As the orderlies swing open the heavy doors of the refrigerated containers, a fine mist spreads from the cold interior into the evening warmth.
The mist is quickly followed by the sickening smell of human remains.
“As we call it, this place is the gates of hell,” warns Gilad Bahat, a senior officer in the Israeli police’s investigation and intelligence department.
The whole world must now see that when Hamas say, “Free Palestine,” it means to eradicate the Jews from Israel by any means, however brutal, however barbaric.
On Saturday morning, at a synagogue in New Jersey, Rabbi Marcus suddenly stopped the prayers and burst into tears. It seemed as if his heart was breaking, because it was. A war had broken out in Israel, he wept; one hundred people dead. Turning on my phone, I saw that the Rabbi was wrong: the numbers were much higher. But numbers don’t tell the whole story.
On Sunday, like many other Israelis, I was on a plane back to Israel in order to join my unit as a reservist of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The reality to which I was shortly to be exposed proved more murderous than anyone could have imagined. I’m not sure that we will ever be able to come to grips with the full horror of what occurred.
According to a new Harvard/Harris poll, only the police and military are more respected than Israel. It’s heartening that Americans overwhelmingly support civilization over the Islamofascists of Gaza and Iran.
Then again, “Palestinian Authority” gets 17 percent support, and Hamas has a 14 percent positive rating — which is to say, 14 percent of your neighbors have taken the side of a medieval religious cult that’s vicious enough to cut Jewish babies out of mothers before beheading them. If 14 percent of Americans supported ISIS or al Qaeda or the Nazi Party, we would probably be concerned.
OTTAWA—Canada is not calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war because the Liberal government does not believe Hamas would respect any pause in hostilities, Defence Minister Bill Blair said Tuesday.
“Israel was the victim of a terrorist attack. That threat still exists for them and we’ve acknowledged that they (Israel) under international law have a right to defend themselves,” Blair said on his way to a cabinet meeting.
In other words, Israel won’t listen to us anyways.
The Israel-Hamas War has shocked the world on many levels: the brutality of the Oct. 7 attacks against Israeli civilians, the propagation of disinformation by supposedly reputable news outlets, and the overt antisemitism on display in academia, politics and public demonstrations. The concept of decolonization, so fashionable in left-wing circles, has been turned against a people who for over a millennium have been persecuted, stateless, and the victim of racial hatred. Yet today, Jews are being cast as villains, in a manner that would make even Shakespeare blush.
The Toronto constituency office of Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles was vandalized one day after she removed MPP Sarah Jama from caucus over comments she made on social media about the Israel-Hamas war.
The office, located at Bloor Street, was seen defaced with the words “Free Palestine. Blood is on your hands.” Stiles’ photo is covered in what appears to be red paint.
The left eats its own.
Israel shouldn’t wait to invade Gaza City.
The ground phase of Operation Swords of Iron, Israel’s response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror rampage, seems ready to launch at any time. Israel has already begun to conduct raids — “thunder runs” — deep into enemy territory. The fighting will be difficult, not only because of the complexity of the urban terrain in the Gaza Strip and the presence of millions of civilians but also because of the political objective itself. This is no mere retaliatory raid but rather an all-out offensive in pursuit of what amounts to regime change.
Student and faculty reactions to Hamas’s atrocities demonstrate once and for all the fraud of elite higher education. We must reform our universities—or create new ones.
When I interviewed in 2022 for the job of Dean of Intellectual Foundations at the just-founded University of Austin (UATX), Pano Kanelos, the university’s founding president, asked me what I thought the new institution’s mission was. “To save civilization,” I said. “And here I thought the mission was to save American higher education,” he replied.
Informed observers have known for some time that our universities are broken. But the cheerleading on American campuses for terrorists who unleashed a pogrom of a magnitude and viciousness not seen since the Holocaust has made it clear that the collapse of higher education imperils Western civilization itself. Without real higher education, we would forget the past and stumble blindly into the future. Without universities worthy of the name, there would be no civilization.
Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary, recently took a pop at immigrants who she accused of failing to ‘embrace British values’. But these newcomers to our shores might be forgiven for being confused about what these ‘values’ are. We live in a country, after all, in which misgendering someone can land you in hot water but chanting for ‘jihad’ on the streets of London is deemed acceptable. Britain is a place where we frequently express solidarity with victims of terror attacks and atrocities yet stay strangely silent on the plight of Israel after the slaughter of hundreds of its citizens.
Israel had not even buried its dead from the horrifying jihadist pogrom that Hamas terrorists unleashed on Israeli civilians in south Israel — beheading babies, burning them alive, torturing, raping, kidnapping, murdering — before the European Union decided to reward the terrorists by tripling its assistance to Gaza.
“The Commission will immediately increase the current humanitarian aid envelope foreseen for Gaza by 50 million euros,” European Commission President Ursula van der Leyen said. “This will bring the total to over 75 million euros. We will continue our close cooperation with the UN and its agencies to ensure that this aid reaches those in need in the Gaza strip.”
When I was just a child, I believed in monsters ‘neath my bed Scary things lived in the closet and in visions in my head.
But I grew up to learn that frightful things don’t always hide I can see them in the daylight on my city streets outside.
Hamas backers “have long operated in the United States” and they “are still engaged in various forms of support” for the organization, a new academic report claims.
The Program on Extremism at George Washington University (GWU) released an account of Hamas’ presence in the U.S. on October 13, which said that while many of its domestic activities have been foiled, networks and individuals remain in America providing “at times purely political and not material” backing for the group.
Dawn was flaring over Gaza as two men in Hamas garb rode south along Sofa Street on a motorbike.
The sky was clear. The road was empty. It was 6:40 a.m. They were on their way to kill Israelis.
They didn’t have far to go.
It was less than three kilometres to Sufa, the Israeli town they were attacking — one of 30 targeted that day.
Bad news, America—Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and Hezbollah terrorists aren’t just waging war on Israel, they are potentially crossing over the southern U.S. border too. World Jihad, here we come.
One Liberal MP said the antisemitism Canada is experiencing is “frustrating and shocking.” His comments were primarily directed at the street protests against Jewish businesses — but they were not limited to them. He was also speaking about his own caucus.
It is a grim irony that Justin Trudeau, who was once privately referred to as “Canada’s first NDP prime minister” by one of his own MPs, is watching the hijacking of policy by a group of MPs who are more left-wing than he is.
