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https://pulseofisrael.com/2024/01/28/no-aid-to-the-enemy/
The government promised that until victory is achieved in Gaza, no electricity nor humanitarian aid would enter, but due to global pressure, the Israeli government folded. Now there is a growing group of activists whose mission it is to block the aid trucks from entering. Will they succeed?

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https://www.israelunwired.com/is-unrwa-finished-donors-around-the-world-pull-funding/?
IS UNRWA FINISHED? DONORS AROUND THE WORLD PULL FUNDING
written by David Mark January 29, 2024 2.1K views

US, UK, Finland, Japan, and others are beginning to pause funding for UNRWA, the faux “palestinian” refugee organization that acts more as a front for Hamas and Fatah terrorists. The funding pause is due to the strong allegations that many of its workers took part in the Oct. 7th massacre of Jews.


Billions of dollars have been funneled to “palestinian” Jihadist Nazis through the years by way of UNRWA. Israel has argued in the past that UNRWA schools have educated Arab youth in Gaza and Judea and Samaria to commit genocide against the Jewish people.

Now, with the revelation that many of its employees not only praised the October 7th pogrom against the Jewish people, but actively participated in it – many countries have finally had enough.

The French government was one of the first this week to suspend funding for UNRWA. “France has not planned a new payment for the first half of 2024 and will decide when the time comes of the action to take together with the United Nations and the main donors,” the foreign ministry says, calling the allegations “exceptionally serious.”


Japan said late Sunday it was “extremely concerned about the alleged involvement of UNRWA staff members in the terror attack on Israel on October 7 last year.”

“In response, Japan has decided to suspend additional funding to UNRWA for the time being while UNRWA conducts an investigation into the matter and considers measures to address the allegations,” a foreign ministry statement said.

After Israel submitted evidence to UNRWA about the participation of some of its employees, UNRWA fired its Gaza staff. However, this has not been enough for the US and others as UNRWA’s entrenchment in pushing hate within “palestinian” society is not only well known, but well documented. UNRWA is seen by many to be perpetuating the conflict between “palestinian” Arabs and Israel – after all as long as the conflict continues it has a raison d’etre to exist - providing jobs for thousands and thousands of employees.

https://www.israelunwired.com/can-these-jews-stop-the-resupply-of-hamas/?
CAN THESE JEWS STOP THE RESUPPLY OF HAMAS?
written by David Mark January 28, 2024 938 views


Hundreds of activists have gone down to the Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza over successive days in hopes of blocking the humanitarian aid trucks being sent into Gaza. The group, called Tzav 9 is made up of rightwing and leftwing Israelis whose aim is to stop all humanitarian aid for Gazans until the captives are returned to Israel and Hamas is destroyed.
According to eyewitness accounts, a large contingent of troops and border police have been dispatched to the area in order to prevent the Tzav 9 activists from carrying out their mission. Despite the security forces, enough activists have showed up to prevent the humanitarian aid from crossing over.

Although the government promised no electricity and humanitarian aid in the beginning of the war, global pressure has forced Israel’s government to allow aid trucks and electricity back into the strip. This acts as a form of rearming the Gazan Jihadists while the IDF is meant to destroy them. No other country in the world would aid their enemy in the time of war.

Tzav 9 stated that it “congratulates the decision to block, but instead of implementing it against the families of the hostages and soldiers, it should be implemented against the murderous Hamas terror organization which receives oxygen to continue fighting us from these trucks.”
“Our struggle will continue with full determination, without any violence against our dear security forces. No aid will pass until the last of the hostages return.”
“Our struggle will continue with full determination, without any violence against our dear security forces. No aid will pass until the last of the hostages return.”


Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned the demonstrators at a press conference on Shabbat: “Without minimum humanitarian aid we will not be able to complete the mission and the war’s goals. According to him, “The Chief of Staff ordered to deal with the roadblocks since we need to ensure this minimum supply.”

Tzav 9 responded to the Prime Minister’s statement against the roadblocks: “Hundreds of supply trucks entering the Gaza Strip every day – immediate supply and air for the murderous Hamas terror organization. We understand that there is heavy pressure on the Prime Minister to open the Kerem Shalom Crossing, our job as a nation is to press for the opposite.”

The IDF under GFeneral Yaron Finkelman’s orders has now made the Kerem Shalom Crossing a closed military zone. However, with major community and religious leaders from across the political spectrum supporting the actions of the activists, its hard to see them giving up. As grassroots pressure continues to grow, it will be hard to see how Netanyahu will be able to balance internal pressure with that of the global community who appears to have an interest in seeing Israel lose the war.

With real unity behind the Tzav 9 effort, the government may be forced to tell the world that Israel simply cannot comply with aiding our enemy and if that happens – it will get even more rocky than it already is.

https://www.israelunwired.com/can-these-jews-stop-the-resupply-of-hamas/?
CAN THESE JEWS STOP THE RESUPPLY OF HAMAS?
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Hundreds of activists have gone down to the Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza over successive days in hopes of blocking the humanitarian aid trucks being sent into Gaza. The group, called Tzav 9 is made up of rightwing and leftwing Israelis whose aim is to stop all humanitarian aid for Gazans until the captives are returned to Israel and Hamas is destroyed.


According to eyewitness accounts, a large contingent of troops and border police have been dispatched to the area in order to prevent the Tzav 9 activists from carrying out their mission. Despite the security forces, enough activists have showed up to prevent the humanitarian aid from crossing over.

Although the government promised no electricity and humanitarian aid in the beginning of the war, global pressure has forced Israel’s government to allow aid trucks and electricity back into the strip. This acts as a form of rearming the Gazan Jihadists while the IDF is meant to destroy them. No other country in the world would aid their enemy in the time of war.

Tzav 9 stated that it “congratulates the decision to block, but instead of implementing it against the families of the hostages and soldiers, it should be implemented against the murderous Hamas terror organization which receives oxygen to continue fighting us from these trucks.”

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Defense Minister Yoav Gallant had previously exposed this base in September 2023, highlighting the visible Iranian flags on the runways. Gallant emphasized that while the land is Lebanese, the control is distinctly Iranian, with Israel being the intended target. This attack is a direct response to the growing threat posed by Iran, often using Hezbollah and other proxies in its conflicts against Israel.

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https://www.israelunwired.com/netanyahu-takes-on-qatar-the-homeland-of-hamas/?
written by David Mark January 25, 2024 1.5K views

Israeli media reported that Prime Minister Netanyahu told the families of the hostages that he considers Qatar to be a problematic mediator between Israel and Hamas. In the video belowPrime Minister Netanyahu can be hear saying: “Qatar, from my point of view, is no different in essence than the United Nations… and the Red Cross, [Qatar] is even more problematic.”

