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Tel Aviv Court Asked to Reveal ‘Foreign Entity’ Implicated in Oct. 7 Attack
The HaKol HaYehudi news outlet on Wednesday requested that the Tel Aviv District Court reveal the name of a “foreign entity” that has been implicated in the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, massacre in southern Israel.
Attorney Nati Rom, of the Honenu legal aid group that is representing the Israeli website, said the Nov. 21 indictment against Eli Feldstein, a former spokesman in the Prime Minister’s Office and chief suspect in a leaked files case, accuses him of possessing “confidential information about the possible involvement of [censored] in the 7/10/23 incident.”
The State Attorney’s Office previously said in a statement that “these are not names of people or an organization but of a foreign entity.”
Col. (res.) Ronen Cohen, the former director of the Terrorism Desk in the IDF Military Intelligence Directorate, told i24News this week that “when they say that this is not the name of a person or a terrorist group, I believe it is the Palestinian Authority.”
“If this assessment is indeed correct, there was a betrayal there on the part of the internal systems of the Shin Bet and the IDF,” he charged.
“If I am indeed right that it is the P.A., I want to use the word ‘betrayal’ for the first time,” continued Cohen. “Because they did not want to convey to the Prime Minister’s Office and the prime minister that there may be possible involvement of the Palestinian Authority in the massacre.”
Wrote Rom to the Tel Aviv District Court on Wednesday, “The applicant believes that, given the significant public interest in the affair that is the subject of the proceedings, and the concealment of the foreign entity from the eyes of the Israeli public in particular, the court would do well to order the lifting of the censorship so that the public can see who the factor is regarding whom there is information about his possible involvement.”
Alternatively, Rom suggested that the court allow it to be confirmed or denied that the Palestinian Authority was mentioned in the leaked intelligence files that were discovered in Feldstein’s possession.
Jibril Rajoub, a senior official in the P.A.’s ruling Fatah party and a former head of the P.A.’s Preventive Security Force, said last year that Hamas’s massacre of some 1,200 people, mostly Israelis, was carried out “in the context of the defensive war our people are waging.”
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction has praised and celebrated the cross-border terrorist assault, in which also 251 people were taken as hostages and thousands more were wounded.
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization closely affiliated with Fatah, has claimed that its members joined Hamas on Oct. 7 and attacked “behind enemy lines” inside the Jewish state.
Die Verwicklung der UNRWA in den Terror

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Unwra Sponsoren können zu einem dauerhaften Frieden in Israel damit beitragen indem sie eine UNWRA Friedensinitiative durch Erziehung unterstützen.
Dies sind die Punkte für eine sachliche Grundsatzdiskussion der Ziele der Organisation, die dafür sorgen will, dass palästinensische Kinder und Jugendliche in der Westbank und in Gaza gut erzogen werden und eine vernünftige Ausbildung und dann auch einen guten Beruf erzielen:
- Verabschiedung vom jetzigen UNWRA Lehrplan, aufgebaut auf den Zentralideen von “Jihad” – sprich religiös motivierte Zurückeroberung des gesamten israelischen Gebietes “für Allah der nur Moslime in Israel will”, inklusive freiwilliges Martyrium sowie das “Recht auf Rückkehr nach Israel mit der Gewalt der Waffen” – all dies hat keinen Platz in der UN Erziehungsbehörde dessen Leitideal ist: “Frieden beginnt hier”!
- Entmilitasierung der UNWRA Schulen und Ende aller para-militaeren Trainings für die Schüler da es absurd, ist wenn UNWRA eine Agentur der UN der Vereinten Nationen mit einem offiziellen Auftrag der Friedenserziehung – solche Waffen und Missile Feuer Trainings in der Nähe seiner Schulen und mit seinen Schülern duldet.
- Darauf bestehen dass UNWRA diejenigen seiner Angestellten entlässt, die zu der Hamas, Islamic Jihad, oder Fatah angehören – in Eingklang mit den Gesetzen der Geberländer, welche finanzielle Unterstützung für jegliche Organisation oder Agentur verbieten, die Mitglieder einer terroristischen Vereinigung beschäftigen.
