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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday held a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, "The essence of our struggle to free the hostages is the negotiations and the strong military pressure," Netanyahu said. "Up to this moment, Hamas' demands are hallucinatory and of unambiguous implications: defeat for Israel. It is clear that we will not agree to them. But when Hamas wants to stop these hallucinatory responses, we will be able to make progress." "We will not stop until we bring down all of Hamas' battalions. The day is not far off when Hamas leaders will...

BORDER SECURITY POLICY PROPOSAL The new border security authorities will put powerful new tools in the border security toolbox of any administration willing to secure the border. It will also setreal limits on the current administration to stop the abuse of parole and prevent our nation from ever having 10,000 people a day crossing illegally or a record month likeDecember 2023 again. ENDS PAROLE CATCH-AND-RELEASE FIASCO AT THE BORDER EndsBiden’s use of catch-and-release through the CBPOne app to hand out work permits forfree along the southwest border. The definition of humanitarian parole is clarified to stop the daily flagrant abuse...

Learning of the demonstration at the Kerem Shalom crossing between Israel and Gaza caused a light bulb to suddenly go off in my head. Finally, a demonstration was happening in the right place! Not in Tel Aviv in front of the IDF headquarters HaKirya, not in various cities around the country. Not in front of Bibi’s home in Caesaria or his office in Jerusalem. No. Next to the point at which hundreds of trucks pass into Gaza to give "humanitarian" aid to Hamas (under the guise of giving it to the Gazan people, and the quotation marks are for those...

Ron DeSantis’s distant loss to Donald J. Trump in Iowa dealt a devastating blow to his campaign. His exit caps a spectacular political failure and leaves Mr. Trump and Nikki Haley locked in a two-person contest.

The Hamas terrorist organization is working to advance attacks against targets in the Middle East, Africa and Europe under the command of senior organization leaders, the Prime Minister's Office, Mossad, and ISA (Shin Bet) announced. On 14 December 2023, the Danish and German security and enforcement authorities announced the widespread arrest of suspects in Europe who are now the subject of judicial proceedings. In a continuing intelligence effort, considerable information has been uncovered that proves how the Hamas terrorist organization has acted to expand its violent activity abroad in order to attack innocents around the world. Thanks to combined inter-organizational...

A report by the Washington Free Beacon claims that the US Justice Department issued a “stand-down order”, telling federal law enforcement and US attorneys to stop investigating “incitement, violence, and vandalism” committed by Hamas supporters who hold US visas. A complaint was filed by the America First Legal Foundation, a conservative legal advocacy group, accusing the Biden administration of “turning a blind eye to the massive uptick in violence against Jews across America in the wake of Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel” “It appears that concerns regarding the potential electoral consequences of protecting Jewish Americans and enforcing American...

In a widely reported conversation with Israel’s President Isaac Herzog, the head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, chastised Israel’s war on Hamas saying it is “forbidden to respond to terror with terror". In comparing Israel’s just war of self-defense to the barbarism of Hamas, Pope Francis repeats the sins of Pope Pius the XII, from the Nazi era, of surreptitiously supporting the forces of evil who seek to annihilate the Jewish people. And betrays his fiduciary duty as the head of the Catholic Church to protect Christians throughout the world from the same murderous hatred directed against the Jews,...

Major (res.) Roy Yanovsky, head of the Channel 13 News investigative desk, on reserve duty with the 7007th Reserve Battalion in Gaza, posted pictures of the items he and other soldiers found in Gaza houses on his X account. "Things you find in Gaza homes:" Yanovsky wrote, starting a thread and noting that the most common items were RPG missiles and Kalashnikov rifles. "The supply is highly impressive," he wrote. The second common item is explosive charges. "It's hard to find a street without a house that has several ready-to-use, including vests, uniforms, and pretty impressive combat equipment," he added....

Hamas Official Fathi Hammad: "We Shall Liberate Our Al-Aqsa Mosque, And Our Cities And Villages, As A Prelude To The Establishment Of The Future Islamic Caliphate" Hamas Political Bureau member and former Minister of the Interior Fathi Hammad declared on a December 1, 2023 show on Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas – Gaza) that the Palestinians are preparing to establish an Islamic caliphate with Jerusalem as its capital. He said: "The [Palestinian] people have been soldiers throughout history. They are now preparing to liberate Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and I am saying this loud and clear: [The Palestinian people] are preparing...

