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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.

 

PM Netanyahu Seeking Cabinet Approval For Complete Takeover Of Gaza, Tells IDF Officers To Resign If They Don’t Agree

August 4, 2025  Yeshiva World News

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is reportedly preparing to seek full cabinet approval for a sweeping plan to completely occupy the Gaza Strip.

According to multiple Hebrew media outlets, Netanyahu told ministers this week that “the die is cast” and vowed to push ahead with a total military takeover of Gaza — even in areas where hostages are believed to be held. The move would override the objections of top defense officials, including IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, who reportedly warned that such a campaign could take years and jeopardize the lives of hostages still held by Hamas.

A senior source close to the prime minister was quoted saying, “If the chief of staff doesn’t agree, he should resign.”

The IDF currently controls about 75% of Gaza. Full occupation would mean reentering densely populated areas and establishing a long-term military presence — a step the army views as untenable without endangering both Israeli soldiers and civilians.

The proposed plan has sparked a bitter divide within Israel’s war cabinet. Hardline ministers and officials, including Itamar Ben Gvir, Bezalel Smotrich, and Ron Dermer, support the move, while security chiefs — including Mossad head David Barnea, Shin Bet officials, and Zamir himself — have urged continued negotiations and hostage talks.

Netanyahu’s reported stance marks a notable shift, aligning more closely with far-right coalition demands and risking further alienation from military leadership. Defense Minister Yisrael Katz and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar have reportedly not committed to either side.

Zamir canceled a planned U.S. trip this week amid the deepening rift. An IDF source cited the ongoing hostage crisis and lack of ceasefire as reasons for the decision, signaling the intensity of internal disagreement.

Meanwhile, both Israel and the U.S. are said to be pivoting away from interim hostage deals toward a broader ceasefire framework that includes total Hamas disarmament and demilitarization of Gaza. U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff told hostage families Saturday there would be “no more partial deals,” saying that any future negotiations would seek the release of all hostages and an end to the war.

Still, the likelihood of Hamas agreeing to such terms appears slim. A senior Israeli source told Haaretz last week that there is “little chance” the group will accept Israel’s ultimatum.

[Ed.:  Trump said to end it soon.  Necessity is the mother of invention!

 

BREAKING: Israel Moves To FULLY Occupy Gaza – End Of War  [31:10]   Mahyar Tousi

August 4, 2025  Tousi TV

 

Who Canceled the Border Patrols on October 7?   CHANANYA WEISSMAN

And when did “just following orders” become acceptable?

AUG 04, 2025  [Opinion]

The good news is that tonight was the first class in my new series, prophetic teachings from Rav Elchonon Wasserman, and it was fire. The bad news is that I messed up and failed to record it. So Thursday at 9:05 PM Israel time will be a repeat of today’s class (apologies to the live participants). The link to register for the classes is https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/sj2ws45FThCroxGDQYwB6w#/registration.

I previously shared video testimony from Sergeant Shalom Shitrit before the Knesset. Shitrit fought valiantly on October 7, but was gravely injured and lost a leg (you can read about it here). The video is now available with English subtitles on Rumble here and embedded above.

Shitrit recounted that at 5:20 AM on October 7, deputy battalion commander Nir Boinfeld (who was also seriously injured, but survived) got on the radio and relayed orders to cancel all patrols by the fence until 9 AM.

Boinfeld added: “I don’t know exactly why. I don’t ask too many questions. That’s the directive. That’s what we do.”

Shitrit and his comrades were similarly baffled by these orders, but, like Boinfeld, he was trained well. The first thing they teach children in school is that if you have to use the bathroom, you raise your hand and wait for permission, or else. If necessary, go in your pants. The first thing they teach you in the army is that you are nothing, and you do what you’re told, or else. If necessary, get blown up for nothing. It’s all for the greater good.

“And you know,” said Shitrit, “we’re simple soldiers, just combatants, not commanders or officers who can ask questions. It’s an order from the deputy battalion commander. We take the order and don’t ask questions.”

“Just following orders” is not the credo of a Jewish army, to put it mildly. So let’s stop pretending the IDF is a Jewish army already, and let’s stop pretending anything about this is a mitzvah.