- Die verbindliche Einführung von UNHCR Standards, um die Umsiedlung von “Flüchtlingen” in der 4. Und 5. Generation vom 1948 Krieg vorwärts zu bringen – die 7 Jahrzehnte reduziert auf “Flüchtlingsstatus” verbrachten.
Die momentane UNWRA Politik ist es, dass jegliche feste Ansiedlung der arabischen Flüchtlinge, mit dem “Recht auf Widerkehr” zu den vor 1948 Arabischen Gemeinden in Israel in Widerspruchh gerät.
Indem UNWRA so die Position der arabischen “Maximalisten” annimmt – handelt es gegen seinen eigentlichen Auftrag, nämlich den Flüchtlicngen von 1948 und ihren Nachfahren zu helfen.
- Die Einforderung einer finanziellen Prüfung der Mittel welche von 68 Geberländern an UNWRA fliessen. Eine solche Wirtschafts-Prüfung der Organisation würde die bereits gemeldeten Berichte von verschwendeten Mitteln, Verfielfältigung von Dienstleistungen (“doppelte Buchhaltung”) und eine nicht wünschenswerte, auch illegale Finanzierung von von Terror-Gruppen, die die UNWRA Operationen dominieren, aufdecken.
Übersetzung von Frau Hannah Porat-Dahlem, Jerusalem
Institute for Study of War: ‘Ceasefire terms are tantamount to a Hezbollah defeat’
The Insitute for the Study of War (ISW) called the ceasefire in Lebanon that went into effect yesterday (Wednesday) a “defeat” for the Hezbollah terrorist organization, as it did not achieve its goals of forcing Israel to end its military campaign in Gaza or secure an agreement that Israel would no longer carry out military attacks in Lebanon in response to Hezbollah’s attempts to rebuild and rearm.
“This ceasefire and its terms are tantamount to a Hezbollah defeat,” the ISW wrote in a report on the ceasefire. “Hezbollah has abandoned several previously-held ceasefire negotiation positions, reflecting the degree to which IDF military operations have forced Hezbollah to abandon its war aims. Hezbollah initiated its attack campaign targeting Israel in October 2023 to support Hamas, and Hezbollah’s leaders have said repeatedly that it would not end its attacks without a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. This ceasefire does not include an end to Israeli operations in the Gaza Strip. Current Hezbollah Secretary General Naim Qassem has also previously expressed opposition to any stipulations giving Israel freedom of action inside Lebanon.”
“Israel has accomplished its war aim through two months of military operations in Lebanon and this ceasefire. Hezbollah claimed incorrectly that it defeated Israel,” the report said.
It explained that “Israel began its ground campaign in Lebanon to create safe conditions to return Israelis to their homes in northern Israel. IDF operations in Lebanese border towns have eliminated the threat of an October 7-style offensive attack by Hezbollah into northern Israel, and the Israeli air campaign has killed many commanders and destroyed much of Hezbollah’s munition stockpiles. Destroying Hezbollah’s military organization—which is the only military objective that would prevent all attacks into Israel permanently—was never the stated objective of Israeli military operations. A ceasefire deal, however, will prevent attacks into Israel through diplomatic means.”
However, it noted that the ceasefire agreement “contains several elements that will prove difficult to implement,” such as the reliance on the Lebanese army and the UN to prevent Hezbollah from rearming and restoring its military capabilities in southern Lebanon, a task both failed at performing in the 18 years since the 2nd Lebanon War.
“The difficulties in implementing this deal mean that Hezbollah and Iran can recover from this setback if the United States and Israel fail to prevent Hezbollah and Iran from doing so,” it said.
“Netanyahu noted that Israeli operations in Lebanon had ‘pushed [Hezbollah back] decades.’ The group retains fighters, weapons, and political control throughout Lebanon, however. Hezbollah will almost certainly attempt to reoccupy southern Lebanon because Hezbollah’s stated raison d’etre is to end Israel’s control over the Shebaa Farms, which it sees as Israeli-occupied Lebanese territory. The group also supports Iran’s efforts to destroy the Israeli state. Hezbollah will be unable to accomplish this task if it is forced to disarm in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah refused to abide by the last disarmament and withdrawal agreement, and it is unlikely that this war has changed Hezbollah leadership’s willingness to abandon its aspirations for southern Lebanon.” the report stated.
