“Oct 7 2023”

The pro-Hamas protests in London are not, apparently, as organic and spontaneous as their organizers would like them to seem.

At least four groups with links to Hamas are reportedly behind several of the marches: The Muslim Association of Britain (MAB), the Palestinian Forum for Britain, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, and the Friends of al-Aqsa. The same groups were behind the largest protest so far, on November 11 in London, where it is estimated that around 300,000 people participated.

Supporting Hamas, a proscribed terrorist organization in the UK, could lead to up to 14 years in prison.

Since Oct. 7, the public has been inundated with allegations of Israeli atrocities and human rights abuses. Israel, we’re told, is committing a “genocide” in Gaza, and, in fact, has been through all the years in which the Gazan population has grown steadily. The strange story of one young woman, or really, one photograph, is an object lesson in why such claims of Israeli evils should be taken with a large grain of salt.

Israeli prime minister said the 8.7-mile stretch of land “must be in our hands” to meet the goal of eradicating military threat from Hamas

Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to take control of the Egypt-Gaza border as he said the war against Hamas would continue for “many more months”.

The Israeli prime minister said the 8.7-mile stretch of land “must be in our hands” to meet the goal of eradicating the military threat from Hamas.

“It must be shut,” Mr Netanyahu said in a press conference late on Saturday. “It is clear that any other arrangement would not ensure the demilitarisation that we seek.”

Ric Grenell, former acting director of national intelligence under President Donald Trump, said on a Nov. 10 podcast with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) that he estimates that the hands-on intelligence gathering people probably did know and had raised red flags, but that higher-ups may have played down the warnings because of political or conceptual biases or considerations. He said he had encountered this phenomenon all the time in the U.S. Intelligence Community.

On Nov. 27, it was reported by Israeli Channel 12 News that it had obtained internal emails from Unit 8200 (the Israeli military signals intelligence unit, similar to the National Security Agency) where allegedly already on July 6, an experienced non-commissioned officer (NCO) specializing in Hamas had exposed Hamas’s operational plan, in chilling details, and its intensive training for implementing it.

It was stunning to watch Ivy League presidents lapse into confusion when asked at a Congressional hearing whether calling for genocide against Jews would be acceptable on their campuses.

One doesn’t need to be a highly educated university president to know that genocide — the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular group with the aim of destroying that group — is always unacceptable.

So it wasn’t surprising when five Liberal MPs, led by Montreal MP Anthony Housefather, announced in early December they were sending a letter to 25 university presidents in Canada to see how they’d handle the question.

What debates on campus?

NIR OZ, Israel—Eitan Cunio heard the militants enter his house and watched as gasoline seeped under the door of the safe room where he sheltered with his wife and two children.

His 1-year-old daughter was crying as the family’s home in Kibbutz Nir Oz was set alight and smoke began entering the room. Cunio put wet sheets at the bottom of the door and told his family they would stay inside rather than be killed or kidnapped. If we die, we die together at home, he said.

Before passing out, Cunio sent a tearful voice note to a friend in his community: “Brother, it’s horrible. We are going to die.”

The hapless testimony by three Ivy League university presidents from Harvard, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania before the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce can be traced to Qatar and its insidious campaign to buy itself influence in US academia.

For decades America’s credentialed liberal elite thought of itself as uniquely immune to the appeal of racial bigotry. The rest of the country—the right-leaning suburbs, the rural places, the Archie Bunkers—were constantly prone, in the minds of America’s intellectuals and enlightened academics, to indulge in racial grievances. But not the university-educated, well-heeled elite. Not the exponents of mainstream-press conventional wisdom. Not the readers of the New Yorker and the Washington Post.

Few outside journalists have been able to enter Gaza, but developments in satellite technology over the past decade have made it possible to accurately assess from space the destruction brought by the war in the small Palestinian enclave.

Some of the tools being used to track bomb damage in Gaza were developed to measure deforestation or damage following natural disasters.

In addition to taking bird’s-eye-view photos of rooftops and streets, satellites can aim radar at an angle, causing it to bounce off buildings and scatter in a way that allows operators to “see” not only rooftops but also the sides of structures. Computers can then compare it to baseline data collected before the bombs hit.

It’s called war. You’re supposed to blow shit up especially when fighting animals like Hamas.

The US military shot down three boats operated by Iran-backed Houthi rebels – killing their crews – after the militants had attempted to attack a Maersk container vessel in Red Sea waters near Yemen early Sunday, officials said.

Helicopters from the USS Eisenhower and USS Gravely warships opened fire at “four Iranian-backed Houthi small boats” – sinking three of them – while responding to an SOS call from the Singapore-flagged vessel Maersk Hangzhou around 6:30 a.m. local time, according to the US Central Command (CENTCOM).

Far beneath the Israeli military headquarters in Tel Aviv, in a bunker known as The Pit, commanders were trying to make sense of reports of Hamas rocket fire in southern Israel early on the morning of Oct. 7, when the call came in.

It was a commander from the division that oversees military operations along the border with Gaza. Their base was under attack. The commander could not describe the scope of the attack or provide more details, according to a military official with knowledge of the call. But he asked that all available reinforcements be sent.

First responders to massacre saw raped and abused bodies, but the rapidity of events – and cultural taboos – may leave the truth uncovered

Under the shade of an orange grove next to a deserted road, the body of a young woman lay face up with gunshot wounds to the head and left arm, piercing through to the chest.

The crotch area on her jean shorts was soaked blood red, and the shirt she was wearing was wide open.

Haim Otmazgin was not looking for evidence of sexual assault when he joined the desperate mission to recover the dead, the murdered, and the mutilated in the aftermath of the Hamas terror attacks.

The New York Times lead story Thursday certainly was a downer for those who support the one democracy in the Middle East in its war on the terrorists of Hamas. Longtime reporter Neil MacFarquhar penned a piece headlined “Skepticism Grows Over Israel’s Ability to Dismantle Hamas.” But MacFarquhar’s long history of anti-Israel, pro-Arab bias makes him the least dependable reporter to pen a lead story on the Israel-Gaza war.

His lead opened the floor to Hamas’s representative in Lebanon.