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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.
Senator Graham: Israel is not the bad guy
In a speech in South Carolina, Sen. Lindsey Graham fiercely defends Israel, slams Hamas, and warns Republicans against wavering support: “If America pulls the plug on Israel, God will pull the plug on us.”
Aug 14, 2025, 2:23 AM (GMT+3) Israel National News
US Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) offered a forceful defense of Israel and its ongoing war against Hamas during a speech in his home state of South Carolina, rebuking critics of the Jewish state and warning of dire consequences should America abandon its closest ally in the Middle East.
“Israel is in a fight for their lives,” Graham declared. “Our friends in Israel are surrounded by people who would kill them all if they could.”
The senator’s remarks come amid growing international scrutiny of Israel’s military operations in Gaza and increasing calls from some quarters of the Republican Party to reassess US support. Graham, however, made clear that he sees no moral equivalence between Israel and its enemies.
“I am tired of the word genocide,” he said. “Let me tell you about genocide. If Israel wanted to commit genocide, they could. They have the capability to do that. They choose not to.”
Graham contrasted Israel’s restraint with Hamas’s intentions: “Hamas, they would commit genocide in 30 seconds. They just can’t. And that’s the big difference, folks.”
The senator also took aim at fellow Republicans who have wavered in their support for Israel, expressing frustration with what he sees as moral confusion within his own party.
“Israel is our friend. They’re the most reliable friend we have in the Mideast. They’re a democracy surrounded by people who would cut their throats if they could.”
Graham framed the issue as a moral imperative for Americans and Christians alike, invoking divine consequences for abandoning Israel.
“This is not a hard choice if you’re an American. It’s not a hard choice if you’re a Christian,” he warned. “A word of warning. If America pulls the plug on Israel, God will pull the plug on us. And we’re not going to let that happen.”
He concluded his speech with praise for President Donald Trump, crediting him with unwavering support for Israel during its most perilous moments.
“So I just want to end with this thought, that President Trump has stood with Israel at the most difficult time since its founding,” Graham said. “October the 7th was an effort to destroy the State of Israel, the largest loss of Jewish life since the Holocaust. And here we are almost two years later, and Israel’s the bad guy. That’s ridiculous. Israel is not the bad guy. They’re the good guy. The bad guys are the radical Islamists who would kill everybody in this room if they could.”
“So I haven’t lost my vision of right and wrong. When it comes to foreign policy, President Trump has stood up for all the right things, and he’s stood up against wrong things. Just like Reagan.”
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Pollard Exposes Shocking Shift: U.S. & Bibi Silent as Russia Moves to Restrain IDF? [19:07] Avi Abelow
Aug 13, 2025
Russian media and Bloomberg (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl…) report Syria has asked Moscow to resume military patrols in the south of Syria on the Israeli border, reportedly to curb Israeli operations in Syria aimed at protecting the Druze. Even more alarming: this move has the support of the US envoy to Syria and may have the quiet support of Netanyahu. In this urgent interview, Jonathan Pollard warns of this growing threat, if true. Why would Netanyahu sell out Israeli sovereignty like this? Watch now as Pollard exposes this issue and what must be done before it’s too late.
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Severe heatwave to intensify across Israel
Powerful heatwave set to worsen across Israel, with extreme temperatures nationwide and highs nearing 50°C in Eilat.
Aug 13, 2025, 11:50 AM (GMT+3) Israel National News
The severe heatwave that hit Israel earlier this week is expected to intensify Wednesday across the country. Most areas will experience extreme heat, while the coastal plain will be particularly humid.
Extreme heat stress is expected to persist through Wednesday, with temperatures forecast to climb to exceptionally high levels. In the afternoon, there may be local showers accompanied by isolated thunderstorms, mainly in southern Israel, and possibly haze.
No significant relief is expected at night, with the possibility of continued local showers and isolated thunderstorms in the south.
Forecast temperatures for Wednesday and Wednesday night are:
Jerusalem: 29-40°C
Tel Aviv: 27-35°C
Haifa: 26-34°C
Safed: 29-41°C
Katzrin: 28-44°C
Tiberias: 30-41°C
Nazareth: 26-38°C
Afula: 26-41°C
Beit She’an: 29-47°C
Lod: 26-38°C
Ashdod: 28-33°C
Ein Gedi: 34-45°C
Be’er Sheva: 26-41°C
Mitzpe Ramon: 29-40°C
Eilat: 34-49°C
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Toronto International Film Festival bans October 7th film
The Toronto International Film Festival announced today (Wednesday) the removal of the film The Road Between Us – The Ultimate Rescue from this year’s screening lineup.
