Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah calls for ‘armed intifada’ with attacks on Tel Aviv

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July 11, 2023

The military wing of the Palestinian Authority’s ruling Fatah party is preparing for an “armed intifada” against Israel, with indiscriminate attacks on Israeli targets, the group announced.

The Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, the armed branch of the Fatah movement, said that it has placed “all of our fighters in the West Bank” on “general alert” status, in preparation for a large-scale conflict with the Jewish state.

In a recently published announcement, the Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades told members that the organization has received orders to escalate tensions with Israel, and to prepare for “open warfare.”

“We have received the instructions. We hereby declare the escalation of the general alert situation of all our fighters to the highest level, which is that of open warfare,” the group wrote on Telegram.

“We call on all of our fighters and military cells, in every place in the West Bank, to attack the Zionist enemy and all of its components, including within the fragile heart of the entity, Tel Aviv.

“This is a revolution and an armed intifada which will be ongoing until victory. Mercy to our heroic martyrs, recovery to our heroic injured, and freedom to our heroic prisoners.”

WHY DID THIS SECULAR ACTOR PRETEND TO BE A GAY, ULTRA-ORTHODOX MAN?

The announcement comes days after the IDF carried out the two-day Operation Home and Garden, the largest counter-terror raid in Samaria since the Second Intifada two decades ago.

Following the launch of the operation, the Palestinian Authority halted security coordination with Israel, and accused the IDF of perpetrating a “massacre” in Jenin.

The operation was launched amid a significant uptick in terrorist activity in Samaria, with a large number of attacks emanating from the Palestinian Authority-administered city of Jenin.

Uncle Sham

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Michael Kuttner

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July 7, 2023

As 4 July is celebrated by Americans at home and around the world it is a good time to reflect on whether the “goldene medina” is still the Promised Land for Jews.

At the same time it is timely to take a long hard look at how Washington views the real Promised Land these days.

There is no denying that for the oppressed and targeted Jews of the Russian Tsarist Empire the prospect of escaping pogroms and settling in a country where the streets were allegedly paved with gold was an irresistible attraction. Moreover, the perceived absence of discriminatory laws and the freedom to practice religion made the USA a potential veritable heaven on earth.

Up until 1920, over two and half million Jewish refugees found their way to the shores of America. Fleeing the lethal and pernicious hate sanctioned by the Tsarist regime and the Russian Orthodox Church entire families undertook the often perilous and uncertain journey to an unknown land on the other side of the globe. Some stopped on the way and made their home in seemingly more hospitable western European countries. This of course turned out eventually to be a case of leaping from the frying pan into the fire.

Others embarked on ships whose captain promised them safe passage to America only to eventually dump them in England or Scotland. Not knowing any English they believed that they had arrived in the new world only to eventually discover that instead they had been landed in Liverpool, London or Glasgow. They soon discovered that they had fled Russian hate only to now be confronted with British class discrimination but at least they were free to live as Jews.

Ironically some were subsequently deported to the Australian penal colony as part of the British ethnic cleansing of the lower classes. Others headed to settle New Zealand where the prospect of free passage, free land and no discrimination beckoned.

There is no doubt that the mass influx of Jews to the USA benefited not only that country but also laid the foundation for the future development of the community.

In the early 1920’s however it all came to a grinding stop as laws limiting immigration, especially by Jewish “aliens” were enacted and admission to the “land of the free” became selective and discriminatory. By the 1930’s the gates were firmly shut as Jews desperate to escape Europe found that the USA did not want them. In addition, exclusion from certain clubs, quotas for universities and rising hate from the Klu Klux Klan and the Nazi Bund organizations were unwelcome reminders that Judeophobia lurked.

Jewish leadership by that time had already adapted itself to normal Diaspora mode and therefore instead of vigorous protests against discriminatory policies, keeping quiet and venerating “saintly” FDR was the establishment’s default alternative.

The other trend which manifested itself at that time and gathered steam as the years progressed was the assimilation of increasing numbers who strived to be accepted as Americans. This meant ditching traditional Jewish observance and either adopting an Episcopalian version of Judaism or severing religious connections altogether.

Today we can see the results all too clearly.

Rampant assimilation among all but the Orthodox affiliated has resulted in not only a tenuous connection to organized Jewish life but also as collateral damage a definite drift away from identification with Israel as the real Promised Land.

