Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said on Sunday that the IDF withdrew from Khan Yunis after Hamas ceased to function in the area, adding that the troops left in preparation for a coming Rafah operation.
While speaking at the IDF’s Southern Command base, he stated, “The withdrawal of the troops from Khan Yunis was carried out after Hamas ceased to function as a military organization in the city, the forces left to prepare for the operation in Rafah.”
Over the last several years, Canadian employers have increasingly brought in DEI trainers to rid their workforces of conscious, and even subconscious, racism. On the face of it, who can object to diversity, equity and inclusion? it is like objecting to Santa Claus.
Unfortunately, these workshops too often have been hijacked by radical ideologues who pitted races against each other. The unhappy story of Richard Bilkszto, who committed suicide after alleging he was deemed a racist by one such trainer for observing that Canadians are not more racist than Americans, was simply the publicly exposed tip of that iceberg.
Findings show ‘failure of counter-extremism policy’ and confirm a lot of ‘work needs to be done’ to challenge old anti-Semitic tropes (Psst … The problem is called I.S.L.A.M.)
Only one in four British Muslims believe that Hamas committed murder and rape in Israel on Oct 7, a major report has found.
46 per cent of British Muslims said they sympathise with Hamas, according to a poll commissioned by the Henry Jackson Society (HJS), a counter-extremism think-tank.
The survey, which is the largest of its kind to be carried out since the Israel-Hamas conflict began, asked a range of questions to British Muslims as well as to the general public.
President Joe Biden was quick to show solidarity with Israel after the October 7 Hamas attacks, but six months on, American voters have become increasingly unhappy with his handling of the Gaza crisis, according to polling for Newsweek.
In the aftermath of the attacks by militants in which over 1,200 were killed and 253 were taken hostage, Biden stood next to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and said that his country is “not alone.”
The Biden administration persists in granting victories to Hamas and its primary supporters, Qatar and Iran, and in a way that only strengthens their positions in support of terrorism.
On March 25, the Biden administration declined to exercise its veto power at the United Nations Security Council, effectively betraying Israel and aligning itself with Hamas. This decision was perceived by Israel’s enemies in Iran, Qatar, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and Iraq as the United States finally having abandoned Israel. The American abstention looked as if the US had adopted Hamas’s position at long last — and during the height of the conflict!
Toronto Police has spent $12 million on policing over 500 demonstrations in the city since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, according to Deputy Chief Lauren Pogue.
12 million seems light.
#FreePalestine 🇵🇸✊🏼🪴 Warming Up The Growing Crowd! At University + Dundas Across From The US Embassy 4 The Downtown #AlQudsDay Rally in #Toronto #Canada 🥁 Follow Along ❤️🔥 @davidchiarelli 💨💨💨💨💨 pic.twitter.com/IWyRGILTgI
— David Chiarelli (@davidchiarelli) April 6, 2024
Happening right now. In front of my own eyes. I am listening to these people chant for the death of Jews and Israel.
A little 8-year-old boy beside me is screaming this too.
This is Al-Quds day. This is what they do on their “blessed day.”
Toronto. 1939. pic.twitter.com/3YJySYvej8
— dahlia kurtz ✡︎ דליה קורץ (@DahliaKurtz) April 6, 2024
I know that square very well having attended many an Al Quds day over the years.
Back in the olden days they would get hotted up at Queen’s Park and then march down to the US Consulate which is directly across the street.
While I am sure more will show it seems sparse right now.
They used to bus women and children in from the various Shia mosques in the GTA and beyond back in the day.
Make no mistake this was always a Shia event but before the rise of ISIS the marches were well attended by Sunni’s.
Hope they do something stupid.
On Oct. 7, Hamas terrorists launched a massive attack against Israeli civilians that, I expect, succeeded beyond their wildest expectations. Operation Al-Aqsa Flood had been planned for years, with training support of every kind from the Islamic Republic of Iran and other Islamist proxies in the region.