Cannon fodder can’t ask questions, or there wouldn’t be cannon fodder.

What I find especially interesting is that this unfortunate soul, and so many like him, continue to dance around the stark reality that is staring them in the face. They express a vague desire to “understand what happened on October 7”, while cautioning that we shouldn’t jump to conclusions.

There is only one sensible conclusion to draw from an order to cancel border patrols precisely when truckloads of executioners rolled right in and committed a genocidal massacre, especially when there has been zero accountability nearly two years later.

The sensible conclusion is not that this was an “intelligence failure” or an attempt to make Bibi look bad. Seriously, why did anyone ever believe that nonsense?

They are relentlessly brainwashed and gaslighted, that’s why. Shitrit even doubted his own memory and logic until the recording of Boinfeld’s radio message became public, and he could no longer doubt that the order was given and it made no sense. That’s the power of the psychological warfare being waged on the public every moment of every day.

Even now, this tragic victim and so many like him hedge and refuse to “jump to conclusions”, pleading to the very people who betrayed them to find out what happened, someday.

There is a very simple question that neither Shitrit nor anyone in the media asked: Who gave the actual orders to cancel the patrols?

Boinfeld only relayed the order. He was a middle manager, a buffer, like when you’re chatting with customer service and ask for a supervisor. The supervisor is just an illusion of authority; he’s not a serious decision maker.

So whose idea was it? And who were they working for? Names, please. Not after the war is over and we’re all living happily ever after. Right now. Before another order is given or another mission is undertaken.

It’s the most obvious question in the world.

If we had a functioning media that wasn’t a propaganda wing of the regime, with government operatives in studios conducting the interviews, they would hound Boinfeld and everyone up the chain of command until they got names and answers. The question “Who gave the orders?” would be the main headline in every newspaper and the lead story on every newscast, demanding not just accountability but justice.

If we lived in a democracy, investigative journalists wouldn’t lose their jobs, their freedom, and quite possibly their lives if they pursued those responsible. If we lived in an actual Jewish state, with Torah as the law of the land, everyone responsible would be seeking a city of refuge, at the very minimum.

But we don’t have a functioning media, a democracy, or anything resembling a true Jewish state. We have an Amalekite/Erev Rav/globalist dictatorship, where people can be imprisoned indefinitely without being charged with a crime, where innocent people can have false confessions tortured out of them, where your most basic rights and freedoms can be snatched away at any time (for your own protection), where there is just enough semblance of democracy and Judaism to keep both the secular and religious masses deluded, no matter how bad it gets, no matter how clear it gets. (Don’t kid yourself; the rest of the world is the same, with only cultural differences.)

Who was responsible for canceling the border patrols precisely when they were needed most? And why didn’t anyone think to ask?

The following is not satire:

Kfir fighters were ordered to collect garbage in Khan Yunis under threat of mortar shells; IDF: “Maintaining hygiene” (see the link for a short video)

Fighters in the Kfir Brigade were ordered to collect trash from the front of the defensive position where they were stationed — in an area under threat from snipers and mortars in Khan Yunis, i24NEWS military correspondent Yinon Shalom Yatach reported for the first time today (Monday). The fighters’ parents were furious: “A mortar landed there just yesterday,” the IDF claimed: “Maintaining hygiene is essential.”

According to the soldiers’ parents, this was a “dangerous and unnecessary” operation. They claim that the soldiers even protested to their commanders and asked to cancel the mission, but to no avail.

On Saturday morning, a mortar shell was fired and landed exactly at the point where the soldiers were required to carry out the collection. The IDF said that the launch site from which the shooting was carried out was subsequently attacked, but the area is still considered exposed and dangerous, and the terrorist who carried out the shooting was not eliminated.

I love it. Meanwhile, the IDF is fine with soldiers wearing second-hand underwear from the US Army, begging for toilet paper, and not showering for weeks on end. When will they give soldiers orders to shovel each other into ovens?

Seriously, if they came out and said openly “We hate you and we want to get you killed on purpose”, people would still say it’s a mitzvah to fight, so whatever.