As the Democratic Party morphs slowly but surely into an anti Israel mode the majority of Jews continue to vote for them regardless of what woke progressive nonsense they might sponsor. The old time Jewish Democrats who proudly identified as supporters of the Zionist dream are retiring or leaving the scene and are increasingly being replaced by those whose connections to anything Jewish is tenuous at best.

Unlike Australia where two Governors General have been Jewish or New Zealand where two Jewish Prime Ministers were voted into office there is no chance that a Jew will ever be elected as President. Demographics and political realities make that clear.

As American Jews join in the hoopla for 4 July it is sobering to reflect for a moment on exactly how the relationship between Uncle Sam and Israel has developed since 1948.

Much is made of the fact that five minutes after David Ben Gurion declared Israel’s independence in 1948, President Harry Truman recognized the newly recreated Jewish State. We know that despite pressure from the State Department not to extend recognition Truman acted to do so because of two factors. One was representations made by his former Jewish business partner and the other was the realization that as part of the Cold War the Soviet Union and its satellites were miraculously poised to do the same. Truman was no born again Zionist and in fact his Administration imposed an arms embargo which could have proved fatal especially as the perfidious British were eagerly supplying weapons and military advisers to the Hashemite Jordanians. Fortuitously, Communist Czechoslovakia came to the rescue with surplus arms and planes.

It is important to remember these usually covered up facts because this pattern of duplicitous dealings has been repeated over the years right up until the present time.

At first Israel had to rely on France for procuring urgently needed weapons but that came to a grinding halt when De Gaulle abruptly stopped deliveries. The US eventually replaced the French but this was not always guaranteed. From time to time deliveries were halted when the Administration decided that it didn’t like a particular Israeli response to terror. In 1967 the US broke its promise to guarantee unrestricted passage for Eilat bound vessels and despite the clear intentions of Egypt, Syria and Jordan to attack and wipe out Israel, the US refused to do anything more meaningful than relying on the UN. This meaningless organization had already withdrawn its pathetic peace keeping force and essentially given Nasser the green light.

If this sounds like the current scenarios you would be correct in assuming that nothing has changed.

Much is made of the fact that America has contributed billions to Israel over the years and that it has its back at the UN.

Overlooked is the fact that it is not all a one way street. Israel has provided the US with innovative technological expertise in the defence field and unrivalled intelligence in the fight against international terror. Membership of the UN is a dubious advantage these days as it has been subverted by non democratic regimes.

Decisions by the US to rejoin UNESCO and the UN Human Rights Council are perfect examples of the latest weak kneed responses to the gang bashing of Israel in international forums. The former does not recognize the Jewish connection to the Temple Mount, the Kotel and half of Jerusalem while the latter ignores blatant human rights abusers, obsessing instead on the Jewish State.

The problem is that increasingly the White House and State Dept believe that they are entitled to interfere in our internal affairs.

The latest example is boycotting Ariel University’s research and development because it is situated in an area deemed illegal yet, in fact, is perfectly legal according to the internationally approved San Remo Agreement.

In another case of boycotting, the US Embassy in Israel refused to invite the Minister of Finance and Public Security Minister to their 4 July party. Two Ministers democratically elected to the Knesset are shunned because the US Administration does not like their political views. What a shameful way to behave to a supposedly close friend.

As a result of the changes now taking place in the Democratic Party and the weakening attachment of an increasing number of detached Jews, the once solid support is inexorably slipping away. Add in the post Zionist groups and self loathers and you have every reason to wonder whether this 4 July marks an acceleration of the slippery slide for American Jews.

Once upon a time America was indeed a safe haven for Jews escaping violence and wanting to practice their faith freely and in security.

What will it take and how long will it be before the realization sinks in that the future for Jews looks increasingly doubtful?

Likewise Israel needs to prepare for the day when it can no longer automatically rely on Uncle Sam.

Malevolent reporting on Israel in Jenin

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July 7, 2023

Among the media’s customary Israel-bashers, reporting on Israel’s military operation this week against terrorist enclaves in the city of Jenin was predictably atrocious.

Jenin had become a hub of deadly terrorism, responsible for the murder of 31 Israelis in 2022 and 24 so far this year.

Almost half the inhabitants of Jenin belong to Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). In 2023, more than 50 shooting attacks emanated from Jenin. Recently, two rockets were launched from there towards Israel.