Published: Aug 13, 2025, 10:44 AM (GMT+3) Israel National News
The Toronto International Film Festival announced today (Wednesday) the removal of the film The Road Between Us – The Ultimate Rescue from this year’s screening lineup.
The film, directed by Barry Avrich, documents the rescue actions of Maj. Gen. (res.) Noam Tibon during the October 7th massacre.
Festival management justified the decision by saying the filmmakers did not provide evidence that they hold usage rights for footage filmed on GoPro cameras by Hamas operatives that day, and, according to the festival, without those clearances the film could not be screened as part of the event.
It is estimated that the decision was made following pressure from anti-Israel organizations and fears of demonstrations and unrest during the festival.
Tibon responded to the decision, and said, “Toronto Festival yielded to pressures and threats, and chose to silence and erase the massacre. Director Barry Avrich’s documentary brings a human story to the screen, not a political one, and documents the harsh reality on the worst day in the history of the State of Israel.”
He added, “My message to the festival’s management: the truth cannot be erased. The atrocities committed by Hamas cannot be erased or denied. The festival management’s claim that the film cannot be screened because ‘usage approvals’ were not obtained for Hamas footage from that terrible day is absurd and bizarre, and constitutes further harm to the victims of that terrible day.”
He said, “Freedom of expression is the courage to screen and voice things that are challenging and uncomfortable to certain audiences. TIFF, which this year screens films from a Palestinian perspective, but censors a film about the massacre from an Israeli perspective, has failed a grave moral test. Despite the timidity of the festival’s directors, I am proud to say the film will be screened in Toronto, before a broad audience that will be exposed to the truth about the massacre. I thank director Barry Avrich for his courage, and together we will work to bring the film to millions of people around the world.”
A TIFF spokesperson stated, “The invitation for the Canadian documentary film The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue was withdrawn by TIFF because general requirements for inclusion in the festival, and conditions that were requested when the film was initially invited, were not met, including legal clearance of all footage. The purpose of the requested conditions was to protect TIFF from legal implications and to allow TIFF to manage and mitigate anticipated and known risks around the screening of a film about highly sensitive subject matter, including potential threat of significant disruption.”
“As per our terms and conditions for participation in the festival, ‘TIFF may disqualify from participation in the Festival any Film that TIFF determines in its sole and absolute discretion would not be in TIFF’s best interest to include in the Festival.’”
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Netanyahu STUNS Entire Anti-Israel Room With Proof Hamas Steals Aid From Gazans! [40:45]
Aug 11, 2025 SaharTV – Netanyahu responds to all Accusations against Israel.
🟪NPR SAYS WHAT? WESTERN WALL & GREAT SYNAGOGUE VANDALIZED, EGYPTIAN SAYS, IRAN THREATENS
August 11, 2025 @ 1:51 pm ET Israel Realtime
📌WEATHER WARNING – extreme heat + high dust load continuing through Friday. Take heat and dust precautions.
.. Due to the extreme weather, the Ministry of Education’s situation room prohibits outdoor activities.
.. Bnei Akiva movement due to extreme heat: camps are canceled (this week), the participants are returning home.
▪️ISRAEL IN SPACE – The national communications satellite ‘Dror 1’ of Israel Aerospace Industries successfully entered its orbit in space at a distance of 36,000 km and began its mission for the State of Israel. Launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9.
▪️NPR SAYS ISRAEL TO ATTACK – Hezbollah. Note we consider NPR, U.S. National Public Radio, to be an UNRELIABLE source.
“In Israel, preparations are underway to renew fighting against Hezbollah in Lebanon and against Iran, and for this reason travel warnings have been issued for both countries. According to the report, Israel is waiting for the moment when Hezbollah will actually take control of Lebanon – which will give it full legitimacy to destroy the entire country’s infrastructure and thereby permanently weaken the organization.
Israel has learned from past experience that eliminating senior Hezbollah figures is relatively possible, but replacements arrive quickly. Therefore, the most effective damage is to the money and means of warfare – because once Hezbollah and Iran lose their economic and military resources, they will become a barking dog without teeth.”
