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SCREAMS BEFORE SILENCE Full Video [57:00] A documentary film on the sexual violence committed by Hamas on October 7th, Screams Before Silence is a documentary film led by American businesswoman Sheryl Sandberg, that explores the sexual violence by Hamas during the Hamas-led attack on Israel, on 7 October 2023, including events at the massacre at the Nova Festival and abductions to the Gaza Strip.
Ben Gvir, Smotrich Oppose Ceasefire, Threaten to Sink Netanyahu Coalition Over Gaza Deal
October 9, 2025 Yeshiva World News – Far-right ministers Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich announced Thursday that their parties will vote against the first phase of Israel’s newly announced ceasefire and hostage-release agreement, setting up a potential confrontation that could fracture Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s fragile governing coalition.
The deal — which the cabinet is expected to approve tonight following hours of delay — calls for the release of all 48 Israeli hostages still held in Gaza in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. But Ben Gvir, Israel’s National Security Minister and head of the ultranationalist Otzma Yehudit party, said the cost of the agreement was too high.
“Our hearts are filled with joy, happiness and excitement that all the hostages are expected to return home,” Ben Gvir said in a statement. “But alongside this joy, we must not — under any circumstances — ignore the question of the price: the release of thousands of terrorists, including 250 murderers who are expected to be freed from prisons.”
Citing the danger of releasing convicted terrorists, Ben Gvir said Otzma Yehudit would “oppose the deal in the government.” The cabinet meeting, delayed for more than three hours over Ben Gvir’s objections to the prisoner list, is still expected to ratify the agreement later tonight.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who leads the Religious Zionism party, also announced his faction would vote against the deal, deepening tensions between Netanyahu’s far-right partners and the rest of the coalition.
While Ben Gvir said his party would remain in the coalition for now, he issued a warning to Netanyahu. “I made it clear to the prime minister that I will not remain in a government that allows Hamas’s rule in Gaza to continue,” he said. “If Hamas’s rule is not dismantled, or if we are merely told that it has been dismantled while in reality it continues to exist under another guise — Otzma Yehudit will bring down the government.”
If both Otzma Yehudit and Religious Zionism withdraw from the coalition, Netanyahu’s 60-seat government — already short of a parliamentary majority — would fall to just 47 seats in the 120-member Knesset, potentially triggering new elections.
[Ed.: If Smoltrich and Ben G’var are considered “far-right”, just imagine what your editor is!! I have no rules of étiquette to follow… 
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TRUMP’S GAZA DEAL: THE PRICE ISRAEL PAYS FOR A MORALLY BANKRUPT WEST by Avi Abelow
October 9, 2025 3.1K views
Please God our hostages will be coming home, but the price???
If one really wants to know if the deal is good or bad for Israel, all one has to do is watch the videos of celebration in Gaza today.
In response to the ceasefire announcement, crowds in Gaza are chanting “Khaybar, Khaybar ya Yahud,” the historic Islamic chant urging the massacre of Jews.
That is the true perspective of this deal, our enemies think they won because they are still alive, in Gaza, to murder and kidnap us another day. Any talk of “peace in the Middle East” is total propaganda and misunderstanding of our 1,400+ Islamic jihadist enemy.
For Netanyahu, confronting a morally bankrupt Western world that overlooks the violent jihadist threat and treats it as a partner, while also battling a deeply entrenched security, intelligence, and legal deep state in Israel that punishes our own soldiers instead of our enemies and hinders our ability to defeat them, this is a great deal.
However, in reality this is a horrible deal, as I wrote last week…
Stay with me while I unpack this…
Yes, thank God, if everything goes according to plan, our hostages are finally coming home, bez”h. Every Jewish soul is a world, and there is no joy greater than that. But do not be fooled, this deal does not bring the victory necessary to protect 10 million Israelis properly. This deal delays proper deterrence, empowers our enemy, and hands our Islamonaz*i enemies, funded by Qatar and Iran, breathing room to rearm and strike us again.
And this, sadly, is the best deal Netanyahu could extract under the circumstances.
Hamas is a military arm of Qatar, Turkey, Egypt and Iran. They all were partners in executing the most monstrous crimes imaginable, massacre, rape, torture, beheadings, burning families alive on Oct. 7th, not just Hamas. And instead of being annihilated, regardless of what happens to Hamas terrorists in Gaza, this whole Sunni & Shiite jihadi camp is walking away from this deal with leverage, empowered to attack us another day.
That’s not justice. The only justice against this genocidal enemy, after the horrific atrocities they committed against us, would ensure that no Arab that supports killing Jews remains in Gaza ever again. Justice, is making Gaza Jewish again.
This deal signifies a huge missed opportunity for Israel to end this war properly.
The United States used Qatar, Turkey, Egypt as mediators. They are not neutral. I will keep on repeating this until I’m blue in the face. All three of those countries support the destruction of Israel, and used Hamas as their strike force against Israel. Jews must wake up to this fact. Qatar, Turkey and Egypt are just as evil as Hamas. They are all the enemy.
They pressured Hamas to agree to this deal because of tremendous pressure on them from President Trump. But they are thinking long term. Accepting Trump’s terms to sacrifice Hamas today, but then let’s them regroup, rearm, and prepare for the next onslaught to try to destroy Israel.
This deal is not a pause for healing; it is a strategic armistice for our enemy, that our own Jewish/Israeli leaders are failing to clarify for us, and instead hailing as an accomplishment.
Let’s call it what it is: a Gilad Shalit deal on steroids. Israel then freed over 1,000 terrorists to free one hostage in Gaza, Gilad Shalit. Those terrorists freed in the deal then led the Oct. 7th massacre. Today, Israel will be freeing hundreds of more genocidal terrorists to free our remaining hostages in Gaza today, and all of these terrorists will lead the future attacks against us from Gaza, Judea & Samaria.
An absolute dangerous disgrace. [Emphasis added}
Hamas should have been pummeled to unconditionally surrender without us releasing any terrorists that will return to killing us.
All these terrorists should have gotten the death penalty, never available to be freed in horrific deals like this. But, again, it’s the leaders of the justice system who stop the implementation of the death penalty against these sub-human terrorists.
Ultimately, this is a deal that frees our remaining captives in Gaza, but empowers our evil enemies to murder and kidnap more Jews in the future. Those who pretend that this weakens our 1,400+ year Islamonaz*i enemy are either deluded or willfully blind to our actual reality.
As opposed to most reporting on this war, this war was NOT JUST about freeing our hostages. It was supposed to bring total victory and end the threat of future Oct. 7th massacres to protect 10 million Israeli citizens moving forward, which it is not doing.
With it all, upon internalizing the challenges of our reality that prevented us from achieving total victory, this deal is ultimately another positive step in the right direction for the Jewish people.
We still have a ways to go, and it is frustrating that it is a slow process, but it is happening. Strengthen your faith in God. We are in a long redemption process. And total victory will come.
Let us now be candid about the failures that led to this deal.
Our security/intelligence leadership and legal establishment failed in properly warning and providing the legal tools to our elected officials to prevent the Oct. 7th slaughter.