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Majed Al Ansari, the spokesperson for Qatar’s foreign ministry tweeted the following in response to Netanyahu’s comments: “If the reported remarks are found to be true, the Israeli PM would only be obstructing and undermining the mediation process, for reasons that appear to serve his political career instead of prioritizing saving innocent lives, including Israeli hostages.”

Qatar’s response to the Prime Minister’s statement is classic Doha gaslighting. The fact is, if Qatar wanted to end the conflict with Hamas they could have done so already. Finance Minister Betzalel Smotrich said just this: “Qatar is the biggest obstacle for returning the hostages. We could get all 136 hostages tomorrow if Qatar would give Hamas an ultimatum to return all the hostages, and if the West would give Qatar an ultimatum to do that”

Qatar is not only funding Hamas and housing their leaders in 6 star hotels in Doha, but it has been playing a double game for years. They fund universities and hospitals in the west as well as investing heavily in varied industries and at the same time they are the largest state sponsor of Jihadist ideology after Iran.
While everyone has been focusing on the Ayatollahs in Tehran, it has been Sheikh Tamim ibn Hamad Al Thani and his cohorts in Qatar that have slowly and carefully infiltrated western governments and learning institutions – shifting support among the younger generation to “palestinian” causes – even spinning Hamas in a different light.

Qatar is the largest funder of the Muslim Brotherhood around the world. It provides both state and popular support for the International Union of Muslim Scholars, the clerical arm of the Brotherhood. The global news site Al Jazeera, is not only funded by Qatar, but is also heavily influenced by the Muslim Brotherhood. 

This can be seen by the fact that Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi who is the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas has a regular show on Al Jazaeera. Qaradawi once declared that Hitler was divinely ordained to punish the Jews: “Throughout history, Allah has imposed upon the [Jews] people who would punish them for their corruption. The last punishment was carried out by Hitler. By means of all the things he did to them – even though they exaggerated this issue – he managed to put them in their place. This was divine punishment for them. Allah willing, the next time will be at the hand of the believers.”

Netanyahu is right, Qatar cannot be trusted because Qatar is Hamas. It has a vested interest in helping its fellow Jihadist Muslim Brotherhood members win and by doing so crash the burgeoning Abraham Accords, which was set to replace Doha - leaving it far behind.
The challenge is that Biden sees Qatar and its leader Al Thani as a close ally - equal to Israel. The US has its largest air base in Middle East there. In 2022, President Biden designated Qatar a major non-NATO ally. Qatar has spent years infiltrating the US government in a way many Israel haters claim AIPAC has.

If Israel wants to take out Hamas once and for all it must continue to take on Qatar. Netanyahu may haveopened the door to finally doing just that.

https://www.israelunwired.com/bibi-finally-says-no-to-biden-but-is-it-too-late/?
BIBI FINALLY SAYS NO TO BIDEN, BUT IS IT TOO LATE?
written by David Mark January 22, 2024 1.5K views
Hamas submitted terms to Israel via mediators in the latest attempt to return Israeli hostages to their homes. The terms were a non-starter in Israel, whose government rejected them.
Prime Minister Netanyahu said the following: “Let it be clear: I reject outright the terms of surrender of the monsters of Hamas. In exchange for the release of our hostages, Hamas demands the end of the war, the withdrawal of our forces from Gaza, the release of all the murderers and rapists of the Nuh’ba and leaving Hamas intact. If we agree to this – our warriors fell in vain. If we agree to this – we will not be able to guarantee the security of our citizens. We will not be able to return the evacuees safely to their homes, and next October 7th will only be a matter of time. I am not ready to put up with such a fatal injury to Israel’s security, so we will not agree to it.”

The United States appears to be pressuring Israel to accept the terms and establish a “palestinian” state in Judea and Samaria and Gaza as a way to end the war. This absurd and insane suggestion has no support across left, right, and center in Israel. 

A great example of this is President Isaac Herzog’s statement at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week: “If you ask an average Israeli now about his or her mental state, nobody in his right mind is willing now to think about what will be the solution of the peace agreements, because everybody wants to know: Can we be promised real safety in the future?”


So what is going on? Essentially the Biden administration, which is replete with anti-Israel and woke advisors and “strategists” believe that Israel was innately born in sin and now is the time to force a final status agreement down its throat. They are not naive – they like everyone else are aware that a two state solution is Israel’s final solution. They are cornering Israel and essentially blackmailing it to sign its own death warrant.

Israel’s globalist and elitist class are expected for their own survival to play along - after all, their loyalties are not with the State of Israel nor its citizenry, rather only with themselves. Israeli elitists along with the far left are already pushing for a take down of Israel’s government and end the war. While they are making a lot of noise in protests – they still number only in the hundreds. Most of the country rejects their attempt to force Israel to capitulate and essentially commit suicide.

While Bibi has been lambasted by both right and left, his stance on the two-state solution the Biden administration is now pushing, renders him an enemy of the global elite and America’s Democratic woke left. Although his stubbornness is supported by a majority of the country – his refusal to stand strong against the Biden administration earlier in the war might have already weakened Israel’s case in the face of unrelenting pressure. 

Only by clearly telling Biden and his team that Israel will never stop fighting and will control all of the Land of Israel can Israel’s safety and future be guranteed.

https://www.israelunwired.com/israel-takes-out-ircg-officers-in-syria/?
ISRAEL TAKES OUT IRCG OFFICERS IN SYRIA
written by Micha Gefen January 21, 2024 324 views
The war against Iran and Hezbollah in northern Israel continues to heat up as Israel appears to have killed the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ intelligence chief for Syria and his deputy as well as two other Guards members in a surgical strike.

“The Revolutionary Guards’ Syria intel chief, his deputy and two other Guards members were martyred in the attack on Syria by Israel,” Iran’s Mehr news agency said, quoting an informed but unnamed source.

Although there has been no official confirmation from Israel, the Jewish State rarely comments on attacks it carries out in Syria. The IRCG has been using Syria as a base of operations to funnel weapons, including precision guided missiles to Hezbollah. 

The US has been trying to find a way to defuse the growing tensions on Israel’s northern border with Lebanon ands Syria. Israel has given diplomacy until the end of the month. Hezbollah started attacking Israel soon after Hamas carried out its October 7th pogrom.
The IDF says it has discovered and destroyed a number of rocket launchers armed with long-range projectiles in the northern Gaza Strip, along with a nearby rocket manufacturing facility belonging to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

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If the Biden administration was truly interested in letting Israel protect Israeli lives they would push for this simple, humane and just solution. But they don't and they aren't. This is just one of the geo-political challenges we have, from our closest ally, in stopping us from properly protecting our lives and winning this war.
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THE HOUTHIS: 10 FACTS
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What you need to know about this radical terrorist group.
Since November 2023, Houthis in Yemen have launched hundreds of attacks on ships in the Red Sea, targeting ships with links to over 40 nations. Who are the Houthis and why are they disrupting international shipping? What are their links with Hamas whom they claim to support?