Meanwhile, I got a letter in the mail today that they’re jacking up arnona again every year until 2029, more than the automatic increases that we should expect every year just because.

Remind me again why people who aren’t slaves have to pay the government every year for the privilege of having a roof over their heads. Isn’t property ownership — really owning a home that people in uniforms with weapons can’t confiscate if you don’t pay them forever and ever — a basic human right? Isn’t the government supposed to work for us, to help preserve and increase our wealth, and not the reverse?

Why do you have to pay the government a huge chunk of your income, and then pay them sales tax every time you spend some of the money they already taxed? When does your money and property truly, completely belong to you? You were born into slavery, so you’re used to it, but you should really think about this sometime, instead of whatever the person on the screen is telling you to care about right now.

This is definitely not democracy or Judaism…it’s Eisav.

Here’s a Torah class about it: The Slavery of Taxation, and the Torah Way.

Sharp comment from Rabbi Michoel Green:

The most bizarrely deranged people on earth is the Israeli left, on one hand protesting the IDF for war crimes in Gaza and on the other hand demonizing the haredim for the crime of not serving in the IDF.

Are these folks for real?

PS: I’m referring to the indoctrinated masses. With regards to govt., right and left are equally democidal.

IDF soldiers who have no compunctions about shooting harmless, defenseless Jewish “settlers” are never sent into death traps in Gaza. They are far too valuable to the regime.

Stop supporting your enemies.

 

🟦HEATWAVE WARNING, GAZA PLANS, HAMAS SAYS, ARTISTS DIVIDE, AG DISMISSAL, HEZBOLLAH PREPARES

August 4, 2025  Israel Realtime

⚠️HEATWAVE INCOMING – starting late Thursday, full strength Friday through Tuesday.  Described as ‘extreme heat load’, possibly record breaking.

🇮🇱GAZA PLANS – The decision has been made, we are going to occupy the Gaza Strip immediately, – Israeli Channel 12 reports.

.. Netanyahu: I will convene the cabinet this week to instruct the IDF on how to achieve the 3 goals we set. We must continue to fight together.

.. Sources close to Netanyahu confirm: ”The die is cast, we are heading for a decisive victory and full conquest of the Strip. If the Chief of Staff doesn’t agree – he should resign.”  ( The reason for this “doesn’t agree” statement – the military leadership is strongly against active occupation  & hostile population control due to the history of attacks and friction in Gaza & Gush Katif with tens of soldier deaths per year.  Yet no other possible success option has been presented. )

.. IDF Chief cancels a planned trip to the U.S.

▪️HAMAS SAYS – Commander in Hamas’ rocket force: ‘If there is one regret about the Oct. 7 invasion – it is that we did not take 3,000 prisoners instead of 251’.

🇷🇺PM NETANYAHU & PUTIN – Netanyahu & Putin speak via telephone today.  No further info released.

▪️POLITICS, ARTISTS DIVIDE THE OPPOSITION – We wrote earlier in the week about an artists letter against the war.  Opposition leader Lapid joins action who was wounded on reserve duty Idan Amadi’s criticism of the “Artists’ Petition” against the war in Gaza, alleging war crimes, and says:  “Idan knows what is happening in Gaza better than them. I didn’t like the petition, it explains what those who hate Israel say about us – without explaining the other side.”

.. MK Kriv (Labor – The Democrats): “This is not the time to condemn those who courageously stand up against this government. This era is not one of broad agreements, it is an era of decisions.”

.. One of the artists retracts his signature from the artists’ petition and apologizes for accusing the IDF of starvation.

▪️POLITICS, DISMISSAL OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL – The government has now unanimously approved the proposal to immediately end the tenure of Attorney Gali Baharav-Miara as the Attorney General.

Justice Minister: “Contrary to everything claimed in the AG’s letter, the government underwent a very long process before we reached today’s discussion. For a very long time, attempts were made to work with her cooperatively.  The process regarding her lasted several months.  She was given every opportunity to present her position. She did not address the claims substantively at any stage.

The AG claims that because of the Prime Minister’s trial, the government is prevented from firing her. There is a very dangerous hint here, according to which the AG supposedly holds the Prime Minister’s trial to prevent the government from firing her.

