“Oct 7 2023”

A handsome man in his 20s in a military uniform zips past me on a motorised scooter. A woman with a tattoo and piercings calmly sips a cortado in a coffee shop across from me. A young family bustles past. This is Israel in 2023.

I am on my way to a screening of “raw” footage of the 7 October massacres that Hamas committed against Israeli civilians. Atrocities that are being denied and dismissed across social media and in parts of legacy media internationally. “In 2023 we are still dealing with holocaust denial,” says my contact in the IDF media unit. “This event is an attempt to put that right.” This is also Israel in 2023.

Israel’s Shin Bet security service and Police force jointly interrogated six detainees from Gaza who participated in the destruction and mass murder of October 7, 2023.

The footage from the interrogation was released on Monday and showed selected clips from six separate interrogations.

🚨BREAKING:

Investigation Reveals Hamas Terrorists Offered $10,000 and an Apartment to Those Who Brought Hostages Back to Gaza

Israel’s Shin Bet security service and Police force have jointly interrogated six Hamas terrorists from Gaza who participated in the destruction and… pic.twitter.com/bdPKl9Dm5U

— SANTINO (@MichaelSCollura) October 24, 2023

Yocheved Lifshitz, one of the women freed from Hamas captivity on Monday night, spoke for the first time with media.

Lifshitz, whose husband is still held captive in Gaza, remains hospitalized at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv.

“My name is Yocheved Lifshitz, and I was born in 1983, in Israel,” she began. “I thank you for coming to hear my tragedy and that of my friends.”

The large influential accounts who shared Hamas giving tea to the 85 years old hostages yesterday were only helping the murderous Hamas terrorists spread their propaganda.

Yochaved Lifshitz, who escaped captivity by the murderers and Nazis Hamas-ISIS: “They beat me, laid me on… pic.twitter.com/K3tiFlSwXw

— The Mossad: Satirical, Yet Awesome (@TheMossadIL) October 24, 2023

What’s the best title for this masterpiece?pic.twitter.com/Q7LuMFLnuu

— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) October 24, 2023

After Hamas’ horrific attack on Israeli civilians on Oct. 7, Israel has declared total war. Israel’s stated goal is to eliminate the terrorist organization’s military capabilities. The crisis faced by Gazans caught in the midst of the conflict is heartbreaking and likely to get worse, but Hamas has left Israel with no other choice.

Those who believe Israel has other alternatives tend to hold two assumptions that are patently false. First is the belief that Hamas is not thoroughly committed to the violent destruction of Israel as a non-negotiable article of faith.

A senior writer for New York Magazine has come under fire for a series of tweets he made in which he claimed that Zionists worked with Nazis during World War II and allowed some of the horrors of the Holocaust.

“Wait til they find out Zionists could’ve saved hundreds of thousands of Jews from the gas chambers and decided not to,” wrote Tirhakah Love, author of New York Magazine’s Dinner Party newsletter who previously publicly celebrated the death of Queen Elizabeth II.

One thing in urban combat in Gaza is not like it is in the films: you do not kick in doors. You blow them up instead.

“You put rockets in through the sides of houses or the walls or you blow up the door,” said Benzi Sanders, a former soldier, speaking from his experience of the last war in the enclave. “You go in, weapons firing. Everyone is supposed to have left.” All that is supposed to wait for you, supposedly, is booby-traps and militants.

For Sanders, 32, there was no time to be afraid, as you blasted your way into the unknown. “You are trying to stay alert,” he said. “You are in confident survival mode but you don’t have fear because you don’t have time to reflect. If you feel fear coming you say ‘not now’ to yourself.”

The first casualty of reporting on Israel is the truth.

On October 17, as Israel waged a counter-offensive against Hamas in the wake of the Palestinian terror organization’s grotesque terror spree against Israeli innocents earlier in the month, a rocket struck the Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City. Initial reports were that hundreds had been killed. Before any investigation or conclusive evidence had been presented, Hamas and Palestinian supporters in the media seized the propaganda opportunity to blame Israel for a shocking war crime.

The Hamas apologism of Black Lives Matter activists has exposed the twisted, hateful logic of identity politics.

Following Hamas’s pogrom of Jewish people in Israel on 7 October, numerous Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists made clear where their sympathies lie. Within days, BLM’s chapter in Chicago posted a graphic that celebrated the slaughter. It showed a paraglider of the kind used by Hamas terrorists to enter Israel from Gaza and murder over 200 young people at a music festival. Below the picture, the caption read: ‘I stand with Palestine.’

The sick thrill of antisemitism has a price

I grew up in a tiny Jewish enclave on Chicago’s South Side. When I first saw New York, in the Sixties, I was awed as by no subsequent marvel of nature: stretching north from Columbus Circle, up the West Side, was a Jewish metropolis.

New York, in my lifetime, had always been a Jewish city: the rhythms, the accent, the humour always felt to me like home. Because they were home. The populace, of whatever ethnicity, was formed or noodged by Yiddishkeit, much as the Chicago of my youth was by the culture of the Irish and the Poles.

As Tsachi Idan was driven away to Gaza, his hands were still covered with his daughter’s blood.

He wasn’t allowed to wash them after cradling 18-year-old Maayan, who was murdered in front of her family by a Hamas gunman.

Nor was he able to wipe them clean before he used his body to shelter his two youngest children, as the sound of explosions ripped through the air outside their home.

European climate activists have staged protests and posted messages in support of Palestinians, prompting an online backlash and raising internal questions within the environmental movement.

Long-running tension in the Middle East exploded on 7 October when Hamas militants killed 1,400 people in southern Israel. Since then, Israeli strikes have killed at least 5,087 Palestinians, 2,055 of them children, according to the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza.

Ha Ha! … Israel Removes Climate Activist Greta Thunberg From School Curricula After ‘Stand With Gaza’ Post

Smile …

OMG, did she just say that in order to save the planet we should use battery operated fighter jets?pic.twitter.com/1CYldMT6zq

— General™️👀🇺🇸🦅 (@TheGeneral_0) October 23, 2023