The goal was not only to invade southern Israel but to reach the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem; to “flood” the mosque with holy warriors — jihadis — and destroy Israel along the way.
Deputy Toronto Police Chief Lauren Pogue said at a news conference Friday that police were confronted by “a very hostile crowd who actually assaulted our officers,” including a police horse, at a pro-Palestinian street protest last weekend. Pogue detailed how their concerns aren’t with the whole protest movement, but with a group of repeat agitators who continually ignore police warnings to follow the law.
Deputy Mayor speaking at Al Quds Day, notice the Hezbollah flag behind her pic.twitter.com/2mRugG99kb
— Yossi Gedank (@GedankYossi) April 5, 2024
Hamas rejected Israel’s latest proposal to cease fighting and release hostages, according to a Friday CNN report.
According to an unnamed diplomat cited by CNN, “They refused and asserted it doesn’t include any reply to their asks.”
According to the diplomat, Hamas believed the “Israeli proposal includes nothing new, so they see no need to change their proposal,” the official added.
“Be certain that Iran’s response to the targeting of its Damascus consulate is inevitable,” said Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in a televised speech on Friday. Israel appears to be taking the Iranian proxy’s warning seriously.
Nasrallah’s warnings mirror the rhetoric broadcast by the Iranian regime in response to an Israeli strike on an informal Iranian diplomatic consulate in Syria on Monday, in which two Quds Force operatives — Brigadier Generals Mohammad Reza Zahedi and Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi, were killed. Israeli media has reported on speculation that Iranian retaliation could take the form of a missile attack on Israel launched directly from Iranian territory, but it could just as easily involve a volley of any number of the thousands of missiles in Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon. Israel has called up reservists in anticipation of an Iranian reprisal, warned the Biden administration of its intent to respond to an Iranian attack, evacuated diplomatic personnel from a number of embassies and consulates worldwide, and warned Israeli officials to lay low for the time being.
Six months on, Jews are starting to lose faith
So have we reached the end of the line? Do the latest failures and miscalculations — the relentless assault on the al-Shifa Hospital, the fatal airstrike on aid-workers, the targeting of an Iranian General in Damascus, while Hamas’s hostages languish God knows where — mark a turning point in Israel’s relations with the world? Is this the hour when its most understanding allies call time on the killing and even a fervent believer in Israel’s cause, such as I am, begins to waver?
What are we seeing? Are the terrible scenes from Gaza the projections on a bloody screen of one brutal and clumsy man’s baffled obstinacy — the last days of a demented Roman Emperor — or do they show, as anti-Zionists would have it, indeed as anti-Zionists have had it ever since the Jewish longing to return to Zion gave itself a name and the anti-Zionists called it colonialism, that something is rotten in the soul of Israel?
Joaquin Phoenix, Elliott Gould, Chloe Fineman and More Jewish Creatives Support Jonathan Glazer’s Oscars Speech in Open Letter
Toronto Police have warned pro-Palestinian protesters to behave, saying agitators are escalating tensions on Toronto streets in the wake of multiple arrests at a downtown demonstration last Saturday.
Police have said that, during Saturday’s protest, they seized a truck to lay a charge of stunt driving, and that protesters then “became aggressive and assaultive” toward officers. They said one woman threw horse manure at officers while another “intentionally used a flagpole to ‘spear’ at an officer.” Organizers of the rally later accused the officers of using excessive force.
Bravo TPS.
TPS "has attended hundreds of demonstrations since October 7th…cost of policing these events has now surpassed $12M dollars… there are individuals consistently involved in these protests who act as agitators, and who are becoming increasingly confrontational and violent" pic.twitter.com/ScXZRPKHsU
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) April 5, 2024
As part of a US plan to “revitalize” the Palestinian Authority (PA), a new PA government headed by Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa was announced in late March. While the US administration has not clarified what it means by the “revitalization” of the PA, one can only assume that refers to the need to implement financial and administrative reforms in all PA institutions and see the emergence of new leaders in Ramallah who would work to improve the living conditions of their people and prepare them for peace with Israel.