Her dismissal has nothing to do with the Prime Minister’s trial at all. There is no mention of it throughout the entire process. All the many arguments do not relate to the Prime Minister’s trial at all.”

.. Opposition party Yesh Atid petitions the High Court agains the dismissal.

.. High Court grants issues a temporary restraining order pausing the dismissal. For now, she will remain in her position and no replacement may be appointed.

▪️POLITICS, THE REMOVAL OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS & DEFENSE CHAIRMAN EDELSTEIN – “Today’s vote is the final nail in the coffin of the conscription law.  The conscription law will not pass the Knesset; I personally prevented the draft evasion law.”

▪️TAX DISCOUNT FOR RESERVISTS – The government approved today the granting of income tax credit points to reservists according to the number of days they served. Fighters will be able to receive up to 4 credit points (deductions) per year.

▪️ARMY SERVICE EXTENSION RELEASED – The Chief of Staff decided to cancel the decision that kept fighters on Order 8 (immediate reserve duty) for 4 months immediately after regular service discharge – a practice that has been in effect since the beginning of the war (as of November).  The reason given for the decision was that the extension of service caused unhealthy damage to the units.

However, soldiers in special forces units who are currently in training will be required to serve an additional four months as “career soldiers.” This is set to begin in March 2027.  And longer for reconnaissance and command units.

HISTORIC SYNAGOGUE in the Ukraine damaged by Iranian built Russian suicide drone attack.

♦️AIR DROPPED AID KILLS one in Gaza.  Not the first time, usually the result of a parachute failing to open with a multi-ton crate landing on someone at high speed.

♦️DAVID’S SLING – Israel’s mid-tier missile and drone defense system tested upgrades today.  Considered a success and significant improvement.

🇱🇧HEZBOLLAH PREPARES – Arab media: Hezbollah is taking practical steps in preparation for a broad confrontation with Israel – including setting up logistical warehouses, distributing aid in Shiite villages, and preparing on the ground in northern Lebanon. There is significant tension in many areas of southern Lebanon, and the organization’s leaders are making militant statements.

The US and Israel, disappointed by Lebanon’s response to Western proposals, are considering a strong response, especially in light of the imminent decision regarding the renewal of the UNIFIL mandate.

Lebanon will convene tomorrow to decide on disarming Hezbollah, but opposition from the Shiite axis could lead to internal escalation – and might even justify a broad Israeli military action if no resolution is reached.

In the meantime, Israel continues daily pinpoint attacks against Hezbollah.

🇮🇷RUSSIA WARNS IRAN – Russia has sent an unusual message to Tehran, warning of a possible joint military attack by the US and Israel on Iranian soil, which could take place in the near future.  Moscow sent the message through direct diplomatic channels, expressing ‘serious concern about an uncontrolled regional escalation’.

🌎WORLD NEWS OF NOTE – The Russian Federation no longer considers itself bound by the moratorium on the deployment of ground-based medium and shorter-range missiles – Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs says.

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🔘ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT, HAMAS TENT IN TEL AVIV? GOVT BY LAWYER, and HEZBOLLAH vs LEBANON

August 4, 2024  Israel Realtime

SUICIDE DRONE fired by the HOUTHIS to KILL JEWS, entered Israel from the Sinai through Egypt – alert in Bnei Netzarim.  Intercepted.

▪️MK’s ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT – besides Minister Ben Gvir praying on the Temple Mount earlier today, MK Shekalim from Likud did as well this afternoon, including full prostration (which can only be performed on the Temple Mount per Jewish practice).

.. JORDAN PROTESTS – “The invasion of the extreme Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir into the Al-Aqsa Mosque under the auspices of the Israeli police constitutes a blatant violation of international and humanitarian law. Israel has no sovereignty over it. This is an unacceptable provocation and escalation that must be condemned.”

.. Over 3,500 Jews ascended to the Temple Mount today.

▪️HAMAS TENT SET UP IN TEL AVIV ON TISHA b’AV – This morning, Sunday, Tisha B’Av, a protest camp was set up in the heart of Tel Aviv, with the approval of the municipality, entitled “Enough of the War, Enough of the Hunger, Enough of the Destruction.”