During the two-day operation, the IDF uncovered bomb-making laboratories, a homemade rocket launcher, explosives, weapons and military gear.

Yet The New York Times saluted Palestinian terrorism as “an ethos of defiance” and described Jenin admiringly as having “a long legacy as a bastion of armed struggle”.

Other media outlets misrepresented Israel’s response to murderous terrorism as wanton aggression. They did so through systematic decontextualisation, having largely ignored the growing toll of Israeli terrorist victims and the attacks that Israeli security forces thwart almost daily.

The day after the launch of the IDF operation, a car-ramming and stabbing attack took place in Tel Aviv in which at least nine people were injured and a pregnant woman lost her baby.

The usual suspects in the media instantly misrepresented this as an all-too predictable “revenge” attack in a dismal cycle of violence. But there is no “cycle of violence”. There are unending attempts to murder Israelis and there is the Israeli attempt to deter further attacks.

Moreover, there is a fundamental difference between the Palestinians’ deliberate attempts to murder Israeli civilians and the enormous care the IDF takes to avoid civilian deaths.

The IDF reported that all 12 of the Palestinians killed in the Jenin operation were combatants. In such a densely populated area, where terrorist caches and operation rooms are deliberately situated next to schools and hospitals, causing no civilian deaths in such an intense raid was an extraordinary achievement.

Not only was this given no credit by the media, but the entire event was framed in the most distorted and malevolent way. The leading offender in this — and the most important on account of its unique global reach and reputation for trustworthiness —was the BBC.

In an interview with former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, BBC anchor Anjana Gadgil said: “The Israeli military are calling this a ‘military operation,’ but we now know that young people are being killed, four of them under 18. Is that really what the military set out to do?”

Bennett replied robustly that all the Palestinians killed were terrorists. To which Gadgil said: “Terrorists, but children. The Israeli forces are happy to kill children.”

After receiving several complaints, the BBC apologised, saying: “The language used in this line of questioning was not phrased well and was inappropriate.”

While any BBC apology is rare, this was wholly inadequate for such a malicious incident. The BBC’s reporting on Israel and the Palestinians is not only consistently distorted but actively promotes hatred of Israel and the Jews who support it.

The BBC’s general reporting on the Jenin operation parroted the outlet’s standard narrative of oppressed and deprived Palestinians fighting hopelessly against Israel in an endless cycle of attack and retaliation.

It failed to mention the century-old Arab war of extermination against Israel, in which the Palestinians have refused repeated offers of a state of their own and instead redoubled their murderous attacks.

It failed to mention the daily Palestinian Authority propaganda onslaught that demonises the entire Jewish people and instructs Palestinian children that their highest calling should be to murder Jews and steal Israeli land.

More astonishing still, the BBC totally omitted the reason for the terrorist upsurge in Jenin and the disputed territories: that Iran is running the terrorist gangs there to further its aim of wiping Israel off the map.

In 2021, a US State Department report estimated that Tehran provides up to $100 million annually in combined support to Hamas and PIJ.

A senior PIJ delegation, headed by its secretary-general, Ziyad al-Nakhaleh, recently visited Tehran where they discussed with Iranian leaders how to escalate the fight against Israel.

Three months ago, Nakhaleh said: “The weapons that the Palestinians use for fighting come from Iran — the Iranians either pay for these weapons or provide them.” With Iran’s assistance, he said, the PIJ had formed “combat battalions in all Palestinian cities in the West Bank”.

Israel is now encircled by Iran. An estimated 180,000 Hezbollah rockets are pointed at Israel from Lebanon. Iran is backing missile and other terrorist attacks on Israel by Hamas and PIJ in Gaza.

Now it has set up a similar terrorist infrastructure in the disputed territories, with Ben Gurion airport and central Israel potentially within missile range.

It is simply staggering that the BBC and the rest of the liberal media have made no mention of this key development. The reason is that it doesn’t fit their narrative of Israeli oppression and Palestinian “resistance”.

That’s why the demonisation of the Jewish people pumped out by the PA is resolutely ignored. That’s why the Palestinian aim to destroy Israel is denied. As the anchor of a BBC TV politics show said to me when I appeared on it this week, such things were just “propaganda” of the kind pumped out by “both sides”.

This skewing of the entire narrative is more momentous than most people realise.