Here are 10 key facts about the Houthis including their history, their ideology and what they want.

1. Today’s Houthis follow a fanatical branch of Islam.
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The Houthis are a tribe in Yemen from which today’s Houthi movement is largely drawn and by whose name it is widely known. The official name of the Houthi movement is Ansar Allah (“supporters of God”).

There are two main branches of Islam – Sunni Islam, which has a greater number of adherents worldwide, including in Yemen, and Shi’ite Islam. The Houthis are a part the Shi’ite branch but they are not mainstream Shi’ites, but Zaydiyyah – those who revere Zayd bin Ali, an 8th Century Muslim leader, a martyr who is admired as representing pure Islamic rule. Houthis, like other Zaydiyyah, have traditionally viewed rooting out political corruption as a key priority.

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Houthis vied in Yemen’s complex power struggles for hundreds of years. Between 1918 and 1962, Houthis ruled northern Yemen before losing power to an Egyptian-backed Sunni revolution. They gained greater cohesion - and the nickname “Houthis” in the 1990s, when they were led by the fanatical and pro-Iranian politician Hussein al Houthi. He sought to build a political movement modeled both “religiously and ideologically” on Iran. A protege of Iran’s Shi’ite theocrats, al Houthi was bitterly opposed to Yemen's long-time and broadly pro-American leader Ali Abdullah Saleh. After al Houthi was assassinated on Saleh’s orders in 2004, the present-day Houthi group renamed their movement the “Houthis”.

2. Houthis are committed to fighting Jews, the United States and Israel.

In 2003, in the aftermath of the US’s invasion of Iraq, the Houthis became even more radical. They began comparing themselves to Hezbollah, Iran’s proxy army in Lebanon, and built up their military arsenals with Iranian support. They also started to call themselves the Ansar Allah (“God’s supporters”), seeing themselves as a holy, divinely appointed army.

Houthis’ rallying cry: “God is great. Death to the US. Death to Israel. Curse the Jews. And victory for Islam.”

They also adopted a new slogan: “God is great. Death to the US. Death to Israel. Curse the Jews. And victory for Islam.” That declaration remains the Houthis’ rallying cry and central tenet today.

On January 17, 2024, the United States returned Ansar Allah to the country’s terror list, after a hiatus of two years.

3. The Houthis largely rule Yemen today.
The Houthis, in addition to other opposition forces in Yemen, attacked Sana’s government in 2011. It was part of the heady Arab Spring movement. For three long years, Houthi forces fought Sana’s government army. It was a complex time: during this period of turmoil and violence, the Houthis at times fought alone, as part of a broad rebel alliance, and also brokered and broke secret agreements with Ali Abdullah Saleh, their erstwhile enemy.

A fighter, loyal to Yemen's Houthi rebels, stands guard during a protest following US and British forces strikes, in the Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa on January 12, 2024.

In 2015, the Houthis, as part of a coalition of anti-government forces, captured Yemen’s capital city, Sanaa. Houthi fighters soon after captured Al Hodeidah, Yemen’s fourth largest city and a major port on the Red Sea. Houthi fighters began moving to the city of Aden, considered the capital of Yemen’s south, and a major port on the Indian Ocean. In the cities which they controlled, Houthis immediately made their friendship for Iran known. They opened direct flights between Sanaa and Iran’s capital Tehran and Iran publicly promised to supply their new ally Yemen with subsidized oil.

Facing an Iranian proxy state in Yemen, Saudi Arabia - with which it shares a 1,307 km border with Yemen - assembled a coalition of countries to fight Houthi and other rebels and restore the previous government to power. The United States, Britain, United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain all supported Saudi Arabia’s intervention in Yemen to install and prop up Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi, Yemen’s previous vice president and a Sunni Muslim. The bitter civil war of the past nine years has caused untold suffering and has so far failed at dislodging Houthi forces.

A 2022 truce cemented the Houthis' position. Houthis continue to control Sanaa, Yemen’s capital city, as well as large areas of the country.

4. Yemen’s Civil War has been a humanitarian disaster.
Before the UN declared Gaza the “worst ever” humanitarian disaster, that dire appellation was routinely applied to Yemen under Houthi near-rule. Over 370,000 Yemenis died between 2015 and 2022, a number that is likely even higher today. Houthis have mined in the Red Sea, preventing fishing, and stealing food aid. The financial system in the country has largely collapsed. A 2021 UN report called Yemen “the world’s worst humanitarian crisis,” and reported that “nearly 80% or more than 24 million of its people nee(d) humanitarian assistance and protection and more than 13 million (are) in danger of starving to death. Over half of Yemenis, it was estimated, were at risk of starvation.”

Since 2015, Iran has sought to send arms and other goods to Yemen; in response Saudi Arabia (aided at times by the United States) has maintained a ruthless naval blockade. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have carried out over 25,000 airstrikes on Houthi areas, killing over 19,000 civilians. In 2021 and 2022, Houthi fighters carried out airstrikes on Saudi targets. For nearly a decade, aid agencies have found it difficult to import life-saving food into Yemen.

In December 2023, the UN’s World Food Program announced it was suspending operations in Yemen due to Houthis’ and other groups’ inability to ensure that food was distributed to those who need it.

5. The Houthis engage in torture and slavery.
A 2018 United Nations report painted a dire picture of life under Houthi rule, as well as under the rule of other warring factions vying for power in Yemen. “The Government of Yemen, the United Arab Emirates and Houthi-Saleh forces have all engaged in arbitrary arrests and detentions, carried out enforced disappearances and committed torture. The Houthis have summarily executed individuals, detained individuals solely for political or economic reasons and systematically destroyed the homes of their perceived enemies. The Houthis also routinely obstruct humanitarian access and the distribution of aid.” (Cited in the letter 26 January, 2018, from the Panel of Experts on Yemen mandated by Security Council resolution 2342 [2017] addressed to the President of the Security Council)

The US State Department reported similar horrors in a 2022 report, citing a Yemeni organization that documented 17,638 cases of torture in Houthi prisons between 2015 and 2021, “including the mistreatment of 587 children and 150 women” and 178 prisoners - including 10 children - who were tortured to death by Houthis.



