The Israeli army has begun its largest operation in the West Bank for more than two decades, sending about 1,000 soldiers into the refugee camp area of Jenin in pursuit of Palestinian militants.
The operation began shortly after midnight on Monday with drone strikes on a building which, according to the Israeli military, served as a joint command centre for armed groups operating in Jenin, including Fatah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
Barely 48 hours on from the carnage, the hummus restaurant next to the Israeli settlement of Eli in the occupied West Bank was back in business.
“It’s our duty as those settling the land of Israel,” said Aviad Gizbar, the owner, as customers lined up for takeaway meals. “The restaurant was awash with blood, but we’ve cleaned it all up.
Bullet holes were still visible in the walls and windows.”
On Tuesday two Palestinians carrying M-16 rifles opened fire in the roadside restaurant and petrol station, killing four Israelis and wounding four others.
The Biden Administration has resumed its efforts to relaunch peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.
On June 19, US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Barbara Leaf arrived in Ramallah, the de facto capital of the Palestinian Authority (PA), and met with Hussein al-Sheikh, a senior Palestinian official who serves as Secretary-General of the PLO Executive Committee.
The United Nations has adopted the nasty habit of many Palestinians: throwing everything at Israel but the kitchen sink. Accusations against Israel have ranged from fabricated claims not merely of “apartheid,” but climate apartheid, water apartheid, violating women’s rights (the only country accused of that in the midst of a sea of crushing Islamic fundamentalist regimes!), to kidnapping and murdering Palestinian children to harvest their organs.
The UN, ostensibly dedicated to protecting human rights, and has, in fact, devolved into hurling bogus, tabloid-style allegations as it joins other blood-libel false charges by considering the addition of Israel to its list of blacklisted entities in its 2023 Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC) Report.
Palestinians have once again shown that their real heroes, sadly, are those who carry out terrorist attacks against Jews and seek the elimination of Israel.
In May, elections for student councils were held at the two most important Palestinian universities in the West Bank: An-Najah University in Nablus and Birzeit University, north of Ramallah, the de facto capital of the Palestinians. The two major student lists that ran in the elections are affiliated with Hamas, the terrorist organization controlling the Gaza Strip, and Fatah, the ruling faction headed by Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas.
Three Israeli soldiers have been killed by an Egyptian policeman in shootings in Israeli territory near the border with Egypt, Israel’s military says.
An investigation with the Egyptian army has been launched, it adds.
Egypt’s military said its security officer had crossed a checkpoint while chasing drug traffickers.
The Israeli military has said the shootings were assumed to be connected with a drug smuggling operation it had carried out overnight.
It took the City University of New York (CUNY) nearly three weeks to do it, but the public university’s chancellor and board of trustees eventually got around to condemning an antisemitic speech made at the CUNY Law School graduation ceremony on May 12.
The oration was delivered by graduating student Fatima Mousa Mohammed of Queens, N.Y., a member of Students for Justice in Palestine, the activist wing of the antisemitic BDS movement. In it, she uttered egregious lies about Israel and Zionists but anchored her attacks on the Jewish state in far-left talking points about the evils of capitalism, imperialism, colonialism and “white supremacy.” She railed against the police as well as the federal prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation, which served as fundraisers for the Hamas terrorist group. She spoke of the mission of the future lawyers getting their degrees that day as waging an ongoing battle against the rule of law.
Defunding could work, at least in the short term, but the culture has permanently changed. Below a NYTimes piece defends the Muslima.
She Attacked Israel and the N.Y.P.D. It Made Her Law School a Target.
A student gave a commencement address at the famously progressive CUNY law school. Two weeks later, she was attacked by the tabloids and the mayor, and the school disavowed her speech.
Mass genocide is the final seductive and murderous fantasy that runs through Islamist groups and through black supremacist movements.
Researchers have found that the #HitlerWasRight hashtag was intertwined not just with the usual white supremacists, but with more “progressive” hashtags like #FreePalestine.
Raja, a Pakistani Muslim, and Halawa, who hails from Israel’s so-called ‘West Bank’, don’t fit the image of what people think Hitler’s fanbase looks like, but they’re more typical than you might think.
May 15 marked the United Nation’s latest travesty as it put “Nakba Day” on its official annual calendar. “Nakba” translates as “catastrophe” in Arabic. This international body disingenuously declared to the world that “the Nakba is a moment in time in 1948” — which just so happened to coincide precisely with the establishment of the State of Israel.
Palestinians are again repeating the lie that al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem is in danger because the Jews are planning to “storm” and “desecrate” it.
