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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.
Failure at the Fence: How Hamas breached Israel’s “Iron Wall” [28:02]
What Almost Everyone Gets Wrong About Israel’s Wars JOSHUA HOFFMAN
They aren’t about territory, resources, or politics. They’re about faith, civilization, and moral frameworks that much of the world doesn’t understand.
DEC 23, 2025 The Future of Jewish
As tensions mount between Israel and Iran this week, with Israel perceiving military exercises by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a screen to prepare a possible surprise strike against the Jewish state, the Middle East could be on the verge of another war.
Bot not all wars are the same — and the failure to recognize this distinction has led to some of the most profound misunderstandings of our time.
Some wars are fought over land, resources, trade routes, or economic advantage. These wars are transactional. They are governed by incentives, costs, and interests. When conditions change — when prices rise, supply chains break, or political pressure mounts — these wars often end. They are ugly, but intelligible. They assume a shared framework of human motivation: that people want security, prosperity, and continuity.
But other wars do not behave this way. They do not slow when suffering increases. They do not end when concessions are made. They do not respond to economic incentives or diplomatic language. In many cases, they intensify precisely when compromise is offered.
These are not economic wars; they are religious and civilizational wars.
In a religious or civilizational war, compromise is often impossible — not only because the opposing side measures success in sacred terms rather than material ones, but because the two sides do not agree on the very rules of the “game,” or even the “game” itself. What one side sees as a reasonable concession, the other sees as illegitimate, immoral, or even humiliating. Negotiations, ceasefires, and offers of peace are interpreted through radically different moral and civilizational lenses, making them meaningless or counterproductive.
In these conflicts, the battleground is not territory or resources, but legitimacy, faithfulness, and ideological purity. For Israel, this means that gestures which would satisfy a rational, interest-driven opponent are irrelevant — or even dangerous — when facing actors for whom religious and civilizational imperatives define what is permissible and what constitutes success. Until these fundamental differences are acknowledged, compromise is not merely difficult; it is logically impossible.
The wars Israel is fighting today — against Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, against Hezbollah, against the Houthis, and increasingly against Iran — belong to this category. And until we understand why religious wars are fought, we will continue to misread them, misreport them, and prescribe solutions that cannot possibly work.
At the core of every religious or civilizational conflict is not a disagreement about borders or policy, but a disagreement about reality itself. Civilizations are built on first principles, and when those principles collide, negotiation becomes nearly meaningless.
Different civilizations answer different foundational questions: What is a human being? Is life sacred in and of itself, or is it valuable only insofar as it serves a higher cause? Is morality something discovered through law and restraint, or something imposed through obedience and force? Is violence a tragic last resort, or a sanctified act? Is history moving toward peace and progress, or toward redemption through struggle and submission?
Modern Western societies are built on a particular view of human nature. They assume that individuals prioritize personal well-being, that violence is a failure of systems rather than a moral aspiration, and that peace is the natural preference once material needs are met. This worldview has produced extraordinary prosperity and stability within societies that share it.
But it is not universal.
Many religious and civilizational movements understand human nature very differently. In these frameworks, humans do not exist primarily to maximize comfort or longevity, but to serve God, divine law, or a sacred historical mission. Individual life is secondary to collective destiny. Death can be virtuous, even desirable, if it is sanctified. Violence is not necessarily a breakdown of morality, and can be its fulfillment.
When one side sees life as the highest value and the other sees obedience or martyrdom as higher, deterrence collapses. When one side treats civilian life, especially children, as an inviolable moral boundary and the other treats children as martyrs-in-waiting, shared moral language disintegrates. This is not a misunderstanding that can be clarified with better messaging; it is a civilizational divide.
This divide is deepened by radically different understandings of time itself. Western modernity is linear and progressive. Tomorrow is supposed to be better than today. Policy is judged by short- and medium-term outcomes like stability, growth, and quality of life.
But many religious-civilizational movements operate within sacred or eschatological time. The present generation is not the primary unit of moral calculation. What matters is alignment with divine destiny, historical vindication, or cosmic justice. Endurance is not failure; it is proof of righteousness. Suffering is not a deterrent; it is a purification.
This is why arguments about future prosperity, reconstruction, or coexistence so often fall flat. These arguments assume that life now is the highest good. But for those operating in sacred time, the present can be sacrificed for a transcendent future that no ceasefire can deliver.
This also explains why religious wars escalate rather than conclude. In economic wars, suffering creates pressure to stop. In religious wars, suffering can create pressure to continue. Pain becomes evidence of faith. Destruction becomes proof of commitment. Loss is converted into moral capital. Death is not merely endured; it is weaponized.