The State Department also estimates that over 3% of Yemen’s population are currently slaves, and that while Yemen abolished slavery 60 years ago in the 1960s, some forms of slavery remain legal in the country. Houthis engage in slavery in a variety of ways, most notably by forcing men from the dark-skinned Muhamasheen minority to fight for them, and killing those who refuse.

6. Women’s rights in Houthi areas are nonexistent.
Ardent Islamists, Houthis restrict women’s rights even more than their patrons in Iran do. Women in Houthi-ruled areas are banned from working, forbidden from using birth control, prevented from going out bear-headed or while wearing makeup, and must have a male escort while traveling. Women are permitted in restaurants - after producing a valid marriage contract.

7. Houthis persecuted Yemen’s Jews.
Facing intense antisemitism, most of Yemen’s approximately 50,000-strong Jewish community was airlifted to the new State of Israel in an ambitious mission called “Operation Magic Carpet” in 1949. Hundreds of Jews remained behind, only to face ever-increasing antisemitism from Yemeni groups, including the Houthis.

As they took over territory, Houthis harassed Jews and forced them from their homes and communities where they’d lived for generations. (Yemen’s Jewish community traces its origins to Biblical times.) A Yemenite rabbi named Yahya Yusif Mosa spoke with the Jerusalem Post in 2013 from a compound in Sanaa, where he and other Yemeni Jews were confined after Houthi fighters forced them out of the Yemeni city of Raida. In 2011, Houthis told a leader of Yemenite Jews that all Jews remaining in Yemen would have to either convert to Islam or flee the country.

Virtually every last remaining Yemeni Jew listened to the Houthi terrorists and fled. Tragically, one Jew is currently being held hostage and tortured by Houthis in Yemen. As Jews fled in 2016, Levi Marhabi helped a family take a Torah scroll out of the country. Houthis arrested him for this “crime” and continue to hold him in jail. The US Commission on International Religious Freedom notes that “Marhabi lives in inhumane prison conditions, where his health continues to deteriorate. He reportedly suffers from kidney and lung issues and has lost all his teeth from being tortured repeatedly.”

8. Houthis are well funded.
Iran remains the Houthis’ largest source of funding. In December 2023, the United States announced new sanctions on 13 individuals and companies which, they estimate, help Iran funnel “tens of millions” of dollars to the Houthis each year. The US Treasury Department found that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a branch of Iran’s military, controls a vast business empire around the world, including in Turkey and the Caribbean.

A 2023 UN report found that in addition to Iranian donations, Houthis enrich themselves from a vast network of businesses in Yemen and around the world. “The Houthis continue to control legal and illegal sources of revenue,” the UN concluded.

Houthis also “to sell oil on the black market and collect illegal fees from such sales.” On January 11, 2024, US Naval forces noticed a ship sailing close to Somalia, bound for nearby Yemen, which wasn’t carrying a national flag, in violation of maritime law. US sailors boarded the ship and found pieces of Iranian-made ballistic and cruise missiles. In the course of the operation, two US Navy SEALs were lost at sea, casualties of the struggle to prevent Iran from arming Houthis in violation of international sanctions.

9. Houthis are motivated by improving their standing, not sympathy with Gaza.
It’s become axiomatic in much of the West that Houthis are moved to attack shipping vessels in the Red Sea out of a desire to show solidarity with Gaza civilians caught up in fighting between Hamas and Israel. In fact, the Houthis - a Shi’ite sect that has little in common with the Sunni Muslims in Gaza - is motivated by domestic concerns.

Inside Yemen, Houthis had becoming less and less popular. Bombing and attacking British, American, and other ships, and declaring that they are doing so to demonstrate their hatred of Israel, has given Houthis a huge boost in Yemen and around the world.

Middle East policy observer Nicholas Brumfield notes that “the Houthis are facing real challenges with the Yemeni public. Increasingly totalitarian, unable or unwilling to pay salaries, and viewed by many as attempting to establish a theocracy, the Houthis were dealing with one of their biggest political crises ever in the months immediately preceding October 7th, with popular protests forcing the group to retreat from an attempt to ‘radically restructure’ the Yemeni state.”

Hamas’ vicious attack on Israel on October 7, 2023 gave Houthis a potent new recruiting tool. “The Houthis have recruited a large number of fighters on the promise they would get to fight in Palestine, only to then deploy these fighters on fronts facing the Yemeni government,” Brumfield notes. “This recent buildup has been significant enough that the Yemeni government recently stated it believes the Houthis are preparing for a large-scale offensive on the long-contested Ma’rib City.” Houthi attacks on international shipping has done nothing to help Gazans; the Houthis are merely cynically using the war in Gaza to strengthen themselves.

10. Houthis are popular.
As their prestige grows in Yemen, Houthis are also being embraced as freedom fighters around the world, including in the West. In recent weeks, protestors in Britain, Canada, and the US have declared their support for the Houthi movement.

It’s imperative that we all stand up and point out the truth: Houthis are not freedom fighters. They’re not noble, and they’re not our friends or allies in any way. As Iran extends its influence throughout the Middle East, funding genocidal armies such as Hezbollah, Houthis, and Hamas, it’s crucial we educate ourselves about these venal organizations and work to make sure their complex histories and agendas are better known.

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IDF STRIKES BACK IN ARAB OCCUPIED TULKARM
written by Micha Gefen January 18, 2024 2.3K views
https://www.israelunwired.com/idf-strikes-back-in-arab-occupied-tulkarm/?
The IDF says it is continuing a counter-terror operation in Tulkarm refugee camp, which began more than 35 hours ago. Tulkarm is currently occupied by violent Arab clans who appear to be bent on supporting Hamas during the war.


So far, it says engineering vehicles have uncovered dozens of explosives hidden under the roads, searched hundreds of buildings, and arrested 15 wanted Palestinians.

The IDF says troops also seized many weapons during the raids, and destroyed an explosives lab and a building used by local terror operatives to observe Israeli forces with surveillance cameras.

Eight Arab gunmen have been killed during clashes with IDF troops in the camp.

https://www.israelunwired.com/jordan-moves-military-closer-to-the-border-with-israel-jewish-towns-report-gunfire/?
JORDAN MOVES MILITARY CLOSER TO THE BORDER WITH ISRAEL, JEWISH TOWNS REPORT GUNFIRE
written by David Mark January 16, 2024 3.3K views
In an ominous sign of an expanding regional war, Jordan has been seen moving its army closer to the border with Israel. Israeli towns along the Jordanian border have reported gunfire towards their communities from the Jordanian soldiers.

With the Hamas war raging and the potential for Israel’s North becoming engulfed with a war with Hezbollah, most have assumed that the Jordanian border would be trusted to remains silent. This has not been the case. Not only have there been increased infiltration attempts from Jordan, the Jordanian military itself has taken aim at Israeli communities nearby.