.. Lebanese media outlets have reported in recent hours about intense air traffic of Israeli Air Force fighter jets and drones throughout Lebanon.
▪️WESTERN WALL VANDALIZED – The phrase “There is a Holocaust in Gaza” was sprayed on the stones of the Western Wall.
.. A Jerusalem resident was arrested on suspicion of spraying graffiti on the Western Wall – and earlier that night similar graffiti was sprayed in the city’s Great Synagogue.
.. The family of the suspect in the graffiti spraying (a Haredi Jew) at the Western Wall: ‘He is dealing with serious mental health issues and has been hospitalized in the past.’ [Emphasis added!]
▪️HAREDI PARTY SHAS ON THE DRAFT – an interesting statement about their party chairman: “Rabbi Deri has never called for draft evasion or non-service. He delivered words of encouragement to students of a small yeshiva in Jerusalem, aged 15–16, emphasizing that Torah study is the foundation of the spiritual and security existence of the people of Israel.”
.. Related: Rabbi Shmuel Deutsch, one of the leaders of the Jerusalem faction, has passed away.
▪️TRUMP ON GAZA – to Channel 12 News: “I don’t think Hamas will agree to release hostages in the current situation. Hamas cannot remain in Gaza. Remember October 7th.”
▪️AN EGYPTIAN MILITARY PILOT SAYS – The pilot is asked: Why doesn’t Egypt open the Rafah crossing? His answer reveals a deep and deliberate Egyptian strategy: Gaza’s role, from Cairo’s perspective, is to preserve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and exhaust Israel – as part of a comprehensive security concept.
There is no desire to reach a political settlement – for internal political reasons, but also to continue to keep Israel busy. Israel can “fight to the last Gazan” – as long as the possibility of “resistance” remains. Israel has no strategic depth – and this situation must be maintained to keep it vulnerable and weak.”
🔪TERROR – THWARTED – attempted ramming attack in Adora, Judea.
🇮🇷IRAN THREATENS – Iran has published a list of senior political-security figures in Israel targeted for assassination.
.. Analysts – due to the severe water shortage and electric shortage in Iran, if the regime recognizes that the public is going to turn on them, the natural thing is to take a military action, which will dissuade the citizens from the idea of an uprising against the regime.
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🟩HEAT WARNING, PUBLIC DISCOURSE RESULTS, IRAN TO ATTACK?
August 11, 2025 Israel Realtime
⚠️WEATHER WARNING – extreme heat + high dust load today, peaking tomorrow.
▪️HIGH COURT – issues an injunction against the dismissal of the Attorney General, and issues an injunction against the dismissal of ministerial department attorneys (who report to the Attorney General). [Emphasis added]
▪️HIT MEN? Strange report from the Haifa area of a ‘hit team’ and an attempted assassination attempt at a major road junction.
▪️AUSTRALIA RECOGNIZES the State of Palestine. The Prime Minister of Australia announced officially last night: Australia will recognize a Palestinian state. According to him, this is a matter of “doing justice” and a necessary step toward a two-state solution.
.. Arab demonstrators in Australia: A week after the 90,000-strong protest against Israel – pro-Palestinian demonstrators claim: “Even Australia has no right to exist”.
▪️MK IDAN ROLL – resigned from the Knesset and national politics. He was formerly of the Yesh Atid party but had recently resigned from the party.
▪️GERMAN CHANCELLOR – explains in an interview one of the reasons for his decision to impose a weapons embargo on Israel: Former senior officials in Israel’s security system and the IDF Chief of Staff’s doubts about the operation. (( Meaning Israel’s very public ‘internal’ discourse is literally causing it major diplomatic harm. ))
♦️IDF IN GAZA – overnight waves of air strikes on Gaza City and on locations in the northern Gaza Strip.
🇮🇷IRAN TO ATTACK? Iranian source: Military experts report preparations in Iran for a preemptive attack on Israel or readiness to deal with enemy attacks to reduce the element of surprise.
.. PM Netanyahu on the possibility of a surprise attack from Iran: “We are preparing for different scenarios. The Iranians are also preparing for different scenarios”.
.. Iranian President Pezeshkian announces Iran has nearly run out of water. “We have no water. We are in a severe and unimaginable crisis. If anyone has a suggestion of what to do, they should come and tell us what actions to take. Unfortunately, we have no choice but to cut off water.”