An Updated UNRWA Peace Initiative

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UNRWA policy discussions often waste precious activist energy on the unachievable goal of getting rid of UNRWA – which would require the agreement of a majority of UN members. However, the UN will never vote for a measure that openly favors Israel. Instead, UNRWA policy change must be articulated in terms of universal United Nations values, which stress peace and reconciliation. It cannot be presented as a pro-Israel resolution. The working assumption is that UN members and relief agencies* funding the $1.6 billion UNRWA budget, 58% of which is earmarked for education**, ascribe to UN values of peace and reconciliation. UNRWA policy change must therefore be couched as an UNRWA Peace initiative, for UNRWA to conform to UN values.
Contours of the Updated UNRWA Peace Initiative
- Cancelling the new UNRWA curriculum***, based on Jihad, martyrdom and “right of return by force of arms”, items which have no place in UN education.
- Disarming UNRWA schools****
- Insisting that UNRWA dismiss employees affiliated with Hamas, Islamic Jihad or Fatah terror organizations,which cannot be afforded any standing in a UN organization.
- Introducing UNHCR standards to advance resettlement of fourth- and fifth-generation refugees from 1948, who have spent seven decades relegated to refugee camps. Current UNRWA policy is that Arab refugee resettlement would interfere with the “right of return” to pre-1948 Arab localities. UNRWA must not be allowed to flaunt its commitment to assist refugees from 1948 and their descendants.
- Demanding an audit of funds from 67 donor nations and 33 relief agencies, to address evidence of wasted resources, duplication of services and cash to terror groups that dominate UNRWA staff.
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After Knesset Bans UNRWA for Terrorist Ties, Israel Says Other UN Agencies Can Do Its Work
Since October 7th, 2023, the world has come to see the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in a new light. The evidence of its direct collaboration with terror groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad raises the question: if UNRWA were to be dismantled entirely, who would do the work?
The site at a bomb shelter on the Gaza perimeter has been called a massacre within a massacre. That day, on October 7th, Hamas terrorists murdered 16 Israelis hiding in the bomb shelter after fleeing the Nova Music Festival. They also kidnaped several others, including Israeli American Hirsh Goldberg-Polin. In addition to being with Hamas, the man leading that part of the massacre had another job – working for UNRWA.
IDF Chief Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari explained, “Mohammed Abu Itiwi was a Nukhba commander in the El Bureij Battalion of Hamas’s central camp’s brigade. He has also been employed by UNRWA since July 2022.”
Israel’s Minister of Diaspora Affairs and Immigration Amichai Chikili told CBN News, “You have employees of UNRWA who were leading the massacre.”
A report from Chikili documents those employees who took part in the October 7th massacre. He told us Hamas’ infiltration of the agency has been widespread.
“The entire system – because Hamas is in power – so, if you want to be an UNRWA employee with a very nice salary, you must be related to Hamas,” Chikili explained.
He added, “So UNRWA employees in Gaza were mainly all Hamas militants or Hamas civil organizations’ personnel, or the families of Hamas militants and members. If you’re not connected to Hamas directly or indirectly, you cannot work in UNRWA in Gaza.”
Evidence of this relationship is why the Knesset recently overwhelmingly passed a law that Israel divorce itself from UNRWA.
Boaz Bismuth, a Likud member of the Knesset, declared, “Just understand again the spirit of the bill. We have nothing against the international community, against foreigners, against the idea of humanitarian aid. This is what Israel is providing. It’s about the fact that UNRWA participated in the massacre on the 7th of October.”
After the vote, UNRWA claimed the law would be disastrous.
UNRWA director Philippe Lazzarini complained, “Today, millions of Palestinian refugees fear that the public services on which their lives depend will soon disappear. They fear that the children will be deprived of education, that illnesses will go untreated, and that social support will stop. 17,000 UNRWA personnel in the occupied Palestinian territory fear that they will lose their employment. The entire population of Gaza fears that their only remaining lifeline will be cut.”
Bismuth, who co-authored the Knesset legislation, disputes those claims.