The Tel Aviv municipality approved the placement of the camp, which joins the “starvation campaign” of left-wing organizations calling for an end to the war in Gaza.

“We will stand up to the government’s cruel policy of collective punishment, to the deliberate starvation of millions of people, to the repeated bombings that leave children dead, women buried under rubble, and entire communities in continuous obliteration.”

▪️UK FOREIGN SECRETARY SAYS – The images of hostages shown for propaganda purposes are disgusting.  All hostages must be released unconditionally. Hamas must disarm and not take control of Gaza. – – – ( Well that was unusually straightforward. ) “This must start with an immediate ceasefire, which will release the hostages, as well as the removal of inhumane aid restrictions.”  ( Oh well, got it backwards as usual. )

▪️GOVT BY LAWYERS OR BY ELECTED MEMBERS?  The Knesset legal advisor: It is necessary to avoid replacing the chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee for political reasons. The move may lead to the disqualification of the conscription law in the Supreme Court. ( An unelected lawyer instructs the ELECTED MULTI-PARTY PARLIAMENT that it can’t do things for political reasons??? That’s literally its purpose! )

.. Analysis by Amit Segal, Ch. 12: The starting point of Likud and the Haredim in every legislative process was to pass only a (draft) law that the Knesset’s legal counsel would defend in the Supreme Court.  A significant blow to the chances that this will happen (blowing the chances for a reasonable path to passing any legislation on the topic of the draft.)

🇱🇧HEZBOLLAH vs LEBANESE GOVT – Hezbollah intends to boycott a discussion in the Lebanese government meeting regarding the organization’s disarmament

.. Iranian government channel posts: “The U.S. and Zionist regime are attempting to impose a disarmament deadline for Hezbollah. If Muslim leaders – from Arabs to Turkey – had any sense, they’d block this aggression. Hezbollah is the only shield against ‘Greater Israel.’”

🌎WORLD ECONOMIC NEWS OF NOTE – OPEC+ countries have agreed to increase oil production by 548,000 barrels per day starting in September, a move aimed at stabilizing the market amid concerns about U.S. pressure on countries that buy Russian oil.  Expect oil prices to fall.

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BREAKING: Trump Prepares US Troops To Occupy Gaza – Final Warning To Hamxs Leaders  [40:41]  Mahyar Tousi

August 2, 2025   Tousi TV

 

 

“Victims” don’t hold hostages   TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS

AUG 03, 2025

Hamas is now sending out videos of starving Israeli hostages being forced to dig their own graves.

Continue reading

 

“Jonathan Pollard: Are Allies of Israel being Targeted?”   [VIDEO  1:08:23]   DR NAOMI WOLF

AUG 01, 2025

“Many are unfamiliar with the situation of the Druze in Israel. The Druze are an ancient people who practice a form of Islam that is seen as unorthodox by other Muslim sects. They have chosen to ally themselves with the State of Israel, and even serve in the IDF.

Recently, Jonathan Pollard states, the Druze have come under violent attack, but the world’s attention is elsewhere.

Is a war crime underway that the global media are ignoring?”

Watch Now:

 

The Attorney General’s last crusade?   Aharon Garber

In Gali Baharav-Miara’s fantasy world, the reality in which the prime minister and Cabinet ministers run the country constitutes an imminent threat.  Opinion.

Published: Jul 31, 2025   Israel National News

Adv. Aharon Garber is the deputy director of the Kohelet Policy Forum’s law department. This article appeared in Hebrew in Makor Rishon.

(JNS) As part of what has been dubbed a “Gatekeepers” campaign, Israel’s Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara and her team are trying to convince us that Israeli democracy itself is under threat.

According to Baharav-Miara, if anyone were to dictate to her what to do and if (Heaven forbid) Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were to determine the agenda for the heads of the civil service or the Israel Security Agency (the Shin Bet) appointed to promote government policy, our country would be irrevocably changed.

