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In a field close to the Gaza border a young female conscript is preparing for action.

Just a fortnight ago she was working in an advertising agency in Tel Aviv, now she is heading for the hell that is Gaza – and its Hamas terrorists.

‘It’s pretty different from what I was doing two weeks ago, that’s for sure. But everything changed on October 7,’ she said, referring to the slaughter of 1,400 of her fellow citizens by Hamas. ‘This is our fight for survival. We are trained for this and we will win.’

Israel does not intend to occupy Gaza after troops oust Hamas from the enclave, it emerged on Friday, as troops and tanks prepared for a ground invasion.

Israel plans to instead transfer control to the Palestinian Authority, officials have said.

This week, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, told both Rishi Sunak and Joe Biden that Israel did not want to control the besieged strip following an expected ground offensive to wipe out Hamas’s leadership and infrastructure.

Canada ‘firm and steadfast’ in call for two-state solution for Israel, Palestinians

OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada remains committed to a two-state solution to the escalating Arab-Israeli conflict, while acknowledging divergent views, and common fears, among his Liberal MPs on the Israel-Hamas war.

“Canada remains firm and steadfast in our commitment to a two-state solution. The world and the region need a peaceful, safe, prosperous, viable Palestinian state alongside a peaceful, prosperous, democratic, safe Israeli state — Israel,” he said.

More than 30 MPs — 23 of them Liberals — have written a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calling on him to advocate for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

“Canada has long been a voice for peace. The longer this conflict goes on, the more innocent civilians will pay with their lives. We demand that Canada join the growing international call for an immediate ceasefire. Canada must act before more innocent children are killed,” says the letter, signed by 33 MPs.

The signatories include former cabinet minister Omar Alghabra and six current parliamentary secretaries. Eight NDP MPs, including House Leader Peter Julian, and both Green Party MPs also added their names to the list.

These scumbag MPs want are trying to pressure Justin Trudeau to get Canada to try to give the terrorists a break and prevent Israel from defending itself. https://t.co/PPbPnCWp8o

— Richard Klagsbrun (@anunsafespace) October 20, 2023

For years, left-wing intellectuals have treated “intersectionality” as an inevitability. The social theory, which holds that all oppressed peoples must join together to overthrow their common oppressor, has been an essential strategy of the Left.

There is some truth to this theory. When the fortunes of the Left are rising, intersectionality seems like a juggernaut: identity groups get aggregated into the mass, internal conflicts are subordinated to the cause of liberation, and a policy of “no enemies to the left” shifts political life in favor of the radicals. But the aura of inevitability surrounding the intersectional coalition is an illusion; moments of crisis can bring suppressed contradictions to the surface and begin a process of fragmentation.

The evidence is increasingly clear that Israeli Defense Forces did not bomb a hospital in Gaza

The charge damning Israel with bombing a hospital in Gaza has circled the globe at lightning speed, time and again. But slowly the truth is getting its pants on.

There are some buildings where the penthouse floors look spectacular. But the foundations and the lower floors are rotten.

It feels like that at the moment when looking at the US-Israel relationship.

At the top floors all looks good, clean and marble-covered.

At least 18 people have been arrested after a wave of hoax bomb threats prompted evacuations across France.

The Palace of Versailles, the Louvre, as well as schools, airports and hospitals have all been targeted.

Those behind the disruption are mostly minors, authorities say.

The threats come at a time of heightened tension in France, after a teacher was fatally stabbed by an alleged jihadist last week at a school in the northern city of Arras.

WARMINGTON: Bomb threat broadcast on TTC subway speaker under investigation

In light of the devastating and deadly terrorist attack executed by Hamas against Israel on October 7, many are correctly calling the failure to intercept and prevent the assault an “intelligence failure.” Many are especially surprised given the vaunted, basically legendary, status almost universally accorded Israel’s national security apparatus.

I’ve been watching FAUDA and it’s very good.

But some of the techno-miracles on display seem a bit boosterish in light of events.