The word “Nazi” has become so badly misused to demonise any opponent of the left that it’s been robbed of much of its actual meaning. But in the case of the Middle East, it’s not a vacuous insult. It’s no exaggeration to view the Arab and Muslim war against Israel as a posthumous Nazi front.

In recent years, a group of scholars has been steadily uncovering the depth of the alliance between the Arabs of Mandatory Palestine and the Nazi leadership.

The German political scientist Matthias Kuentzel has argued that the Nazi party intended to turn Muslims against Jews and Zionism.

Now Kuentzel writes in the journal Fathom that his new book, Nazism, Islamic Antisemitism and the Middle East, sets out what’s known about the pamphlet Islam and Judaism, which was first published in 1937 by the director of the Palestinian-Arab Bureau of Information in Cairo. The author is believed to have had many contacts with Nazi agents. During the Second World War, his pamphlet was printed and distributed in large numbers by German forces.

Kuentzel describes it as a shocking text that uses religion to incite Jew-hatred. He writes: “It contradicts the widespread assumption that Islamic antisemitism developed as a response to alleged Israeli misdeeds. It was not the behaviour of the Zionists that prompted the publication of this hostile text, but rather the very first attempt to implement a two-state solution for Palestine. This fact suggests that Jew-hatred was a cause, not a consequence of the crises in the Middle East conflict.”

Anyone looking at today’s Palestinian propaganda can identify its Nazi heritage of images and tropes. That’s because the Palestinian cause is a latter-day version of the Nazi onslaught against the Jews.

In the west, this does more than merely conflict with the narrative about the Middle East promoted by the BBC, The New York Times and the liberal intelligentsia. The west doesn’t want to hear about the Holocaust. It doesn’t want to hear about antisemitism. It tells itself the Jews exaggerate them for their own ends.

This is why the truth about the Palestinian war of extermination is never acknowledged. This is why the Iranian pincer movement against Israel is never reported.

It’s because much of the west believes what antisemites have always told themselves: that the Jews are responsible for their own destruction. That terrible thinking is what we’ve heard amplified once again in this week’s reporting of the events in Jenin.

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Israel must act

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David Bedein

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July 7, 2023

Israel faces multiple crises that require immediate action.
The first challenge is a well-planned rebellion now underway, orchestrated by the Fatah, also known as the PLO- the Palestine Liberation Organization.

This generation of Fatah has learned to manipulate public opinion through carefully coordinated violent actions and logistical support.

Their campaign promotes the right of return to Arab villages that existed before 1948, even though this has no basis in reality.

This generation of Fatah has learned to manipulate public opinion through coordinated violent actions and logistical support.

Their campaign promotes the right of seven million Arabs who dwell as refugees in perpetuity in 59 “temporary” refugee camps to return to Arab villages that existed before 1948, UNRWA, in charge of thes refugee camps, has created a school system centered around the right of return, evident in school books, songs, plays, and youth clubs.

The UNRWA schools reflect the fact that the PLO never ratified the ”declaration of principles” of the 1993 OSLO Accords, which require it to denounce terrorism and recognize of Israel

Yet there is a widely accepted notion that the PLO, operating under the guise of the PA, has abandoned the path to terror .

Indeed, the Israeli High Court of Justice under the leadership of Chief Justice Aharon Barak recognized the PLO as a legitimate entity, based on the recognition of the Palestinian Arab national aspirations in the 1979 Camp David Accords, written in part by then Israel- State Attorney Aharon Barak, the same jurist who became the Israel Chief Justice.

Now is the time to challenge PLO legitimacy under Israel and international law, because the PLO acts as an entity of terror- not as a partner for peace

A case in point: the unprecedented PA law that came into effect in 2015, when the PA established a fund to provide a salary for life for anyone who murders a Jew with a salary for life, or a salary for life for the family of the killer, if the killer dies in the act of murdering a Jew.

Shockingly, no government, including Israel, has demanded the repeal of this law.

My question to the spokespeople of both the US and Israel about whether either government would demand that the PA repeal this incentive to murder elicited an identical response from both governments- condemning “pay for slay”, not calling for its repeal.

A campaign must now be launched to demand the repeal of this “pay for slay” legislation, along with the prosecution of anyone who facilitates payments for murder, including any banks that process what amounts to be a reward for murder.