In the AG’s fantasy world, the reality in which the prime minister and the Cabinet ministers actually run the country constitutes an imminent threat. According to her political theory, the government’s attempts to implement its policy and appoint people in line with its viewpoint will collapse the country. In Baharav-Miara’s version of democracy, elections may be allowed, but their outcomes must not have any impact unless she grants her approval.

This wasn’t always the case. In the past, the government bore responsibility for its decisions, for better or worse. Legal counsel assisted the government in promoting its policies within the framework of the law. In those not-so-far-off days, there was an argument about the scope of the authority of legal advisers, but there was never an actual attempt to end an AG’s term prematurely.

Times have changed. The AG believes she enjoys absolute independence; she sees herself as independent of government decisions, and is striving to become independent of the law itself. As far as she is concerned, it no longer matters what was written into law or even what was decided in court.

She no longer assists the government but rather oversees it, which is why she insists that it is incumbent upon the state to grant her full independence to pursue her own agenda. At her own discretion, she refused to appear before the government and Knesset committees she was summoned to and saw fit to scold Justice Noam Sohlberg for not issuing an injunction against the committee tasked with examining whether or not conditions had been met for her dismissal.

In the legal opinion she circulated, she explained that since there was no way to fire her, she took it upon herself to refuse the committee’s summons, despite the fact that the Supreme Court had rejected her position and refrained from granting an injunction to prevent the committee’s convention.

There is a reason no other democracy in the world has an AG or head of an intelligence agency who thinks they must be completely independent or that no elected official should be allowed to oversee them, set them tasks or terminate their employment when they explicitly follow their own program.

The accepted, proper arrangement is, in fact, the exact opposite. In all other democracies, the counterparts of Baharav-Miara and Ronen Bar (who served as the director of the Israeli Security Agency until June 15, 2025) would never conceive of renouncing all subordination. This was also the case in Israel back when the legislature regulated the matter.

The law explicitly states that the government is authorized to end the tenure of both the AG and the ISA director. Even after the 1997 Bar-On-Hebron scandal, the government followed the Shamgar Commission’s recommendations and stipulated that in the case of a fundamental and ongoing lack of cooperation preventing a working relationship, an AG’s term in office can be prematurely ended. But our current AG cares not. She is attempting to persuade Israeli citizens that if she isn’t independent, no one else is either.

It is no coincidence that even High Court justices see Baharav-Miara’s oppositional stance as excessive. In recent years, she has lost several cases in which she refused to represent the government, and the number of times the government acts in contravention of her opinion is growing.

Just recently, Justice Alex Stein explained in a live broadcast that the prime minister may act against her opinion; her opinion on David Zini’s appointment as ISA director was rejected; and Sohlberg did not order a suspension of her impeachment process. Still, the AG steamrolls on. She might be hoping to get lucky with a sympathetic court panel, or maybe the applause from protest movement radicals has misled her.

For now, Baharav-Miara is caught in a whirlwind. The fundamental disagreements between her and the government are increasing, preventing effective cooperation and harming us all.

Thus, the condition stipulated in the Shamgar Commission and anchored in Israeli law is being fulfilled and it is precisely why the Israeli government does have the authority to force the dismissal of a sitting AG and why the government is attempting to do so for the first time in its history. The Cabinet is set to vote on dismissing Baharav-Miara in its next meeting.

 

🛡️ FROM SURVIVING TO DEFINING: ISRAEL MUST BREAK THE CYCLE OF REACTIVITY

🕑 August 1, 2025, 6:00 PM (Israel time) Israel Realtime

Op-Ed by David Cozocaru: Admin of Israel Realtime

🧠 ISRAEL MUST LEAD—NOT JUST SURVIVE

Nearly 22 months have passed since the October 7 massacre—the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust. Over 1,200 civilians and soldiers were murdered. Entire families were incinerated. Babies were decapitated. Women were gang-raped—some beside the bodies of their children. Holocaust survivors were dragged bleeding into captivity. Soldiers were executed in their sleep.

More than 250 civilians and soldiers were abducted into Gaza. Fifty hostages remain. Children. Parents. Elderly. Holocaust survivors. Forgotten by the world.

