'There are no innocents in Gaza, that doesn't exist'

 

                       

 

'The Gazan workers who we allowed into Israel are the ones who prepared the maps and gave the information,' security committee chair says.

MK Tzvika Foghel (Otzma Yehudit), who serves as the head of the National Security Committee, on Thursday morning said that from his perspective, "there is no such thing as innocents in the Gaza Strip."

"The tune that we are hearing on the ground is one of attacks and targets, but when I hear words like, 'victory,' and 'eliminations,' I get the feeling that we have not yet internalized what we are dealing with. This is a worse enemy than the Nazis in how it treats Jews, and worse than ISIS in how it treats civilians. The goal must be complete destruction of the enemy," Foghel told Kol Hai Radio.

"From my perspective, there are no innocents. There are those who openly carry weapons, and there are those who right now are not fighting me openly. The workers who we allowed in here are the ones who prepared the maps and gave the information, and they are those who plundered us after Hamas came in. I hope that we finally start to understand this.

"If we do not ensure the continued existence of a Jewish state in this country, we will lose it," he warned.

Regarding whether the IDF will send ground forces into Gaza, Foghel said, "The air strikes serve the entry by ground forces. I prefer to wait a bit more and save the lives of the soldiers who will enter for a ground operation."

"There must not be Hamas or Hezbollah - just like they destroyed the Nazis," he stressed.

When asked about Israel's current emergency government, he explained, "There is no unity here. There is one important thing: That every soldier who goes out to fight and is willing to be killed will know that the entire leadership is sitting around the same table."

Responsibility for Hamas' attack on Israel, he said, rests among others on the shoulders of Ministers Benny Gantz and Gadi Eizenkot, who are former IDF Chiefs of Staff.

"History will yet judge the responsibility that Gantz and Eizenkot bear for this event, but if they want to be beside the table instead of my representative, I am willing to swallow that frog right now," he concluded.

Starbucks and Starbucks Workers United union SUE each other

Starbucks and the union organizing its workers sued each other Wednesday in a standoff sparked by a social media post over the Israel-Hamas war.

Starbucks sued Workers United in federal court in Iowa Wednesday, saying a pro-Palestinian social media post from a union account early in the Israel-Hamas war angered hundreds of customers and damaged its reputation.

Starbucks is suing for trademark infringement, demanding that Workers United stop using the name “Starbucks Workers United” for the group that is organizing the coffee company’s workers.

Starbucks also wants the group to stop using a circular green logo that resembles Starbucks’ logo.

Workers United responded with its own filing, asking a federal court in Pennsylvania to rule that it can continue to use Starbucks’ name and a similar logo.

Workers United also said Starbucks defamed the union by implying that it supports terrorism and violence.

Black Lady States: "I was a DEI director — DEI drives campus antisemitism"

 

The blatant antisemitism on college campuses has shocked millions of Americans over the past week and a half.

But not me.

I saw antisemitism on a weekly basis in my two years as a faculty “diversity, equity and inclusion” director.

In fact, I can safely say that toxic DEI ideology deliberately stokes hatred toward Israel and the Jewish people.

I was hired to head the DEI department at Silicon Valley’s De Anza College in 2021.

As a black woman, I was the perfect person for the job — on paper.

Yet I made the mistake of trying to create an authentically inclusive learning environment for everyone, including Jewish students.

Turns out, a toxic form of DEI (which is more accurately called “critical social justice”) demanded I do the opposite.

Finally!! Lets Get Rid of them all.....State Department official resigns over Biden’s support of Israel’s war against Hamas

A longtime State Department official resigned Wednesday over President Biden’s decision to provide lethal arms to Israel as it wages war on Hamas terrorists. 

Josh Paul, a now former senior official in the State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, publicly announced his resignation in a letter posted on his LinkedIn page, arguing that supplying Israel with lethal weaponry and ammunition is “impulsive” and “immensely disappointing.” 

“I made myself a promise that I would stay for as long as I felt the harm I might do could be outweighed by the good I could do,” Paul, who worked in the State Department division ​​overseeing arms sales, wrote in his note. “In my 11 years I have made more moral compromises than I can recall, each heavily, but each with my promise to myself in mind, and intact.”

“I am leaving today because I believe that in our current course with regards to the continued – indeed, expanded and expedited – provision of lethal arms to Israel – I have reached the end of that bargain,” he wrote. 

Man slugs woman in the face on NYC subway, tells her it’s because ‘you are Jewish’

 

A hate-filled brute punched a woman in the face in a Manhattan subway station over the weekend and told her he socked her because “you are Jewish,” according to police.

The stranger walked up and clobbered the 29-year-old woman inside the 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue subway station 7-train passageway at around 11:30 p.m. Saturday, cops said.

The shocked victim asked her attacker why he randomly slugged her when she did nothing to provoke him and he reportedly said his reason was “you are Jewish” and ran off, police said.

The woman suffered minor injuries.

Likud minister: The war hasn't started yet

 

Minister May Golan tells TalkTV about the horrors perpetrated by Hamas, blasts feminists for silence when Jewish women are raped and murdered. 'The Jewish people are now facing something that no person in his right mind can even realize.'

Ancient Shul and Kever In Tunisia Burned Over False Gaza Hospital Bombing Reports

 

On Tuesday evening, the el-Hamma Synagogue in the Gabès Governorate of Tunisia was reportedly set on fire. Footage of the incident shows no immediate response from police or emergency services.

