COMMENTARY / OPINION
The West surrendered to barbarians and now war is in the streets Giulio Meotti
This madness is only the appetizer before the entree of a suburban caliphate under which Sydney will become Sidnei al-Islam. Opinion.
Dec 16, 2025, 9:25 PM (GMT+2) Israel National News
Bondi Beach. Sand. Blue sky. Happy bodies. An indifferent sea. Jews lighting candles.
Not “occupied” territory.
Not IDF soldiers.
Not “settlers”.
Jews. A celebration. The blood on the sand is the same color as in Tel Aviv.
Distance no longer exists. The war has left the desert. It descends onto beaches, into schools, into the quiet streets of the West.
As The Spectator put it, it was “the night Australia died”.
One of the survivors of the attack said that four police officers remained “immobilized” during the incident.
Twenty minutes of gunfire: “For 20 minutes. They were shooting, shooting. They changed magazines. And kept shooting. For 20 minutes there were four police officers there. No one returned fire. Nothing. As if they were frozen.”
A country paralyzed by political correctness and fear.
The Mossad had warned Australia in recent days. But nothing.
Because, as Ayaan Hirsi Ali writes in The Free Press, when you allow hundreds of thousands of people to march shouting “Intifada” and “gas the Jews,” this is the result.
We opened the doors to those who despise us; we pay their welfare, give them housing, schools, healthcare, and in return we receive-at best-prayers that curse Israel-the only true ally we have in that sea of terrifying theocracies-and we infidels.
In Sydney city center there have been massive muslim prayers.
This is not devotion; it is an appropriation of public space that turns the Western square into a waqf, a theocratic enclave on common-law soil. It is muscular geopolitics, an echo of imported intifada. While the faithful prostrate themselves, traffic stops, tourists take selfies and native Australians mutter among themselves. It is creeping Islamization.
This madness is only the appetizer before the entree of a suburban caliphate and Sydney will become Sidnei al-Islam.
Why do they tolerate it? Reuters writes it-without my emphasis: the Labor government relies on immigrant votes.
The terrorist son had already been reported to the authorities six years earlier for his links to jihadist circles. Moreover, he studied at an Islamic center that in 2022 praised him for his ability to recite the laws of the Qur’an. Now, if you add religious fanaticism and terrorist ties to a gun permit, a country that is still alive should be alerted. Instead, no.
At the beginning of 2022, Australia first revoked the entry permit already granted to the unvaccinated tennis player Novak Djokovic, then locked him in a hotel for days like a hardened criminal, finally forced him to leave the country and threatened him with a lifetime re-entry ban.
In the case of a tennis player and a virus, the Canberra government acted like an iron guardian of the law. When it comes to the entry of Muslims and Islamist agents, all control measures are ignored to avoid undermining the doctrine of “diversity.”
Not only that. In June, Australia banned the entry of former Israeli justice minister Ayelet Shaked and Israeli activist and influencer Hillel Fuld.
Djokovic and Israeli ministers banned, Islamists welcomed. If this is not mortal moral decay, I do not know what is.
And now it is children and Holocaust survivors who are paying for adults’ blindness to Islamist terrorism.
Meanwhile, the German town of Külsheim is deploying anti-tank barriers at the entrance to its Christmas market, like those used in Ukraine and other theaters of war. Is this what we have become-a theater of war?
Paris, too, is canceling some Christmas festivities because the risk that terrorists might blow everything up is too high. Already with 10 percent Muslims, traditions must be canceled and one loses one’s country.
I am always asked: what should be done? Here it is.
Somewhere one must begin:
The West will be saved when it decides that certain Islamic peoples who, beyond a certain threshold-say 70 percent-want sharia in the West, do not have the right to enter our countries to bring chaos, misery, fanaticism, and terrorism (from countries like Afghanistan, Somalia, “Palestine”, Malesya, Pakistan, Syria…).
The two Bondi Beach terrorists, originally from Pakistan, would never have been able to kill all those innocents were this the rule. Would injustices be committed? Certainly-but the alternative is the end of the West.
After all, they come from a country that, as the actor playing CIA chief on “Homeland” put it, “is not even a country, it’s a f*** acronym.” And the West has the right to say that its residents do not deserve our tolerance.
Otherwise, the West itself will end up becoming an acronym.
Giulio Meotti is a Rome-based journalist for Il Foglio national newspaper. He is the author of twenty books, including A New Shoah: The Untold Story of Israel’s Victims of Terrorism, The Last Western Pope (translated into Spanish and Polish), The End of Europe (Prize Capri San Michele), and The Sweet Conquest (with a preface by Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal) about the creeping Islamization of Europe. He writes a weekly column for Arutz Sheva and has contributed to the Wall Street Journal, the Jerusalem Post, Gatestone Institute, and Die Weltwoche.
The trojan horse of Islamist immigration Jack Engelhard
Islam has taken over. They did it to themselves, over there in Europe and Australia. Is America doing the same? Opinion.
Dec 17, 2025, 8:00 AM (GMT+2) Israel National News
The Bondi Beach massacre, of our brothers and sisters, comes after Western European leaders declared their support for a “Palestinian” state.
Among them was Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia, which means?
It means that Islamists, like the father to son duo which allegedly committed the mass murder, 16 beautiful people at last count, take it as a signal that their evil inclinations have the seal of approval from the top, from the government itself, even from Albanese personally, that Jews, one way or another, one place or another, need to be scolded.
This is all part of a global intifada, no more a slogan but a fact, as in they came and continue to arrive at the invitation of the West which voluntarily chooses suicide.
By culture and by population.
We are talking about Europe of course, and therefore Angela Merkel, head of the German government from 2015 to 2021, and that’s a long time.
Enough time to turn Western Europe into breeding grounds for Islamization. All that through her policy of open borders.
Not just for Germany, but for all the rest. These leaders of today, they are all her offspring as to importing terrorists.
Hijabs and keffiyehs galore throughout the capitals. Churches and synagogues down. Mosques up.
Do you remember Churchill and what it means to be British, tightlipped and all that don’t you know?
That was then.
This is now.
Sadiq Kahn, the mayor of London, allows the “kill the Jews” marchers to go trampling through the streets of London.
But refuses to allow a Jewish vigil for the victims of Sydney, their bloods crying up to the heavens.
Still the same old question. What did we do? What do they want from us?
Demonstrations against Jews even in Liverpool, home of the Beatles. Is nothing sacred?
Do you remember Paris in the Fall?
Forget Paris any season. Piaf. Hemingway at the Ritz. Those were the days.
Instead, no go zones. Islam has taken over.
They did it to themselves, over there.
Over there…and this is important, ladies and gentlemen…over there, Christianity produced a Hitler. Over here, Christianity produced a Lincoln.
That needs to be studied by historians and philosophers. Or novelists like me. If I had the time. Tom Stoppard died two weeks ago.
All those years of happiness and success, as a leading British playwright, and he did not know he was Jewish until late in his life. Maybe that’s the best way.
Think of all he was spared.
Meanwhile, over here, people ask…what happened to Candace? What happened to Tucker? How could they turn like this?
People say…follow the money.
Ilhan Omar is a Trojan Horse.
Dear Jews…today we are hurting for our people in Australia…but we shall go on, unbowed and brave.
There have been times when we were happy. Not so since Oct. 7, 2023. Remember how we kvelled over Entebbe?
When was the last time we kvelled over anything?
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Jewish morality sabotages Jewish self-defense. FRANCISCO GIL-WHITE
This is not to say that Jews should abandon ethics. On the contrary. But when one distorts “trying to be good” into a narcissistic pathology, one is in fact no longer being ethical.
December 17, 2025 The Future of Jewish
I was raised in a Mexican Catholic family, so I am a foreigner to Jewish society: a goy, in other words.
As an outsider, and as a professional anthropologist, I have been living among Jews and studying their culture and society for over 20 years now.