Groups like Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, and Al-Qaeda do not celebrate death because they misunderstand reality. They celebrate death because they understand reality through a different moral lens, one in which martyrdom functions as currency. Each death generates legitimacy, recruits, outrage, and international pressure. Civilian casualties are not accidental byproducts of war; they are strategic assets. This is why ceasefires can be exploited, why restraint can be interpreted as weakness, why moral asymmetry produces escalation rather than reflection, and why one of the biggest misunderstandings persists in Western interpretations of the war.
In much of the West, Gazan suffering is instinctively understood as evidence of Israeli cruelty or indifference. Because Israel possesses military power, technological capacity, and state institutions, Western observers assume that suffering must reflect a failure of care by the stronger party. The moral logic is familiar: Power entails responsibility, and suffering implies neglect.
But this interpretation reveals more about Western assumptions than about the reality of the conflict.
Gazan suffering is not primarily the result of Israeli indifference. It is the result of Palestinian leadership operating under a radically different hierarchy of values, one in which the welfare of the population is not the supreme political objective. In Western political culture, legitimacy is earned by protecting citizens, improving quality of life, and minimizing harm. Leaders are judged by how well their people live.
Hamas and its associates operate under a different moral economy. Its legitimacy is not derived from prosperity, safety, or longevity, but from fidelity to ideology, resistance, and religious purpose. Within this framework, caring for the population is not the highest obligation; advancing the sacred struggle is. Civilian suffering is not merely tolerated; it is absorbed into a larger theological narrative in which sacrifice validates righteousness and loss proves moral seriousness. The population becomes the medium through which the cause is advanced, rather than the cause itself.
To Western eyes, this looks like monstrous neglect. To Hamas, it is moral coherence.
This is why Western demands that Israel “care more about Gazans” consistently miss the point. They assume a shared moral framework in which human welfare is the ultimate political goal. But Hamas does not measure success by safety or flourishing; it measures success by endurance, defiance, and symbolic victory, even when those victories are built on the destruction of Gazan society.
The result is a profound moral inversion. The party that treats life as sacred is held responsible for the suffering produced by an ideology that treats life as expendable. The leadership that instrumentalizes its own civilians is shielded from accountability, while the state that seeks to limit harm within a tragic necessity of war is condemned for failing to meet impossible standards.
Recognizing this requires a willingness to think critically, and to resist the temptation to outsource moral judgment to viral images, selective headlines, or emotionally curated social media feeds. Images of suffering are powerful, but they are not self-explanatory. They tell us that pain exists, not why it exists, who benefits from it, or who made deliberate choices that ensured it would continue.
When moral reasoning is reduced to reaction, context disappears, responsibility blurs, and intent becomes irrelevant. The result is a politics of empathy divorced from analysis, in which outrage is guided not by understanding, but by algorithms designed to amplify the most emotionally arresting fragments of reality. In such an environment, compassion is easily manipulated — and suffering, rather than being alleviated, becomes a tool in someone else’s moral and strategic calculus.
Nowhere is this moral distortion more consequential than in how the war against Israel is understood. Our wars are not tactical disputes that can be resolved through better negotiations or more generous offers. Hamas does not fight us because of borders, resources, or economic conditions. It fights us because Israel represents a civilizational contradiction for them: Jewish sovereignty, Jewish continuity, and Jewish moral agency in history. Israel’s mere existence violates an Islamist worldview that demands Jewish powerlessness or erasure in order to validate its own theology.
Iran’s hostility toward Israel follows the same logic. While it is often framed in strategic terms — regional influence, deterrence, or nuclear balance — it is fundamentally theological. Israel’s survival undermines a totalizing vision of divine order in which Jews must not be sovereign actors, no less on lands that used to be Muslim by virtue of Arab and Islamic colonization. This is why gestures, withdrawals, and concessions do not soften hostility. These conflicts are not about policy; they are about legitimacy, about whose understanding of reality is allowed to endure.
It is important to distinguish here between religion as such and theocratic totalism. Not all religious civilizations fight religious wars. Covenant-based traditions, including Judaism and some forms of Christianity, place moral limits on power and sanctify life rather than death. Religious wars emerge when theology fuses with absolute political authority, when divine language is used to justify domination, and when dissent becomes heresy rather than disagreement. This distinction matters, not as a rhetorical defense, but as an analytical one.
Cultural moral systems further widen the gap. Guilt-based societies, like much of the West and Israel, internalize morality. Wrongdoing demands accountability and repentance. Honor–shame cultures, notably Arab ones, externalize morality. Public humiliation demands retaliation. Symbolic victories matter more than outcomes. This is why humiliation provokes escalation rather than restraint, why images and spectacle dominate strategy, and why international condemnation can be interpreted not as moral rebuke, but as validation.
Western discourse struggles to describe any of this honestly. Its language assumes symmetry, shared values, and mutual misunderstanding. Terms like “cycle of violence,” “regional tensions,” and “escalation” flatten civilizational conflict into technical problems. But when one side views war as tragic necessity and the other views it as sacred duty, neutrality becomes incoherence.