Israel must declare zero tolerance for any nation, or entity that does not demand the repeal of this unprecedented law.

To give a human face to this law, international zoom discussions with families can ensue, with those who have lost loved ones to these incentivized murders.

Only by seeing the human face can the depth of this crime be fully understood.

A practical suggestion :

Hold vigils at the Jerusalem Capital Studios, 206 Jaffa road, Jerusalem,where media can be can be direct; approached directly.

Such vigils should also involve those who suffer the pain of losing loved ones to murder, only to witness how their killers are rewarded with a fee for life.

By engaging public opinion, , it will become possible to challenge the blind acceptance of such a law, in order to facilitate a change in policy.

Rabbi Leo Dee: Ordinary Palestinians silently thank Allah for the Jenin operation

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July 6, 2023

When Lucy, Maia and Rina were suddenly and brutally taken from this world during Pesach, I cried in pain. Not against every Arab, not against every Muslim, but against every terrorist.

I have Palestinian friends and acquaintances. That is the norm when you live in Efrat. Indeed it is the norm when you live in any location in Judea and Samaria (unaffectionately known as the “West Bank”).

Our local supermarket is located in Area C and I select my tomatoes and cucumbers standing next to Palestinian men and women who live in Bethlehem and Hebron. Unsurprisingly, most of these people are just like you and me. Many of them work in construction in Jerusalem or Beit Shemesh and earn more than twice what a Palestinian Authority employee (even a doctor) would earn in their own territory. This is the majority.

And then there are terrorists. They are not like you and me. They were mostly brought up in UNRWA run “refugee” towns and trained in terrorist skills during summer camps and fed hatred through Palestinian Authority textbooks that glorify past murderers of innocent civilians. That UNRWA even considers them refugees after 75 years is a direct result of United Nations antisemitism. Nobody, today, considers the millions of descendants of those 700,000 Jews expelled from Arab countries in the 1940’s and 1950’s as refugees.

What most people are unaware of is how the “good” Palestinians hate the terrorists. They despise them. However, they live in fear, in a terror state, the Palestinian Authority (PA). And the PA is funded by world governments to rule over the ten cities in the region and much of the land in between. The citizens of those 10 cities would prefer to run themselves under the protection of the IDF, but the presence of the PLO (the heavily armed PA army) is ubiquitous and feared. They unanimously describe the murderers of my family as “inhuman” and “not believing in Allah” when they see me. But only in private. A public statement would likely lead to them, and their families, being shot at in the street. And such shootings occur every day. These “good” Palestinians are the silent victims of PA terror.

Jenin has become a centre for such terror and the IDF is wise and brave to enter and eliminate it. The “good” Palestinians silently thank Allah for the operation, but they have little hope as the international funding of this terror state, which has no human rights (according to Freedom House 2023 data) and grants no freedom of speech, religion or right to vote, goes on and on.

When will the world wake up and realise that funding failed terror states is a crime against humanity? It is a crime against the Israeli victims and survivors, such as my family, and so many more, and against my two million Palestinian neighbours who just want to buy their tomatoes and cucumbers and live with us in Shalom.

Rabbi Leo Dee lives in Efrat with his three children and is the author of Transforming the World – The Jewish Impact on Modernity

My neighbors in Jenin, what future are you hoping for?

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Greeting residents of the Jenin refugee camp which has become a terrorist hub, those who are not involved in terrorism. Seeing what you have had to endure, is painful. You live mere minutes from the 1967 border with Israel. We do not take pleasure in your trials and tribulations and would prefer to have neighbors who are content in their jobs, education, economic growth and industry. We cannot rejoice when our neighbors have made the industry of death the foundation of their identity.

Take note, Jenin refugee camp residents. You who are not involved in terrorism. The unified command of the terror factions, established bases in three areas of your camp, two of them, UNRWA facilities and one a school. They knew what they were doing. They wanted the IDF to strike those sites, in order to win points in the sphere of public opinion and increase the perception that Palestinians are victims.

Women walk past homes destroyed in the Jenin refugee camp on Wednesday (צילום: AFP)
Do you want that too? UNRWA provides you with food and education. How would you benefit from your schools or other servicing facilities being destroyed? You would be the victims of such a scenario. Is it not advisable to think of a change of course? Once you consider your own benefits, you would see who your real enemies are and we would both benefit from that.

