humanoids: No, this is not science fiction! LEO HOHMANN
The world’s great powers are in a race to create a powerful new species of humans that are not human at all, but they will be used as powerful tools of intimidation and deception
NOV 27, 2023 – China has published plans to mass-produce humanoid robots by 2025, as Western companies including Elon Musk‘s Tesla race to produce their own humanoids, The Daily Mail reports.
The British news outlet spoke to leading experts on how humanoid robots could change the world – with one expert saying that the tech will grow exponentially this decade.
Goldman Sachs has predicted that the market for humanoid robots could be worth $150 billion a year worldwide within 15 years — and that humanoid robots will be viable in factories between 2025-2028 and in other jobs by 2030-2035.
The technology will have a positive impact in many fields, believes Marga Hoek, author of “Tech for Good,” but people need to prepare for it.
Hoek said that predictions suggest that up to a quarter of all jobs could be lost to robotics and AI technology. But that’s not a bad thing, she says. We must embrace it.
Hoek told the Daily Mail: “My biggest worry is that all humankind spends a lot of time on fearing, instead of accepting and anticipating.”
Hoek said we need more research to be done on which job roles will still “add value” in a world of humanoid robots. She said, “If we don’t train people, if we don’t anticipate, if we don’t radically change around the school programs, for instance, we’ll be too late.”
What she seems to be saying is, we need to train people to accept their fate. You will be obsolete and learn to like it? Even Yuval Harari admits this is a big problem in a world being taken over by AI. Harari has said that the human feeling of not being needed is even more difficult than the feeling of being oppressed or taken advantage of.
Yes, it’s a natural human tendency to need to be needed — in our personal and professional lives. But the technocrats want to steal that from us and then shame us if we don’t go along.
Hoek predicts that rather than human caregivers, humanoid robots will look after the elderly as well as young people with disorders such as autism.
Doesn’t that sound like something to eagerly look forward to? You get old and fragile, so instead of a family member or a caring nurse, you get a machine to look after your needs. Oh boy, I can’t wait.
The West has gone mad – and evil Giulio Meotti
What is this evil acid that corrodes Western humanism, and where does it come from? Opinion.
Nov 27, 2023, 6:33 AM (GMT+2) – According to French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut, heir to the great liberal thinkers, from Raymond Aron to Albert Camus, “we have slipped into hatred towards our world. The woke spirit, which has taken the place of communist ideology, defines white supremacism as absolute evil and makes the Israeli the quintessence of this evil.”
Hence the assault on the history and culture of the West to dismantle and disperse them both.
And this West now hates itself to the point of generating crazy paradoxes every day. Under these circumstances, how long can our house, the increasingly divided house of the civilized world, stand?
And while in Canada – the country of Leonard Cohen, Saul Bellow and Mordechai Richler, one of the most peaceful and safe places in the world until a few years ago – Molotov cocktails are thrown against synagogues, stars of David and threatening letters are painted on Jewish homes. University of Alberta Samantha Pearson, the head of the campus’ sexual assault centre, signed an open letter denying that Hamas-led terrorists raped Israeli women during the devastating assault of October 7th.
At the same time, Gretchen Felker-Martin, the well known horror writer and transgender activist, defined the blowing up the World Trade Center as “probably the most defensible thing he (Bin Laden) did”.
The West has rotted to the point that high percentages of young people sympathize with the writings of Osama bin Laden.
The president of New York University’s “non-binary students” also defended Hamas. Meanwhile, the third largest Norwegian newspaper, Dagbladet, of one of those countries that consider themselves rational and enlightened, managed to write that Israel had started the war, then had to add that on October 7th, Hamas had first killed 1,200 Israelis.
Meanwhile, a professor at Exeter University in England hailed the “courage of Hamas”.
What is this evil acid that corrodes Western humanism, and where does it come from?
Revealing Sinwar’s Critical Mistake [11:16] Tom Nash Report
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Israel in the Crosshairs, Part One: A Soviet Psy-Op Second to None CHERIE ZASLAWSKY
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. – Joseph Goebbels
NOV 26, 2023
PRELUDE
The aftermath of Hamas’ Simchat Torah surprise attack on Israel has left us with definitive answers to several questions.