Underlying this failure is moral projection: the assumption that others share our intuitions about life, suffering, and justice. Western observers often mistake their outrage for universal conscience. They assume that what feels immoral to them must feel immoral to everyone. When it does not, they conclude that something has gone wrong — with messaging, with leadership, with economic conditions — rather than with their assumptions.
Religious wars are fought not because one side wants too much, but because one side believes the other should not exist at all.
These wars end only when one worldview is defeated, transformed, or loses the power to enforce itself. They cannot be solved by economic incentives, diplomatic language, or moral equivalence. To understand them, especially Israel’s wars, we must stop asking what deal would make this stop, and start asking a harder questions: What kind of world does each side believe God, history, or morality demands, and what are they willing to sacrifice to bring it into being?
Until we confront these questions honestly, we will continue to mistake faith for grievance, ideology for poverty, and civilizational war for a solvable dispute. And we will continue to be surprised when it does not end.
Israel Is Failing to Protect Yerushalayim From Oct. 7–Style Attack, Terrifying Report Warns
[Ed.: Oh – NICE!]
Trump’s Gaza: A Fantasy Built on the Refusal to Face Reality [9:31] Avi Abelow
Dec 23, 2025 – Another glossy plan has just landed on President Trump’s desk.
It’s called “Project Sunrise.”
The pitch?
Turn Gaza into a smart, high-tech, AI-managed Mediterranean Riviera for the jihadi Muslims of Gaza.
Luxury towers. Beachfront resorts. Innovation hubs.
A Middle Eastern Singapore rising from the ashes.
It sounds impressive.
It also sounds completely detached from reality.
Qatar EXPOSED: The Hidden POWER Behind Hamas — And the West’s SILENCE [37:32] Mordechai Kedar
December 21, 2025 Stand Tall Israel
[Ed.: I really wish President Trump could see this, and then invite Mordechai for lunch sometime… And yes, I AM careful what I wish for!
The Mask Is Off: Israel’s Legal Elite Is Governing. Not Advising Avi Abelow
December 22, 2025 Pulse of Israel
For years, Israelis were told the Attorney General and the legal system is a neutral gatekeeper of the rule of law. Professional jurists. Safeguarding democracy.
That illusion is collapsing, fast.
What we are witnessing today is not law enforcement. It is ideological rule by unelected officials, using “legal opinions” to override elections, paralyze governance, and protect their own, while holding everyone else to a harsher standard.
This week’s “harsh legal opinion” against establishing a national commission of inquiry into October 7 that would equally represent the coalition and opposition parties exposed the truth.
The Attorney General claims the proposal would “prevent reaching the truth,” that it is “riddled with fundamental flaws,” and that it was designed to create an investigation mechanism “convenient for the government.”
Translated into plain language: Any investigation not designed and controlled by the legal camp, which is just as complicit in the Oct. 7th travesty and must be investigated as well, is illegitimate.
That is not legal reasoning. That is political control.
The same pattern appears again and again.
When the government decides to close Galei Tzahal radio station, it should be understood as the removal of an enormous and unjustifiable fiscal burden from the army, an army that exists to fight wars, not to operate a radio station that often demoralizes its own soldiers through its politically biased reporting, she suddenly rules legislation is required, despite a previous Attorney General ruling that a government decision was sufficient.
Then she sends the government to the Knesset to legislate, only to claim legislation is impossible during an election year.
Conveniently forgotten: this same legal establishment had no issue approving the appointment of a Chief of Staff during a previous election year.
What becomes clear is that the law is elastic, when it serves the ideology of the politically left deep state legal elite.
Nowhere is this legal rot clearer than in the Sde Teiman video scandal.
The Attorney General appointed the Military Advocate General to oversee the investigation into the leak, even though the illegal video leak originated from within the office of the Military Advocate General itself.
Then came the stunning admission: the Military Advocate General acknowledged personal involvement in leaking or authorizing the release of the video.
And yet, the Attorney General has done everything to protect the MAG:
* No criminal investigation
* No disciplinary action
* No recusal
* No accountability
The soldiers, whose lives were shattered by a fabricated video, were relentlessly investigated by the MAG and brutally smeared by the mainstream media for over a year, despite the case finally being quietly dropped last week.
Yet, the senior legal official, the Military Advocate General, who leaked the manipulated video that ruined the lives of these soldiers, sparked massive international damage to Israel and helped drive a UN resolution falsely accusing IDF soldiers of rape, a modern blood libel, instead of facing consequences, is being protected by the Attorney General and Supreme Court Justice.
That is not equality before the law. That is self-policing by a closed elite.
As if this were not enough, the Attorney General’s own son was involved during his IDF service in the improper taking of military equipment.