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Shock in Jerusalem: Western Wall defaced with anti-Israel graffiti
Graffiti reading ‘There is a holocaust in Gaza’ was sprayed on the Western Wall. Police arrest suspect.
Aug 11, 2025, 12:46 PM (GMT+3) Israel National News
The southern section of the Western Wall in Jerusalem was found on Monday morning to have been defaced with graffiti protesting the war in Gaza.
The Hebrew graffiti, reading “There is a holocaust in Gaza,” was found in the area near the egalitarian “Ezrat Yisrael” section of the wall. The police have opened an investigation.
The police arrested a 27-year-old resident of the capital for questioning, during which it was revealed that earlier he had sprayed a similar slogan on the wall of the Great Synagogue in the city center. He will be brought before a judge later in the day, and the police are requesting his detention to be extended.According to the report, security guards noticed the suspect near the Mughrabi Gate on the Western Wall after he allegedly sprayed “There is a holocaust in Gaza’ on it. David Precinct officers rushed to the scene, arrested the suspect, and took him for questioning.
Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion responded in shock: “I strongly condemn the severe act carried out at the Western Wall — the holiest site for the Jewish people. There is and will be no place for harm to the national and spiritual symbol of the Jewish people, regardless of the background.
“Protest cannot justify the desecration of a holy site and the harm to the feelings of millions of Jews in Israel and around the world. I expect the Israeli police to act decisively to locate the perpetrators and bring them to justice. Jerusalem will continue to protect its holiness and the dignity of holy sites for all religions,” said Lion.
Minister Bezalel Smotrich condemned the act: “These ancient stones are steeped in the long history of our people. Anyone capable of defiling them with antisemitic blood libels has forgotten what it means to be a Jew.”
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir responded: “I was shocked to see the damage and disrespect toward the holiest site of the Jewish people – the Western Wall. The Israel Police will act with lightning speed to arrest the rioter and bring him to justice.”
The Rabbi of the Western Wall and Holy Sites, Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch, voiced sorrow and strong protest: “A holy site is not a place to protest, no matter what it may be, sevenfold when it is done at the most sacred site for the entire Jewish people. The police must investigate the act, find the perpetrators of this desecration, and bring them to trial.”
A similar incident occurred in the past on the northern section of the wall. Complex cleaning work, surrounded by halachic dilemmas due to the sanctity of the site, needed to be conducted.
This time too, Rabbi Rabinovitch will instruct the professional teams on how to remove the writing, while respecting the sanctity of the stones and preventing damage to them.
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[Ed.: I knew an American Jewish woman who visited Israel and when she was at the Kotel (Western Wall,) she raised her hand and gave God the finger and said “F*ck you God! How could you have let the holocaust happen?” When she returned home, she was rear-ended at stop signs seven times within the first two weeks. She then spent the next 10-years in a wheel chair, until she died at a fairly young age. Where she is today, you can’t even imagine!
Israel today does not have a death penalty. But we used to!! You can look it up in each of the Five Books Moses (the Torah). UPDATE: “….. The family of the suspect in the graffiti spraying (a Haredi Jew) at the Western Wall: ‘He is dealing with serious mental health issues and has been hospitalized in the past.’”
Israel is the world’s favorite double standard. NACHUM KAPLAN
From the “day after” scam to disputing Israel’s capital city, the Jewish state faces a playbook of hypocrisy written for it and it alone.
AUG 09, 2025 Future of Jewish
This is a guest essay by Nachum Kaplan, who writes the newsletter, “Moral Clarity.”
Israel is the only country expected to fight terrorism with one hand tied behind its back, blindfolded, and standing on one leg like a flamingo, while a panel of yobbo hecklers looks on yelling nonsense about “war crimes.”
Holding Israel to a double standard, along with delegitimization and dehumanization, is one of the three Ds of antisemitism. Everyone knows this double standard is as common as modern-day Nazis in Gaza, but few appreciate how many of these double standards have infected our discourse.
Let’s take a further look:
The Right to Exist
Israel is the only country asked to demonstrate that it has a right to exist. This is as perverse as it sounds. One might take issue with Russian, Chinese, or Jordanian policy, but no one argues that those states have no right to exist. That is reserved solely for Israel.
International Law
Israel is expected to adhere to the laws of war, while no such demand or expectation is placed upon Hamas. Every Palestinian civilian death is treated as an atrocity, regardless of circumstance, while the fact that Hamas operatives routinely use humans as shields, embed themselves in hospitals, and target civilians in violation of the laws of war goes virtually unremarked.