· The vaunted Two-State Solution, previewed in Hamas’ barbaric October 7th massacre of Israeli civilians, is dead in the water.
· Arab Muslims are serious about wiping Israel off the map.
· Jew hatred is alive and well.
· And yes, it can happen again.
These are troubling discoveries, but we ignore the truth at our peril. And in that spirit, I’m going to forge ahead by not only commenting on the war between Hamas and Israel, but also by revisiting the history underlying this conflict in my article to follow.
But first I’d like to take a proverbial bird’s eye view of the whole situation.
There are three groups currently vying for world control. They are: the Chinese Communists, Muslim fundamentalists, and the Luciferian globalist elites with their plan for a New World Order/One World Government/Great Reset.
We might also include the Nazis’ vaunted plan for a Thousand Year Reich—but though we’re seeing Nazi eugenicist elements involving the mRNA vaccines, etc., we can include this element as a subset within the globalist NWO cabal—though to give the Nazi’s their due, the whole global plan is both communistic and fascistic in nature.
The Davos Elites, aka the globalist cabal, are the ultimate people without a state, as they have no loyalty to their own countries where they hold citizenship. Indeed, they coined the phrase “citizens of the world”—but that’s ostensibly meant for We the Serfs, as they prod us closer and closer to their planned Global Government. They clearly plan to be “rulers of the world,” not mere citizens. But they have no army or navy of their own, so how are they going to conquer the rest of us?
How the U.S., the UN and the Media Saved Hamas Thirty Years Ago BY DANIEL GREENFIELD
Israel expelled Hamas. The world forced Israel to take it back.
NOV 25, 2023 11:00 AM – “Deporting The Hope For Peace?” Newsweek asked. The hope for peace was Hamas.
The year was 1992. The Clinton administration was trying to get Israeli Prime Minister Rabin and the PLO’s Yasser Arafat to sign on the dotted line of the Oslo Accords to create a terror state inside Israel. In the name of peace. Unfortunately Hamas kept killing Israelis.
15-year-old Helena Rapp had been stabbed to death at a bus stop on the way to school. A few days later, Rabbi Shimon Biran, a father of four, was similarly murdered by an Islamic terrorist.
Fed up with the latest killings, Prime Minister Rabin put 417 Islamists terrorists on buses and dumped them in Lebanon. The monsters he deported included top Hamas terror leaders.
On the six buses were current Hamas leader Ismael Haniyeh, Hamas co-founder Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, who would vow, “by Allah, we will not leave one Jew in Palestine,” Abu Osama, who helped draft the Hamas charter calling for the extermination of the Jews, Hamas co-founders Mohammed Taha, Hammad Al-Hasanat, and Mahmoud Zahar, who threatened “They have legitimized the killing of their people all over the world by killing our people,” Hamad Al-Bitawi, who proclaimed that “Jihad is a collective duty” along with Abdullah al-Shami, the head of Islamic Jihad, and many other present and future Islamic terror leaders deported to Lebanon.
The New York Times headlined its coverage, “Ousted Arabs Shiver and Wait in Lebanese Limbo.” Newsweek also sympathetically described how the Hamas terrorists were “shivering in the cold.” The Washington Post lingered on their handcuff “welts.” The AP warned that seven of the terrorists were “said to be suffering from heart problems, high blood pressure or diabetes.”
In reality the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists had been equipped by Israel with raincoats, blankets, food and $50 each: more than enough to buy whatever they needed in Lebanon.
Pollard: “Ship of fools steering our country onto the rocks” By JONATHAN POLLARD
“Our electorate must remember that it wasn’t just the current government responsible for this debacle,” writes Jonathan Pollard.
OCTOBER 16, 2023 12:24 – Given the horrifying events that occurred in southern Israel this past Simchat Torah and the incomprehensible incompetence that our government and military high command exhibited at the time, it’s not surprising that polls have indicated a surge in support for opposition parties.
