“Oct 7 2023”

It is, perhaps, too early to have a full picture of what led to the recent Hamas attack on Israeli villages close to Gaza.

One thing, however, is certain: the attack came when and where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Cabinet least expected.

But why? One answer adopted by Netanyahu’s team is “a failure of intelligence services”.

However, that answer, even if it contains a grain of truth, could not divert attention from a bigger failure: the Israeli leaders’ inability to correctly analyze the intelligence at their disposal and, and having bought into what looks like a ruse by Hamas, to imagine a worst-case scenario.

Several thousands in Toronto outside the U.S. Consulate calling for a ceasefire and rallying for Palestine. pic.twitter.com/D0c1lJJQJF

— Ahmar Khan (@AhmarSKhan) October 29, 2023

Outside the US consulate, University and Armory, Toronto. Now.

Palestine will be free. pic.twitter.com/qmMxZZrF8a

— Doug Allan (@Leftwords) October 29, 2023

Rabbi attending mass rally for Palestine in Toronto, Canada, on October 21, 2023 pic.twitter.com/osV0pZyynu

— Neturei Karta (@NetureiKarta) October 23, 2023

I hate to disappoint them but Israel could not care less about their demo.

Even if they change Junior’s mind and he starts advocating for a ceasefire Israel will just swat him away.

Using dogs, ‘sponge bombs’ and search-and-destroy teams, Israel’s ground invasion depends on clearing the underground network, which could be as long as 300 miles

The Israel-Gaza war may be won, or lost, underground.

At the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, Palestinian doctors are relying on a dwindling supply of electricity to keep patients alive: 55 prematurely born babies are depending on generators for their survival, according to one doctor quoted by Reuters last week.

Yet beneath their feet Israel alleges that Hamas has stockpiled, for its own aims, enough fuel to power the generators of Gaza’s largest hospital and keep the incubators running.

As the vast majority of westerners unite to support Israel in the aftermath of Hamas’s horrific terrorist attack, a poll by Harvard University and Harris Insights and Analytics shows a disturbing split among generational lines. The poll found nearly a third of Americans aged 18 to 24 think the statement, “Hamas terrorists killed 1,200 Israeli civilians by shooting them, raping and beheading people including whole families, kids and babies,” is false.

Thousands of people broke into aid warehouses in Gaza to take food and “basic survival items”, a UN agency said on Sunday, in a mark of growing desperation and the breakdown of public order in the enclave.

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA, said its warehouses and distribution centres were looted by people grabbing flour and “basic survival items”.

UNRWA provides services to hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza. Its schools across the territory have been transformed into packed shelters housing Palestinians displaced by the conflict. Israel has allowed only a small trickle of aid to enter from Egypt, some of which was stored in one of the warehouses that was broken into, the agency said.

Hamas is just fine thank you. – As Gazans Scrounge for Food and Water, Hamas Sits on a Rich Trove of Supplies

The United Nations General Assembly once again displayed its hatred of Israel and its anti-Semitism in passing a resolution Friday calling “for an immediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce, leading to a cessation of hostilities” in the Mideast.

Thousands of demonstrators join banned pro-Palestinian march in Paris

In France it is claimed over 1 million people were demonstrating in support for Palestine. pic.twitter.com/3E3f3NazCT

— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) October 29, 2023

Very little news coverage of the Paris march to date.

h/t Mauser

Meanwhile in the restive backwater of Toronto: Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters take over downtown Toronto streets

A statement from a group of Jews has blasted Toronto Metropolitan University for its lack of action to a letter signed by law students that allegedly promotes “violence against Israel and the Jewish people.”

The statement was sent to TMU’s Dean Donna Young and President Mohamed Lachemi.

Mohamed? Nuff said.

“You’ve probably heard by now if you’re a regular reader that the immediate claims that 500 or more people were killed in the Gaza hospital explosion last week has not held up to scrutiny. Hamas eventually settled on the figure 471 but western estimates have ranged from 100-300 or, from a separate estimate, maybe closer to 50.”

The new definition of racism blinds people to injustices against any group that is perceived to be dominant

When two planes flew into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, the world stood in solidarity with the United States. In London, “The Star-Spangled Banner” was played at Buckingham Palace. “We are all Americans,” declared Le Monde. In Berlin, 200,000 people took to the streets to express their sorrow. This makes it all the more striking how different — and how morally obtuse — the reaction to Hamas’s slaughter of around 1,400 Israelis has been.

Major news outlets were strangely reluctant to dwell on the horror before jumping straight to the Israeli response. Instead of declaring that we are all Israelis, Le Monde editorials fulminated against Israel’s “desire for vengeance.”And when huge demonstrations filled the streets of Berlin, London, Paris and Brussels, they were not in solidarity with those who’d been brutally murdered, but in support of the terrorists.

Radical left-wing politicians and their puppets in the mainstream media are currently working around the clock to convince the masses that Israel was, is, and will probably continue to be, a nation of colonialist invaders who are oppressing the Arab Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, having pushed them off land that rightfully belonged to them. This, for many of these individuals, justifies the use of terrorist tactics — or at the very least, excuses them — against the Israeli people, more or less pushing the narrative that they are reaping what they have sown.

The first wave of the invasion has begun

The news that mobile networks had gone down in the strip was the clue that something was imminent. Then, last night, just under three weeks after the 7 October Hamas massacres, Israel announced that its ground forces were “expanding operations” in Gaza. Aerial bombardment of the strip was heavier than anything since the war began; more ground troops are pouring across the border.