My research, conducted in various countries, including Israel, but mostly with the Mexican Jewish community, is ongoing.
On the basis of my work so far, I will here make two generalizations:
- The Jews are morally good.
- The Jews are too morally good.
The first claim, rendered in a more complex version, says that most Jews try to be good because ethics is the center of gravity of Jewish civilization. But any virtue that is pathologically exaggerated becomes a vice, even goodness. And hence my second claim, which, in its more complex version, says that, by trying too hard to be good, Jews often make themselves fatally vulnerable.
In other words, Jewish goodness sabotages Jewish self-defense.
Of course, everything is relative. There are no absolutes. Therefore, let us make a relative comparison to get our bearings, and then you can judge whether or not I am getting carried away with my generalizations.
I will compare two states founded on different cultural philosophies. One is the State of Iran, the jihadi Shia Muslim State. The other is the State of Israel, the Jewish state.
Iran is governed by a jihadi Shia Muslim religious theocracy, atop which sits the Supreme Leader (that’s an official title, folks) Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. As an example of his style, he once tweeted that “[Israel] has no cure but to be annihilated.” It’s just one example; he says that sort of thing a lot. The genocidal destruction of Israel, the extermination of the Israeli Jews, has been Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s obsession, just as it was for the Islamic Republic’s founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
In order to kill the Israeli Jews, Ali Khamenei is willing to sacrifice the Iranian population. We know this because his instrument of choice, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, corrupt and addicted to central planning, are so obsessed with building weapons (conventional and nuclear), and so obsessed with funding terrorist proxies to encircle Israel, that they have obliterated the welfare of ordinary Iranians.
In fact, the ayatollahs have now destroyed the Iranians. Through and by Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps mismanagement, Iran has now literally run out of water. And hence Iran has run out of everything else, too, because everything depends on water: energy, food, medical attention, etc.
Total Iranian collapse may be months away. Just a month ago — get this — the Iranian president announced that the city of Tehran, the capital, may soon have to be evacuated. Iran is about to become one of the greatest humanitarian crises in all of history. And this is now all but inevitable.
But how did this happen?
In 1948, when the State of Israel was born, Iran was blessed with all of the following: a massive territory (approximately 1.6 million square kilometers); deep aquifers; diverse climates, including extensive, snow-fed mountain ranges (Zagros, Alborz) that produced dozens of major river systems and replenished the aquifers, vast forests in the north (Caspian basin), marshlands in the south, and (yes) plenty of desert; an intelligent, inherited tradition of water-conserving qanat systems; a manageable population of 16 million (low pressure on water systems); an ancient agricultural civilization with continuity of locally adaptive farming knowledge; and no major geopolitical threat on the question of access to water.
Iran was rich in land and water, and could easily feed itself.
By contrast, Israel’s situation was a real challenge. In 1948, it had: the tiniest landmass (approximately 20,000 square kilometers, about the size of Connecticut, and only 1.26 percent the size of Iran); mostly semi-arid or arid land; only one major river, the Jordan River, which is narrow, shared, and insufficient; no deep aquifers exploited yet; highly seasonal rainfall, concentrated in the north and center; mostly uncultivated desert (the Negev desert region is 60 percent of Israel’s landmass); and great geopolitical threats to its water access, as it was surrounded by hostile, genocidal neighbors, threatening access to the Jordan and to the Sea of Galilee.
But while the ayatollahs encouraged massive population growth to recruit more soldiers for Iran’s genocidal armies, and while the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps commandeered the entire Iranian economy for its own genocidal purposes (and also for theft, pure and simple), thus ruining Iranian hydrology beyond recovery, the Israelis engineered their own hydrology wisely.
The Israelis pioneered drip- and micro-irrigation. They developed a national water grid, combining desalination plants, water recycling, aquifers, reservoirs, and a dynamic network of pipelines and pumping stations to send the water where it is most needed at any given moment. They created the National Water Carrier, a massive North-South water conveyance system to make the Negev bloom agriculturally. They built the world’s leading desalination plants, with the best technology.
They have achieved around 85 percent of wastewater recycling, the world’s highest rate. They’ve developed intelligent water pricing structures to incentivize conservation. They deployed, via public education, a cultural focus on proper water stewardship. And they designed their agricultural sector around what the available water can sustain for the long term, not what is profitable in the short term.
It is quite the contrast. Even though it was Israel that started out with very little water, very poor soils, and intense security constraints, Israel is water secure and blooming, whereas Iran is on the verge of a self-created national disaster.
This impending and tremendous Iranian catastrophe could have been averted if not for the fanatical Jew-hatred of the Iranian ayatollahs. Because, in 2018, seven-and-a-half years ago, with Iran’s self-annihilation already on the horizon, Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, offered to save Iran. This is what he said:
SHOCKING: Now 65 no-go zones in Sweden PETER IMANUELSEN
The number of dangerous areas have increased.
DEC 17, 2025
Things are still going the wrong way in Sweden.
Police recently released their new report on dangerous areas in the country and the news is not good.
There are now 65 areas that police list as ”vulnerable areas” in the country. This is just a politically correct term for what is essentially a no-go zone.
They also have another term called ”especially vulnerable areas” where things are the worst.
In these areas, the situation is actually so bad that it is difficult for the police to do their job. Here there are often parallel societal structures and criminal activities can often happen in the open.
Police also says that in these areas there are systematic violations of religious freedoms and fundamentalist influences that restricts the rights of citizens. People are also reluctant to report crime or testify to police.
In one of the most notorious no-go zones called Rinkeby, over 92% of the population now has a foreign background.
There are also reports of people in these areas taking on themselves the role of ” Islamist morality police” enforcing strict rules on women in some of these areas.
They act as ”religious enforcers” and attempt to impose sharia like rules in these areas.
They have been accused of patrolling the areas and committing acts of violence against women, spitting on women that are deemed to have ”wrong” and ”immodest” clothes.
One would think that something like this couldn’t happen in Europe. Sweden was once considered one of the safest countries in the world.
Now we are at the point were self appointed ”morality police” are patrolling the streets to tell women what kind of clothes they are ”allowed” to wear.
This should be unheard of.
But here we are, and many people don’t know about it because the media is trying to downplay it. But I’m here to report on it.
Is Australia lying about the Bondi Beach attack? JOSHUA HOFFMAN
Officials are blaming ISIS, which seems like a convenient scapegoat that shields state actors from consequences which could result in another Middle East war.
DEC 17, 2025 The Future of Jewish
In the immediate aftermath of the horrific terrorist attack targeting Sunday’s Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in Australia, a striking report appeared in The Jerusalem Post: Israeli authorities, the article said, were investigating whether the attack may have involved foreign actors — specifically Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, or Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (a group linked to Al-Qaeda).
Shortly thereafter, another headline emerged in Israeli media: A senior U.S. official said that, if the Australian attack were determined to have been ordered by Iran, Washington, D.C. would fully support a direct Israeli strike on Iranian territory.1
Then came a third narrative: Australian officials announced that the father-and-son perpetrators had filled their vehicle with various items, including homemade ISIS flags. They provided no photograph or video evidence and no corroboration of this claim. The message, essentially, was: “Believe us, because we said so.”
But why, exactly, should anyone (let alone Jews) believe the current Australian government?
Set aside, for a moment, the fact that just yesterday the Australian government allowed a pro-terror march — typically cloaked under the banner of “Palestine,” itself a well-worn Islamist terror guise — to take place near Bondi Beach, complete with police protection for the demonstrators. Set aside as well Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s statement immediately following Sunday’s attack, which conspicuously failed to mention Jews, Hanukkah, or Islamist terror at all.
Since October 7th, the Australian government has both implicitly and explicitly sided with Hamas, elevated “Islamophobia” to a central political talking point despite the absence of any serious threat to Australian Muslims, and repeatedly ignored credible threats and actual violence directed at Jews, Jewish communities, and Jewish institutions.