Held underground in Hamas tunnels, they are denied sunlight, medicine, and increasingly, food. Many are now being left to starve in darkness, while Hamas leaders dine on stolen humanitarian aid. There is food in Gaza—Hamas has it. The hostages do not.

And yet, international pressure focuses on Israeli restraint rather than the survival of these innocent hostages.

🎗️ 22 MONTHS. 50 HOSTAGES. GLOBAL SILENCE.

Where is the outrage?

Where is the Red Cross?

Where are the international journalists?

If these hostages were European, UN planes would be landing daily.

But they are Jewish. So they are ignored.

Their families live in torment.

The world scrolls on.

We must not.

🏛️ THE UN PREPARES TO RECOGNIZE A PALESTINIAN STATE—WHILE HOSTAGES REMAIN IN GAZA

Next month, at the UN General Assembly, global leaders are preparing to formally recognize a Palestinian state.

Not to demand the release of hostages.

Not to sanction Hamas.

Not to investigate the October 7 massacre.

But to reward terror.

How can statehood be granted while victims of mass murder still rot in tunnels?

What message does this send other than: “Massacre Jews, get borders”?

This is not a peace plan.

It is appeasement.

It is the political legitimization of barbarism.

💥 THIS IS A REGIONAL WAR—NOT JUST GAZA

This war didn’t begin in Gaza—and it won’t end there. Israel is battling a coordinated, Iran-backed, eight-front assault:

1. Gaza – Hamas fights like a militia and continues to regroup.

2. Judea and Samaria – Iran and Hamas incite armed cells to destabilize from within.

3. Lebanon – Hezbollah has paused mass rocket fire, but Israel continues striking operatives daily.

4. Syria – Iranian militias are embedded and preparing for future escalation.

5. Yemen – The Houthis launch long-range missiles, including a direct strike on Ben Gurion Airport.

6. Cyberwarfare – Iranian proxies target Israel’s healthcare, civil, and military systems.

7. Information warfare – Hamas dominates global media. Israel lags behind.

8. Iran itself – A 12-day war saw Iran firing missiles—including nuclear-capable ones—from its own soil. The war ended, but the nuclear threat remains. The region sits on a powder keg.

This is not a border dispute.

This is a fight for survival.

And by extension, a defense of the West’s values.

ISRAEL MUST GO ON OFFENSE—WITH VISION AND CLARITY

The lessons of October 7 must become action.

No more defense-only. No more reactive strategy.

Here’s what Israel must do:

1. Reframe the War

Stop calling it a “conflict.” This is a multi-front war against Iranian imperialism.

2. Put the Hostages First

Every speech, every press conference, every foreign meeting should start with:

“There are still 50 hostages in Gaza—children, soldiers, Holocaust survivors.”

3. Enforce Red Lines

If Hezbollah rebuilds—strike.

If the Houthis attack Tel Aviv—respond decisively.

Proportionality is a Western luxury. Deterrence is our oxygen.

4. Launch a 24/7 AI Response Unit

Israel needs a multilingual, real-time task force to detect disinformation, counter propaganda, and empower allies with verified truth.

5. Own the Humanitarian Narrative

Israel sends food into Gaza.

Hamas steals it.

Film it. Share it. Don’t stay silent.

6. Mobilize the Jewish Diaspora and Global Allies

Silence abroad weakens us at home.

It’s time for truth—not apology. Courage—not fear.

DRAWING A LINE IN THE SAND

To the West:

If you cannot condemn baby beheadings without saying “but what about…”—you are not neutral. You are complicit.

To the UN and global institutions:

You are legitimizing a would-be state whose “leaders” burned families alive.History will remember.

To the Jewish people:

This is our defining hour. Speak. Stand. Refuse to disappear.

To Israel’s leaders:

We are not here to survive headlines.

We are here to define the future.

🇮🇱 FINAL WORD: FROM THE ASHES TO RESOLVE

Israel was not reborn to merely exist.

We are here to live with purpose—and lead with clarity.

Let the world remember:

We did not start this war.

But we will define how it ends.

Not in the shadows of October 7—

But in the light of unshakable resolve.

For the hostages.

Fr the fallen.

For the truth.

For the future.

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