And yet:
* No public investigation
* No moral sermons
* No legal crusade
The matter disappeared quietly.
This is not about personal guilt. It is about selective enforcement.
Soldiers fighting Israel’s enemies are treated as legal liabilities as the legal elite and their families are treated with discretion and silence.
Here is the truth more Israelis are finally willing to say:
No democracy can survive when unelected officials hold absolute power and cannot be fired.
In no business, army, or institution can senior leadership:
* Fail repeatedly
* Abuse authority
* Sabotage the mission
* And remain untouchable
Yet this is exactly the system the legal establishment in Israel has created.
The Attorney General and the senior legal echelon are not accountable to voters. They are not accountable to elected leaders. And they are not removable, even when they block governance, cover up scandals, or act ideologically instead of professionally.
That is not “checks and balances.”
That is rule by permanent bureaucracy.
A country is not run by legal priests interpreting sacred texts.
It is run by a people who elect leaders to govern.
The government must have the authority to hire and fire senior unelected officials who fail in their roles, just like any CEO running a company or any commander running an army.
Without that power:
* Elections become symbolic
* Governance becomes impossible
* Democracy becomes an illusion
What we have today is a system where unelected officials abuse their power to block the will of the people, and are then impossible to remove.
That must end.
Democracy must be returned to the people.
Israel was founded so Jews would govern themselves, not so an ideological legal class would rule them from behind closed doors.
Ending absolute power, restoring accountability, and rebalancing authority between elected leaders and professional advisors is not radical.
It is the minimum requirement for democracy.
Israel is facing a crisis that goes beyond politics, personalities, or parties.
At its heart is a simple democratic question: Who governs the country, elected leaders or unelected officials?
Recent controversies surrounding the Attorney General have raised troubling concerns. Legal opinions increasingly function not as professional advice, but as binding vetoes over elected policy.
Investigations are blocked if they are not institutionally controlled. Standards of enforcement appear inconsistent.
The Sde Teiman affair deeply damaged public trust. IDF soldiers were publicly investigated at lightning speed on the basis of libel, while the legal system, up to the Supreme Court, is still actively blocking efforts to investigate the Military Advocate General’s involvement in the illegal leak that inflicted major international harm, despite her own admission in the leak.
Separately, allegations involving the Attorney General’s own family were handled quietly, without the public scrutiny imposed on others.
These cases may differ in scale, but together they highlight a structural problem: unchecked power without accountability.
In any functioning democracy, senior unelected officials must be subject to oversight and removal when they fail. This is not political interference, it is democratic balance.
When officials cannot be replaced under any circumstances, governance freezes, public trust erodes, and elections lose meaning.
Restoring accountability is not about weakening the law.
It is about ensuring the law serves the public, not rules over it.
Israel’s democracy depends on correcting this imbalance, calmly and responsibly, before it becomes irreversible.
The mask is off.
The public is waking up.
And the era of unaccountable legal rule must come to an end.
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December 22, 2025 Israel Live News
According to reports, local youths recognized the language, verbally abused him, and then beat him repeatedly until he lost consciousness. He was hospitalized and is now in stable condition.
There is no other language in the world that puts its speakers at risk simply for being heard.
And yet today, speaking Hebrew outside Israel can be dangerous, a reality that should alarm everyone.
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UNDERNEATH the Real Location of the Second Temple, What We Found Is ASTONISHING [1:37:40] Yishai Fleisher
Dec 21, 2025 Yishai Interviews
Hanukkah Special in secret locked areas under the Temple Mount with Knesset Member Ohad Tal, Mosab Hassan Yousef (Author and Activist) and me. Mosab says “The evidence is overwhelming and … this is the only way to experience truth.” Exclusive new video filmed on location by Joshua Fleisher and Shlomo Weprin. Links to reach or follow MK Tal are below
Timestamps
1:36 – 3:00 MK Ohad Tal intro to the Temple Mount
3:01 – 3:51 Mosab Hassan Yousef intro to Al Aksa and Dome of the Rock
3:52 – 5:40 MK Tal answers the question, “How do you feel as a Jew in Jerusalem?”
5:41 – 6:29 Mosab exclaims the religious and ideological dimensions of the conflict.
6:30 – 8:37 Entering the Western Wall Tunnels – Mosab speaks about “Burying the truth”
8:38 – 17:23 “The Rock” under the Dome, Origin of Temple Mount Plaza, Mamluk Construction
17:24 – 20:44 3,000 Years of Jerusalem – Gates, Bridges, Walls, Residences
20:45 – 23:42 Romans and Muslims in Jerusalem – Ancient & Modern – The Hard Evidence
23:43 – 27:10 Mosab, “Israel made the biggest mistake after 1967 by handing over the keys…”
27:12 – 41:26 Under The Muslim Quarter Stunning Chamber of the Jewish Sanhedrin (including Mosab and MK Tal’s Deep Discussion of the roots of a solution to the regional conflict)
41:27 – 47:10 Exclusive Secret Ritual Baths – Working Until Today!