In what should be a surprise to absolutely no one, the Chinese spyware app that doubles as a Chinese propaganda app is promoting antisemitism and anti-Israel disinformation and feeding that content to young, impressionable Americans. TikTok, a Chinese spyware app that funnels user data to a Chinese company that is directly allied with the Chinese Communist Party, is boosting “pro-Palestinian” content in the aftermath of Hamas’s massacre of 1,400 civilians in Israel. Antisemitic, pro-terrorist content on TikTok has regularly gone viral as “pro-Palestine” posts outnumber pro-Israel posts by a massive margin. KEEP ISRAEL, UKRAINE, AND THE SOUTHERN BORDER SEPARATE None...

Jewish groups are criticizing Pope Francis for appearing to accuse both Israel and Hamas of “terrorism” in their ongoing war that started Oct. 7. “This is what wars do,” the pope said at his general audience in St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday. “But here we have gone beyond wars. This is not war. This is terrorism.” Francis’ comments followed separate meetings with Jewish relatives of hostages held by Hamas and “Palestinian” Arabs with family in Gaza on Wednesday. His remarks come a month after he called on Hamas to free the hostages being held in Gaza, and weeks after calling...

Red Cross in 1944: “We found no trace of installations for exterminating civilian prisoners in Auschwitz” 👇 Red Cross in 2023: “We found no evidence of weapons or hostages being kept in hospitals in Gaza”

IDF Spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari delivered an address to the media this evening (Monday) on the discovery of extensive terrorist infrastructure at the Rantisi Children's Hospital in Gaza. "I just got back from Gaza, where I joined an operation inside the Rantisi Children's Hospital," he began. "I went to the hospital with a video camera and personally documented more concrete evidence. The concrete evidence proves that Hamas uses hospitals as an instrument of war." "Underneath the hospital, in the basement, we found a Hamas command and control center, suicide bomb vests, grenades, AK-47 assault rifles, explosive devices, RPGs, and...

Yehiel Leiter, the father of Major Moshe Yedidya Leiter, who fell in battle against terrorists in the Gaza Strip over the weekend, eulogized his son during a funeral ceremony in the Mount Herzl on Sunday at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetary in Jerusalem and sent a message to US President Joe Biden. "We have two things in common, me and you," the father said in English, addressing the US President, "Number one - we were both born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, I still have my bank account at PNC Bank on Joe Biden Boulevard. My mom, may she live until 120,...

Paul Kessler, a 65-year-old Jewish man, has died in Los Angeles after being assaulted by a pro-Palestinian Arab protester with a megaphone during demonstrations in the northern part of the city, Ynet reported on Monday. According to the report, Los Angeles law enforcement confirmed on Monday that the Jewish man died as a result of a head injury after the pro-Palestinian Arab protester attacked him with a megaphone. Witnesses at the scene said a verbal altercation broke out between Kessler and a young protester, when the protester struck the older man in the head with a megaphone he was holding....

Arab man asks why Hamas has built hundreds of kilometers of Hamas tunnels under Gaza but not a single air raid shelter for civilians.

Key Links Morning press briefing by IDF Spokesperson, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari ( Hebrew, English subtitles ) Footage of the targeting of the Commander of the Beit Lahia Battalion of Hamas' Northern Brigade, Nasim Abu Ajina ( Video ) IDF video with Hamas’ responses to allegations of war crimes ( Twitter ) Broad force briefing from the Commanding Officer of of the Southern Command ( Hebrew, English subtitles )

"IDF Spokesperson Daniel Hagari says that IDF has been intensifying its strikes in Gaza, as locals report "the most intense" strikes since the war began."

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There is a good rule about anti-Semitism. One reason it isn’t better known is because its best expression comes at the mid-point of the 20th century’s towering work of historical fiction: Life and Fate, by Vasily Grossman. That novel, which takes the reader from the Battle of Stalingrad to the Nazi death camps, traverses the entire dark heart of the 20th century. Yet in the very middle of its 900 pages, the great Russian writer examines the question of anti-Semitism. He says almost everything. Anti-Semitism is something which, as Grossman writes, can be met “in the marketplace and in the...