You have representatives speaking on your behalf around the world, who tell themselves, their audiences and even you, that justice is on your side. You are “fighting the foreign occupiers,” they say. But they are wrong. Have you ever considered taking real stock of your situation? Have you asked yourselves what it is that you are seeking? Opportunities to end the occupation were presented to you over and over again but your leaders have always rejected them. Those alleged advocates are part and parcel of your tragedy. Rather than leading you to safety, and a better life, they nurture the illusions of justice under the rule of evil, foolishness and lethal weapons.
Your fight, we know well, is not against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank. You would do well to realize that you have become pawns in the hands of the international jihad and Iran. They are pulling the strings. Have they helped you at all? Quite on the contrary. Where ever jihad has taken hold, death and destruction soon followed.

תיעוד ההרס בג'נין לאחר יצאת כוחות צה''ל
A Palestinian woman walks by homes destroyed in the IDF offensive in the Jenin refugee camp (Photo: AP)

This has nothing to do with Israel. Lebanon has suffered from it for decades and continues to be a failed state. Over 80% of Lebanese live below the poverty line because of Iran, not Israel. Tehran has hundreds of millions of dollars invested in the industry of death and the production of more and more missiles and to what end? To fulfill the dream of destroying Israel.

Lebanon has the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group and Jenin has the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Yemen has been subjected to the same. Iran intervened in the internal conflict, flooding the Houthi rebels with weapons, creating nearly a million new refugees, killing nearly 400,000 people and causing widespread hunger. Your Nakba is a walk in the park compared to what the people of Yemen have been subjected to. So don’t say Israel and the occupation are to blame for your wows. Your fate will be to mirror Yemen and that will not be a source of pleasure for us.

תיעוד ההרס בג'נין לאחר יצאת כוחות צה''ל
A woman walks by a burned-ut vehicle in Jenin on Wednesday (Photo: AFP)

It is only a matter of time, sometimes hours, sometimes a couple or three days after Israel launches a military offensive before international public opinion will turn in your favor. Despite the fact that Israel is fighting terrorists, not civilians, you are still seen as victims of the military. But that should not be a source of pleasure because it will not result in any improvement in your life. The UN Human Rights Council will vote on a resolution to condemn Israel, and if you are lucky, some left-wing anti-Semites will organize protests in your support. Even in Israel, protesters have come out to condemn the military operation.

We see your streets celebrating and sweets offered to all after Jews are murdered in terror strikes. There will always be the idiot among us who will justify your conduct and post a tired of abuse against the IDF. He will tell you that your resistance against Israel is inspiring or that the military overlooks the fact that civilians are targeted in their operations and that that is horrendous. And it is. But no weekly anti-occupation protest will change that.

במחנה בורג' אל-בראג'נה מחלקים ממתקים לאחר הפיגוע בעלי
You regard such demonstrations as a sign of Israeli weakness, but they are a sign of a vibrant democracy that can withstand criticism and even malicious propaganda. The day you allow expressions of support for peace and condemnation of terror, without the speakers being killed in no time, will be a happy day that may indicate that change is coming.

But even now, after everything that has happened and despite it all, most Israelis extend their hands to you in peace, if only you would choose prosperity over terrorism. You are right that peace has been evaded for decades but for your sake as much as ours, let us hope it is achieved.

Why We Are Afraid, A 1400 Year Secret, by Dr Bill Warner

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July 6, 2023

Why We Are Afraid is a lecture by Dr. Bill Warner with an accompanying PowerPoint Presentation. Its synopsis includes 1400 year history and the growth of Islam. Political Islam has subjugated civilizations for 1,400 years.

BBC ANCHOR: THE ISRAELI FORCES ARE HAPPY TO KILL CHILDREN

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UNRWA’s Terrorists, by Ted Bellman

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July 6, 2023

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Once again Israel is being forced to combat terrorists who have committed and plan to commit murderous attacks on civilians. Once more, the locus for the attacks is coming from United Nations’ “refugee” camps. Once again, the majority of the terrorists are Arabs whom the UN has told have rights to move into grandparents’ homes in Israel.

UNRWA Wards By The Numbers

For the year ending December 2021, according to UNRWA, there were 6,539,844 Palestinian wards who accept services from the agency, of which 5,807,653 (89%) were “refugees” and another 732,191 (11%) were other people whom the UN thought deserved particular support. Of the 6.5m, 863,708 (13.2%) are above age 60, suggesting perhaps only 2.6% of the total, or 175,000 are actual refugees from 1948 who lost homes a few miles away in Israel, after they launched a war to destroy the Jewish state.