According to a senior Israeli intelligence official, Israel’s foreign intelligence service provided Australian authorities with concrete warnings well before the Bondi Beach attack. These warnings concerned what the official described as Iranian-directed terror activity operating inside Australia. The alerts were not specific to Bondi Beach itself, but rather to broader Iranian efforts to establish terror networks designed to target Jewish sites and communities.2
“We stopped a few ticking bombs,” the official said, meaning they prevented attacks as they were in the process or near the start.
The same official stated that Israeli intelligence identified Iranian guidance and coordination behind these efforts, including operatives allegedly in possession of weapons and operating “in the center of Jewish communities,” all while remaining undetected by local authorities. Australia, the official emphasized, is far from unique. Israeli intelligence has identified or disrupted similar Iranian-linked terror activity across Europe, Africa, and Asia, as well as alleged plots in South America, India, and Thailand.
“If you knew how many terror attacks the Mossad has prevented,” the Israeli official added, “you would drop your jaw.”
We also know, definitively, that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps was responsible for at least two antisemitic arson attacks on Jewish sites in Australia earlier this year. Hence why, in the months preceding the Bondi Beach attack, Australia expelled Iran’s ambassador after domestic security services publicly accused Tehran of directing or enabling attacks against Jewish targets on Australian soil.
So, if Iran were indeed behind the Bondi Beach attack, and Israel responded by striking Iran directly, the consequences would almost certainly not end there. Iranian retaliation against Israel would be all but inevitable, triggering a renewed direct confrontation between the two states. In practical terms, this would mean the resumption of the 12-day Israel–Iran war that unfolded this past summer — quite possibly on a wider and more destructive scale.
And yet, such escalation cuts sharply against the interests of many powerful actors. Qatar and Saudi Arabia, other Middle East countries, European governments, and even the United States all have compelling reasons to avoid another major Middle Eastern war. Whether due to energy markets, economic stability, regional power balances, or domestic political pressures, these actors overwhelmingly prefer containment over conflagration.
This is precisely why ISIS emerges as such a convenient scapegoat. The Islamic State once controlled vast territory across Syria and Iraq beginning in 2014, but it was eventually dismantled by the U.S. military and its allies. While its ideology has inspired sporadic attacks in Europe and elsewhere in recent years, ISIS today exists largely on the margins of Middle East and global geopolitics.
Even if ISIS flags were, in fact, found in the attackers’ vehicle, it does not automatically indicate that ISIS was responsible. Those flags could just as easily have been placed there intentionally to divert attention away from Iran. The Iranians are not naïve; they understand that if they are indisputably linked to an attack like Bondi Beach, Israel may feel compelled to strike Iranian territory directly.
And Iran has good reason to fear that outcome. In June, Israel demonstrated overwhelming superiority against Iran’s radar systems, air defenses, nuclear infrastructure, senior commanders, and ballistic missile capabilities. Iran is still reeling from that defeat, which has left it more exposed than at any point in recent memory.
In 2023, before October 7th, Israel would never have openly struck Iranian soil in response to a single terror attack against Jews or Israelis abroad. The fear of a catastrophic Iranian missile response was simply too great. At the time, no one doubted that a first Israeli strike would provoke a massive ballistic missile onslaught from Tehran.
Today, the calculus has changed. Iran knows that such an attack might be intercepted — and that Israel could respond by inflicting billions of dollars in additional damage on Iran’s military infrastructure, including killing many of the commanders who replaced the roughly thirty senior officials already eliminated by the IDF.
What makes this situation even more surreal is that an Iranian government official issued a statement following the Bondi Beach attack declaring that “terror violence and mass killing shall be condemned, wherever they’re committed, as unlawful and criminal.”
This is the same regime that routinely denies the Holocaust. Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s followers adhere to an ideology that explicitly casts world Jewry as an enemy of Islam, in no small part because of the Jewish Diaspora’s connection to Israel. According to Dr. Meir Javedanfar, an expert on Iranian politics at Israel’s Reichman University, Iran views harm to Diaspora Jews as a legitimate component of its wartime strategy. From the perspective of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, the Jewish Diaspora represents a soft target — one whose suffering pressures Israel, which sees itself as responsible for Jewish security worldwide.3
A former Israeli security official has similarly noted that, while striking Israel directly is difficult, the Diaspora is far more exposed and can be targeted both to exact revenge and to deter future Israeli action. Despite being severely weakened by Israel this past summer, the Iranian regime still retains the capacity to orchestrate conventional or mass-casualty terror attacks, precisely the kind of violence we just witnessed at Bondi Beach.
As is often the case, Iran typically relies on local proxies to carry out these operations. In Australia, this can include organized crime figures recruited to do the regime’s bidding. These actors, according to the former Israeli security official, are not always particularly competent and often require direct guidance (or pressure) from the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps to act.
Ultimately, however, the most important question is not whether Iran is definitively behind the Bondi Beach attack. The deeper concern is the possibility that the Australian government, in coordination with other global leaders, is quietly shaping the public narrative behind closed doors. If that is the case, it represents antisemitism in its most insidious form: manipulation, distortion, and omission. The result is that Jewish communities, both in Australia and worldwide, are left even more exposed, as political convenience once again takes precedence over protecting citizens from organized, ideologically driven violence.
This is not fear-mongering. It is not conspiracy-building. It is a sober assessment of the available facts. Four days on, no credible evidence has been presented linking ISIS to the attack. What we have seen instead are press conferences and official statements from Australian leaders who, since October 7th, have repeatedly downplayed or ignored serious threats and real violence directed at Australian Jews.
And now Jews are being asked to simply trust those same officials, to believe that this time, they suddenly care about Jewish safety. Really?
We Jews do not have the luxury of giving questionable actors a benefit of the doubt. You can call that paranoia. I call it survival.
What makes the Bondi Beach attack especially alarming is not only its brutality, but how familiar the sequence already feels. Since October 7th, Jewish communities around the world have seen the same pattern repeat itself again and again: a violent attack or credible threat against Jews, followed by immediate downplaying, narrative deflection, and a rush to frame the incident as anything other than targeted antisemitic terror. Lone wolves. Mental health. Random extremism.
Anything except what it plainly is.
Jews are murdered, synagogues are firebombed, Jewish schools are threatened, community centers are vandalized, and Jewish gatherings require armed guards, yet officials consistently insist that these incidents are isolated, unrelated, or misunderstood. This repetition is not coincidence; it is pattern recognition. And Jews, more than most, have learned the cost of ignoring patterns simply because doing so makes others uncomfortable.
Too often, governments substitute authority for evidence and expect compliance rather than scrutiny. The logic goes something like this: “We are the state. We have access to intelligence you do not. Therefore, trust us.” But trust without transparency is not reassurance; it is a demand for silence.
This dynamic becomes especially pronounced when Jews are the victims. Assertions are made. Narratives are offered. Press conferences are held. Yet evidence is rarely presented, questions are deflected, and skepticism is framed as disloyal or irresponsible. When officials ask to be believed solely because of who they are, rather than what they can demonstrate, Jews are right to pause. History has taught us that institutional confidence has never been a substitute for truth.
There is a word often used to justify inaction in moments like this: restraint. Politicians speak of de-escalation, stability, and the need to avoid wider conflict. These goals may sound reasonable, until one asks who pays the price for that restraint.
Again and again, it is Jewish civilians who absorb the cost of geopolitical caution. When escalation is deemed too risky or too inconvenient, Jewish communities become the pressure-release valve. Violence against them is tolerated, minimized, or quietly reframed so that larger strategic balances can be preserved. Stability, in this formulation, is maintained not by preventing terror, but by managing its victims.
Jews both in Israel and the Diaspora do not assess risk the way others do — not because we are hysterical or conspiratorial, but because we are historically literate. Jews have learned, often painfully, that early warning signs are rarely taken seriously until catastrophe makes denial impossible. They know that protection promised by states is often conditional, delayed, or withdrawn when politically inconvenient.