To add insult to injury, many of those who should be held accountable have still not been removed two years later; the legal establishment prevented the removal, IDF senior officers clearly linked to the failures of Oct. 7th have been promoted, and many of the IDF investigations to Oct. 7th are being exposed as cover-ups, with the most comprehensive investigation that implicates senior officials, done by Brigadier Commander Oren Solomon, shelved by two consecutive IDF Chiefs of Staffs, instead throwing Solomon out of the army.
This is only the tip of the iceberg of a deep state apparatus still in power, harming our ability to protect ourselves properly and constantly harming Netanyahu and his government’s ability to rule properly and protect us.
Now let’s touch upon the hostage issue. From the moment they were taken, they became strategic tools used by our enemies, and the internal deep state, to stop Israel from achieving true victory.
Hamas knew exactly what they were doing when they kidnapped our people: they created a pressure point, a moral weapon to manipulate Israeli society, and they used the hostages to blackmail us into negotiating with terrorists. Every day the hostages remained in captivity, the pressure on Israel grew to capitulate, not just from Hamas, but from within our own ranks, from the deep state, the anti-Netanyahu political center-left and from the mainstream media and the whole protest movement.
The deep state in Israel, the bureaucracy, the existing senior command of the security/intelligence/legal establishment, instead of prioritizing the total destruction of Hamas, they created public pressure campaigns on the government by trashing Netanyahu and the government as wanting the hostages to die in Gaza.
This deep state actively empowered Hamas to weaponize our hostages and raise the price in freeing them.
The most important achievement of this horrible deal is getting the hostages back to their families and ending their strategic use by Hamas to blackmail us, and stripping the political left of one of their most powerful weapons: manipulating the plight of these hostages to push their anti-Netanyahu agenda to topple the government.
However, the question that now exists is when will our enemies take their next hostages to do this again? As the jihadist Muslim world has just learnt that taking hostages works. It allows them to achieve diplomatic goals. They don’t care that they lost their lives or their communities destroyed. They see that the world supports the “palestinian” cause more than ever, that they succeeded in thousands of terrorists being relessed, and they live to plot to destroy us another day. Until we have leaders who understand our enemy, we will be doomed to continue making the same mistakes.
Call it what it is: this deal resembles an amplified Shalit deal, more hostages freed, yes, but in exchange for a political limbo that sanctifies the future of our Sunni/Shiite jihadi enemies to attack us again from Gaza.
We are accepting arrangements that leave an armed, hostile Arab self-rule in Gaza intact, and we call it a ceasefire.
In reality it is a strategic ceasefire for our enemies behalf, but, it gives us quiet on the Gaza front to free up military and diplomatic resources to return to war with Iran and Hezbollah.
The euphoric festivities in the media and some public officials are premature at best and dangerously blinding at worst. They perpetuate the same irresponsible narrative that distance victory from the people of Israel. The rescue of hostages is a humanitarian necessity, and we are thankful for it, but it cannot become the cover story for strategic defeat.
Three positive notes as we internalize this horrible deal, that we must not lose sight of them:
First, this war has forged a generation of proud Jewish warriors. These young fighters are sick of the old, political left, appeasing and complacent security, intelligence and legal leadership that created the security reality that brought about the Oct. 7th massacre, and tried throughout the war to stop us from winning. This new generation of warriors will not accept a perpetually neutered defense. They carry a new ethos, fierce, uncompromising, and determined to win and properly protect Israel, and that spirit cannot be erased by any diplomatic photo op.
Second, more of Israeli society has woken up to the reality of a destructive deep state operatus that runs Israel from their unelected positions, despite who we elect in elections.
The national awakening is real: people now understand what I long argued, that Israel must change to truly protect itself surrounded by enemies who do not negotiate in good faith. More citizens see the need for structural, moral, and strategic overhaul of the security/intelligence/legal deep state so that our country can survive and thrive in this hostile neighborhood.
Third, Israel hopefully will be holding on to parts of Gaza, but not all of it, not resettling it with Jews, and not ensuring that those Gazans who support killing us live elsewhere.
As I have always said, Netanyahu is like Biblical King Saul, a leader who has protected Israel from many external and internal threats and who can rally us in crisis, but who lacks the faith to go all the way to secure our future once and for all. He can hold, but he cannot finish.
We must say thank you, and be appreciative, to for what Netanyahu has been able to accomplish in this war, and we push forward to be ready for a King David-like leader, with the full faith, to make even harder decisions to properly lead the Jewish people forward to our destiny.
The only true end to this war, the only outcome that guarantees long‑term security, and pushing humanity forward against the global Islamic jihad, is full Israeli control of Gaza, Jewish communities rebuilt there, and implementation of Trump’s emigration plan.
None of this should be a diplomatic exercise to be kicked down the road; it should be implemented now. Instead, the current deal shelves these necessities until the next massacre, at which point we’ll mourn again and scramble to replace the same failed security, intelligence, and legal leadership.
At best, some Gazans will leave Gaza on their own for better lives elsewhere, as Gaza is unlivable at the moment.
Ultimately, we sacrificed two years and hundreds of holy IDF soldiers’ lives. We built a generation ready to fight, and a society finally awake to what survival requires.
Yet we have been forced to hand our enemies the chance to live and to fight us another day. The media celebrates reunions while ignoring the strategic picture. That is unacceptable. That is what my voice at the Pulse of Israel is here to help correct.
If we do not purge the deep state doctrines and personnel that prevented victory, appoint commanders who understand total war for existential survival, and adopt policies that ensure Israel’s permanent hold and safety in Gaza, Judea, Samaria, and our ancestral tribal lands of Dan, Naftali and Menashe, this lull will be the prelude to the next slaughter.
We owe our dead, our soldiers, and the hostages returned to us more than hollow headlines and temporary relief. We owe them the courage to finish the job.
Two years of war and the sacrifice of a generation should not culminate in a treaty that preserves the enemy. The enemy is not Hamas, it is the Islamic jihadi ideology that is supported by Qatar, Turkey, and Egypt, all countries treated as neutral mediators in this “peace” deal.
No, this is not the total victory we hoped for in this round.
However, let’s be clear: Qatar’s partner in this war to destroy Israel, Iran, remains a looming threat.
Iran has rearmed since our 12 day direct confrontation with them in June.
With the Gaza front now cooling down, the Iranian front will inevitably heat up again, along with Hezbollah’s activities in Southern Lebanon.
All this talk of “peace” in the Middle East is nothing but propaganda. We are still fighting a seven-front war against the key players, Iran and Qatar, and there will never be peace in the Middle East until the Jewish people rebuild our Holy Temple and the Arab Muslim world finally recognizes that we, the Jewish people, are here to stay as sovereigns in our land.
Until then, we will remain in a perpetual state of war, sometimes on a low flame and sometimes on a high flame.
Prepare now for the next campaign, because it is coming.
The war is not over. We are still on path for total victory.
Strengthen your faith in God. Together with our holy IDF soldiers, God has our back.
Am Yisrael Chai.