47:11 – 49:59 Roman Ruins Built On Jewish Streets Revealed
49:59 – 56:52 Live Psalms of King David and King Solomon – Mosab, MK Tal & Yishai discuss
56:52 – 1:05:00 Herodian Masonry and the Biggest Stones On Earth
1:05:01 – 1:16:08 Muslim Wakf Pours Concrete Obstacles – Jewish Sages Pray For World Peace
1:16:09 – 1:18:00 Hidden Teshuva Synagogue – Most Beautiful In The World
1:18:01 – 1:30:10 Current Work and New Excavations
1:30:11 – 1:35:09 Chief Rabbi Rabinowitz of Western Wall Blesses Mosab – Family and Future
1:35:10 – 1:37:40 Wrap Up and Farewell
DELUSIONAL? Trump Team Floats $112 Billion Plan to Rebuild Gaza as High-Tech Coastal Hub
AG Seeks To Halt Funding For Yeshivos That Serve Overseas Students
December 21, 2025 Jewish Breaking News
Israeli forces have arrested three Gaza terrorists in Rahat who allegedly infiltrated Israel during the October 7 massacre—and managed to stay inside the country for more than two years.
The raid, carried out under the “New Order” enforcement operation, located the suspects at a compound in Rahat. During searches, investigators seized ammunition—including 50 rounds of 9mm and additional 7.62 rounds—and a metal lathe believed to have been used for weapons-related activity.
i24NEWS reported that the three suspects are from the Khan Younis area and were allegedly running a clandestine weapons-production setup—described by police sources as a “ticking bomb”—with the intent of enabling attacks and arming other terrorists in the south.
All three detainees and the seized materials were transferred for Shin Bet handling and interrogation—where the key question now is who helped them survive, hide, and operate on Israeli soil for so long.
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⚠️ BREAKING – Highly Unusual Movements Detected Across Iran’s Air, Missile, and Drone Forces:
December 21, 2025 Jewish Breaking News
Western intelligence is tracking what’s being described as unusual, highly coordinated activity across Iran’s air, missile, drone, and air-defense elements—patterns that go beyond routine day-to-day movements. Officials say it could be an exercise, but the scale and synchronization are what’s raising eyebrows.
According to those familiar with the monitoring, analysts are watching command-and-control signals, deployments, and logistical shifts tied to the IRGC Aerospace Force—the regime’s spearpoint for ballistic missiles and long-range drones.
This comes as Tehran pushes to restore capabilities battered in the Israel-Iran war, including efforts to rebuild key missile production infrastructure—exactly the kind of groundwork that can precede a major drill, a deterrence show, or a real-world posture change.
Iran has also been staging headline-grabbing launch drills in recent weeks, including large-scale ballistic and cruise-missile activity in the Gulf of Oman—signals meant to project readiness even as the regime scrambles to recover.
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Everything about Israeli ‘settler violence’ is backwards. NACHUM KAPLAN
In the West Bank, ongoing violence against Jews requires “context,” while Jewish violence is disproportionately the focus — because few people understand the facts on the ground.
DEC 20, 2025 The Future of Jewish
There has been a nasty spike in violence in Judea and Samaria, and it is not the Jewish settlers attacking Palestinians that you keep reading about.
Two Israeli soldiers were stabbed in an attack a few days ago, just a few hours after another was injured in a car-ramming. Understanding the frequency of such attacks is essential to grasping what is happening in the area.
The much-reported rise in Jewish extremists attacking Palestinians has not sprung out of nowhere. Since the October 7th massacre and kidnappings in 2023, attacks against Jews in Judea and Samaria have surged.
In 2024, there were 6,828 attacks, more than 18 a day, against Jews — in the form of shootings, stabbings, car-rammings, and other incidents, according to the Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency. It is astonishing that only 46 people have been killed.
The post–October 7th surge began from levels already vastly higher than generally appreciated because the mainstream media does not report them. In 2023, there were 3,436 Palestinian attacks against Jews in Judea and Samaria, almost 10 a day. This is the backdrop against which the rise in Jewish attacks against Palestinians this olive-harvest season must be seen. Jewish attacks, which dominate international headlines, are at record levels at 752 so far this year, according to the Israel Defense Forces. This is up from the 675 incidents recorded in 2024.