This is why Jews notice shifts in tone, changes in enforcement, and patterns of selective outrage before others do. They understand that being told “you’re safe” has never been the same as being safe. What looks like overreaction to outsiders is, for Jews, accumulated memory: the instinct to recognize danger while there is still time to respond.
Critics inevitably ask, “What if this interpretation is wrong? What if the suspicions are misplaced?” The answer is simple: If Jews are wrong, the cost is embarrassment, discomfort, and perhaps political friction. If we are right, and ignored, the cost is lives. This asymmetry matters because rational risk assessment weighs consequences, not just probabilities. Jews are not demanding certainty; they are demanding seriousness. And history has shown that dismissing Jewish warnings has never been the safer bet.
The real question, then, is not whether Jews are being overly suspicious; it is how many times the same warning signs must appear — how many attacks must be minimized, how many threats must be ignored — before the world acknowledges what Jews have already learned to see.
1 “Should Israel issue a military response if Iran was behind the Bondi attack? – analysis.” The Jerusalem Post.
2 “Intelligence warned Australia of Iranian-linked terror activity months before Bondi attack, officials say.” Fox News.
3 “Experts reveal why Iran is attacking Diaspora Jews, warn that West ‘doesn’t understand fanaticism’.” The Jerusalem Post.
The ‘Multicultural’ Terrorist Threat Inside Europe: The Exported War No One Wants to Name by Pierre Rehov
December 17, 2025
- Peaceful protesters certainly exist, but in many instances, the same marchers who cry “from the river to the sea” also provide cover, logistics and recruitment spaces for operatives who work closely with Hamas or other terrorist organizations.
- A report from the University of Indiana shows how a transnational network of NGOs and campus groups spread antisemitic and pro-Hamas narratives, coordinated across borders and amplified by social media. The message is simple: Israel is “colonial,” Jews are “settlers,” and violence against them is “resistance.”
- European rallies have repeatedly featured Hamas flags, praise for the October 7 attackers and calls to “repeat” the massacre – all under the label of “human rights.”
- Law enforcement sees the problem more clearly than politicians. The same EU reports that speak delicately of “violent extremism” in public also describe behind closed doors how online propaganda, diaspora networks and Middle Eastern conflicts interact to create hybrid terrorist ecosystems in Europe.
- Even so, on the political level, Europe still refuses to name the ideological enemy: an Islamist project that openly seeks the eradication of Israel and spills over to advocate eliminating the United States and the West. “The one Jewish state is the first to suffer,” notes Jerusalem Post reporter Liat Collins, “but the nearly 50 Muslim-majority countries and the nominally Christian world are all in the line of fire.”
- European governments rush to recognize a Palestinian state even as Hamas thanks them for rewarding its “resistance.” This same cognitive dissonance runs through EU institutions that condemn “terrorism” in the abstract while lavishly funding NGOs that glorify its perpetrators.
- Europe’s retreat into denying intangible threats staring them in the face unfortunately has extremely tangible results.
- Studies of Hamas funding stress that social and religious front organizations are integral to the movement’s terrorist attacks: they launder money, recruit sympathizers and create safe spaces where support for terrorism can flourish under a “humanitarian” cover.
- When Germany bans Samidoun or a small local front group, NGOs and academics denounce the act as a “repression” of civil society. When Belgium moves against a man praising the October 7 massacre, activist networks cry that “solidarity” is being criminalized. In this narrative, it is always the state – never the terrorist infrastructure – that is on trial.
- The war that has been exported from Gaza to Europe has three pillars: money, indoctrination and operational cells. All three are embedded in structures that call themselves “Palestinian solidarity” or “human rights organizations.”
- As long as European governments accept this masquerade, the continent will remain both a financial base and a potential battlefield for Hamas and its Qatari, Turkish and Iranian sponsors.
- What would a serious policy look like?… No more American or European funding, period, for organizations that celebrate terrorist “martyrs” and teach children to hate Jews, Christians, or any other racial or religious group.
- When demonstrators chant “globalize the intifada,” they are not calling for peace, they are calling for the expansion of a global jihadist war.
- Finally, Europeans must abandon the illusion that the “Palestinian cause” is a harmless protest disconnected from terrorism. Hamas itself, backed by Qatar, Turkey and Iran, has explained over and over that Europe is part of their battlefield. The only question is whether European leaders will listen to their own police and intelligence services, and Israel’s Mossad, or whether they will continue pretending that a war raging against them has no name and does not exist.
European rallies have repeatedly featured Hamas flags, praise for the October 7 attackers and calls to “repeat” the massacre – all under the label of “human rights.” Peaceful protesters certainly exist, but in many instances, the same marchers who cry “from the river to the sea” also provide cover, logistics and recruitment spaces for operatives who work closely with Hamas or other terrorist organizations. Pictured: Anti-Israel protesters at Place de la République in Paris, on November 11, 2023.
When Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency publicly revealed in November 2025 that it had helped European countries expose a Hamas terrorist infrastructure “in the heart of Europe” – including weapons caches and plans to hit Jewish and Israeli targets – it simply confirmed what intelligence professionals have warned since October 7, 2023: The war in the Gaza Strip is no longer local. It has been exported, operationally, to European soil.
As early as December 2023, German, Dutch and Danish authorities had already arrested Hamas operatives accused of preparing attacks on Jewish institutions in several European countries. Prosecutors described long-standing members of Hamas, directed to stockpile weapons in Berlin. Since then, intelligence and security reports have spoken of a “realistic possibility” that the Hamas-Israel war will embolden networks across Western Europe to move from propaganda to mass-casualty attacks.
Europol’s 2025 Terrorism Situation and Trend Report openly acknowledged that the Gaza conflict has reshaped the threat picture inside the EU. The foreword warns that wars beyond Europe’s borders – explicitly including Gaza – fuel radicalization, propaganda and operational planning within European states. In parallel, news outlets report that, since 2023, European authorities have quietly disrupted several plots linked to Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran.
Behind these plots lies an entrenched Hamas infrastructure in Europe that long predates 2023. A detailed study from George Washington University describes how Hamas built extensive fundraising and logistical networks in Western countries, using charities, NGOs — often European-funded — and business fronts whose names and legal entities are constantly changed to stay ahead of authorities. These same countries, the study’s authors warned, are the natural incubator for future terrorist operations in the West.
In 2024, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies summarized new research by ELNET that identified 30 Hamas-linked organizations and figures active in the UK, Germany, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands. These groups include “civil society” associations, aid organizations and lobbying platforms that propagate Hamas narratives while maintaining close personal ties with known extremists. They operate with “relative freedom,” despite Hamas having been officially designated as a terrorist organization by both the EU and individual states.
Germany, to its credit, has gone further to confront this problem than most. Berlin has not only banned Hamas and the international network Samidoun, but has also started outlawing local “solidarity groups” whose activities glorify terrorism and promote antisemitic agitation. The German Interior Ministry reported that some 450 Hamas members are active in the country and involved in propaganda and fundraising, and has ordered raids against groups such as Palestine Solidarity Duisburg for supporting Hamas under the cover of activism.
Even in Germany, however, every ban on one structure appears followed by the birth of another. NGO Monitor has documented how Samidoun, officially linked to the PFLP terrorist organization, simply inspired successor networks such as Masar Badil, which German media describe as closely connected to Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Yemen’s Houthis. Belgian authorities stripped Samidoun’s European coordinator of his residency only in 2025, after he publicly praised the October 7 massacre.
Fundraising and logistics are only one part of the story. Hamas also invests heavily in indoctrination – particularly among students. A report from the University of Indiana shows how a transnational network of NGOs and campus groups spread antisemitic and pro-Hamas narratives, coordinated across borders and amplified by social media. The message is simple: Israel is “colonial,” Jews are “settlers,” and violence against them is “resistance.”