Some Palestinians and Muslims have gone so far as to accuse the Jews of plotting to destroy the mosque. The latest campaign of lies and misinformation arrived as Jews, on May 18, were preparing to celebrate the reunification of Jerusalem by holding a flag parade in the city.
For days, the hashtag “al-Aqsa Mosque is in Danger” was trending on various social media platforms, evidently as part of a concerted campaign to smear Jews and rally Muslims against them.
The militia welcomed its VIPs and journalists with a fanfare from its band.
But the atmosphere quickly changed when their fighters started jumping through hoops of fire, shooting off the back of motorbikes and roundhouse-kicking terracotta pots to pieces.
On the hillside backdrop, Israeli flags were blown up and explosions boomed across the mountain filling the air with dust and smoke, as they simulated storming a settlement.
IDF and Border Police forces operating in Samaria overnight eliminated three terrorists after a gun battle broke out during an Israeli security sweep.
The Palestinian Authority’s health bureau reported early Monday morning that three people were killed in a gun battle with IDF soldiers in the Balata refugee camp in Shechem (Nablus).
According to the reports, four people were injured in the exchange of fire, two of them in serious condition and two in moderate condition.
I wonder if an Israeli strike on Iran would advance the internal revolt against the Mullahs?
The barbaric slaughter of innocents in Iran
In a heart-wrenching display of callousness and disregard for human life, the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) has once again stained the lands of Iran with the blood of the innocent. Today, we mourn the unjust execution of three more innocent souls, Saeed Yaghoubi, Majid Khazemi, and Saleh Mirhashemi. These tragic victims met their undeserved fate at the hands of a regime that thrives on terror, propagates religious extremism, and perpetuates a reign of darkness upon a once peaceful nation.
On Saturday, May 13, Nakba Day was held at Dundas Square, in downtown Toronto.
The demonstration, organized by a litany of local anti-Israel organizations, was marketed as commemorating 75 years since the “nakba,” or Arabic for catastrophe, referring to Israel’s rebirth in 1948 and an effort to “resist against the ongoing settler colonial and imperial forces of Zionism!”
The term nakba is a specific word used by those who seek to delegitimize Israel’s existence as a Jewish State.
The comments at the article are worth your time to scroll through.
The Al Quds pic is from 10 years ago, 2013. I recall it well, as with the Pallies the police had us behind a rope on the other side of the sidewalk.
There are a number of children in the pic, many, many more attended. Children were always prominent at Al Quds Day, a demographic show of force.
Almost all are young adults now. Growing up they were educated in “anti-zionism” and those now old enough are likely educating their own children in the same manner.
And so in Canada we have nurtured a multi-generational hatred made possible by a maliciously tolerant immigration policy.
To answer the article nothing is done by our government media because for the most part they are sympathetic to the Islamist cause but also very afraid of being called Islamophobic.
How bad is it? In 2011 I covered a Pro-Assad Rally at Queen’s Park attended by a couple of thousand people. Yes you read that right, a Pro Bashar Assad rally, the Butcher of Syria. Only City TV showed up. They shot a short clip and scooted off. You can see the City crew at work in the video I shot. That seeming media indifference is deliberate, that way they avoid having to answer for the icky stuff.
Make no mistake the Islamists have the numbers. Islam is ascendant and Judaism is in decline. And with that decline comes loss of influence.
Politicians notice such things.
The Islamists have become an important vote bloc cultivated by our Uniparty.
Canada’s hospitality is beyond abused. Urban centres like the GTA may come to resemble Europe’s cities and I don’t mean that in a good way.
Whether Jews, Hindus or Christians nowhere does Islam peaceably coexist.
The latest attempt by Iran and its Palestinian terror proxies to kill as many Jews as possible just ended with another “ceasefire” between Israel and the Palestinians that was brokered by Egypt. During the five days of fighting, the Palestinian terror groups in the Gaza Strip, in particular Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), fired more than 1,200 rockets at Israel — a country the size of New Jersey — killing two people and damaging several homes and other buildings.
Its view of the Israel-Palestine conflict is extremely one-sided
Today the United Nations General Assembly will hold a special event for Nakba Day, including a “special commemorative event” in the General Assembly Hall. Coined by the Syrian intellectual Constantine Zureiq, nakba — Arabic for “disaster” — is the word used to describe the events of 1948, leading up to the creation of the state of Israel, and is synonymous today with perceptions of Israeli cruelty and the fracturing of Palestinian society.
