Israeli warplanes have attacked targets in Gaza after the end of a seven-day ceasefire, with strikes across much of the region that health officials in the territory said had killed 109 people.
Loud, continuous explosions were heard coming from Gaza and black smoke billowed from the territory.
Neither Israel nor Hamas had announced an extension to the truce, and both had said repeatedly in the previous 24 hours that their forces were ready to resume fighting.
WARMINGTON: Author urges Indigo’s Jewish CEO to drop vandalism charges but not her books
The theme of this real-life Naomi Klein page-turner might be irony and hypocrisy.
Irony in that Indigo Books carries all nine of the talented author’s best-selling books despite her objection to what the company’s CEO Heather Resiman does with her charity.
Law enforcement has enjoyed much less success solving the dozens of church arsons launched during the Liberal Party’s anti-Catholic pogrom.
Even if it were politically and psychologically possible to resume a war under the circumstances, how could Israel realistically win?
Iwish I could be optimistic about Israel’s ability to defeat Hamas in the aborted war, but I am more pessimistic than ever.
I’ve been a pessimist from the start. As Rich Lowry and I have discussed on the podcast, that’s because I’ve never believed Israel’s stated war aims were either politically feasible or reflective of on-the-ground reality — which is much worse than Israel or the Biden administration is willing to acknowledge.
“If I did take you, I would kill you, your wife, and your children.”
According to the corporate media, hundreds of high schoolers are taking it upon themselves to walk out of school to protest Israel’s right to defend itself. In New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and more, the nation’s budding humanitarians are banding together with the hope of ushering in a new era of peace, the stories say. As is the case with so many stories surrounding Palestinian terrorism and Israel’s response, the prevailing narrative is wrong.
These walkouts are not the result of well-meaning teenagers choosing to take a stand. These protests are being conceived of and then planned and executed by radical left-wing groups using children as political props.
I’m a student in one of Britain’s largest high schools and know no one who supports Israel over Palestine. Some readers might find that shocking. Consider, though, how my generation gets its news. TikTok is today by far the preferred source of news for teenagers; YouTube is next, Instagram third. Studies show the average teen spends two hours every day glued to their screens. Few my age buy or read a newspaper, or would ever think of doing so. Even the idea of sitting down to watch TV news seems alien to us. We view the world through smartphones; we understand current affairs through video snippets.
The Hamas terrorists who attacked Israel on October 7 did not slaughter Jews alone. The terrorists also murdered and kidnapped scores of Muslim citizens of Israel, including members of the Bedouin community. The terrorists’ murder spree made zero distinction between young and old, Muslim and Jew.
More than 1,200 Israelis were murdered in the massacre, while another 240 were kidnapped and taken to the Gaza Strip as hostages. Of these, scores of Arab Israelis were murdered, wounded or taken hostage. Among the kidnapped is Aisha al-Ziadna, a 16-year-old Muslim citizen of Israel.
Yesterday, a @PeelSchools meeting was overrun and derailed by a group of anti-Israel protesters yelling demands and violently pushing past security personnel. They twice disrupted the school board meeting, causing the trustees to flee the chamber. The videos of this unrest and… pic.twitter.com/dwycjt85Yw
— Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center (@CanadianFSWC) November 30, 2023
Save room for multiculturalism.
Amid renewed conflict in Gaza, a startling number of queer progressives are romanticizing Palestinians and playing down their hatred towards LGBTQ people. This whitewashing is wrong, no matter how legitimate Palestinian calls for self-determination may be.
Self-appointed leader of the Jewish community, Gideon Falter, now speaks for the rest of us, too.@GideonFalter I recommend you try speaking for yourself.
It’s not your place to dictate who can protest in a public space.
Also, drop the “far right” slurs.
Replies disabled, JC? https://t.co/l9bIqljZnw
— Fr Calvin Robinson (@calvinrobinson) November 30, 2023
One of the recently released hostages was held for 50 days in the attic of an UNRWA teacher, Channel 13 News correspondent Almog Boker reported.
“Uninvolved,” they say, right? Well, read this story carefully. One of the abductees, held for nearly 50 days in an attic, reveals he was held by a UNRA teacher – a father of ten children. This teacher locked the victim away, barely provided food, and neglected medical needs,” Boker wrote on X (Formerly Twitter).
A 24-year-old woman, a 73-year-old man, and an additional victim were murdered Thursday morning in a shooting attack at one of the entrances to Jerusalem.
Magen David Adom (MDA) reported that five additional victims were moderately injured. Shaare Zedek Medical Center and Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center have received eight victims who were evacuated from the scene. Two of the victims suffered light injuries, one suffered moderate injuries, and five suffered serious injuries.
Surveillance camera footage shows the shooting attack at the entrance to Jerusalem this morning. Two people were killed, and at least seven others were hurt. Two off-duty soldiers and an armed civilian shot the terrorists dead. pic.twitter.com/CwucVb5IV7
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) November 30, 2023
Despite lack of formal agreement: Ceasefire extended, 8 hostages to be released
Why do the West’s ‘pro-Palestine’ supporters refuse to recognise the suffering of the Israeli hostages?
Israeli citizens suffered a double blow on 7 October. First came the brutal Hamas terrorist attack in which 1,200 people were slaughtered and a further 240 taken hostage. Then, within hours, came the dreadful response of far too many in the West.
The streets of Western capitals soon filled not with marches in solidarity with the murdered and abducted, but with ‘pro-Palestine’ celebrations and protests. University campuses and social media were flooded not with support for Jewish people, but with a wave of anti-Semitism.
Nearly two months after the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres acknowledged on Wednesday that Hamas terrorists performed acts of sexual violence against Israelis.
“There are numerous accounts of sexual violence during the abhorrent acts of terror by Hamas on 7 October that must be vigorously investigated and prosecuted,” Guterres wrote on X.