However understandable this political reaction has been, our electorate must remember that it wasn’t just the current government responsible for this debacle. Instead, the blame for the massacre of our innocents extends to other organizations and individuals in the opposition. Indeed, the categorical refusal of groups like the Kaplan Force and Brothers-in-Arms to accept their share of the blame for having inadvertently encouraged Hamas’ assault on our border communities is almost as shocking as the government’s total failure to prevent the surprise attack in the first place.
As the months of anti-judicial reform protests took place, I observed the reactions of our enemies to these events.
Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah concluded that our society was disintegrating and that the IDF, in particular, was either unprepared or unwilling to fight effectively. The latter misperception was caused by those reservists, who were threatening not to report for duty unless the government’s judicial reform program was dropped.
This rank insubordination was referenced by various Hamas spokesmen, who gloated over their belief that this revolt by our best soldiers proved that the days of the IDF’s “invincibility” were over.
‘Appreciate the incalculable damage’
In this regard, it’s essential to appreciate the incalculable damage done to our perceived military capabilities by such former generals as National Unity Head Benny Gantz, MK Gadi Eisenkot, former Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon and former prime minister Ehud Barak, former Mossad chief Tamir Pardo and former Shin Bet chief Nadav Argaman. All these individuals helped spread the false image of an IDF that was splintering over the government’s judicial reform agenda to one degree or another.
Unfortunately, our enemies were listening and reached what they thought were the appropriate conclusions. And while it’s true that Hamas had been planning their cross-border assault for approximately two years, its timing was driven, to a large degree, by the opposition’s utterly irresponsible behavior. This is why some commentators are accusing the opposition of suffering from a case of criminal blindness bordering on treason.
[Ed.: This guy (Pollard) may be reading too much Daily Shmutz!]
Breaking with America: Jonathan Pollard and Rabbi David Bar-Hayim [1:17:44]
November 25, 2023
America shouldn’t let Hamas bargain its way to victory Jonathan Tobin
Israel had no choice but to accept a deal to release some hostages. But Washington shouldn’t pressure Jerusalem to let the terrorists run out the clock on a just war.
(November 22, 2023 / JNS) – Israel’s government knew that it had no choice but to accept the deal it was offered in which some of the hostages taken by Hamas on Oct. 7 would be freed in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners and a temporary ceasefire in the war to eliminate the terrorist group from the Gaza Strip. Pressure from the families of the hostages and a Jewish tradition that prioritizes the redemption of captives swamped all of the objections to giving Hamas what it wanted in exchange for the lives of Jewish women and children.
But the question before the Jewish state and its allies isn’t so much whether the deal was one that enhances Israel’s security or if, instead, it strengthens the barbaric group that committed unspeakable atrocities last month and makes it easier for them to survive. Rather, the key dilemma facing it and those who claim to be its friends is whether this is the start of a prolonged bargaining process that will bring victory to Hamas. And the party that will have the most to say about that is President Joe Biden, not Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
SHOCKING: Israel Receives LETHAL Order From Netanyahu [19:48]
Stephen Gardner and Joel Pollak interview. In a late-night press conference, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he has instructed Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency, to target any Hamas leader worldwide. The motivation behind this order is not explicitly mentioned, leaving room for speculation. The potential impact on Hamas leaders is uncertain; it may force them to go on the run.
As for hostage negotiations, they are reportedly commencing, with a suggested exchange ratio of 3 Hamas terrorists for each Israeli hostage. The reasoning behind this specific ratio remains undisclosed.
During the interview, the journalist is asked if they entered Gaza or the part of Israel targeted by Hamas but provides no specific response. There’s also a query about the authenticity of Hamas tunnels under the Al Shifa hospital, contributing to the difficulty of distinguishing truth from propaganda.
The international community’s varied reactions are mentioned, with calls for Netanyahu’s arrest and accusations of genocide and war crimes. A comparison is drawn between sentiments in Israel and Western journalism. The information is presented as part of a broader discussion on the complexities and controversies surrounding the ongoing situation.