The IDF has increased its presence in the area, including special forces with the aim of deterring a potential third front from opening up.

So with a lot to lose, why would King Abdullah attack Israel? While Abdullah is not aligned with Iran, he does have some reasons he may either allow pro-Iranian militias to utilize his territory or in fact order his troops to attack Israel themselves.

The king’s wife, Queen Rania has roots in Tulkarm and is considered a “palestinian.” She has questioned the October 7th pogroms and if anyone would want her husband to attack Israel – it would be her.

In addition to his wife, the Jordanian street, which is 80% “palestinian” has already demanded Jordan’s King do something against Israel. It is entirely conceivable that in order to save his crown and appease the majority of his population, he may in fact attempt an assault on Israel or at the very least allow other’s to attack from his territory.

In November, Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said Israel has crossed “every legal, ethical, and humanitarian red line.” He has also criticized the selective application of international law. “If any other country in the world did a fragment of what Israel did, it would have sanctions imposed on it from every corner of the world,” he said at a security summit on Nov. 18. At a news conference on Monday, he said the events in Gaza “should be classified as genocide.”

This is despite the fact that Jordan itself regularly discriminates against its “palestinian” citizens. Jordan appears to be preparing at the very least an assault that will distract its populace from its own failings in an attempt to save the king’s head. After all it wasn’t too long ago that this same populace was ready to rebel and run the king and his family out of Amman permanently.

Just as in 1967, when the current king’s father miscalculated and attacked Israel – it appears that King Abdullah may once again do the same thing.

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WATCH: TERRORIST ATTACK IN JEWISH VILLAGE OVER SHABBAT
written by Micha Gefen January 13, 2024 5.5K views
An IDF reservist was shot in the leg during an attempt to infiltrate the Jewish village of Adora by three Jihadists from the Arab town of Idna situated nearby.

Soldiers responded to the attackers – killing all three. According to the IDF, a reservist tasked with guarding Adora received an alert of an infiltration into the settlement’s industrial zone, and quickly reached the scene.
“When the soldier arrived to check the alert, he was hit by the terrorists’s gunfire,” the IDF said, adding that he dispatched additional forces to search for the terrorists.
An IDF reservist was shot in the leg during an attempt to infiltrate the Jewish village of Adora by three Jihadists from the Arab town of Idna situated nearby.
soldiers found an M16, a number of knives, a pickaxe and Molotov cocktails on their bodies.

During the incident the IDF Home Front Command ordered the residents of Adora to remain in their homes and lock their doors and windows. 12 hours later once the community was cleared of terrorists, the order was lifted.

The attack is a major escalation in Judea and Samaria where it is expected that Hamas plans on waging a war against Jewish pioneer villages.

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A terrorist killed 2 and injured over 20 people in a multiple car ramming and stabbing spree in Ra'anana today. The terrorist, from Hebron, was arrested. Details of the attack are still emerging.

Barak Ayalon, 45, and his mother Mira, 76, were killed in a Hezbollah anti-tank guided missile attack on Kfar Yuval in northern Israel. Barak's father, 74, was lightly hurt.

Sunday marked the 100th day since the October 7 massacre and the start of the captivity of the 136 Israeli men, woman and children still being held hostage by Hamas in Gaza. Hamas released a new propaganda video featuring three Israeli hostages: Noa Argamani, Yossi Sharabi and Itay Svirsky. It is not clear when the video was taken. What we do know is that the Israeli hostages are being tortured, raped, starved, tormented and being used as human shields to protect Hamas leaders hiding in the depths of the tunnels under southern Gaza. We must bring them home, now.

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The deepening chill over Israel from Britain and America
Obsessional hostility has even infected counter-terrorism experts
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JAN 12

UK Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, December 7 2023
The chilly winds that have been blowing towards Israel from its American and British allies have grown even colder.

Sir Lindsay Hoyle, the Speaker of the UK’s House of Commons whose duty is to be conspicuously impartial, caused astonishment when a diary note from his office indicated that he would meet the “Palestine Ambassador” to Britain this week. The note also said that “as part of Speaker-led diplomacy, we will be flying the … Palestine flag in honour of the Palestine Ambassador”.

However, the Speaker is not a diplomat, Britain doesn’t recognise a state of “Palestine” and there is no Palestinian ambassador, merely a head of the Palestinian mission to the UK.

Hours after the story was broken by the Policy Exchange think-tank, the Speaker’s Office declared that “a routine internal planning email” had been sent out “in error” and “no meeting with the Palestinian Ambassador is scheduled to take place”.

Meanwhile, people arriving at London’s Heathrow airport were astonished to see a printed notice from the capital’s Metropolitan Police that said: “If you have been in Israel/Palestinian Territories and have witnessed or been a victim of terrorism, war crimes or crimes against humanity, then you can report this to the UK police.”

The poster, written in Arabic and Hebrew as well as English, said that any such evidence may be shared with the International Criminal Court, which is investigating alleged war crimes in “Israel and Palestine” from June 2014.

One might justifiably say that anyone who has been in an air raid in Israel caused by rockets from Gaza has been a victim of war crimes committed by Hamas. But, of course, the Met’s initiative is in explicit support of the ICC investigation, whose aim is to demonise Israel with utterly spurious claims.

Given the Met’s passivity in the face of thousands of demonstrators on London’s streets week after week chanting for the destruction of Israel and the murder of Jews, the Met’s apparent enthusiasm for getting involved in a foreign court’s partisan targeting of Israel is grotesque.

In both Britain and America, obsessional hostility to Israel seems to be coursing through the structures of organised society.

In America, 17 anonymous Biden campaign staffers called directly on the president to push for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza — in other words, Israel’s surrender to Hamas. This followed similar letters from 500 political appointees and staff members from 40 government agencies, White House interns and staffers on Capitol Hill.

In Britain, a former civil servant, Anna Stanley, has written a blistering article for Fathom about a counter-terrorism course she attended at King’s College, London before the October 7 pogrom.

This course was designed for civil servants and professionals in counter-terrorism from various government departments. They heard presentations by lecturers and research fellows, amongst whom were people who had formerly served as a defence minister and a senior official at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and as top officials at the Home Office and the GCHQ intelligence agency.

Some of these lecturers, wrote Stanley, relayed typical postmodern identity politics. They taught, with no contrasting viewpoint, that “one man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist”. Labelling an organisation “terrorist” was described as a problem because it “implies a moral judgment”.

She recounted, “In the introduction, one slide read: ‘Condemning terrorism is to endorse the power of the strong over the weak,’ a dangerous conclusion breeding anti-Israel positions. In this perspective, Israel is seen as a powerful aggressor and the Palestinians militarily disadvantaged in asymmetric warfare.”