The results are visible on European campuses. A 2024–2025 wave of “Gaza encampments” imported the rhetoric of “globalize the intifada” to universities from Paris to Berlin and Glasgow. In Scotland, on the anniversary of October 7, students marched under a banner proclaiming “Glory to our martyrs,” openly celebrating the atrocities of Hamas. Surveys and reports currently detail a sharp rise, since 2023, in antisemitic incidents and intimidation at European universities.
This is where “Palestinian activism” becomes a protective shield for extremist cells. Peaceful protesters certainly exist, but in many instances, the same marchers who cry “from the river to the sea” also provide cover, logistics and recruitment spaces for operatives who work closely with Hamas or other terrorist organizations. European rallies have repeatedly featured Hamas flags, praise for the October 7 attackers and calls to “repeat” the massacre – all under the label of “human rights.”
Law enforcement sees the problem more clearly than politicians. The same EU reports that speak delicately of “violent extremism” in public also describe behind closed doors how online propaganda, diaspora networks and Middle Eastern conflicts interact to create hybrid terrorist ecosystems in Europe. Israeli and European intelligence routinely give briefings on how Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas coordinate surveillance of Jewish targets in cities such as Berlin.
Even so, on the political level, Europe still refuses to name the ideological enemy: an Islamist project that openly seeks the eradication of Israel and spills over to advocate eliminating the United States and the West. “The one Jewish state is the first to suffer,” notes Jerusalem Post reporter Liat Collins, “but the nearly 50 Muslim-majority countries and the nominally Christian world are all in the line of fire.”
Clifford May, president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, has described how European governments rush to recognize a Palestinian state even as Hamas thanks them for rewarding its “resistance.” This same cognitive dissonance runs through EU institutions that condemn “terrorism” in the abstract while lavishly funding NGOs that glorify its perpetrators.
Europe’s retreat into denying intangible threats staring them in the face unfortunately has extremely tangible results. For years, Western courts and regulators tried to distinguish between Hamas’s “military” and its so-called “political” or “social” branches – a distinction many serious experts regard as fanciful. Studies of Hamas funding stress that social and religious front organizations are integral to the movement’s terrorist attacks: they launder money, recruit sympathizers and create safe spaces where support for terrorism can flourish under a “humanitarian” cover.
The same “doublespeak” dominates the discourse on “Palestinian activism.” When Germany bans Samidoun or a small local front group, NGOs and academics denounce the act as a “repression” of civil society. When Belgium moves against a man praising the October 7 massacre, activist networks cry that “solidarity” is being criminalized. In this narrative, it is always the state – never the terrorist infrastructure – that is on trial.
Meanwhile, Europe’s Jewish communities live under siege. Synagogues require fortress-style protection, Jewish schools resemble military bases, and Israeli tourists are warned by their own government to avoid displaying any visible sign of Jewish or Israeli identity when traveling. The dramatic rise in antisemitic incidents across Europe since October 7, 2023 can be directly linked to pro-Hamas agitation, even when officials pretend that the hatred has “nothing to do” with imported Middle Eastern conflicts.
The war that has been exported from Gaza to Europe has three pillars: money, indoctrination and operational cells. All three are embedded in structures that call themselves “Palestinian solidarity” or “human rights organizations.” As long as European governments accept this masquerade, the continent will remain both a financial base and a potential battlefield for Hamas and its Qatari, Turkish and Iranian sponsors.
What would a serious policy look like? First, full exposure and the expansion of existing terror designations: not just banning Hamas as an abstract entity, but shutting down its front groups, closing its “charities” and prosecuting those who fund or glorify its violence. Second, conditioning all funding for Palestinian NGOs on clear, independently verified rejection of terrorism and incitement. No more American or European funding, period, for organizations that celebrate terrorist “martyrs” and teach children to hate Jews, Christians, or any other racial or religious group.
Third, Europe must finally confront the indoctrination dimension. This means holding universities accountable for campus groups that praise terrorism under academic cover, enforcing existing laws against incitement, and protecting Jewish and pro-Israel students with the same zeal shown for every other minority. It also means recognizing the obvious: When demonstrators chant “globalize the intifada,” they are not calling for peace, they are calling for the expansion of a global jihadist war.
Finally, Europeans must abandon the illusion that the “Palestinian cause” is a harmless protest disconnected from terrorism. Hamas itself, backed by Qatar, Turkey and Iran, has explained over and over that Europe is part of their battlefield. The only question is whether European leaders will listen to their own police and intelligence services, and Israel’s Mossad, or whether they will continue pretending that a war raging against them has no name and does not exist.
Pierre Rehov, who holds a law degree from Paris-Assas, is a French reporter, novelist and documentary filmmaker. He is the author of six novels, including “Beyond Red Lines”, ” The Third Testament” and “Red Eden”, translated from French. His latest essay on the aftermath of the October 7 massacre ” 7 octobre – La riposte ” became a bestseller in France.As a filmmaker, he has produced and directed 17 documentaries, many photographed at high risk in Middle Eastern war zones, and focusing on terrorism, media bias, and the persecution of Christians. His latest documentary, “Pogrom(s)” highlights the context of ancient Jew hatred within Muslim civilization as the main force behind the October 7 massacre.
Chanukah Guide for the Perplexed, 2025 Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger
December 8, 2025 “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative”
1.Chanukah (evening of December 14 – December 22, 2025) is the only Jewish holiday that commemorates an ancient national liberation struggle in the Land of Israel, unlike Passover, Sukkot/Tabernacles and Shavu’ot/Pentecost, which commemorate the liberation from slavery in Egypt to independence in the land of Israel, and unlike Purim, which commemorates liberation from a Persian attempt to annihilate the Jewish people of Persia.
2. NBC news, December 13, 2022: “An ancient treasure trove of silver coins dating back 2,200 years, found in a desert cave in Israel, could add crucial new evidence to support a story of Jewish rebellion…. The 15 silver coins were hidden [during] the Maccabean revolt from 167-160 B.C., when Jewish warriors rebelled against the Seleucid [Syrian] Empire….”
3. In 1777, Chanukah candles were lit, by a Jewish soldier, during the Valley Forge encampment, the turning point of the Revolutionary War, which solidified the victory of George Washington’s Continental Army over the British monarchy. Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and a player in the ratification of the US Constitution, paving the road to the Boston Tea Party, 1773: “What shining examples of patriotism do we behold in Joshua, Samuel, the Maccabees and t
he illustrious princes and prophets among the Jews…” On December 6, 2013, Ambassador Hank Cooper, a former Director of the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization, wrote: “We need modern day Maccabees to preserve the heritage of liberty for our posterity….”
4. According to Israel’s Founding Father, David Ben Gurion: Chanukah commemorates “the struggle of the Maccabees, which was one of the most dramatic clashes of civilizations in human history, not merely a political-military struggle against foreign oppression…. Unlike many peoples, the meager Jewish people did not assimilate. The Jewish people prevailed, won, sustained and enhanced their independence and unique civilization…. It was the spirit of the people, rather than the establishment, which enabled the Hasmoneans to overcome one of the most magnificent spiritual, political and military challenges in Jewish history….” (Uniqueness and Destiny, pp 20-22, David Ben Gurion, IDF Publishing, 1953).
5. Chanukah and the Land of Israel. When ordered by Emperor Antiochus IV Epiphanes of the Seleucid region to end the Jewish “occupation” of Jerusalem, Jaffa, Gaza, Gezer and Akron, Shimon the Maccabee responded: “We have not occupied a foreign land…. We have liberated the land of our forefathers from foreign occupation (Book of Maccabees A: 15:33).”