The data is unequivocal: Palestinian terror targeted at Jews dwarfs Jewish attacks on Palestinians. Most Jewish deaths and injuries in Judea and Samaria come from terror attacks, whereas most Palestinian deaths and injuries come not from Jewish settlers or civilians, but from Israeli security forces confronting the Palestinian terrorists behind the thousands of attacks. Yet most people are unaware of this because the international media applies such intense scrutiny to Jewish attacks on Palestinians. The result is a skewed narrative in which Jews, particularly settlers, are cast as the overwhelming aggressors, despite the data showing the opposite.
The IDF estimates that there are 300 to 400 Jewish extremists, including about 50 hardcore ones, behind the recent attacks on Palestinians. Not all of them are settlers. Some come from other parts of Israel, or from illegal outposts, showing that the phrase “settler violence” is a loaded, reductionist caricature.
Some argue that Israel does not do enough to curtail this violence, although Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the evacuation of 14 illegal outposts and the removal from Judea and Samaria of some 70 Jewish extremists, prompting a riot from Jewish extremists.
And here is where it becomes complex: Three primary motivations drive the Jewish attacks on Palestinians, and all of them can be true (or intermittently and overlappingly true) at the same time. Extremism is one. Some are fanatics, Jewish supremacists, and thugs.
Vigilantism is another. With so many Palestinian attacks, it is unsurprising that there is violent pushback. The third, and most underreported, motivation is that some Jews set up illegal outposts to prevent the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority from building illegally and expanding their tenuous claim.
When news bulletins discuss Judea and Samaria, they present it as a single place under Israeli occupation and omit key facts. Under the Oslo Accords1 from 1993 to 1995, Judea and Samaria was divided into Areas A, B, and C. The Palestinian Authority administers Area A fully; in Area B it also administers but shares security responsibilities with Israel. Most Palestinians live in Areas A and B. Israel administers Area C, which is where the Jewish settlements and illegal outposts are situated.
This complicated arrangement was designed to allow as many Palestinians as possible to govern themselves while a final agreement was worked out, one intended to include the territory and borders of a Palestinian state. It remains in place 30 years later because the Palestinian Authority walked away from the accords and initiated the Second Intifada, murdering more than a thousand Israelis from 2000 to 2005, including hundreds in Israel proper.
The violence taking place today is in Area C, which is under full Israeli control, including the issuance of building permits — making the Jewish settlements entirely legal, a fact rarely reported. Area C is rocky highland, sparsely populated, and mostly State of Israel land.
What is illegal are the Jewish outposts beyond the settlements, anything built on privately owned Palestinian land, and almost all building the Palestinian Authority undertakes without Israeli approval. Palestinian Authority construction in Areas A and B is legal.
The so-called “Hilltop Youth,” a group of about 100 young Jews who establish illegal outposts, do so partly because they are messianic extremists, but partly to stake a claim so the Palestinian Authority cannot build there illegally. Both these things are true at once. The world is complicated, and few places are more so than Judea and Samaria.
There are vastly more illegal Palestinian buildings than Israeli ones, making it darkly comedic that Jewish construction is cast as the central problem. The Palestinian Authority has built 81,317 illegal Palestinian structures in Area C, compared with 4,111 illegal Israeli structures (which includes absurdities such as bathroom extensions built during periods of settlement freezes).
This extensive illegal Palestinian construction is what those Jews establishing illegal outposts are trying to stop. The Palestinian Authority’s goal is to build extensively in Area C to create so-called “facts on the ground” for any future political settlement — despite showing no interest in such a settlement.
This is why Israeli authorities do not crack down on the illegal outposts as harshly as many would like. It is not merely corruption or ideological sympathy with Jewish settlers, but because Israel also wants to stop the Palestinian Authority’s illegal land grab. This is why Israel sometimes normalizes (legalizes) outposts, for which the strategic rationale is entirely understandable. However, it is also true that some Jewish extremists use these illegal outposts as staging grounds for raids on Palestinians and as hideouts from Israeli authorities.
None of this nuance and context permeates the mainstream narrative. In its place are headlines about “rampaging settlers” supported by — yawn — “the most Right-wing government in Israel’s history.” This is the standard pablum and perfumed hysteria from The New York Times, the BBC, The Washington Post, and other mastheads as tired as I am on a Sunday morning.
There is no question that Jewish attacks on Palestinians — whether in the name of extremism or vigilantism — are reprehensible. Those responsible should be arrested, tried, and punished if found guilty. However, these attacks are vastly fewer than terror attacks against Jews.
The problem in the way much of the international press reports this story is one of emphasis and proportion. When Jews are the victims of violence, the story is usually ignored, downplayed, or quickly contextualized away; when Jews are the perpetrators, the story is magnified and treated as emblematic of Israeli aggression and the conflict’s root cause.
Consider these few illustrative examples of the daily terror with which the half-million overwhelmingly peaceful Jews in Judea and Samaria live. I have chosen these because they occurred in the six months before the October 7th pogrom, allowing us to see the problem’s scale with less distortion.