“Thus, the Palestinians are inherently oppressed,” she noted, “an axiom that fuels the view that Israel is a terrorist state and Hamas’s atrocities are justifiably ‘contextualised’. Another slide read: ‘Terrorism is not the problem, rather the systems they oppose are terrorist,’ reflecting postmodern identity politics wrapped up as counterterrorism education.”

The overriding emphasis of the course, wrote Stanley, was that Islamist extremism was exaggerated while lecturers gave right-wing extremism disproportionate weight.

This directly contradicted the conclusion reached by Sir William Shawcross in his recent review of the government’s anti-radicalisation program, Prevent, which Shawcross found was dangerously underestimating Islamist extremism while exaggerating right-wing threats.

One lecturer, reported Stanley, rubbished Shawcross by describing him as “the type of person who would say all current counterterrorism professionals are woke… he is of that ilk”. The lecturer also claimed that the British writer Douglas Murray and American commentator Joe Rogan are both examples of the “far-right”.

Stanley wrote: “‘To what extent should Joe Rogan and Douglas Murray be suppressed?’ he asked. ‘They have millions of followers. To de-platform them would cause issues… so society needs to find other ways to suppress them.’”

To smear Murray as “far-right” is as risible as it is poisonous. He is simply one of Israel’s most passionate and articulate non-Jewish supporters, and a clear-sighted analyst of Islamic extremism. The similarly robust Shawcross had to fight Whitehall’s instinctive pusillanimity to get his government-ordered review published at all.

Until recently, Stanley, who is Jewish, worked as an open-source intelligence analyst at Britain’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office. A few months ago, she told me of her deep distress at the overwhelming hostility towards Israel within the FCO.

After October 7, she said this week, the atmosphere there became unendurable. There was no acknowledgement that Israelis had been subjected to a horrific and specifically genocidal attack. Instead, email traffic amongst colleagues referred to “issues on both sides”.

The Hamas pogrom was constantly “contextualised” as a result of Israeli “occupation,” she revealed. The vast majority of officials subscribe to “human rights” and “social justice” dogma that presents Israel as an occupier and an “apartheid” state.

Jewish officials were made to feel very uncomfortable. Plans were developed for a whole month of training officials about anti-Islamic attitudes, with only one day to be set aside for antisemitism. One Jewish manager even advised Jewish colleagues not to visit the crisis centre that the FCO set up to assist Britons to leave the region because what was being said there about Israel was so upsetting.

On January 1, Stanley resigned from the FCO. This week, she arrived in Israel on aliyah.

It is shocking but not surprising that so many in positions of authority and influence— even those involved in counter-terrorism — have such ignorant, extreme and distorted views. For disdain towards Israel, along with misrepresenting and underplaying the 100-year war of extermination waged against it by the Muslim world, characterises cultural discourse all the way up to the top of western leadership.

Neither the British government nor the Biden administration acknowledges that the onslaught against Israel is part of a broader Iranian war against America, Britain and the west.

Instead, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was again bizarrely insisting this week that the “only” way to peace was “a pathway to a Palestinian state” and that “Israel must stop taking steps that undercut Palestinians’ ability to govern themselves effectively”. This from an administration that continues to fund the Palestinian Authority even while the PA rewards terrorists and their families.

Although both Blinken and Britain’s Foreign Secretary, Lord Cameron, have condemned the preposterous charge of genocide being brought by South Africa against Israel at the International Court of Justice, Cameron proceeded to lob at the beleaguered Jewish state a defamatory missile of his own.

He was “worried,” he told a parliamentary committee, that Israel has “taken action in Gaza that might be in breach of international law” and that “on lots of occasions” its compliance was “under question”.

Since Cameron offered no evidence of any such breaches, his remarks served merely to smear Israel when it is fighting for its life and being demonised and thus undermined by a torrent of such false accusations from around the world.

With allies like these, who needs enemies?

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WATCH: HOSTAGE FAMILIES MARCH IN THE HAGUE
written by Micha Gefen January 11, 2024 2.6K views
With the start of the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) trial beginning today at the Hague, families of hostages and supporters travelled there and marched on the streets.


One of the baffling things about the South African suit against Israel is the lack of mentioning f any of the Hamas atrocities against Israeli civilians on October 7th. Their charges exist in a vacuum.

The South African delegation called the Gaza Strip a concentration camp and compared it to “the killing fields of Cambodia” where the Khmer Rouge regime murdered more than one million people in the late 1970s. “You have heard from us about the direct extermination of thousands of people and children of the Palestinian population in Gaza since 7 October last year,” said one speaker, Max du Plessis.

They used quotes from Prime Minister Netanyahu referring to Hamas as Malek out of context as well as claiming a mass extermination of Gazans. The problem with their logic is that it conveniently ignores the fact that when similar conflicts have happened like the allies against ISIS, far more non-combatants were killed. 

“Palestinians have been killed in mosques, schools and hospitals. The level of killing is so extensive that bodies are often buried in mass graves, and are often unidentified,” she continued.

In response, Israel’s foreign ministry said the following:

“South Africa, which is functioning as the legal arm of the Hamas terrorist organization, utterly distorted the reality in Gaza following the October 7 massacre and completely ignored the fact that Hamas terrorists infiltrated Israel, murdered, executed, massacred, raped and abducted Israeli citizens, simply because they were Israelis, in an attempt to carry out genocide,” the ministry said.


“South Africa seeks to allow Hamas to return to commit the war crimes, crimes against humanity and sexual crimes they committed repeatedly on October 7, as its leaders have stated,” it added.
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It is as if we are living in a horror movie, not reality. But, no, this is our reality. The international court of justice is at this moment putting Israel on trial for genocide. Not Hamas. Not Iran. Not Qatar. Israel.

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Biden promised Gaza aid wouldn’t go to Hamas. He lied.
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And now an official who funded the murder of a 17-year-old girl is in charge.

A week after the horrors of Oct. 7, when the Biden administration first convinced Israel to open up the siege of Gaza and allow in international aid, it promised Hamas would not get it.

“If Hamas in any way blocks humanitarian assistance from reaching civilians, including by seizing the aid itself, we’ll be the first to condemn it. And we will work to prevent it from happening again,” Secretary of State Blinken pledged.

The problem with such a promise was obvious once Deputy National Security Advisor Jon Finer struggled to explain to CNN how it would stop Hamas from taking the aid.


Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a private meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken at IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv, Jan. 9, 2024. Photo by Kobi Gideon/GPO. (source: JNS)
“How is the United States going to ensure that none of that ends up in the hands of Hamas?” a CNN anchor asked.