“There will not be a vacuum because, just because they (UNRWA) were helping yesterday, doesn’t mean someone else cannot do the job tomorrow,” Bismuth countered. “The job will be done, because I will ask you the same thing in Gaza. You can tell me, you know, Hamas is reigning in Gaza. I mean, you kick them away so who will control? Someone else. It’s as easy as that, and it will be found. Other people can do it and will do it – and will do it beautifully – without being (a) terrorist.”
Chikili’s report cites how UNRWA has perpetuated the Palestinian refugee problem for generations.
“The fact that we have an entity solely for Palestinian refugees that can inherit (this) status to their kids, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, creating more and more refugees every year. And then you have the rest of the world, UNHCR (U.N. High Commissioner on Refugees) entity, that is for any other refugees in Africa or Asia, or Haiti – it doesn’t matter,” Chikili explained.
His report contrasts UNRWA and the UNHCR overseeing 5.9 million refugees. UNRWA employed 30,000 workers in 2023. That same year UNHCR employed 18,000 while overseeing 59 million refugees worldwide. Chikili says the difference goes even deeper.
“The UNHCR is not an ideological entity related with the war against the State of Israel, and UNRWA is part of a war. It’s a war machine; (It) was designated to train the Palestinian younger generation for jihad. That is the reality. And also, when you go physically, and you go and you see in schools of UNRWA, in so many cases beneath the schools you have tunnels, within the schools you have ammunitions and missiles and weapons,” Bismuth said.
It’s why many in Israel want UNRWA abolished and support UNHCR to take its place. But, in a statement, UNHCR told CBN news:
“As we, with other U.N. agencies have previously warned, UNRWA is the only entity with the capacity to deliver the scale and breadth of assistance that 2.2 million people in Gaza, and millions of other Palestinians in the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan need. As the U.N. secretary-general has stated, there is no alternative to UMWRA.”
Yet, critics cite that UNRWA’s most lasting and infamous legacy is its education system. Many principals of UNRWA schools in Gaza were also Hamas members. ChIkilI says it takes a village to raise a terrorist, and that UNRWA helped teach a genocidal ideology.
“This is the Palestinian ideology. It is UNRWA’s ideology,” Chikili insisted. “And, by the way, is also very, very important to understand the jihadist ideology to train the kids to hate – anti-Semitism – to teach them that the war against the Jews and killing the Jews, that is the most important thing on earth. And this is also a part of what we saw on October 7th.”
Under the Biden administration in 2023, the U.S. became UNRWA’s largest donor. In Donald Trump’s first administration, he ended the agency’s funding. Most here hope, that when he takes office in January, he will act quickly to do so again.
UN Watch: Former UNRWA chief hailed ‘spirit of partnership’ in meeting with terrorists
Former United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl repeatedly met with senior members of Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups, expressing the U.N. agency’s willingness to work together in the “spirit of partnership,” Geneva-based watchdog group U.N. Watch revealed over the weekend.
Krähenbühl, who led the controversial U.N. agency until his resignation over misconduct allegations in 2019, attended a gathering of Palestinian terrorist leaders in Beirut on Feb. 12, 2017, according to the watchdog.
The former UNRWA boss, as well as the agency’s former Lebanon chief of staff, Hakam Shahwan, who similarly resigned following allegations of corruption, posed for a picture with senior terrorist members of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
The gathering included Ali Baraka, who heads Hamas’s relations abroad and was recently indicted by the U.S. government for “heinous crimes” related to the Oct. 7, 2023 massacre, including conspiracy to murder Americans and to use weapons of mass destruction resulting in death.
Another participant in the Beirut meeting was Abu Imad al-Rifai, the representative of Iranian-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Lebanon. U.N. Watch noted that Al-Rifai boasted about sending a wave of suicide bombers to Baghdad in 2003 to murder American and British troops.
Krähenbühl was said to have told the gathering of terrorists, “Regarding the principle of partnership you mentioned, and the necessity of being proactive so that we remain cooperative and not caught off guard, I completely agree with you and strongly support this perspective. I also have a request: that the spirit of partnership be mutual.”
He continued, “If you have any criticisms, observations, concerns, or issues you are dissatisfied with regarding UNRWA, let us come back and meet in similar gatherings—even if we meet a thousand times.