The entrance of the site once held a plaque that read, in Hebrew, “In honor of the holy Kabbalist Rabbi Yassaf El-Ma’arabi, a student of the 16th-century Kabbalist Rabbi Yitzchak Luria.”

Though the synagogue in el-Hamma currently stands unused due to the absence of a Jewish community in the area, its significance remains. Follow-up videos from the subsequent morning depicted extensive fire damage to the shul complex and Arabic graffiti adorning the walls of the few rooms that remained untouched.

This incident occurred shortly after false media reports alleged that the Israel Defense Forces had bombed the Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza. However, US and Israeli officials, as well as independent intelligence analysts, have unanimously identified the cause of the explosion as a misguided rocket launched by the Gaza-based Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist organization.

Neither Tunisian nor international media outlets have covered the el-Hamma synagogue attack, completely blocking out its occurrence.

This event follows closely on the heels of a tragic terror assault in May at the historical El Ghriba Synagogue on the island of Djerba. According to the Tunisian Interior Ministry, a naval officer stationed on the island was the assailant, initially killing a colleague at his base. Afterward, he procured more ammunition and traveled to the synagogue, opening fire on the entrance guards. The attack resulted in four deaths, including two security personnel and two cousins: Benjamin Haddad, a 42-year-old French national, and Aviel Haddad, a 30-year-old dual citizen of France and Israel residing in Israel.

Additionally, ten individuals, comprising four worshipers and six security officers, sustained injuries and received medical attention at local hospitals.

“Should I Leave Israel? Should Yeshivah Bochurim Come Back? HaRav Zilberstein Responds

 HaRav Yitzchak Zilberstein has received thousands of shailos regarding the situation in Israel since the war began.

One of the shailos was from a woman living in Israel who is very fearful and asked whether she should travel to Chutz L’Eretz for a few weeks. [It is unclear whether the woman is a native Israeli or is originally from Chutz L’Eretz.]

HaRav Zilberstein responded: “Chav V’shalom to leave Eretz Yisrael – for it is the most kodesh place and at every moment you can fulfill the mitzvah of yishuv Eretz Yisrael.” The Rav also quoted the passuk in Ovadia: “ובהר ציון תהיה פליטה והיה קודש.”

HaRav Zilberstein was also asked by many yeshivah bochurim who live abroad whether they should return to Eretz Yisrael for the winter z’man.

HaRav Zilberstein responded that “there’s nothing to fear in Bnei Brak due to the promise of the Chazon Ish and there’s also a special shemirah in Yerushalayim, about which it’s said that it’s: “משוש כל הארץ.”

And in any event, HaRav Zilberstein continued, the bochurim are returning to learn Torah ‘ותורה מגנא ומצלא’ – so they have nothing to fear.

HaGaon HaRav Dov Landau also told yeshivah bochurim from Chutz L’Eretz who asked him to return to Eretz Yisrael to learn, saying: “Bochurim from Chutz L’Eretz who are not afraid and whose parents are not afraid should return to learn here and ‘ותורה מגנא ומצלא.'”

However, HaGaon HaRav Meir Tzvi Bergman last week expressed a different opinion, saying that bochurim who are still in Chutz L’Eretz should wait several weeks and shouldn’t come to Eretz Yisrael until matters become clear. “But they are obligated to be makpid to establish for themselves regular learning sedarim, tefillah, and mussar, wherever they live,” the Rosh Yeshivah wrote.

Regarding bochurim who are already in Eretz Yisrael, HaRav Bergman wrote: “The bochurim who are already in Eretz Yisrael should remain in their places of learning in the yeshivos hakedoshos. And they should greatly increase their chizzuk in diligence in Torah and in greater hakpadah on their sidrei limmud, tefilla and mussar.”

“And it’s unnecessary to say that they shouldn’t wander around outside at night, chalilah, and the zechus of the Torah HaKedoshah will protect them and us, as Torah protects and saves.”

Ha Ha ...Black Guy Trolls Neturei Karta Dope With Israeli Flag

 

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— Hasidic (@hasidic_1) October 18, 2023

U.S. is ramping up firepower in the Middle East to deter Iran from starting WWIII - with an armada of 13 warships, over 100 fighter jets, cruise missiles, spy planes and 2,000 amphibious special forces massing in the region

 

The United States is amassing a war machine in the Middle East in a clear message to Iran to stay on the sidelines as Israel prepares to launch a ground invasion into Gaza to destroy the terror group Hamas.

Within hours of the horrific onslaught on Israel by Hamas on Oct. 7 the U.S. began moving warships, jets and special forces to the region.

Two aircraft carriers including the world's largest - the USS Gerald R. Ford - have been sent to the eastern Mediterranean, along with scores of planes that could carry out air strikes.

Many more aircraft, including F-15 and F-16 fighter jet squadrons, have been dispatched to US military bases in the region, doubling the number available in the Persian Gulf.

Flight units that were due to come home soon have been told to stay.

Around 2,000 U.S. Marines trained in special operations and amphibious landings have also been redirected from an exercise in Kuwait, and are now on board two warships somewhere off the coast of Bahrain. 

The Pentagon is also preparing an additional 2,000 Army and Air Force personnel as a potential rapid response force. 

It reflects concern in Washington that Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based terrorist group, or Iran itself, could escalate the crisis into an even more devastating regional conflict.

The main aim of the U.S. military ramp up is to deter Iran and its proxies from making any aggressive move.