Finer claimed that “this was a primary focus of the president’s diplomacy” and that “it involves securing an understanding among Hamas fighters who control the checkpoints on the other side of the border.”

The Deputy National Security Advisor assured that “the president was quite clear that if this assistance goes in, it cannot be misappropriated, it cannot be taken by Hamas fighters and so we are going to be watching that very closely.”


If anyone is watching, there’s been plenty to see as armed Hamas fighters have hijacked aid convoys in videos taken both by the IDF and civilians in Gaza. In video after video, Hamas terrorists seize aid and assault civilians, who in some cases respond by hurling abuse and stones.

On Halloween, John Kirby, Biden’s national security spokesman, denied anything was going on.

“We have seen no indication, none, that Hamas has gotten their hands on any of the humanitarian assistance that has gone in. None of it. It goes from these U.N. trucks to humanitarian organizations and the U.N. for delivery to the people of Gaza. That’s what we’ve seen with every single one of them,” he claimed.

Then he insisted that our “U.N. partners” were monitoring aid with “diligence.” What were the U.N. partners actually doing?

In mid October, UNRWA, the U.N. aid agency dedicated to the so-called “Palestinian” settlers and staffed by Hamas, tweeted that it “received reports that yesterday a group of people with trucks purporting to be from the Ministry of Health of the de facto authorities in Gaza removed fuel and medical equipment from the agency’s compound in Gaza City.”


Trucks with humanitarian aid to Palestinian civilians in Gaza arrive via the Rafah border crossing with Egypt on Nov. 2, 2023. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90. (Source: JNS)
UNRWA then deleted the tweet accusing Hamas of stealing aid and pretended it never happened.

In late December, an UNRWA official claimed that, “There’s no hijacking of our [UNRWA] supplies by Hamas.” The official then argued that accusations that Hamas was taking aid were a “disinformation campaign” which was “aimed at the very agency trying to help people.”

The disinformation campaign apparently included UNRWA’s own Twitter account.

Earlier that same month, a Gazan woman had told Al Jazeera that, “all of it goes down [into Hamas’s tunnels]. They take it and will even shoot me or do whatever they want, Hamas.”

She must have also been part of the “disinformation campaign” against UNRWA.

Months after all the assurances from the Biden administration that the aid would not end up in the hands of Hamas, it routinely does and without a word of protest or any end to the aid trucks.


The entrance to a terror tunnel in Gaza City. Credit: Israel Defense Forces.
Where is our aid even going?

USAID, already facing an investigation by a government watchdog and Congress over Afghan aid going to terrorists, refused to “name the nongovernmental organizations it is working with to deliver the supplies, citing security concerns” in its response to USA Today.

Since Hamas knows which organizations are working in Gaza and distributing aid, from whom are Samantha Power and USAID keeping the information?

What does it say about Power and USAID that they’re more worried about USA Today readers finding out where the aid is going?

American aid workers are in contact with Hamas, one of them said anonymously, there “just can’t be anything political.” As if there’s a non-political way to work with an Islamic terror group.

A massive fortune in aid is being handed over to Hamas for distribution by nameless aid organizations that video evidence and eyewitness testimony shows is going to terrorists.


Trucks with humanitarian aid arrive at the Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom border crossing, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Dec. 18, 2023. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
So much for Biden’s commitment “to ensuring that civilians in Gaza will continue to have access to food, water, medical care and other assistance, without diversion by Hamas.”

And the $100 million in “humanitarian aid” promised by Biden is just the beginning of a larger program to “reconstruct” Gaza. Much as the program to reconstruct Afghanistan put a fortune in the pockets of the Taliban that enabled them to retake the country, programs to reconstruct Gaza after previous wars allowed Hamas to build its vast network of tunnels and develop massive fortunes, some of which were then plowed into terror programs.

The Biden administration issued a press release “welcoming” the appointment of Sigrid Kaag, as the U.N. Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator for aid to Gaza.

Kaag’s actual last name is Al-Qaq; she’s a former leftist Dutch politician who married Anis al-Qaq, a deputy minister in Arafat’s PLO government, and has been caught funding terrorists.

In 2019, Rina Shnerb was hiking with her family when a bomb went off.


Israeli Flag hung up at Kibbutz Be’eri, in the Gaza envelope, which was destroyed by Hamas
“I wanted to believe it was just a dream,” said her father, Rabbi Shnerb. “I have experienced several bombs in my life and been saved, thank God, but this one got us…I immediately called to Rina, shouting ‘Rina, Rina,’ I looked down and saw that she was not alive.”

One of the terrorists accused of aiding the attack had taken pictures with Dutch officials while working as a director at a non-profit linked to terrorists and financed by the Dutch government. Despite having received multiple warnings, Kaag claimed she was unaware of the connection.

Geert Wilders had condemned Kaag for having been “photographed with terrorist Arafat and financed Palestinian terrorists.”

The Shnerb family told JNS that, “Kaag was in a position to decide whether to fund homicidal terrorists who, like the Nazis, were trying to murder Jews simply for being Jews. Kaag ignored all the warning signs and insisted on funding the PFLP terrorists. Those terrorists then murdered Rina.”

Now, Kaag is in a position to do it all over again with the backing of the Biden administration.


Kaag had previously accused Israel’s government of being “racist” and denounced Jews living in parts of the country claimed by terrorists as “illegal colonists on confiscated land.”

After violating its commitment to stop Hamas from seizing aid, the Biden administration has approved of the appointment of an official who funded terrorists who killed Jews.

The Biden administration has focused all of its efforts on a plan to strengthen the Palestinian Authority and have it take over Gaza. It’s doing so even though elements of the P.A. actually took part in the Oct. 7 massacre and Fatah, which is the ruling part of the P.A., endorsed it. Fatah’s Secretary-General Jibril Rajoub declared that, “What happened on Oct. 7 was in the context of the defensive war our people are waging. Hamas is part of our political and social fabric.”

Furthermore, the P.A. has reportedly begun paying salaries to arrested Oct. 7 perpetrators.
It’s not a question of whether our aid to the terrorist areas goes to terrorists, but which terrorists.
The State Department recently announced that the “United States has provided more than $110 million in humanitarian assistance for Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank since October 7.”
Kill over a thousand people and you get over $100 million in aid. That’s $100,000 per murder.
If we really want to stop terrorism, we should stop funding it.
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FAMILIES OF HOSTAGES BLOCK HUMANITARIAN AID FROM GOING TO GAZA
written by David Mark January 9, 2024 1.7K views

In a turn of events, families members of hostages attempted to block humanitarian aid from entering through Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza. The police eventually dispersed them.


