Israel’s Channel 12 expands on some of the details that were reported by Reuters and Axios this week regarding the Biden administration’s waning tolerance for Israel’s war against Hamas…
Europe’s muddled armed forces ‘could be washed away by Russia’
Europe is not prepared for a war with Russia and is in danger of being “washed away” in a conflict, much as the Holy Roman Empire was broken up by Napoleon, Germany’s pre-eminent military historian has warned.
At a high-level defence conference in Berlin, several German generals also suggested that Nato might be unable to win the “first battle” in a defensive war on its eastern flank, because it would struggle to ship sufficient numbers of troops and equipment to the front line quickly enough.
‘The Gospel’: how Israel uses AI to select bombing targets in Gaza
Israel’s military has made no secret of the intensity of its bombardment of the Gaza Strip. In the early days of the offensive, the head of its air force spoke of relentless, “around the clock” airstrikes. His forces, he said, were only striking military targets, but he added: “We are not being surgical.”
There has, however, been relatively little attention paid to the methods used by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to select targets in Gaza, and to the role artificial intelligence has played in their bombing campaign.
Feeding the birds is not ‘anti-social behaviour’
Anne Seago, a 97-year-old from Fylde in north-west England, has been threatened with a fine for putting out food for birds in her back garden.
The curse of the metrosexual
Stop telling men to be more like women
It’s been 20 years since anthropologists announced the discovery of a new and exciting species of human, emerging from the mists of the urban jungle. This creature was best observed in its natural habitat of New York City: drinking a Grey Goose martini at a chic watering hole, pausing by a window to smooth his perfectly coifed hair, disappearing around a corner on feet clad in stylish moc-toe boots, leaving behind nothing but an unsettling sense of sexual ambiguity and the lingering scent of Axe body spray. What was he? A man, yes, but not just a man. He was an enigma wrapped in a mystery, equal parts fascination and mockery. Behold: the metrosexual.
Bulletproof vests won’t save the West from its own Hamas
Like the lifeboats on the Titanic, in Eurabia there won’t be body armor for everyone when the attack comes.
In no other country in the world does the winner of political elections have to appear in public wearing a bulletproof vest.
“Holland: immigration, Islamization and mass pro-Palestinian demonstrations have opened the doors to Geert Wilders’ electoral victory” writes Jessica Durlacher on Weltwoche.
Not in the eyes of our “reflective class”, which only sees the populist spectrum, never the Islamist one.
Shane MacGowan: NYPD bagpiper recalls rollicking shoot of classic Pogues video
The Irish-American officers of the New York Police Department Pipes and Drums band had never heard of The Pogues on the night that they featured in the band’s most famous and beloved music video.
Fairytale of New York was filmed in Manhattan’s Washington Square Park in November 1987 on one of the coldest days of the year, recounts drummer and bagpipe player Kevin P McCarthy.
McCarthy, a now-retired NYPD detective, says the group arrived for their second gig of the night and were surprised to discover that they would not need to play their instruments during the frigid two-hour film shoot.
The Unhinged Among Us
October 7 should have been an open-and-shut case of moral condemnation.
During peace and holiday, invading Hamas gunmen murdered, tortured, mass raped, decapitated, and mutilated some 1,200 Israelis. The vast majority were unarmed women, children, infants, and the elderly.
Jussie Smollett headed back to jail after conviction upheld by appeals court in hate crime hoax
Disgraced actor Jussie Smollett may be going back to jail soon as an appeals court upheld his convictions related to a 2019 hate crime hoax on Friday.
The “Empire” star, 41, was convicted in 2021 of five felony counts of disorderly conduct related to the alleged racist, homophobic attack and sentenced to 150 days behind bars.
He served just six days of the sentence while the appeal was pending.
My Catholic All-Women’s Alma Mater Just Announced It Will Admit Men In Ladyface
On Nov. 21, the student newspaper serving Saint Mary’s College and the University of Notre Dame broke the story that Saint Mary’s, a Catholic women’s college founded in 1844, would now consider admission for applicants “whose sex is female or who consistently live and identify as women.” The college’s proud identity as a single-sex institution, which resisted a merger with brother school Notre Dame when the university went coeducational in 1972, is no longer.
The war in the Middle East is creating new divides in CanLit
For Kelly Baron, now ex-publisher of the Canadian literary journal Ex-Puritan, the final straw was a statement re-posted by a colleague on Instagram. It accused Israelis of stealing Palestinian bodies for their skin due to allegedly high rates of skin cancer for Israelis – the suggestion being that Jews are not indigenous to the region.
Even before the skin-stealing post, Ms. Baron felt, after the Hamas attacks on Israel and the subsequent war in Gaza by Israel, that some social media activity by CanLit colleagues went beyond support for Palestinians and strayed into antisemitic territory.
German police arrest three over Cologne cathedral plot
Police in Germany’s western state of North-Rhine Westphalia arrested three more people on Sunday over an alleged plot to attack the historic cathedral in Cologne. One person was previously detained on Christmas Eve.
Cologne police chief Johannes Hermanns told a news conference that they believed the perpetrators planned to strike on New Year’s Eve and that the “alleged means of attack” was a vehicle.
Braid: Liberals are in crisis because of vast gap between their policies and real life
The Trudeau government is flip-flopping like a hooked flounder as it tries to escape the net of its own contradictions.
Years of favouring one group over another now proves disastrous for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and especially his Environment Minister, Steven Guilbeault.
An Abacus poll this week showed the Liberals 15 points behind the Conservatives, and barely ahead of the NDP.
Sabrina Maddeaux: Trudeau Liberals not taking the threat of Islamofascism seriously
Nearly two months after the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel, Canada is still failing to take even the most basic steps in the fight against Islamofascism and the growing tide of extremism both inside and outside our borders.
On that day, innocent civilians were tortured, raped, murdered and desecrated as part of a mission to eradicate Jews. Since then, Hamas has succeeded in convincing too many westerners that it’s not a genocidal organization whose inherent motive is violence, but a righteous band of rebels and a legitimate government.
The LPC take Islamofascism seriously? Now why would they want to alienate their core constituency?
WTF?
Correcting people who “Misgender” is just a narcissistic power trip and an excuse to bully others pic.twitter.com/51zpiO6ztn
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