In April 2023, a Palestinian terrorist opened fire on a British-Israeli family’s car in the Jordan Valley, killing two teenage sisters and their mother. The slaying shocked Israel. Thousands attended their funerals in pouring rain. It received only modest international coverage because the victims were Jews. Contrast this with the coverage recent Jewish attacks on Palestinian olive groves receive, and you begin to appreciate that media reporting is disingenuous.
In June 2023, two Palestinian gunmen opened fire at a gas-station diner near the Eli settlement, killing four Israelis (including a teenage boy) and wounding four more. Hamas proudly claimed the “heroic” attack. Israeli news covered it extensively, complete with grieving communities and victim profiles. International coverage, by contrast, was perfunctory.
Within 24 hours, attention pivoted to the Israeli response, in which a few enraged settlers burned a car and some fields in a nearby village. The response, in which fortunately no one was harmed, garnered more international coverage than the massacre. It was framed as evidence of a “cycle of violence,” rather than a clear asymmetry between deliberate mass murder and a fringe vigilante act.
In August 2023, a Palestinian terrorist shot a Jewish father and son from point-blank range at a car wash in Huwara. It received almost no foreign coverage. Reuters, almost snidely, called it a “suspected Palestinian shooting,” and wrote no follow-up stories. In the weeks that followed, when the IDF raided the terror cells responsible, reporters produced reams of damning coverage of alleged Israeli brutality and stories about how Palestinians were living in fear of settler retaliation.
This lopsided emphasis distorts public understanding of the conflict, making Israelis — and Jewish settlers in particular — seem like the antagonists, when the moral valence runs precisely the opposite way. Media reporting inverts the situation’s morality: Jews are depicted as chiefly culpable for the violence despite far more often being the victims of it.
Another aspect missing from the mainstream narrative is that conflict is not the only interaction between Jewish settlers and Palestinians. They live economically intertwined lives, work side-by-side in the dozens of major industrial complexes in Area C, and there are as many peace activists on both sides as there are agitators. This does not get reported because it would expose two major lies the media loves to peddle: that Israel is an apartheid state and that Jewish settlers are violent extremists.
This matters because media narratives shape international perceptions, diplomacy, and policy. When audiences are inundated with stories of settler attacks but rarely hear about the vastly higher number of daily terror attacks that Israelis face, it distorts their perception of the conflict.
This warped framing emboldens extremists and removes responsibility from the instigators. It also feeds antisemitism by reinforcing the pernicious notion that Jewish lives somehow matter less, or that Jewish suffering is deserved.
This is a guest essay by Nachum Kaplan, who writes the newsletter, “Moral Clarity.”
You can also listen to the podcast version of this essay on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and Spotify.
WAR UPDATE. REALITY CHECK Avi Abelow
December 20, 2025 Pulse of Israel
Let’s be clear: we are still at war, attacking terrorists almost every day in Gaza and Lebanon.
It has simply been rebranded,sold to the public as a “ceasefire,” or in President Trump’s language, “peace in the Middle East.” But slogans do not change reality. Jihadist enemies do not disappear because diplomats declare progress.
So what is the real update?
The Trump administration has just concluded another round of diplomatic talks with Turkey and Qatar about Gaza. And once again, it reminds us of a truth Israel must never forget: Israel can rely only on itself.
Steve Witkoff’s update after meeting with Turkish and Qatari officials about a so-called second phase of a Gaza “peace” deal is not encouraging, it is absurd. Qatar and Turkey are not neutral brokers. They are the primary funders, enablers, and political protectors of Hamas and the global Muslim Brotherhood.
Sitting with them to discuss Gaza’s future is not diplomacy. It is proof that this process is detached from Middle Eastern reality. Any deal built with Hamas’s sponsors is guaranteed to fail. Worse, it buys time, time our enemies use to regroup, rearm, and prepare the next round, while we prepare as well.
Meanwhile, over the weekend, the Prime Minister of Lebanon claims the country is “only steps away” from disarming Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.
This is fiction.
Hezbollah will never disarm voluntarily. Everyone in the region knows it. This statement is political theater, designed to placate Trump administration pressure, not to deliver results. Lebanon does not control Hezbollah. Hezbollah, backed and directed by Iran, controls Lebanon. Even the Lebanese army itself is deeply penetrated by Hezbollah-aligned Shiite elements.
And then comes the one statement rooted in reality.
Israeli Minister Bezalel Smotrich said plainly this weekend what many leaders are unwilling to admit publicly: Israel will likely have to launch military operations in Gaza and Lebanon before Israel’s next elections at the end of 2025.
On this, trust Smotrich.
Not the diplomats.
Not the mediators.
Not the press releases.
Israel is the only force capable of ensuring Hamas and Hezbollah are no longer threats on our borders, and that Iran is prevented from using our immediate surroundings to threaten Israeli lives.