This is a key turn of events as most of the protests have been centered around forcing the government to capitulate through protests located in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. These protests have been leaked to the State Department funded and Ehud Barak backed Kaplan Brigade whose real aim is to take down the rightwing coalition.

The attempt today was not an “official” Hostage Family Forum protest, but rather organized by families on their own who have had enough of the hard left backed protests in Tel Aviv.


Hostage families on the border were seen using megaphones to figuratively scream out at their family members held in Gaza. “Stay strong! We’ll get you out of there! We will do whatever it takes!” Shai Wenkert, the father of Omer, who was kidnapped from the party in Re’im arrived at the Kerem Shalom crossing and used the only means at his disposal to voice his message for his son.

No other country would be required to offer assistance to their enemies in the time of war. Only Israel has been forced by the world to deliver humanitarian supplies to Gaza - these supplies are being taken by Hamas and used to strengthen as the IDF is fighting them, thus prolonging the conflict and in turn causing more people to be killed.

A real siege would quickly collapse Hamas’ ability to fight. This would bring about an end of the war and the return of the hostages. By continuing the absurd policy of continued humanitarian aid into Gaza – Hamas has no reason to return the hostages and stop the war. 

Biden’s team is pushing for humanitarian aid for two reasons – they are trying to keep their democratic coalition together in the hope they can win Michigan in the 2024 election since it has a high Muslim population. Secondly, Qatar has increased influence inside the White House through their Brookings Institute backed agents as well as playing host to America’s largest base in the Middle East. The problem with this is that they are one of the largest backers of Global Terror and the host of Hamas leaders themselves. Given this, the USA cannot be trusted. Their request and pressure to force Israel to essentially provide a lifeline to the Jihadist Nazis in Gaza must be rebuffed by Israel in order to finally crush Hamas once and for all.
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Shalom from Israel,

Yesterday was a very dark day for the people of Israel.

Tragically, 9 IDF soldiers were killed and 8 were wounded in three separate incidents, during ground operations in Gaza.

Six of the deaths and most of the injuries resulted from an explosion while Israeli soldiers were operating close to a Hamas rocket factory, the largest of its kind discovered in central Gaza.

To destroy terrorist infrastructure in Gaza, the soldiers were preparing to blow up the facility, just as a truck transporting explosives in their vicinity blew up, resulting in the tragic deaths and injuries.

Israelis across the country are in mourning over 9 beautiful souls who made the ultimate sacrifice for their families, people and homeland.

Although President Biden yesterday caved to anti-Israel hecklers and protesters, telling them that he is doing everything he can to "get Israel out of Gaza," the IDF has no intention to stop the war any time soon.

Despite the heavy cost, Prime Minister Netanyahu has repeatedly said the war against Hamas will continue until all of Israel's goals are achieved. The most dangerous phase of the war will likely continue for at least several months.

Thanks to your generosity, United with Israel has been providing vital supplies, medical equipment and protective gear to soldiers and civilians since the beginning of the war. But the needs are still very great.

We are still receiving urgent requests for top quality helmets and ceramic vests. They are expensive, but they save lives.

Please open your hearts and send critically needed funds for lifesaving equipment. Each helmet and vest can literally save an IDF soldier's life.

Israeli soldiers are risking their lives for us. We must fight to keep them safe.

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UNRWA CONTINUES TO BE EXPOSED AS A HAMAS AFFILIATED ENTITY
written by David Mark January 7, 2024 2.6K views
One of the clear outcomes of Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip is the degree of proof that UNRWA has been coopted by Hamas, enabling the terror agency to utilize international funding and cover while preparing and carrying out its war with Israel.


The IDF says Kfir brigade soldiers found a large cache of weapons, including firearms, grenades, and explosives, some of which were hidden inside bags bearing the logo of UNRWA, the agency for Palestinian refugees in the Strip.

UNRWA headquarters and educational facilities have been known to employ Hamas operatives as school teachers. These building are considered protected by international law, while actively funneling billions of dollars into Hamas pockets.

The more the IDF pushes deeper into the strip, the more it becomes clear that UNRWA must not only be banned from operations on Gaza, but ultimately disbanded around the world. After all, the so called “palestinians” are the only eternally protected generationally “relevant” refugees that have an entire multi-billion dollar organization dedicated to them.

The perpetuation of the “palestinian” lie using UNRWA has enabled this particularly low class Arab populace that migrated to the Land Israel in the last 100 years to convince themselves that it is their land when history and their very own religion says something drastically different.
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ISRAEL ASSASSINATES HEZBOLLAH COMMANDER, COUNTDOWN BEGINS TO FULL OUT WAR
written by David Mark January 8, 2024 1.8K views

Wissam Tawil, senior member of Hezbollah’s Radwan Force was killed today by an Israeli UAV strike in Southern Lebanon today.

Tawil is the highest ranking Hezbollah member to be killed since Hezbollah joined the Hamas-Israel war. Israel is expecting a serious response from Hezbollah and in turn Israel is expected to hit back hard. The Israeli government is now saying it is not “if” there will be a war with Hezbollah, but “when”.

Any war with Hezbollah will make the Gaza conflict seem small in comparison. There is reason to believe the Shiite militias in Syria controlled by Iran will attack. Israel’s defense forces believe this also means that Iranian Shiite militias will use Jordan as a base for attacks against Israel – opening up a wider front.

A regional war in the Middle East may be the last thing the US wants, but it appears that to everyone else it is a foregone conclusion. With Iran and its Russian and Chinese allies behind it, Israel stands surrounded by overwhelming weapons and resources. Despite the intensity and potential mass destruction in the coming conflict – Israel must win and the only way to do that is to strike so hard and fast, its enemies will not be able to recover.

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TERROR TUNNEL FOUND IN JUDEA, ARE THERE MORE?
written by Micha Gefen January 3, 2024 4.3K views
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Just when you thought it cannot get any crazier – soldiers and residents of Adora and Telem in Western Har Hebron found what appears to be a terror tunnel near the community of Telem.


An official letter from the community reads as follows:
“During the searches in one of the illegal buildings in the A Tayba area – near the antenna hill, we found the beginning of a branched modern tunnel shaft suspected of being a terrorist infrastructure. After locating the shaft, experts came to the area and confirmed the findings, and confirmed that it was not an archaeological infrastructure or a normal water cistern. We as a settlement cannot let this go. We will demand the demolition of the illegal buildings in Area C. We will do everything to make sure that the safety of the residents of Adora and the travelers on the axis is maintained.”

The IDF has found extensive tunnel networks in Jenin and elsewhere in Judea and Samaria. All of this should make anyone wonder - just how many terror tunnels are there in Judea and Samaria?