Top Hamas Leader Officially Announces End to War with Israel – Hostages Will Be Released on Saturday
Trump’s Gaza Deal: A Win for Islamic Jihad [21:22] Avi Abelow
Oct 9, 2025
Trump’s Gaza Deal may look like a diplomatic victory on paper for Israel with the hopeful return of all the remaining hostages, but in reality, it hands the Sunni and Shia jihadis exactly what they want – legitimacy, survival, and time. Qatar, Turkey, and Egypt agreed to sacrifice Hamas to regroup and attack Israel in the future in some other constellation.
Instead of a deal that deals a crushing blow to the Qatari-led jihad that financed the Oct. 7th massacre, it rewards it, signaling to every Islamist movement that terror and kidnapping Israelis pays.
It is about time that the Western world understands the Islamic jihad enemy we are up against and what motivates them, not their lives or their homes or cities.
With it all, this is the best agreement Netanyahu was able to achieve under the circumstances.
This ceasefire is proof that we need new strategies. JOSHUA HOFFMAN
What comes next will define and redefine the Jewish People.
OCT 09, 2025 The Future of Jewish
As news broke this week of a hostages-for-ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas that could finally bring an end to two years of war, I found myself torn between relief and disappointment.
Relief, because the remaining hostages may finally return home after an unimaginable ordeal. But disappointment — deep, almost physical disappointment — because this does not feel like a victory for Israel.
It feels like the closing act of a painful stalemate, one in which Hamas emerges politically strengthened, morally unrepentant, and more validated than defeated. The hostages’ return is a blessing; the price Israel has paid for it is a warning.
In every conflict, victory must first be defined before it can be achieved.
For Israel, victory means removing Hamas as both a military and governing force from Gaza, disincentivizing Palestinians from ever again turning to Hamas or any similar jihadist movement, and returning all hostages — alive or dead — to Israeli soil. Victory means restoring deterrence, rebuilding moral clarity, and ensuring that no future enemy believes mass murder and kidnapping can ever yield political gain.
For Hamas, victory has never been about winning in the conventional sense. Its triumph lies in paralysis: a stalemate that forces Israel to negotiate under pressure, fractures Israeli society, and delegitimizes Israel on the world stage. Its battlefield is not just Gaza, but global perception. Every delay, every protest, every viral image of suffering, no matter the cause or context, serves Hamas’ purpose: to make Israel doubt itself and the world doubt Israel.
By that measure, Hamas won this battle. It caught Israel completely off guard on October 7, 2023, exposed deep flaws in our country’s intelligence and strategic assumptions, and then fought a propaganda war far more skillfully than it fought a military one.
Through Qatar’s Al Jazeera, Western influencers, antisemitic academics, useful idiots, and the algorithms of social media platforms that amplify outrage over truth, Hamas weaponized victimhood and turned every reasonable Israeli act of defense into mounting evidence of guilt. It transformed slaughter into spectacle, and tragedy into leverage. Western governments, already polarized and fragile, imported the conflict into their own streets and campuses. Antisemitism rebranded itself.
The chaos that Hamas unleashed abroad may be its most enduring achievement.
But even the mighty must sometimes fall to remember who they are. Israel is strong — militarily, technologically, economically — but even strength can harden into arrogance. Defeat, when properly understood, can be cleansing. It checks ego, dissolves illusions, and demands renewal.
For Israel, this moment demands not despair, but recalibration. The old “conceptzia” — the belief that Hamas was contained, that Qatar was a neutral mediator, that Hezbollah would remain in check, that Iran could be deterred through ambiguity — must now be abandoned. Every layer of Israeli security, diplomacy, and psychology must be rethought.
The same is true for world Jewry. Diaspora Jews must recalibrate their political loyalties, their relationship to Israel, and their sense of safety in societies that have once again revealed just how conditional their acceptance truly is.
Jewish organizations must reassess how they operate, advocate, and unify in an environment where their very identity is under siege. They must do more than react; they must reimagine. It’s time to completely rethink how we engage and educate Jews, building a generation that is not only more connected, but more literate, inspired, and empowered. Jewish life cannot be sustained by nostalgia or fear; it must be fueled by knowledge, pride, and purpose. Only a people deeply rooted in its own story can stand firm when the world tries to rewrite it.
Yet another essential recalibration lies ahead: one of sovereignty itself. Israel can no longer afford to outsource its defense, its weapons, or its wartime economy to the goodwill of others. Dependence is not partnership; it is vulnerability dressed as diplomacy. In the same way that Jews must distance themselves from political parties that use them as props and pawns, Israel must redefine its alliances.
The days of blank-check loyalty — whether to Washington, D.C. or any other capital — are over. From now on, partnerships must be transactional, pragmatic, and case by case. You want our cooperation? It will come with terms. You want our innovation, our intelligence, our deterrence? Then treat Israel as a partner, not a dependent.
When our interests align, we will move together. When they don’t, we will move alone. The Jewish state was not reborn to be anyone’s client state; it was reborn to ensure that Jewish destiny is never outsourced again.
But independence in defense must be matched by innovation in diplomacy. For decades, Israel has brought the world’s young Jews to the Jewish state through Birthright-Taglit — a program that strengthened Diaspora identity and connection to Israel. The time has come for a “Reverse Birthright,” an initiative that sends young Israelis out into the world not as tourists, but as living ambassadors. It’s difficult to hate a country, or a people, when you have a friend from there.
Israel’s greatest untapped resource is its people: multilingual, cultured, compassionate, resilient, and good-looking. Imagine tens of thousands of Israelis, post-army or university, spending six months embedded in communities across Europe, Asia, Africa, and North and South America — teaching, volunteering, building, creating friendships that humanize Israel beyond the headlines. Every Israeli who builds a bridge abroad becomes a living counter-narrative to the lies that thrive in their absence.
This is people-to-people diplomacy: organic, personal, and disarming in a way no press release or policy speech could ever be. It is time Israel understood that global legitimacy is not granted by governments; it’s earned through relationships.
Israel’s partnerships with other nations must also evolve to counter not only terrorists, but their newest strategy: the mass abduction of innocents as bargaining chips. As retired IDF lieutenant colonel Jonathan Conricus has observed, the lesson of this war is the need to apply “a set of preventive measures to make it less likely that any terror organization or rogue state will try to emulate the actions of Hamas in the future.”1
At the core of Hamas’ power lies one unbearable fact: the hostages. The 251 Israeli and international captives it seized on October 7th became both shield and sword. They have constrained Israel’s military operations, inflamed public opinion, and divided Israelis over how far to go and when to stop. The hostages are not only a humanitarian crisis but a moral snare, proof of Hamas’ understanding that Israel’s humanity can be turned against it.
Yet this, too, can be transformed into resolve. Israel can and must make hostage-taking a losing strategy — by reshaping global norms and deterrence doctrines so that no group ever again believes kidnapping Jews will yield anything but ruin.