When Israel destroys the weapons, it gets accused of targeting hospitals and schools. When Israel calls ahead to evacuate civilians, the world calls it ethnic cleansing. When ISIS did this in Mosul from 2016 to 2017, U.S. airstrikes killed thousands. There was no outrage, no protests, no “war crimes” allegations. The world allows jihadists to use human shields, but demands miracles from Jews in combating this tactic.
Effects-Based Condemnation
Every military is judged by its intentions, context, and legal frameworks. Except Israel. When Israel fights Hamas, foreign leaders, the United Nations, and much of the mainstream news media judge Israel by the body count alone.
Israel makes extraordinary efforts to avoid civilian casualties — warning civilians with leaflets, texts, phone calls, roof knocks, and drone fly-bys — yet it still gets condemned for alleged indiscriminate bombing. Hamas, meanwhile, hides beneath civilians and laughs as accusations of war crimes are leveled against Israel.
Terrorists versus Government
The world treats Hamas, a genocidal terrorist group whose founding charter calls for the annihilation of Jews, as a legitimate political actor, while questioning the democratic State of Israel’s legitimacy. This makes Israel the only country to be equated with a terrorist organization.
Proportionality
This is a misunderstood term. While there may have been some justification for that misunderstanding when the war began, almost two years on there can be no such excuse; misusing the word is deliberate and malicious.
Proportionality in warfare means civilian harm must be proportionate to the military advantage gained. It has nothing to do with relative casualty numbers. That makes it complex and highly subjective.
It is also something that applies at the commander level, who must weigh whether any attack is proportionate. The Israel Defense Forces takes this requirement so seriously that it has lawyers — who are outside any military chain of command — overseeing commanders’ target acquisition and strikes.
When people cite the questionable Hamas figure that 60,000 people have been killed in the war and then argue that it is disproportionate, they are showing you that they have no idea what they are talking about. The idea that proportionality means Israel must match Hamas rocket for rocket and corpse for corpse is absurd and macabre.
Proportionality comes up only in wars that Israel fights. America toppled regimes after 9/11, yet Israel is told that it is too much even to defend its borders. That is a double standard, for sure.
Western Hypocrisy
Bashar al-Assad kills 500,000 in Syria? Silence. China puts a million Uyghurs into concentration camps? Yawn. Hamas slaughters Jews? Within 24 hours, there are protests on Western streets and campuses against Israel, the victim of the attacks. When Arabs kill Arabs, the West shrugs. When Jews defend themselves, it is a global moral crisis.
The ‘Day After’ Scam
When the Allies invaded Germany in World War Two, no one demanded a post-Hitler reconstruction plan before the D-Day landings had even commenced. When America toppled Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, nobody said: “Wait, who will be mayor of Fallujah?” Yet Israel is required to have a complete governance plan for Gaza before the IDF has even finished clearing Hamas bunkers and tunnels.
Aid your enemies, or else…
Israel, alone in the history of warfare, is expected to supply electricity, water, and humanitarian aid to its enemies — during battle, no less. The U.S. dropped bombs on Fallujah in 2004, not aid packages. The Allies did not send diesel to Dresden in 1944. Yet, if Israel cuts off fuel to Hamas bunkers, it stands accused of collective punishment.
When Israeli ministers make the obvious point that providing aid to Gaza is prolonging the war and suffering, and that it is absurd to be supporting the enemy’s war effort, they are branded as monsters.
You cannot use that weapon.
Israel uses 900-kilogram (2,000-pound) bombs against Hamas tunnel shafts dug under civilian areas. These tunnels are deep, meaning using large ordnance is a military necessity (and legal under the laws of armed conflict).
When the U.S. used such weapons in Mosul and Raqqa, it was urban warfare. When NATO did it in Belgrade in 1999, it was deemed precision targeting. When Israel does it, the cries of war crimes and massacre ring out.
It also happens when Israel uses white phosphorus, which the U.S. also uses, or when it uses cluster munitions (in Lebanon, not Gaza), which the U.S. happily exported to Ukraine to help it defend against Russia’s attack. Apparently, Jewish munitions have special properties that make them evil.
Every country is free to choose its capital city, except Israel. Even Israel’s greatest ally, the United States, only recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in 2017, and many countries still refuse to do so. No one tells the UK that London is not its capital. No Jews, you see.