The total number of UNRWA Refugees jumped by about 2.5% by year end 2022 to 6.7 million, while the number of actual refugees continues to decline. The total for West Bank wards was around 1.12 million (16.7%) and in Gaza it was 1.76 million (26.3%), which means that around 43% of all UNRWA wards already live in the area of 1948 Palestine, just a few miles from where ancestors had lived.

The majority of UNRWA wards live in Jordan, about 2.55 million (38% of the total wards), and have Jordanian citizenship. Jordan had been part of the original Palestine Mandate in 1922, and then attacked Israel in 1948 and illegally annexed the eastern portion of Israel which became known as the “West Bank” in 1950. After expelling all Jews from the region, Jordan granted all non-Jews in the area citizenship in 1954. Jordan abandoned its claim on the “West Bank” in 1988, and began pulling its citizenship from Arabs in the region.

The balance of UNRWA wards live in Lebanon (557,300) and Syria (674,500).

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UNRWA Camps in the West Bank

Roughly 25% of UNRWA’s West Bank wards live in official UNRWA “camps”. There are 19 camps currently including:

Aida Camp
Am’ari camp
Aqbat Jabr Camp
Arroub Camp
Askar Camp
Balata Camp
Beit Jibrin Camp
Camp No. 1 Camp
Deir ‘Ammar Camp
Dheisheh Camp
Ein el-Sultan Camp
Far’a Camp
Far’a Camp
Fawwar Camp
Jalazone Camp
Jenin Camp
Kalandia Camp
Nur Shams Camp
Shu’fat Camp
Tulkarm Camp
The Jenin Camp was established in 1953 and houses about 23,000 people at the western end of Jenin in the northern West Bank. It encompasses about 0.42 km which yields a population density of roughly 33,333 per sq km. For comparison, Manhattan’s population density is about 28,000 per sq km.

UNRWA’s Jenin Terrorists

UNRWA’s camp in Jenin has long served as the launching point for terrorists as well as a safe haven for murderers.

2002 Massacre

On March 27, 2002, roughly 250 people sat down for a festive holiday seder meal for Passover in the Park Hotel in Netanya along the Mediterranean Sea. A 25-year old member of Hamas from the nearby West Bank city of Tulkarm walked into the hotel and blew himself up, killing 30 and injuring 140. Hamas praised the attack and said Israelis “have to expect those attacks from everywhere, from every Palestinian group.” The Palestinian Authority named a soccer tournament after the terrorist the next year.

In response to the attack, part of a wave of Palestinian terrorism that killed 135 Israeli civilians in that month, Israel launched Operation Defensive Shield a few days later. From April 1-11, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) entered the Jenin Camp which was home base of many of the killers. Rather than bomb the area from the air which might have resulted in the injury of Arab civilians, the IDF deployed infantry into the narrow streets. Palestinian militants set boobytraps which killed and maimed over a dozens soldiers, so the IDF brought in armored bulldozers to clear them out. The militants surrendered on April 11 and the IDF cleared out of the area the following week, but not before losing 23 soldiers.

Center of Jenin Camp in April 2002, cleared of wanted militants, land mines and boobytraps<
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June and July, 2023 IDF Incursions for Jenin Camp Terrorists

The Jenin Camp was long been a stronghold of the political-terrorist group Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. In September 2021, a new group called the Jenin Brigades was formed and it was soon accompanied by the Lion’s Den. The terrorists groups committed in excess of 50 attacks against Israeli civilians and soldiers, many attacks staged under the umbrella of UNRWA.

On June 19, the IDF came to arrest two UNRWA ward terrorists. As the Jenin Brigades open fire on the IDF, the Israelis responded with live fire. Eight Palestinian gunmen were killed, most of them confirmed terrorists. UNRWA confirmed that the majority were wards under its care.

As the IDF left the camp, the terrorists detonated a roadside bomb under an Israeli armored vehicle, wounding eight soldiers. Israel deployed a gunship helicopter to help rescue the soldiers from the hornet’s nest.

After yet additional terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians, Israel launched another incursion into the camp on July 3rd. The 48 hour operation once again focused on a small section of the UNRWA camp, where the IDF removed Palestinian terrorists, weapons and weapon-making factories.