Chanukah highlights the centrality of the Land of Israel in the formation of Judaism and the Jewish people. The mountain ridges of Judea and Southern Samaria (the West Bank) – the cradle of Jewish history, religion, culture and language – were the platform for the Maccabean military battles: Mitzpah (the burial site of the Prophet Samuel, overlooking Jerusalem), Beit El (the site of the Ark of the Covenant and Judah the Maccabee’s initial headquarters), Beit Horon (Judah’s victory over Seron), Hadashah (Judah’s victory over Nicanor), Beit Zur (Judah’s victory over Lysias), Ma’aleh Levona (Judah’s victory over Apolonius), Adora’yim (a Maccabean fortress), Eleazar (named after Mattityahu’s youngest Maccabee son), Beit Zachariya (Judah’s first defeat), Ba’al Hatzor (where Judah was defeated and killed), Te’qoah, Mikhmash and Gophnah (bases of Shimon and Yonatan), the Judean Desert, etc.
6. Chanukah’s historical context is narrated in the 4 Books of the Maccabees, The Scroll of Antiochus and The Wars of the Jews.
In 323 BCE, following the death of Alexander the Great (Alexander III) who held Judaism in high esteem, the Greek Empire was split into three independent and rival mini-empires: Greece, Seleucid/Syria and Ptolemaic/Egypt.
In 175 BCE, the Seleucid/Syrian Emperor Antiochus (IV) Epiphanes claimed the Land of Israel. He suspected that the Jews were allies of his Ptolemaic/Egyptian enemy. The Seleucid emperor was known for eccentric behavior, hence his name, Epiphanes, which means “divine manifestation.” He aimed to exterminate Judaism and convert Jews to Hellenism. In 169 BCE, he devastated Jerusalem, attempting to decimate the Jewish population, and outlaw the practice of Judaism.
In 166/7 BCE, a Jewish rebellion was led by the non-establishment Hasmonean (Maccabee) family from the rural town of Modi’in, half-way between Jerusalem and the Mediterranean. The rebellion was headed by Mattityahu, the priest, and his five sons, Yochanan, Judah, Shimon, Yonatan and Eleazar, who fought the Seleucid occupier and restored Jewish independence. The Hasmonean dynasty was replete with external and internal wars and lasted until 37 BCE, when Herod the Great (a proxy of Rome) defeated Antigonus II Mattathias.
The reputation of Jews as superb warriors was reaffirmed by the success of the Maccabees on the battlefield. In fact, they were frequently hired as mercenaries by Egypt, Syria, Carthage, Rome and other global and regional powers.
7.Chanukah celebrates the Maccabean-led national liberation by conducting in-house family education and lighting candles – in a 9-branch-candelabrum – for 8 days in commemoration of the re-inauguration of Jerusalem’s Jewish Temple and its Menorah (candelabrum).
The Hebrew words Chanukah (חנוכה), inauguration (חנוכ) and education ((חנוך possess an identical root.
8. As was prophesized by the Prophet Hagai in 520 BCE, the re-inauguration of the Temple took place on the 25th day of the Jewish month of Kislev, which is the month of miracles, such as the post-flood appearance of Noah’s rainbow, the completion of the construction of the Holy Ark by Moses, the laying of the foundations of the Second Temple by Nehemiah, etc.
The 25th Hebrew word in Genesis is “light,” and the 25th stop during the Exodus was Hashmona (the same Hebrew spelling as Hasmonean-Maccabees).
9. Chanukah highlights the defeat of darkness, forgetfulness, disbeliefand pessimism, and the victory of light, commemoration, faith, defiance of odds, can-do mentality and optimism (darkness and forgetfulness are spelled with identical Hebrew letters: חשכה, שכחה). The first day of Chanukah is celebrated when daylight hours are equal to darkness hours – and when moonlight is hardly noticed – ushering in brighter days.
BREAKING: MIT Professor Shot and Killed in His Massachusetts Home
[Ed.: The professor was murdered not because he’s a professor of nuclear science and engineering at MIT. The article above fails to mention one important clue as to the motive. Here’s the clue: he was Jewish…]
Something Feels Very Off About the Trump Team’s Rapid Defense of Susie Wiles THE VIGILANT FOX
This is raising some serious eyebrows.
December 16,2025
Something feels deeply off about the Trump team’s response to the Vanity Fair hit piece featuring Trump’s Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, and people are starting to take notice.
Earlier today, Vanity Fair published a lengthy piece drawn almost entirely from on-the-record conversations with Susie Wiles herself.
The article included blunt characterizations of key figures inside Trump’s inner circle: Wiles described JD Vance as having been “a conspiracy theorist for a decade,” and labeled Russell Vought as “a right-wing absolute zealot.”
She also made less-than-stellar remarks about the president himself, telling Vanity Fair, “Trump has an alcoholic’s personality.”
When the piece became public, Wiles quickly took to social media to dismiss the article as a “disingenuously framed hit piece on me and the finest President, White House staff, and Cabinet in history.
But Susie spoke with Vanity Fair “regularly” over the “past year.” Was she so naive that she really did not see this hit piece coming? And why would she hand a left-wing outlet ample ammunition to smear the Trump team by supplying them with such derogatory statements?
But the truly strange part wasn’t Wiles’ response. It was what came next.
Trump’s inner circle and cabinet members rushed in to defend her, and their posts were so exaggerated that it went well beyond helping out an ally; it resembled borderline worship.
Look at this response from HHS Secretary RFK Jr.
Susie Wiles is arguably the most perfect chief of staff in modern American history. She is the first female to occupy that position, but more importantly she is a leader who combines deftness, kindness, and compassion with a maternal toughness and discipline that elevates the entire White House apparatus.
Her impeccable judgment, moral center, intuitive understanding of the President’s intentions, and her ability to translate his vision into concrete policy have earned her universal trust and respect of the cabinet, which, consequently, functions more as an unusually efficient family than as assemblage of competing rivals.
Her mastery of politics, her encyclopedic command of every issue and policy, and her ability to instantly grasp the heart of every problem rival anyone with whom I’ve ever worked. Susie—like President Trump—understands how to wield power with purpose.
Saw this post on Facebook:
An open letter to Jewish kids calling themselves anti-Zionist and saying “f$ck Israel.” by Melissa Steinberg
What I’m about to say comes from concern, not judgment.
I understand why many of you feel the way you do. You weren’t really taught why Israel exists. You weren’t taught what it means to be a people who spent centuries with nowhere safe to go. That didn’t happen by accident.
Our schools failed you.
And yes, our Jewish institutions failed you too.
Too many rabbis became afraid. Afraid of offending. Afraid of being labeled insufficiently progressive. Afraid of telling the full story. Hard history was softened. Survival was reframed. Jewish self-determination became something to apologize for instead of something to understand.
Parents, especially progressive parents, need to own this as well.
Many of us believed we were doing the right thing by emphasizing universalism, justice, and empathy, without grounding our kids deeply enough in Jewish history and reality. We assumed the foundation was strong enough to hold.
For some of you, it wasn’t.
That’s how you end up with Jewish kids raised in Zionist homes, by parents who care deeply about Jewish life, now calling themselves anti-Zionist and chanting “f$ck Israel” without fully understanding what that actually means.
Add to that the fact that so much of what you’re learning now comes from TikTok, Reddit, and Instagram, and the problem accelerates fast.
Those platforms are not neutral. They reward certainty, outrage, and simplicity. They don’t teach history. They don’t sit with complexity. They don’t show you what happens when Jews don’t have a place to go.
Those of us who are older didn’t grow up like this.
We learned from books. From teachers who didn’t skip the uncomfortable parts. From parents and grandparents who remembered what it was like to be unwanted, unsafe, or forced to flee. From stories that weren’t designed to perform well online.
So when you reject Israel outright, believing it puts you on the moral high ground, there is something you need to hear.
It doesn’t protect you.
Look around right now. Look at the violence targeting Jews. No one stops to ask if the victim was a Zionist. No one checks their politics. No one asks what slogans they posted.
They are targeted because they are Jewish.
There is no sorting system. No good Jew versus bad Jew list. No exemption for saying the right things. When antisemitism rises, you are not spared. You are simply Jewish.