Thou shalt not displace civilians fleeing war.
The Geneva Convention requires that civilians be allowed to flee war zones, which is why Ukrainians could flee to Poland, Syrians to Turkey, and Afghans to anywhere that was not Afghanistan.
Yet, when Israel urges Gazan civilians to evacuate — warning them early and giving them maps of where to go — the Jewish state is accused of ethnic cleansing and genocide.
While Israel gets castigated, neighboring Egypt gets a free pass for violating international humanitarian law by not letting Palestinians in to seek refuge. Imagine a house on fire, the back door locked from outside, and you blaming the firefighter — and you will have the idea.
Solve everything, right now.
Hamas attacks Israel, the Jewish state fights back, and the world demands Israel solve the entire Israeli-Palestinian conflict while it is at it. Oh, yes, and make peace with the Palestinian Authority, even though it has not held an election in about a billion years.
No one demanded that Ukraine negotiate with Russia while dodging missiles. Only Israel is asked to engage in war, diplomacy, post-conflict rebuilding, and adhere to biased UN resolutions all at once.
Self-Defense
Every country has a right to self-defense and a responsibility to protect its citizens. Foreign leaders maintain this is true of Israel, but they do not act like it — and there is no evidence that they believe it. Only when Israel defends itself does the international community start measuring civilian casualties, questioning its intentions, and demanding restraint.
When France kills terrorists in Mali, it is self-defense, and civilian casualties are collateral damage. When Israel hits Hamas in Gaza, that collateral damage is now called genocide.
The United Nations of Jew-Haters
Only one country is a permanent agenda item at the UN Human Rights Council, and you win nothing for guessing correctly that it is Israel — because, well, of course it is. It is called “Agenda Item 7,” which is the UN technical term for “Agenda: Destroy Israel.”
Between 2015 and 2020, Israel was condemned 112 times. Bashar al-Assad’s now deposed regime in Syria gassed his own people at the time and was condemned only eight times. Apparently, if you are a democracy, hold elections, and have a free press — but are Jewish — you are worse than Assad, who led the vilest of regimes.
Meanwhile, the UN General Assembly is an anti-Israel resolution factory. In 2022, it passed 15 resolutions against Israel, versus just 13 for all other countries combined.
Israel, a tiny nation of no more than 10 million people, attracted more ire from the UN than China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and Venezuela combined. That is more than a double standard; it is a witch trial.
The Weaponization of International Institutions
The UN is not the only international body that is anti-Israel and, let us not kid ourselves, antisemitic. The UN’s kangaroo court, the International Criminal Court, issues arrest warrants for Israel’s leaders, but not for the leaders of regimes such as China or Iran.
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International publish one-sided reports built entirely on unverifiable or Hamas-fed data. When Jews are in the dock, the burden of proof becomes incredibly low.
Ceasefire now! So Hamas can regroup.
No nation in history has been asked to absorb a pogrom, watch its babies be burned alive, and then implement a ceasefire three days later. After 9/11, America went to war for two decades. After October 7th, Israel was told to stop after 72 hours (more or less). Western lawmakers who say they oppose terrorism demand that Israel let Hamas live to fight another day. That is abject surrender and moral cowardice.
Millions of refugees were resettled after World War Two relatively smoothly, while 750,000 Palestinian refugees got their own agency: the terror-infested United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). The Palestinians alone inherit refugee status for four generations in a logical, legal, and moral absurdity. The world has solved every other refugee crisis, except this one.
The reason for this is that stateless Palestinians are a useful weapon to wield against Israel. It keeps an 80-year-old grievance alive and allows Israel’s enemies to blame Israel for existing.
Peace is exclusively Israel’s responsibility.
It is axiomatic that it takes at least two parties to fight a war, and that therefore all sides bear some responsibility for bringing peace. Yet, when the world demands a ceasefire and does not get one, Israel gets the blame. It is almost as if the Hamas psychopaths are not holding hostages and did not start this war.
Excusing terrorism against Israel.
It is impossible to fathom, but even Hamas beheading babies, raping women, and burning families alive is not enough to get more than a few mealy-mouthed statements about the “cycle of violence” out of the so-called “pro-Palestinian” mob. Some even called it “resistance,” which speaks to their deep depravity.
No one said the Bataclan massacre was “contextual,” or that 9/11 was “complex.” These dismissals are reserved only for when Israelis are murdered in cold blood, when the world starts talking gibberish about “root causes.”