There is another battlefield where Hamas has scored its greatest short-term victories: the information war. In 1948, Israel fought for land. In 1967, for existence. Beginning in 2023, it fought for truth itself. Hamas mastered the art of digital distortion, turning smartphones into weapons and outrage into oxygen. It flooded social feeds with images divorced from context, exploiting empathy as a tool of manipulation. Israel must learn to fight there as decisively as it fights on the ground — by building an infrastructure of truth as sophisticated as its Iron Dome. Propaganda cannot be ignored; it must be countered with clarity, speed, and moral confidence.
And that moral confidence is key. This war, more than any before it, revealed the deep moral asymmetry between the two sides. Hamas celebrates death; Israel mourns it. Hamas hides behind civilians; Israel shields them.
Yet, in much of the global narrative, the moral equation has been inverted. Israel’s restraint is portrayed as cruelty, while Hamas’ cruelty masquerades as “resistance.” True victory for Israel will not come from global applause; it will come from holding firm to its values even when the world distorts them. The Jewish moral tradition does not depend on validation; it depends on conscience.
If October 7th shattered Israel’s illusion of safety, October 8th shattered the Diaspora’s illusion of acceptance. Jews from New York to Paris to London to Melbourne to Cape Town awoke to find that centuries-old hatreds had been waiting just beneath the surface. Universities, media outlets, and activist movements that claimed to champion justice turned a blind eye to Jewish pain. The war in Gaza revealed a deeper one within the Jewish world: a war over identity, loyalty, and unity.
That, too, must be won. The Jewish People cannot afford to mirror the divisions that their enemies exploit. Israel and the Diaspora must stand as one organism, not as estranged relatives. If Hamas’ weapon is division, then Jewish solidarity itself is the countermeasure.
Yet, even amid this dark chapter, not all was lost. The security situation along the Gaza border has fundamentally improved, and the severity of the military threat emanating from Gaza has been significantly reduced. On a regional level, Israel’s position is arguably stronger. It exposed Iran’s vulnerabilities and demonstrated the capacity to engage multiple fronts simultaneously. It reminded both enemies and allies that Israel can absorb unthinkable trauma and still fight back with discipline and precision. The illusion of coexistence with a genocidal enemy has been shattered — painfully but necessarily.
Winning the war now means redefining the nature of power. Power is not just the ability to destroy, but to rebuild, reimagine, and endure. It means creating an Israel that no longer mistakes calm for peace, or silence for safety. It means turning resilience into strategy, moral clarity into policy, and national trauma into collective purpose.
Hamas may have won the battle of October 7th, but wars are not decided by shock; they are decided by endurance. And endurance is what has always defined the Jewish story. Israel’s victory will not be measured by whatever happens next in Gaza, but by the rebirth of vision, by the recalibration of its security and soul, and by the simple fact that, yet again, the Jewish People will not vanish.
HUGE DRAMA – Hamas FORCED to agree to release all hostages in the next 72 hours [28:33]
October 8, 2025 Behold Israel with Amir Tsarfati
HARD TO STOMACH: Israel’s Most Dangerous Prisoner On the Way to Freedom As Hamas Demands Release of October 7th Terror Chiefs By Geller Report Staff
October 7, 2025
This is sick. Israel is forced to make another disastrous prisoner swap, and will release from it’s prisons some of the most brutal terrorists on the planet. 250 savage killers in all. All 250 of these savages will go back to committing terrorist attacks against Israel. As an example, Yahya Sinwar was released in the Gilad Shalit prisoner swap in 2011. Sinwar would later go on to be the leading architect of the October 7th massacre. While we pray for the Israeli hostages to be released, this prisoner swap (if it happens) is going to result in more bloodshed for Israel.
Hamas said to demand release of terror chiefs, Oct. 7 terrorists in deal
Hamas is set to demand the release of some of the most notorious Palestinian terrorists, whom Israel has refused to set free, in talks set to start in Egypt on Monday to finalize the return of all Israeli hostages in the first phase of US President Donald Trump’s plan to end the war in Gaza.
Citing Hamas sources, Channel 12 reported that among the jailed terrorists whose release Hamas is demanding are Marwan Barghouti, the Fatah Tanzim chief serving five life sentences for his part in planning three terror attacks that killed five Israelis during the Second Intifada, and Ahmad Sa’adat, leader of the Marxist-Leninist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), who was sentenced in 2008 to 30 years behind bars for masterminding the 2001 assassination of Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze’evi.
Hamas was also demanding the release of Ibrahim Hamed, serving 45 life terms for orchestrating the killings of numerous Israelis as Hamas’s West Bank commander during the Second Intifada, Abbas al-Sayed, who orchestrated the 2002 bombing at the Park Hotel in Netanya in which 39 Israelis were killed, and Hamas’s Hassan Salameh, who is serving 48 life terms for plotting multiple suicide bombings.
HARD TO STOMACH: Israel’s Most Dangerous Prisoner On the Way to Freedom
Ibrahim Hamad, mastermind of many of the suicide bombings in the Second Intifada, is among the prisoners expected to be released in the hostage deal.
By Israel National News, October 6th, 2025
According to the current hostage deal, Israel expects to release 250 prisoners serving life sentences with blood on their hands, along with more than 1,700 Gazans arrested since the October 7th massacre.
Among the high-profile prisoners expected to be freed is Ibrahim Hamad, 60, who planned and organized dozens of attacks against Israelis, many of them suicide bombings.
Among other attacks, he planned the bombing at Café Moment, where 11 Israelis were killed and 65 wounded; the Sheffield club in Rishon LeZion in 2002, where 15 Israelis were killed and 57 wounded; and the Hebrew University that same year, where nine people were killed and about 100 were injured. Israel refused to free him in the Schalit deal.
Related – National Security Committee approves death penalty for terrorists bill for first reading
🟨YET ANOTHER FLOTILLA, THE “PEACE” FUTURE, DEAL PRESSURE, and SYRIA
October 8, 2025 Israel Realtime
✡️From our Sukkah, Moadim l’Simcha – happy Sukkot intermediate days of rejoicing!
( PHOTO – pictures and names, in Hebrew, of the remaining hostages, alive and dead, held by Hamas in Gaza. )
▪️ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER REPORTED FOR WAR CRIMES? Italian Prime Minister Meloni revealed that a formal complaint (called a “denunciation” in legal terms) was filed with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. The complaint accuses her, Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, and possibly Roberto Cingolani (CEO of Italy’s major defense company Leonardo) of “complicity in genocide” related to Israel’s military operations in Gaza. The accusers are international legal and human rights organizations, pointing to Italy’s ongoing arms exports to Israel (worth about €1.5 billion since October 2023) and diplomatic support of Israel as enabling alleged war crimes.
She called it unprecedented: “I don’t believe there is another case like this in the world or in history.” This is directed international law fare and support of terror.
▪️YET ANOTHER SELFIE FLOTILLA – Another flotilla on the way to Gaza was intercepted, 9 boats. Foreign Ministry: “Another futile attempt to breach the legal naval blockade and enter a combat zone ended in nothing.” Over 100 activists arrested and headed to deportation.