That isn’t fear-mongering. It’s history.
You don’t have to love Israel. You don’t have to defend every policy or government. That’s not what this is about.
This is about the fact that rejecting Jewish self-determination has never made Jews safer. Not once. And the people applauding you now do not hate Israel more than they hate Jews. When the target widens, you will still be standing there.
This isn’t about blame. It’s about honesty.
We didn’t fully equip you. And now we’re watching you navigate a world that is far less forgiving than you think.
You don’t have to agree with me.
But you deserve the truth, not the sanitized version.
With love,
a proud Zionist
and a Jewish mom
Melissa Steinberg
How ‘CNN’ sanitizes Hamas terrorism MOSHE PHILLIPS
The word “official” is not neutral; it confers legitimacy, authority and a sense of normalcy—qualities that should never be associated with leaders of a designated terrorist organization.
December 16, 2025 JNS
Recently, CNN labeled a leader of the Hamas terrorist organization “a senior official.” This begs the question: When is a terrorist not a terrorist according to mainstream media?
Far too often, news outlets like CNN apply titles and adjectives to terrorists or mention their profession as if these are the things that matter, rather than the fact that they belong to a group pledged to commit murder.
This proclivity is not abstract or theoretical. It plays out in real time, in real headlines, from some of the most influential news organizations in the world.
CNN’s article was titled “Hamas willing to discuss ‘freezing or storing’ weapons, senior official says, amid concerns over ceasefire.” The word “official” connotes legitimacy that in no way should be bestowed upon leaders of an organization that led the terrorist invasion of Israel with its mass kidnappings, atrocities and sexual violence.
That phrasing is far from incidental. The word “official” is not neutral; it confers legitimacy, authority and a sense of normalcy—qualities that should never be associated with leaders of a designated terrorist organization.
What’s more is that the “senior official” CNN is touting is Bassem Naim, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, who has for years used the fact that he is a physician as legitimacy.
The problem becomes even clearer when one examines who this so-called “senior official” actually is. The media fell for Naim’s doublespeak back in 2018 in the aftermath of the shooting murders of 11 Jewish worshippers in the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. Headlines blared: “Hamas official condemns Pittsburgh attack,” but what Naim was really saying was that terrorists aren’t only Muslims.
His verbatim comments were abhorrent: “As Palestinians and as victims of the Israeli terror of occupation, we know the meaning of terror and its horrific outcomes,” and “This heinous attack, especially against a place of worship, proves that terror has no religion or nation.”
But this was not a rejection of terrorism. It was a reframing of it—one that shifted blame and relativized violence rather than condemning it outright.
In November, Naim’s son, Mohammad, was arrested by police in the United Kingdom for receiving weapons he later transported to Vienna. “Globalize the intifada” must run the family. This context matters because terrorism is rarely an accident of circumstance. It is sustained by ideology, networks and environments, including families, which normalize or excuse violence.
Getting back to Naim’s profession, it is past time to understand that “education” does not stop terrorism. Which brings us to a persistent and dangerous assumption: that education, professional success or intellectual achievement serves as an antidote to terror. History repeatedly disproves this belief.
Many of the leaders of the most bloodthirsty Palestinian Arab terrorist groups have been highly educated.
George Habash, the founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was a physician. Another PFLP leader, Wadie Haddad, was also a medical doctor and founded the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-External Operations (PFLP-EO).
Hanan Ashrawi, a current member of the PLO’s so-called “Executive Committee” and a leader of the Intifada Political Committee in the 1980s, has a Ph.D. in Medieval and Comparative Literature from the University of Virginia.
Abu Nidal was a Fatah terrorist who later formed what was widely known as the Abu Nidal Organization and studied engineering at Cairo University.
Ahmad al-Shugairi, the first chairman of the PLO, earned a law degree at the Institute of Law in Jerusalem.
Yasser Arafat had a degree in engineering from King Fuad I University (now Cairo University) in Egypt, where he was born.
Mahmoud Abbas, current chairman of both the PLO and Fatah, completed a law degree at the University of Damascus.
These examples are not anomalies. They demonstrate that ideology, not ignorance, is the driving force behind terrorist movements.
If the Allies had merely rebuilt Germany after World War II without completely changing German society, it would have been only a matter of time before the Nazis rose up and again threatened the free world. That’s why the United States insisted on complete denazification of postwar Germany.
Ideology is the engine of terrorism. Defeating it requires more than reconstruction or economic investment—it requires cultural and institutional transformation.
If U.S. President Donald Trump’s vision for Gaza is ever to have a chance, then we know what needs to be done by looking at history: Change the schools by eliminating Jew-hatred from textbooks and curricula, ban the terrorists and eradicate the symbols of terrorism. Such a complete transformation is the only hope for Gaza.
MOSHE PHILLIPS Moshe Phillips, a veteran pro-Israel activist and author, is the national chairman of Americans For a Safe Israel (AFSI). A former board member of the American Zionist Movement, he previously served as national director of the U.S. division of Herut and worked with CAMERA in Philadelphia. He was also a delegate to the 2020 World Zionist Congress and served as editor of The Challenger, the publication of the Tagar Zionist Youth Movement. His op-eds and letters have been widely published in the United States and Israel.
Rob, kill and destroy Peggy Tierney
DEC 16, 2025 TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS
Some people are up in arms because President Trump said bad things about Rob Reiner after he and his wife were found murdered in their own home – allegedly by their own son.
You wouldn’t be upset if you knew who Rob Reiner really was and what he did to our country. Most people just know him as the son of Carl Reiner, a guy who played a character on TV called Meathead in All in the Family and who made some good movies. He’s much much more than that. Let’s do some research and connect a few dots.
In 2017, Rob Reiner founded the Committee to Investigate Russia (CIR) for the sole purpose of trying to tie President Trump to Russia so he could be indicted, arrested, imprisoned or executed for alleged collusion with Russia. IN OTHER WORDS, ROB REINER HELPED LAUNCH THE RUSSIAN COLLUSION HOAX TO STEAL THE WHITE HOUSE FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP AND DESTROY OUR COUNTRY.
Four former members of the Intelligence Community were on Reiner’s advisory board along with David Frum of the Atlantic, John Brennan and Hillary Clinton as key advisors:
Leon Panetta served as CIA director under Barack Obama (2009–2011) and then U.S. secretary of defense under Obama (2011–2013). He also worked for Bill Clinton as White House chief of staff (1994–1997).
James Clapper served as Director of the DIA (1992-1995) under Bill Clinton and Director of National Intelligence (DNI) under President Obama (2010-2017.)
Michael Morell was Deputy Director and Director of the CIA under Obama during the period of 2010-2013.
Michael Hayden was the Director of the NSA for Bill Clinton and George Bush when 9/11 happened and later was Director of the DNI and the Director of the CIA during the years of 2005-2009 and basically led the “war on terror.”
All four of these men are career intelligence operatives (Deep State) for the swamp and they ALL worked with Rob Reiner to take down our President!
Europe Fell. Australia Fell. America MUST Confront Radical Islamic Terror [20:45] Brigitte Gabriel
oDec 15, 2025 Stand Tall Israel
Radical Islam conquered Europe while most people weren’t paying attention.
Now, Brigitte Gabriel warns that America is in the same danger — and running out of time to stop it.
In this powerful full speech, Brigitte Gabriel — New York Times bestselling author and founder of Act For America — exposes the 100-year strategy designed to infiltrate Western governments, weaponize our freedoms, and transform our society from within. She explains how Europe fell step-by-step, how extremist networks now operate inside the United States, and why national leaders are ignoring the warning signs.
This is not a theory.
This is not a headline scare.
This is happening RIGHT NOW.
What did Europe ignore that we must not ignore?
Why do radical networks target democracies like the U.S.?
How far has this silent takeover progressed already?
And what happens if Americans do nothing?