The Media Propagandists
The international media quotes Hamas data in 97 percent of coverage and Israeli data in just three percent of stories, according to The Henry Jackson Society think tank. As far as the media is concerned, Israel is guilty until proven innocent — and when that proof of innocence comes, the news media have moved on to reporting and legitimizing the next lie.
I am a career journalist and have held every job in a newsroom from copy boy to editor-in-chief, so I can say with confidence that anyone who believes most of the reporting on the Israel-Hamas war is a fool.
Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS)
China interning millions of Muslims and Iran hanging gays do not spark a social movement to boycott everything from their goods to their academics and to divest from any investments. Yet, if Israel builds houses in Judea and Samaria (also known as the West Bank), suddenly every “progressive” in the Sociology Department starts demanding sanctions against Israel. Palestinians blowing things up is fine; Israel building things is not.
The BDS movement has nothing to do with justice; it is just an expression of the world’s pathological obsession with the Jewish state. There are no movements to boycott India over disputed Kashmir. It is a privilege reserved for Jews.
Religious and Ethical Double Standards
Israel is condemned for being an “ethnostate,” while no one demands Saudi Arabia stop being a Muslim state or India stop being a Hindu-majority one. Israel is accused of “apartheid” for having laws that preserve its Jewish character, while 22 Arab countries exist as ethnically and religiously defined states, many of which criminalize conversion to any other religion.
Settlement versus Occupation
Jewish settlements in the biblical heartland of Judea and Samaria loom in antisemites’ minds like something terrible, despite them merely being villages. There is no outrage about Turkish settlers in Northern Cyprus, Moroccan settlers in Western Sahara, or Chinese settlers in Tibet. Only Jewish homes are the problem.
Censorship and Campus Hysteria
Criticizing China’s internment of Uyghurs or Iran’s public executions can get you in trouble with the Left. However, criticizing Hamas or defending Israel is grounds for doxxing, harassment, and cancellation at major universities. Every ideology is allowed expression, except Zionism, which is treated as hate speech.
Israel, the Jew Among Nations, is judged not by the standards of war, or law, or morality, but by the standard of exception. Its self-defense is suspect. Its existence is conditional. Its victories are crimes. Its pain is downplayed. Its enemies are victims. It is antisemitism with a human-rights face to hide its true face, which is more like the face in Edvard Munch’s “The Scream.”
Remove the double standards and the fog clears. Israel is a nation like any other, with the same rights to defend itself, define itself, and exist in peace.
New investigation reveals: Failures of IDF top brass on October 7
Special team investigating the October 7 Hamas attack reveals significant shortcomings in the IDF’s response, including delayed decisions, missed assessments, and inadequate coordination between key agencies.
Aug 9, 2025, 10:01 PM (GMT+3) Israel National News – A special investigative team, established due to public mistrust in the IDF’s official inquiries, presents a disturbing picture of the senior military leadership’s handling of the Hamas attack on October 7, according to a report by Ayala Hasson.
The team, led by Major General (res.) Sami Turjeman, included Major Generals (res.) Amikam Norkin, David Sharvit, and Brigadier General (res.) Ofer Levi, and relied on interrogations, recordings, and operational investigations.
Key findings include:
- Former Military Intelligence chief, Aharon Haliva, rejected a request to hold an assessment meeting after Hamas operatives activated Israeli SIM cards two days before the attack, calling the discussion “unnecessary.”
- The South Command’s intelligence officer was on maternity leave, and the then-commander of the Southern Command, Eliezer Toledano, claimed battalion commanders were not mobilized due to information exposure limitations.
- Operations Chief Shlomi Binder arrived at the Kirya base at 9:00 AM and did not make documented decisions for hours, something which he bears significant responsibility for.
- Senior staff at the IDF General Staff believed until late in the event that the attack involved only a few hundred terrorist, but over 5,000 infiltrated.
- Regarding the Air Force, an urgent request from the Gaza Division to bomb the border fence, through which the attackers entered and exited, was only answered after more than two hours due to a lack of personnel and prioritizing strikes on Hamas control centers.
- The Shin Bet also played a role in the findings: About 20 minutes before the attack began, a representative from the agency notified the Gaza Division that the “Takila” intervention team was en route, but minutes later, canceled the mission. The Shin Bet refused to cooperate further with the investigative team beyond the joint committee.
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