“Challenge our decisions, tell us, ‘We do not agree with this decision, and we criticize it.’ We might change it or even entirely tear it up. But we want the spirit of partnership to prevail in our meetings,” he stated.
According to the former UNRWA chief, “We prefer these discussions not to be public, as that could challenge our credibility. More importantly, it could lead to a loss of trust between donor countries and UNRWA, which might result in reduced or even halted funding.”
Krähenbühl reportedly concluded his remarks by reiterating that “if we can achieve this, it means we are united, and no one can separate us.”
U.N. Watch said that UNRWA has continued to meet covertly with terror operatives after Philippe Lazzarini took over when Krähenbühl left the agency to lead the International Committee of the Red Cross in 2019.
The Israeli government has long criticized UNRWA’s operations in the Gaza Strip as controlled by Hamas. That criticism sharpened after Oct. 7 and revelations that UNRWA employees took part in the mass slaughter.
Israel terminated relations with UNRWA on Nov. 3, a week after the Israeli parliament, by a vote of 92 to 10, passed legislation on Oct. 28 banning the organization’s operations in the Jewish state’s territory.
In July, the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office slammed UNRWA after Jerusalem’s Foreign Ministry published more evidence that the aid agency is employing hundreds of Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists.
“Israel has told donor countries that hundreds more of UNRWA’s 13,000 local staff are active Hamas terrorists,” PMO Public Diplomacy Directorate spokesman David Mencer told reporters.
“We have provided much evidence that UNRWA works hand-in-hand with Hamas,” Mencer added, referring to the Hamas server farm found under UNRWA’s Gaza headquarters, the UNRWA staffers who took part in the Oct. 7 massacre and the tunnels underneath UNRWA schools.
“UNRWA is useless at aid distribution. UNRWA is useless at education, except glorifying suicide bombers and encouraging Jew-killing, and Israel sees no role whatsoever for UNRWA in Gaza after this war ends,” he concluded.
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Resist or roll over
This is the dilemma faced by Jews since time immemorial when faced by threats whether physical or verbal.
Resisting hateful acts can take several forms. Depending on the situation, verbal confrontation and rebuttal of untruths can many times prove very effective. There is nothing more effective in demolishing slanderous canards than exposing them to the strong light of ridicule and reality.
Unfortunately we find these days that there is a scarcity of individuals ready, willing and able to step forward and expose their thoughts to public scrutiny. Often the responses are ineffective, given today’s preference in many circles for political correctness and an aversion to exposing political duplicities.
The tendency by some establishment organizations to suppress more robust responses discourages those who possibly could bring a clearer message of resistance.
Unsurprisingly, the mainstream media is complicit in censoring and banning vigorous responses to anti-Israel and anti-Jew items. This is where social media is a help although the downside is that it is also infested with the vilest followers.
When is it preferable to resist or roll over and hope that the problem will disappear?
This is a question which has plagued Jews over the millennia.
This conundrum faced the New Zealand Jewish communities,
I recall, some fifty-four years ago. At that time, there was no Israeli Embassy, and a gap existed in presenting any meaningful response to anti-Israel activity. Thankfully the communities were blessed with dedicated individuals who were not only very active in Zionist outreach but also very willing to stand up and be counted.
Thus, despite the absence of an Israeli diplomatic presence the establishment of an embryonic group enabled some sort of effective counter responses to emerging disinformation. There was no question of “rolling over.” On the contrary each and every lie was challenged.
I was asked to fly to Christchurch in order to attend a public meeting which was being addressed by an academic from Canterbury University. This gentleman’s theme song after the 6-Day War was similar to the current slanders being thrown around, namely that the wicked Israelis (i.e. the Jews) were guilty of every conceivable sin known to humanity. My task was to ask him some awkward questions.
Fortunately in those days there were no brainwashed students and therefore the assembled audience consisted mainly of locals and a couple of newspaper reporters. The chairman announced that limited questions would be allowed at the end of the presentation.
The speech accompanied by slides followed a predictable course. It was laden with untruths, half-truths, and, needless to say, a skewed and tendentious version of the Zionist movement. It was obvious that the audience was lapping up this distorted historical exercise because they were so mesmerized by the speaker’s eloquence that, at the end, they enthusiastically applauded. Nobody other than myself stood up to ask any questions.