UNRWA Ward Terrorists

The high percentage of UNRWA wards who are terrorists goes to the heart of the conflict: it is not about “occupation” or lack of sovereignty, as these people are in Palestine and under Palestinian rule. These terrorists have been told by the United Nations that they are entitled to move into homes where grandparents used to live inside of Israel. They are frustrated by the failure to get their “right of return” which the global body has promised.

Entrance to UNRWA refugee camp as a keyhole with a key on top, demonstrating that the pathway to homes inside Israel is via UNRWA.<
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The United Nations has incubated a destructive cult mentality which is leading to terrorism and death. It is well past time to shut UNRWA, and the first camps to be shuttered are those under Palestinian rule, the launching pads in Gaza and the West Bank.

Observation: Tel Aviv police chief Amichai Eshed clueless – thought alternative was breaking bones rather than ARRESTING Kaplan dictators

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July 6, 2023

5 July 2023

“I could have easily used disproportionate force and filled the ER at
Ichilov [Medical Center] at the end of every demonstration in Tel Aviv. We
could have cleared Ayalon [Highway] within minutes at the terrible cost of
cracking heads and breaking bones, at the cost of breaking the pact between
police and the citizenry…as a commander I taught generations of policemen
to recognize the limits of force, to safeguard our contract with the public…
Unfortunately, for the first time in my three decades of service, I was met
with the bizarre reality that calm and order are not the desired goal, but
rather the opposite is.”

Tel Aviv police chief Amichai Eshed announcing his resignation

Amichai Eshed asserts that the choice was between:

Option #1: Allowing Kaplan dictators to block roads – thus violating his
“contract with the public” to assure that REST OF THE PUBLIC the freedom of
movement which is recognized as a BASIC RIGHT in Article 13 of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights: “Everyone has the right to freedom of
movement” .

or

Option #2: Cracking heads and breaking bones

Amichai Eshed is CLUELESS.

There was ALWAYS another option: ENFORCING THE LAW.

And by ENFORCING THE LAW I mean ARRESTING EVERYONE BLOCKING THE ROAD
regardless of the time that it takes.

Let every Kaplan dictator burn hours or even days being processed before
being released.

Let every Kaplan dictator find themselves spending a lot of time within the
court system.

And let every Kaplan dictator who did enough to spend time in jail instead
of just face a fine spend time in jail.

Let us be clear what has happened after the police allowed the Kaplan
dictators invade Terminal 3 and effectively close off Ben Gurion Airport:

The Kaplan dictators have tasted blood and they like it.

I have spoken with Kaplan dictators today to see if there are any red lines.

So I asked if they can invade a hospital emergency room with their protest.

“Why not” was the response.

I asked one if it would be ok to hold a protest in front of a fire house so
that the fire trucks can’t get out.

“Sure”.

Good Israelis have now been brainwashed by the favorable media coverage to
accept the behavior of the Kaplan dictators.

And unfortunately, a lot of people are silent.

Naftali Bennett, for example, was busy patting himself on the back on
Twitter for his BBC interview today but never found the time to write even a
sentence against the actions of the Kaplan dictators. It doesn’t matter if
he has some poll that shows he would lose some supporters in the next
elections if he opened his mouth against road blockers and airport invaders.
The true test of leadership is when you do the right thing simply because it’s
the right thing.

Bennett’s not alone. There are all kinds of public leaders who remain
silent. Including of course President Herzog.

And of course – Prime Minister Netanyahu has declined to take a strong
public stand for the police to finally do their job in dealing with the
Kaplan dictators.

We cannot afford for this leadership void to continue.

Israel Behind the News

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Malevolent reporting on Israel in Jenin

The hijack of language

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Israel must act

Rabbi Leo Dee: Ordinary Palestinians silently thank Allah for the Jenin operation

My neighbors in Jenin, what future are you hoping for?

Why We Are Afraid, A 1400 Year Secret, by Dr Bill Warner

BBC ANCHOR: THE ISRAELI FORCES ARE HAPPY TO KILL CHILDREN

UNRWA’s Terrorists, by Ted Bellman

Observation: Tel Aviv police chief Amichai Eshed clueless – thought alternative was breaking bones rather than ARRESTING Kaplan dictators

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