.. What happens to the boats? The boats are impounded under seizure orders for violating the blockade (an internationally lawful blockade). Owners must file legal claims in Israeli courts to retrieve them, which can involve hearings on forfeiture. In most cases boast are eventually returned after months, and legal fees, storage fees and towing fees fall on the owners.
.. The Turkish Foreign Ministry: Israel’s intervention in the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza is a “pirate act”.
▪️THE FUTURE WITH THE “PALESTINIANS” – An analyst writes, ‘Reviewing Arab channels on October 7, every channel mentioned the Oct. 7 massacre with praise and glory, from Hamas to Fatah to Palestinian Authority controlled channels. The enemy channels called Palestinian added the following sentences: “With allahaha’s help, a new October 7 will happen again and Palestine will win.” The enemy is deeply indoctrinated, continues indoctrination from kindergarten, and we must prepare accordingly.
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TWO YEARS AGO TODAY Hamas Invaded Israel and Killed 1,200 and Took Over 250 Innocents Hostage
Two years of war: 1,152 have fallen since October 7, 2023
New data from the Ministry of Defense reveals that 1,152 members of Israel’s security forces have fallen since the outbreak of the Swords of Iron War, including 487 under the age of 21.
Oct 6, 2025, 6:00 AM (GMT+3) Israel National News
The Department of Families, Commemoration and Heritage in the Ministry of Defense on Monday morning released updated data on the number of Israeli security personnel killed since the outbreak of the Swords of Iron War.
According to the figures, 1,152 members of Israel’s security forces have fallen since October 7, 2023, which coincided with the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah.
Of those killed, 487 were under the age of 21, accounting for more than 40% of the total, while 141 were over the age of 40.
The numbers include personnel from the IDF, Israel Police, Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency), community security officers, and members of local rapid response teams who operated in the Gaza Strip, southern Israel, the northern border, Lebanon, and Judea and Samaria.
Since the war began, the Ministry of Defense has added more than 6,500 individuals to the circle of bereavement: 1,973 bereaved parents, 351 widows, 885 orphans, and 3,481 siblings.
[Ed.: This is certainly NOT the Israel that God had in mind! Instead, it’s an absurdity! It’s a fraudulent and blasphemous desecration of His Name!]
Israel’s most dangerous prisoner on the way to freedom
Ibrahim Hamad, mastermind of many of the suicide bombings in the Second Intifada, is among the prisoners expected to be released in the hostage deal.
Oct 5, 2025, 3:57 PM (GMT+3) Israel National News
According to the current hostage deal, Israel expects to release 250 prisoners serving life sentences with blood on their hands, along with more than 1,700 Gazans arrested since the October 7th massacre.
Among the high-profile prisoners expected to be freed is Ibrahim Hamad, 60, who planned and organized dozens of attacks against Israelis, many of them suicide bombings.
Among other attacks, he planned the bombing at Café Moment, where 11 Israelis were killed and 65 wounded; the Sheffield club in Rishon LeZion in 2002, where 15 Israelis were killed and 57 wounded; and the Hebrew University that same year, where nine people were killed and about 100 were injured. Israel refused to free him in the Schalit deal.
Journalist Sapir Lipkin reported that Hamas will also demand the release of Abdullah Barghouti, an explosives expert who was one of the commanders of the terror group’s military wing in Judea and Samaria. Barghouti is responsible for dozens of terror attacks against Israelis in which 66 people were killed and about 500 were injured, including the Sbarro restaurant bombing in Jerusalem in 2001 and the Café Moment bombing in 2002.
Also included are Ahmed Saadat, 72, who orchestrated the assassination of Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze’evi in 2001 at a hotel in Jerusalem and was sentenced to 30 years in prison; and Abbas al-Sayed, most associated with the Park Hotel bombing in Netanya in 2002, who is responsible for the deaths of dozens of Israelis.
Hamas will also demand the release of Hassan Salama, a senior figure in Hamas’s military wing, who helped plan two attacks on Route 18 in Jerusalem in which 45 Israelis were killed, and the 1996 Ashkelon junction attack at a hitchhiking post in which IDF soldier Hofit Aish was killed and 36 people were injured. He was sentenced to 46 life terms.
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Israel was sold victory, and got surrender. YONATAN DAON-STERN
U.S. President Donald Trump, with the help of Hamas’ backers, is turning the Jewish state’s surrender into his “Peace Prize.”
OCT 05, 2025
Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood at the White House, next to U.S. President Donald Trump, and declared:
“I support your plan to end the war in Gaza, which achieves our war aims. It will bring back to Israel all our hostages, dismantle Hamas’s military capabilities, end its political rule, and ensure that Gaza never again poses a threat to Israel.”
He told us this plan would “achieve all our war objectives without any further bloodshed.”
This was supposed to be the turning point. The victory speech. Netanyahu told us this was the path to victory. Trump crowned it Netanyahu’s “crowning achievement.”
And then came the switch.
Trump didn’t present this plan as cautious diplomacy. He dressed it up as if it were biblical prophecy fulfilled. His own words:
“This is a big, big day, a beautiful day, potentially one of the great days ever in civilization… after 2,000, 3,000 years, whatever it is.”
This isn’t leadership; it’s narcissistic lunacy. To call a temporary ceasefire and hostage deal “the greatest day in thousands of years” is insane. It shows this was never about Israel’s victory; it was about Trump’s own myth-making.
And the myth-making isn’t for free. Trump wants the Nobel Peace Prize. That is what this is all about: personal glory. He is prepared to sacrifice Israel itself for his prize, his “eternal peace,” and his legacy.
By the way, this is the same “Peace Prize” that was once seriously proposed for Hitler himself and has already been awarded to a rogues’ gallery of dishonourable men, including Yasser Arafat, for the Oslo Accords that began the very chain of appeasement and illusion that led us straight to October 7th.
Perhaps this dishonourable prize is indeed fitting for such a dishonourable man.
At the United Nations just days earlier, Netanyahu had promised to “finish the job.” He told the world Hamas would be destroyed. The Israel Defense Forces even broadcast his speech into Gaza by loudspeaker, telling the people they had a last chance to rid themselves of Hamas.
But standing in Washington, he gave it all away. He endorsed a plan cooked not just in the White House, but in Doha, Ankara, Islamabad, and Cairo. Trump bragged about it: Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, Pakistan, Indonesia, Egypt, every one of them backing the plan.
Why would these states, which cheer on Palestinian terror and many of which actively support it, suddenly support a “peace plan” that dismantles Hamas? This is not because it dismantles Hamas, but rather because it dismantles Israel, freezes its momentum, and places Israel’s fate in the Arabs’ hands.
Within days, Trump declared the oxymoron of our time: “Hamas is ready for peace.” He demanded that Israel stop bombing. What Netanyahu sold as victory turned into restraint, delay, and international supervision.
This reminds me of the earlier Trump demand during the Israel-Iran truce: He explicitly told Israel, “do not drop those bombs,” after Iran had already launched missiles that struck Be’er Sheva and killed Israeli civilians. Jets were turned back. As retaliation planes soared, Trump forced Israel’s hand, making us stand down. It is baffling that Netanyahu did not see that coming.