I knew that I had a very limited time to make my points before the axe would fall. Therefore I launched into my rebuttal by exposing patently false accusations and questions as to the veracity of his conclusions.
As expected, the chairman intervened and declared me out of order, thus excusing the speaker from answering any of my challenges. However, it was obvious that some members of the audience had second thoughts, and this was confirmed when I met some of them over tea and biscuits and managed to enlighten them.
A subsequent short newspaper report was buried on an inside page and of course failed to mention question time. There was no social media, whatsapp or mobile phones to record proceedings in those days.
Was the whole exercise worth it?
I believe so because we thought that each and every lie needed to be confronted. Those propagating anti-Israel libels had to know that their efforts would always be exposed and that there never would be an occasion when the Jews “rolled over” and gave up.
Today’s runaway tsunami of hate requires counteraction without compromises.
Surveying the current scene it is obvious that this is still not occurring.
In far too many situations a reluctance to tackle outrageous rhetoric leaves an impression of weakness and surrender to the forces of ignorance and deliberate deception.
For far too many years, Abbas, the lifetime President of the corrupt PA, has been allowed to get away with incitement to murder and patently false assertions. This has resulted in him being crowned by the UN as a saint of peace and deserving of hymns of praise. A lack of will by Israeli political leaders and Diaspora spokespersons to divorce themselves from the fatal illusion of an Arab terror State has meant that Abbas and his colleagues can continue to peddle it.
Recently, Abbas repeated what has become standard fare for all Israel haters. He said that “Israel is a colonial project of the USA.” What was the reaction of the Biden Administration and the EU? Sending him and his corrupt outfit more money seems to be their default reaction. I discerned no outrage from any democratic member of the UN nor did I hear condemnatory retaliation from the usual Jewish groups.
Quite often, we manage to score spectacular “own goals.”
Take the recent visit to the Vatican by some returned hostages and their families as an example of an exercise in futility. I understand that desperate families need to do whatever they can to bring the plight of their loved ones to the attention of an indifferent world. However, as soon as a photo of the Pope blessing them was published I sensed that this could turn out to be a public relations debacle. Some may believe that Jews receiving a pontifical benediction is inspirational but anyone with knowledge of the Vatican’s dubious relationships with Jews and Israel would be wary.
My forebodings were immediately vindicated because soon after this meeting it was revealed that in a book written by the Pope he states that an investigation must be undertaken to see if Israel’s actions in Gaza meet the criteria for genocide. No condemnation of Hamas and demand for an unconditional return of the hostages.
I waited in vain for outraged responses and demands for retraction of this latest blood libel. The lack of meaningful denunciations by Israel, Diaspora Jewish groups and rabbinical representatives conveys a message. It says that you can defame us as much as you want and we will obligingly “roll over.”
At the Irish Remembrance Day Sunday service attended by the Irish President, the Anglican Canon, in his sermon, accused Israel of “deploying master race theories.” No protest from the President or other attendees was forthcoming. This should come as no surprise because Irish school history textbooks describe Auschwitz as a “prisoner of war camp” and claim that “Jesus was a Palestinian.”
Israel had already withdrawn its ambassador from Dublin over previous such incidents. This latest outrage has caused nary a ripple, thus confirming to the propagators that they can slander Israel and Jews without any dire consequences.
President Macron issued another one of his “pearls of wisdom” when he declared that “Israel was sowing barbarism.” He then expressed surprise when sectors of French society target Jews on the streets of cities and towns. Once again this piece of Gallic chutzpah and hypocrisy attracted only muted outrage.
A Fatah/PLO spokesperson told the media that “what happened in the Netherlands is the best proof that the world is sick of the Jews.” This was reported by PMW (Palestine Media Watch) but ignored by most everyone else. Not a peep has been heard from Washington, London, Canberra or Wellington. Amsterdam’s mayor, in fact, denies that a pogrom took place, thus downgrading the violence against Jews as merely an act of civil hooliganism by unknown persons.
There are countless other examples of how taking the line of least resistance has become the default position these days.
Hushing up, rolling over and not making waves are failed strategies.
It’s time to get serious and fight back.