No amount of talking with jihadi Muslim patrons will stop the jihadi goal of destroying Israel. President Trump is attempting a diplomatic approach, and his intentions may be good. But pressure, incentives, and negotiations that ignore the nature of our enemies will fail.
In the Middle East, security is not achieved through conferences or ceasefire declarations.
It is achieved through decisive action, when jihadists lose land, lose power, and lose the ability to threaten.
Israel must do what only Israel can do.
And with all of that said, one truth must be acknowledged clearly and honestly: President Trump has been the best U.S. president Israel has ever had. His election was nothing short of a miracle. It fundamentally changed America’s posture toward this war, ending the Biden administration’s weapons embargo on Israel in the midst of an existential war, and its pressure to halt Israel’s fight without securing our hostages, and instead having a U.S. President backing Israel’s right to win and bring our hostages home.
Now it is on us.
Strengthen your faith in God. Stand unwavering in your support for Israel and the Jewish people, who are on the front lines defending not only themselves, but all of civilization against the growing red-green jihadi threat facing us all.
Ignoring it or trying to appease it only empowers it. Only defeating it, and forcing it to pay a real price, will stop it.
That day will come, even if not us as soon as we would like.
Am Yisrael Chai.
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🕑 December 20, 2025 – 6:30 PM Israel Realtime
🕯️ Seventh candle was lit today in Keter HaHermon, as major security developments continue to unfold across multiple fronts.
⚠️ Lebanon / Hezbollah: A senior Israeli official told Yedioth Ahronoth: “The likelihood of a renewed war in Lebanon is high”. The same reporting says the official assessed a new, full-scale war with Hezbollah in Lebanon as “very likely.”
Northern preparations: Separately, convoys of Israeli tanks and armored personnel carriers (APCs) have been observed moving toward northern Israel—an indicator of active preparations if a large-scale ground operation becomes necessary.
🇮🇱🇺🇸 Iran: Reports say Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Trump are expected to discuss the possibility of another strike on Iran. This comes amid growing concern in Israel about the pace of recovery at Iran’s nuclear sites and the status of Iranian missiles damaged in the recent 12-day war (as reported by NBC).
🇮🇱 Prime Minister’s Office: As planned, a meeting of the international mechanism took place in Naqoura under American auspices between Israel and Lebanon. With the Prime Minister’s approval and under the direction of the Acting Head of the National Security Council, Dr. Yosef Dreznin, Deputy Head of the NSC for Foreign Policy, participated in the meeting.
The meeting was described as a continuation of the ongoing security dialogue, with a stated goal of ensuring Hezbollah’s disarmament by the Lebanese Army. The talks also addressed ways to advance economic projects meant to demonstrate shared interests in removing the Hezbollah threat and securing long-term, sustainable safety for residents on both sides of the border.
💥 Syria / ISIS: In response to last week’s attack on American soldiers, the U.S. military launched extensive strikes against ISIS targets in Syria. United States Central Command reported that U.S. and Jordanian forces hit 70+ ISIS targets using 100+ precision munitions.
President Trump also issued a warning aimed at any potential threats, stating: “if you attack or threaten the United States in any way, you will be hit with a force you have never experienced before.”
🇮🇱🇦🇺 Bondi Beach follow-up and Netanyahu remarks: Australian police reported that seven armed suspects arrested near Bondi Beach “hold ideological positions similar” to the terrorists from Sunday’s attack. In a Sky News interview, Prime Minister Netanyahu urged Australia to respond forcefully and argued that armed security could have changed the outcome, saying: “Damn it, wake up. You don’t need any more warnings. You’ve already had enough. Just imagine if, at that Hanukkah gathering on that beach, you had a few armed people. If you had a few armed guards—ten, fifteen, even five—it would have ended. That saves the situation. And it’s needed now. They hate Jews. Let me tell you, they also hate Australia… they’ll burn your flag and they’ll burn you. They are against our shared civilization.”
▪️ New Year celebrations: Australia, France, and Germany have now cancelled their usual New Year’s celebrations.
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⚠️ Netanyahu’s Warning to Trump: Iran Is Racing Ahead and Israel Has Strike Plans Ready
December 20, 2025 Jewish Breaking News
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to brief President Trump on military options against Iran, after Israeli assessments that Tehran is accelerating its ballistic-missile buildup and restoring production lines and air defenses damaged in previous strikes, according to an NBC report.
Israeli officials see the trend as an immediate threat: more missiles, rebuilt infrastructure, and tougher air defenses mean the window to stop Iran’s next leap could be narrowing fast.
The scenarios reportedly range from independent Israeli action to varying levels of U.S. involvement, including support roles and potential joint operations, with the briefing expected during Netanyahu’s upcoming U.S. visit.
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