Brigitte Gabriel breaks it all down — from the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, to Islamic radicalization in Western institutions, to the political influence operations happening inside the U.S. government today.
If we refuse to face the truth, we risk losing the freedoms that make America the greatest nation on earth.
But if we wake up now — if we learn the lessons Europe failed to learn —
- ➡️America still has a chance.
[Ed.: Brigitte is awesome! So too, is her recounting here of the proliferation of Islam. However, she used a term that is misleading: “radical Islam”. That is a term that Daniel Pipes coined right after the 9-11-21 attack on the World Trade Center. Pipes is a card-carrying CFR member. This euphemism, which has since crept into polite speech, implies that there are peaceful moslems, and (other) jihadi warrior moslems who are more radical. But this is blatantly not true! The term itself is a deception, a ‘taqiyah’. Islam is Islam. Islam itself is radical. Either you believe in it, or they must behead you. Islam itself must be completely eradicated for this to stop. We have the past 1,400 years, and every day in the present, to prove it.]
The Judicial Coup Exposed [11:38] Avi Abelow
Dec 15, 2025
Israel is living through a rare and consequential moment, when the hidden becomes undeniable. The country is finally seeing how an unelected legal class quietly accumulated power far beyond its mandate—and what happens when their control begins to crumble.
News Release: Ambassadors Huckabee and Friedman Praised for Bondi Beach statements
Americans For A Safe Israel www.afsi.org | info@afsi.org | 212-828-2424
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 15, 2025
Bondi Beach Statements by Ambassadors Huckabee and Friedman Praised By Pro-Israel Group
NEW YORK – A leading pro-Israel organization has come out strongly in support of statements about the Islamic terorroist attack on Jews at Bondi Beach made separately by Ambassador Mike Huckabee and Ambassador David Friedman.
Ambassador Huckabee’s comments targeting Anthony Albanese were blunt and correct according to Americans for a Safe Israel (AFSI). Huckabee tweeted “The disgraceful statement from Australia PM never mentioned it was jihadist attack on Jews on first day of Hanukkah. Hope he’s ashamed of antisemitic statements past year.”
“Ambassador David M. Friedman is correct to point out that the Australian government failed its Jewish community,” stated Moshe Phillips, Chairman of Americans for a Safe Israel. The ambassador also was right to post on X.com “Massive fail by the Australian police.”
Ambassador David Friedman also tweeted “Deepest condolences to the family of Rabbi Eli Schlanger … Reportedly, Rabbi Schlanger had asked the Australian government to do a better job protecting the Jewish community. His plea apparently fell on deaf ears.”
AFSI echoes Ambassador Friedman’s comment: “I am sick of Jewish holidays that should be celebrated with joy turning into vigils of remembrance for the wounded and the dead. Enough!”
About Americans For A Safe Israel: Established in 1970, Americans For A Safe Israel (AFSI) is one of the oldest and most influential pro-Israel organizations in the United States. Its advocacy and educational campaigns serve as a potent counterweight to the rising tide of anti-Israel propaganda. AFSI is not affiliated with any political party in the United States or Israel. AFSI’s website is www.afsi.org.
The Farewell We Ignored MICHAEL T. FLYNN LTG USA (RET)
DEC 14, 2025
In 1796, George Washington did something no powerful man in history had ever done voluntarily. He walked away. He surrendered power not because he was weak but because he understood something timeless that many modern leaders have forgotten. The republic would not survive if ambition replaced virtue and if loyalty to faction replaced loyalty to the Constitution.
Washington’s Farewell Address was not a retirement note. It was a strategic warning written by a commander who had seen nations rise and collapse. He had fought a revolution against tyranny and he feared Americans might recreate it themselves under a different name.
Today, nearly every sentence reads like a prophecy.
Washington opened with humility but moved quickly to urgency. He warned Americans that the unity of the nation was the main pillar of absolute independence. He cautioned that internal divisions would invite external manipulation. He understood that foreign powers would not need armies if they could exploit domestic discord.
That warning alone should stop every modern reader cold.
According to the Pew Research Center, trust in the federal government has fallen from roughly 77 percent in 1964 to under 20 percent today. Confidence in media institutions sits below 30 percent. Public trust in Congress routinely hovers near single digits. A divided people are easier to manage and easier to deceive. Washington knew this before the telegraph existed.
He also issued a direct warning about political parties. Washington wrote that factions would sharpen animosity and open the door to corruption and foreign influence. He did not oppose disagreement. He feared an organized faction becoming an identity stronger than citizenship itself.
James Madison later echoed this concern when he wrote that the causes of faction are sown in the nature of man. Washington saw the effect before Madison defined the theory. Today, Americans increasingly define themselves not by shared principles but by tribal alignment. Algorithms reward outrage. Media profits from division. Foreign adversaries amplify both.
The intelligence community itself has acknowledged that foreign governments actively exploit domestic political polarization. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence reported that Russia, China, and Iran all engage in influence operations designed to deepen distrust among Americans. Washington warned that this would happen. He wrote it plainly.
Washington also warned against permanent foreign entanglements. He did not argue for isolation. He argued for independence of judgment. He believed America should trade with all nations but avoid emotional or ideological alliances that drag the country into conflicts not its own.
Since World War II, the United States has engaged in more than two hundred military interventions, according to Congressional Research Service data. Trillions of dollars have been spent overseas while domestic infrastructure and civic trust eroded at home. Washington feared this exact imbalance. He understood that endless foreign commitments would eventually weaken the republic from within.
A map of countries where the United States has militarily intervened (Source: Congressional Research Service)
Ronald Reagan once said that freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on. Reagan echoed Washington without citing him. The belief was the same. I now believe that freedom is no more than one presidency away. Liberty is fragile when citizens grow complacent.
Washington also emphasized morality and religion, not as dogma but as cultural anchors. He argued that national morality could not prevail without religious principle. Whether one agrees or not, the data is striking. Studies from the General Social Survey show that civic participation, church attendance, volunteerism, and community trust have all declined steadily since the 1960s. Social capital has collapsed. Washington warned that laws alone cannot sustain freedom if virtue disappears.
Thomas Jefferson later wrote that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. That vigilance begins not in Washington, DC, but in the character of the people themselves. Washington believed that, too. He trusted Americans, but only if they remained educated, engaged, and morally grounded.
Perhaps the most haunting part of the Farewell Address is Washington’s fear that Americans would forget why the republic was created in the first place. He warned that power once centralized would never willingly return to the people. Modern administrative states now issue tens of thousands of regulations annually. According to the Federal Register, over eighty thousand pages of rules were published in recent years. None are voted on by the people.
This is not accidental. It is structural drift. Washington saw the danger before bureaucracy had a name.
What makes the Farewell Address so powerful is not that Washington predicted every modern issue. It is that he understood human nature. He knew ambition, pride, fear, and convenience would tempt citizens to trade liberty for comfort and principle for security.
John Adams warned that the Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people and was wholly inadequate for the government of any other. That was not an insult. It was a responsibility statement.
Washington trusted the people enough to warn them honestly.
You can read the full original Farewell Address here and judge for yourself whether America listened or ignored him.
George Washington, “Farewell Address,” 1796 | The American Yawp Reader
This speech should not be treated as a historical artifact. It should be treated as a field manual for preserving a republic under stress. Washington did not write to flatter future generations. He wrote to challenge them.
The real question is not whether Washington was right. The evidence suggests he was. The question is whether Americans today still believe they are capable of self-government or whether they have quietly surrendered that duty to factions, institutions, and distant power centers.
Washington walked away so the republic could live.
What are we willing to walk away from to save it now?
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👉 This isn’t a political conflict. It’s a religious war.
Hamas believes a Jewish state must never exist — not in Tel Aviv, not in Jerusalem, not anywhere. Their goal is the elimination of Israel and the expansion of a global Islamic caliphate. And if Israel falls… the West will be next.
In this video, Dr. Kedar breaks down:
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