This isn’t victory. This is being played. This is being set up.
And Hamas? They accepted what suited them. They promised hostages “according to the exchange formula … with the necessary field conditions.” They praised Trump’s leadership. They smiled at Qatar and Turkey. Hamas spokesman Musa Abu Marzouk said openly on Al Jazeera: “We will hand over the weapons to the Palestinian state, whoever rules Gaza will hold the weapons.” In other words: Gaza will not be disarmed. Hamas’ guns remain in Gaza until a Palestinian state exists, which means never on Israel’s terms.
Osama Hamdan spelt it out further: “Attempts to remove Hamas from the political scene will not succeed.” “We will not accept foreign forces in Gaza.” “When a Palestinian state is established, the weapons will be at its disposal.”
He even invoked the hostages as leverage, saying corpses are buried in areas where Israeli forces are present, implying that Israeli withdrawals are required just so Hamas can access the bodies. This is not demilitarisation. This is not disarmament. This is a declaration that Hamas remains in power, with weapons intact, until Israel itself is destroyed.
And somehow, we accepted this. Netanyahu told us Hamas would be disarmed under this plan, when Hamas itself told the world it would not. In other words, they will not give up their guns. Not to Trump, not to Netanyahu, not even to Tony Blair. They will only give up their weapons when Israel itself is destroyed and replaced by “Palestine.” And somehow, we accepted this. Netanyahu told us Hamas would be disarmed under this plan, when Hamas itself told the world it would not.
What, then, has been achieved? Not the war aims Netanyahu promised. Not the destruction of Hamas. Not the disarmament of Gaza. What has been achieved is the victory of the hostage movement. This is what the world is celebrating: that the hostages will be freed. And let me say clearly, no war in history has ever been won because hostages were freed. Not one.
We had the hostages on October 6th. Victory is not bringing them back. Victory is making sure the ideology that kidnaps Jews goes extinct. Victory is destroying the idea that kidnapping pays.
But what have we done instead? We have rewarded it. We have proven that kidnapping Israelis works: It brings ceasefires and prestige, and it even brings them back their murderers. We have taken the deepest humiliation of October 7th and enshrined it as the definition of “peace.”
This is the result of Israel making the return of the hostages the most important issue. This is not a victory. It is defeat, surrender, sacrifice.
Where is the justice for all those who died needlessly on October 7th? What about the soldiers who gave their lives and who have spent almost two years now fighting? What about the Israelis who put their lives, their bodies, their livelihoods, and their economic futures at risk to defend their homeland?
Think of every parent who buried a child after October 7th. Think of the soldiers who marched into tunnels, the ones who never came home, the ones who came home mangled and broken. Are their deaths being paid for with the cheap currency of a photo op, a “hostage deal,” and the promise of someone else’s peace prize? This isn’t just impractical. It is profoundly immoral. It is a betrayal of every life spent defending this country.
We have been down this rabbit hole before, the Oslo Accords and the illusions of “recognition” used as moral cover, the appeasement dressed as diplomacy. Each step emboldened the enemy; each concession normalised the abnormal. Each time we surrendered moral clarity for the promise of normalisation, the price rose. We rewarded terror with legitimacy, and now the process that began decades ago has delivered us to this carnage.
The only way out is to stop the loop of suicide. We must stop rewarding the kidnapping of our children. We must stop pretending that normalisation with regimes that bankroll or excuse terror is a fair trade for our survival. We must stop sacrificing our boys so that others can write themselves into history books and collect prizes. Our first allegiance must be to our people, our dead, our soldiers, our children. We must stand for justice first, not spectacles. We must demand accountability for every life lost, not deals that let the perpetrators go home with their guns and their prestige.
This is one of the most important reasons Israel was founded: to be a refuge, to defend a people who could not otherwise survive. We seem to have forgotten that. We are paying the price now, in blood and dignity. If we do not reclaim justice as our policy, there will be nothing left of Zionism but a museum exhibit and a burnt blue and white flag.
This is the result of all these delegations to Qatar and all the “mediations” that have kept our enemies in business. This is the result of all those “Surrender Now” protests every week, the emotional spectacles, and the vice-signalling. This is the result of surrendering the moral high ground to emotionalists who’d rather spill out their feelings on camera than use their brains. This is the result of this nation’s emotional state. We end up sacrificing tomorrow for the present; we choose optics over outcomes.
Wars are not won with exchange deals. They are won with the enemy’s unconditional surrender. Don’t forget it. If they are setting the terms and conditions, we are not the winners. Anyone who tries to sell this as a victory is a liar.
We must challenge this with all our power. We must talk to ministers, to Knesset members, to anyone who will listen. We must go on the streets if we must. We must use the internet, write, call, and organise. Show your voice. If we do not act now, maybe we will never be able to in the future. Fight with words, with votes, with presence, with everything legally possible.
This is relevant for the entire world. The response from the Muslim Brotherhood makes the global consequence explicit. They celebrate this as a model and a school for future action. In their message, translated below, they say:
“Hamas has mastered the art of military combat and the art of international political combat. … This is a qualitative leap for Hamas and a new school of struggle that will be studied by future generations. We are with the resistance. … They were right when they fired the first shot.”
This is not a fringe reaction. This is instruction and propaganda. It shows that our enemies see this not as a setback but as a template: combine terror, kidnappings, and relentless lobbying until the world rewrites the rules for you. They will teach this to recruits, to movements, to confused allies and to a sympathetic media.
If our deal becomes their curriculum, then the consequences are horrific and immediate: more attacks, more kidnappings, and more global celebration of our humiliation. This is not an unintended side effect; it is the foreseeable reaction of a movement that reads victory differently than we do. They do not see the return of hostages as a cost; they see it as proof that the method works.
This deal effectively sanctions the kidnapping of every Jew all over the world!
Tragically, Israel is a nation on the brink of suicide.
It has become a nation that begs its enemies for surrender — a nation that, by definition, cannot win. It is a nation whose leaders broadcast targets in advance and tell its enemies where to go to avoid being hurt. It is a nation that cannot even name its own enemy. It is a nation that confuses defeat with victory, self-sacrifice with morality. It is a nation so morally inverted that it feeds its own enemy while starving its own people of the justice they deserve; it calls itself “the most moral army in the world,” the “virtue” of sacrificing its heroic soldiers for the appeasement of the BBC.
It is a nation whose leader surrenders its independence to the whims of foreign powers.
And worst of all, it is a nation whose people cheer as this happens, mistaking submission for salvation. This is not merely a mistake. This is a path to suicide. And the time bomb, from the moment this deal is inked, will begin ticking until the next October 7th. I don’t know how many will die, whether I will survive this, whether you will survive this, or how many people will be taken hostage.
This is fundamentally the responsibility of our prime minister, whose leadership has failed to prevent this from happening. Look at what is going on around the world: the massacre at a synagogue in Manchester just a few days ago and the celebratory protests that followed in England. Jews everywhere are in greater danger than at any time since World War II. This is not an accident. This global rot is connected to the erosion of our moral clarity.
The Palestinians got a state. They got international recognition. All over the world, people support them and cheer for them. And we, we sign our own death warrant. That is what is happening now, not just in Gaza but globally.
This is where we have come; this is how far we have fallen.
They get their murderers back from our prisons. They keep their weapons. They keep their ideology. As Abu Marzouk said plainly: “Whoever rules Gaza will hold the weapons.”
And what do we get? We get back our own people, half alive, severely traumatised, while they get everything. We gain nothing. We reward terror. We prove to the world that October 7th works.
It is truly beyond belief. And yet here we are.
We are being set up. We are baited by promises and myth-making. We are accepting a framework that turns justice into theatre and hands the initiative to the very people who attacked us. This is not a mistake. It is a choice, a choice made by leadership that values optics and prizes over the survival of our people.
If you want to change this, do not walk away. Do not whisper in the comments and go home. Do something. Talk to your friends, your family, and the Knesset members. Take to the street, write, broadcast, and organise. If not now, when? If not us, who?
Before it’s too late (it’s not), fight. Fight for whatever is left of Zionism. Fight for victory defined on our terms, not on the altar of someone else’s prize.
If you will it, it is no dream.
Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles) Guide for the Perplexed, 2025 Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger
October 5, 2025
1. Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles (evening of October 6 – October 13, 2025) derives its name from the first stop of the Exodus – the town of Sukkot – as documented in Exodus 13:20-22 and Numbers 33:3-5. Sukkot was also the name of Jacob’s first stop west of the Jordan River, upon returning to the Land of Israel from his 20 years of work for Laban in Aram (Genesis 33:17).
The construction of the Holy Tabernacle, during the Exodus, was launched on the first day of Sukkot (full moon).
2. Sukkot is a Jewish national liberation holiday. It commemorates the transition of the Jewish people from bondage in Egypt to liberty in the Land of Israel, and the sustained Jewish ingathering to the Land of Israel, which inspired the US Founding Fathers and the Abolitionist Movement.
3. Sukkot underscores the gradual transition from the spiritual state-of-mind during Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur to the mundane, and from religious tenets of Judaism to the formation of the national, historic and geographical Jewish identity.
4. The root of the Hebrew word Sukkot (סוכות) is wholeness and totality (סכ), shelter (סכך) and attentiveness (סכת). The numerical value of סכך (every Hebrew letter has a numerical value) is 100 (ס=60, כ=20, ך=20), representing the totality/unity of the Jewish people, history, roots, education and legacy.
5. Sukkot is the 3rd 3,300-year-old Jewish pilgrimage holiday (following Passover and Shavou’ot/Pentecost). It is also the 3rd major Jewish holiday – following Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur – in the month of Tishrei, the holiest Jewish month. According to Judaism, 3 represents divine wisdom, stability and peace. In addition, the 3rd day of the Creation enjoyed double-blessing: “And God saw that it was good…. and God saw that it was good;” God appeared on Mt. Sinai 3 days after Moses’ ascension of the mountain; there are 3 parts to the Bible (the Torah, Prophets and Writings); there are 3 Jewish Patriarchs; 3 is the total sum of the basic odd (1) and even (2) numbers, symbolizing strength. According to Ecclesiastes 4:12, “a three-strand cord is not quickly broken.”
6. The 7 days of Sukkot – which is celebrated in the 7th Jewish month, Tishrei – are dedicated to 7 supreme guests-in-spirit and notable care-takers (Ushpizin in Aramaic and Hebrew): Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Aaron and David. They were endowed with faith, reality-based-optimism, can-do mentality, humility, magnanimity, principle-driven leadership, compassion, tenacity in the face of daunting odds and peace-through-strength.
7. Sukkot features the following four species (Leviticus 23:39-41): 1 citron (representing King David, the author of Psalms), 1 palm branch (representing Joseph), 3 myrtle branches (representing the three Patriarchs) and 2 willow branches (representing Moses and Aharon, the role models of humility and leadership). They are bound together, representing unity-through-diversity and strength-through-unity.
They embody four leadership prerequisites: a solid backbone (palm branch), humility (willow), a compassionate heart (citron) and penetrating eyes (myrtle).
These species also represent the four agricultural regions of the Land of Israel: the southern Negev and Arava (palm); the slopes of the northern Golan Heights, Upper Galilee and Mt. Carmel (myrtle); the streams of the central mountains of Judea and Samaria, including Jerusalem (willow); and the western coastal plain (citron).
The palm branch, an ancient symbol of victory, was featured in coins from the Maccabean era (from the 2nd century BC through the 1st century AD) and the Bar Kokhba rebellion (132-135 AD). According to the First Book of Maccabees, chapter 13, Simon the Maccabee celebrated the retaking of David’s Citadel in Jerusalem with drums, harps and palm branches.
8. Traditionally, Sukkot is dedicated to the study of the Biblical Scroll of Ecclesiastes (Kohelet, ,קהלת in Hebrew, which was one of King Solomon’s names), written by King Solomon. Ecclesiastes highlights humility, morality, patience, learning from past mistakes, commemoration and historical perspective, family, friendship, long-term thinking, proper timing, realism and knowledge.
The late Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV), who was the longest serving US Senator, often quoted Biblical verses, in general, and Ecclesiastes, in particular. For example, on November 7, 2008, upon retirement from the chairmanship of the Senate Appropriations Committee, he stated: “’To everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven.’ Those Biblical words from Ecclesiastes 3:1 express my feelings about this particular time in my life.” On September 9, 1998, Senator Byrd made the following Senate floor remarks on the Lewinsky affair: “As the book of Ecclesiastes plainly tells us, ‘There is no new thing under the sun.’ Time seems to be turning backwards in its flight. And, many of the mistakes that President Nixon made are being made all over again.”
9. During the holiday of Sukkot, it is customary to highlight humility by experiencing a seven-day-relocation from one’s permanent dwelling to the temporary, humble, wooden booth (Sukkah in Hebrew) – which sheltered the people of Israel during the Exodus.
🟫HAMAS SEMI-ACCEPTS, SOME UNNEEDED PANIC, FLOTILLA DEPORTATIONS
[12:39 PM, 10/4/2025] +972 54-668-0334: Israel Realtime
🇺🇸THE TRUMP PLAN – following multiple threats from President Trump, Hamas “agreed in principle” but demanded that the strip be transferred to Palestinian hands and not international ones, and said that the release of the captives will take more than 72 hours.
.. Tomorrow in El Arish, Egypt – Israeli officials will meet with (not clear, Egyptian negotiators for Hamas?) to set the final terms to return all the captives and end the war. ( Apparently the “Trump Plan” doesn’t include the details. )
.. Israel stopped offensive operations in Gaza last night after receiving a response from Hamas. BUT reports of an Air Force strike in Gaza City this evening, and IDF fire in Khan Yunis. And reports of BOOMS from Gaza in the last few minutes. Defined as defensive.
.. President Trump responds: Appreciates Israel for temporarily stopping the bombings to give a chance for the release of the hostages and the peace agreement. Hamas must act quickly. I will not tolerate delays or any outcome in which Gaza again poses a threat.
.. The IDF warns Palestinians against returning to Gaza City or approaching troops in all parts of Gaza, as the military has paused offensive operations in the Strip. “IDF troops are still encircling Gaza City, and returning there is very dangerous,” says the military’s Arabic-language spokesman Col. Avichay Adraee, adding that the area north of the Wadi Gaza stream is a “dangerous combat zone.” If this goes as previous pauses, the Gazans will ignore the advise.
▪️OPPOSITION PARTY LEADER LIBERMAN STARTS SOME PANIC – by advising everyone that the situation with Iran is not finished and people should, during the holidays, stay near bomb shelters.
.. Senior official in the cabinet: The common factor between Bennett last week with a warning against canceling the elections and Liberman with a warning of an Iranian attack is the willingness to sow chaos and panic for short-term political gain.
.. There is no current publicly available basis for such a warning beyond the ongoing regular Iranian threats.
▪️LEFT WING ACTIVISTS – at the Sufa crossing at the entrance to Gaza is blocked dozens of reserve soldiers on their way to replace reserve forces who need to go home to rest for Shabbat – carryng signs saying “By Land and Sea, Break the Siege” ( and allow Gaza to rearm and fire rockets at us and kill soldiers? )
It’s unclear why the IDF didn’t immediately declare the area a closed military zone and remove the activists.
🔪TERROR RAMMING – BIDU CHECKPOINT (near Jerusalem) – A suspected assailant accelerated his vehicle into the Bidu Checkpoint, near the Palestinian town of the same name, and hit another vehicle. A 49-year-old woman was lightly injured. The suspect then got out of his vehicle and attempted to flee toward Bidu. Captured.
▪️HIGH COURT PETITIONED – to block the official appointment, after following the High Court demanded process, of the new head of the Shin Bet General Zini. The court rejected the petition, General Zini will start his new role tomorrow.
▪️SELFIE FLOTILLA DEPORTATIONS – 137 activists from the flotilla that attempted to break the Israeli maritime blockade on the Gaza Strip have been deported to Turkey, Israel’s Foreign Ministry says. They include citizens from the United States, Italy, the United Kingdom, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Algeria, Mauritania, Malaysia, Bahrain, Morocco, Switzerland, Tunisia, and Turkey. Sources in Turkey’s Foreign Ministry tell Reuters that 36 are Turkish nationals. The activists were sent to Istanbul on a Turkish Airlines flight this afternoon from Ramon Airport.
Foreign Ministry – “several foreign governments have shown reluctance to accept flights that would return these provocateurs,” the ministry says, adding that “nevertheless, all participants in this publicity stunt will be deported as swiftly as possible.”
.. Aid found: 1 can of baby formula, mass amounts of illegal drugs, and a nice supply of condoms.
🌎WORLD NEWS OF NOTE – Georgia, presidential palace stormed and fires started by the palace, protests over election results.
🏨 IDF AND SHIN BET EXPOSE HAMAS TUNNEL SYSTEM HIDDEN BENEATH GAZA HOSPITALS
🕑 October 4, 2025 • 8:30 PM [1:38 PM, 10/4/2025] +972 50-997-7784:
Israeli forces uncovered a major Hamas tunnel system built directly beneath hospital complexes in Gaza City, once again exposing how the terrorist group exploits humanitarian sites for military purposes.
During a precise operation, troops working with the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet), the Intelligence Directorate, and the elite Yahalom combat engineering unit, located a tunnel shaft next to the Jordanian Hospital complex. This shaft led to an underground weapons-manufacturing workshop.
The tunnel network is about 1.5 kilometers long and includes weapons production rooms, meeting halls, and living quarters for Hamas platoon and company commanders…
🕑 October 4, 2025 · 9:15 PM [2:18 PM, 10/4/2025] +972 50-997-7784:
🇺🇸 President Trump emphasized his full support for the ongoing negotiations, stating: “I appreciate that Israel has temporarily stopped the bombing in order to give the Hostage release and Peace Deal a chance to be completed. Hamas must move quickly, or else all bets will be off. I will not tolerate delay, which many think will happen, or any outcome where Gaza poses a threat again. Let’s get this done, FAST. Everyone will be treated fairly!”
🇪🇬 Egypt has confirmed that formal hostage-deal negotiations will begin Monday in Cairo. The talks will focus on the first stage of the agreement, covering prisoner exchanges and withdrawal maps. Key participants include Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff, Ron Dermer, and the acting head of Israel’s internal security service.
Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff are already en route to Egypt to help finalize the deal and ensure the release of hostages. Reports stress that no negotiation will take place on clauses relating to their release — it remains a firm condition of the agreement.
At the same time, regional diplomacy is accelerating. The Qatari Prime Minister and Egypt’s Foreign Minister held a phone call to coordinate efforts to halt the fighting in Gaza. Both highlighted the importance of maintaining momentum behind President Trump’s plan, which they see as critical to ending the war and securing the safe return of hostages.
🔴 Minister and cabinet member Avi Dichter warned that Hamas has begun using deception tactics, demanding that the IDF withdraw from certain areas so it can “recover” the bodies of dead hostages. He emphasized that this maneuver is a distraction and not the real priority.
According to Dichter, the urgent and non-negotiable demand, which also reflects President Trump’s position, must be the return of all 20 living hostages within 72 hours. He stressed that this step is critical and will determine whether the broader stages of the agreement can move forward.
Dichter clarified that the living hostages are not located in areas currently controlled by the IDF. For this reason, he insisted there is no justification for withdrawal or delay. Unless the hostages are released as demanded, Dichter said, the IDF must continue fighting Hamas with full strength.
This highlights the widening gap: Hamas pushing diversionary conditions, while Israel insists the only acceptable next step is the immediate release of the living hostages.
🚨 Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir have made it clear they will delay any final decision until after Phase A—if Phase A even happens. Smotrich slammed Prime Minister Netanyahu’s decision to pause the Gaza offensive as “a grave mistake.”
Meanwhile, Ben Gvir issued a harsh warning: if Hamas remains after all the hostages are exchanged, his party will walk away from the government. He stated outright: “If Hamas continues to exist after the release of all the hostages — we will not be part of the government.”
As chairman of Otzma Yehudit and Israel’s minister of national security, Ben Gvir emphasized that destroying Hamas is inseparable from rescuing the hostages. He explained: the war’s central objective is not only securing their release but also ensuring the terrorist group cannot be restored.
He put forth his ultimatum to Netanyahu: if Hamas remains after the exchange, his party will quit. “We will not be part of a national defeat that will be remembered as a disgrace,” he added, warning that preserving Hamas would turn into a ticking time bomb. While he expressed relief at the prospect of all hostages returning, he insisted: he will never consent to restoring the organization that brought Israel its greatest disaster.
In recent days, Netanyahu met separately with Smotrich and Ben Gvir. The two leaders also conferred with each other during Shabbat, indicating coordination even amid tensions.
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