Gazans to be resettled in East Africa?

 

The US and Israel have spoken to officials in three East African countries, seeking potential destinations for emigrating Gazans, the Associated Press reported Friday morning, quoting American and Israeli officials.

Contact was made with Sudan, Somalia, and Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia. Officials from Sudan rejected the US proposal, but those from Somalia and Somaliland told AP that they were not aware of any discussions.

Trump first brought up his plan for the US to take over Gaza and rehabilitate it in February, during a press conference at the White House with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

While Arab countries have criticized the plan, Netanyahu praised Trump’s plan during an interview with Fox News, saying, “This is the first good idea that I've heard. It's a remarkable idea. And I think it should be really examined, pursued and done, because I think it will create a different future for everyone.”

However, Trump said he is in no rush to implement the plan.

Boehler Kicked Out of Hamas Hostage Negotiations

 

 Adam Boehler, President Trump’s special envoy for hostage affairs, has been removed from the Israeli hostage file following mounting criticism from Republican lawmakers over his controversial remarks regarding Hamas. Jewish Insider reports that the decision to sideline Boehler comes after his media blitz last weekend, where his comments downplaying Israeli concerns about Hamas sparked outrage.

During interviews on Fox News, CNN, and several Israeli channels, Boehler made headlines when he suggested that Hamas officials were “pretty nice guys” and stated that the U.S. was “not an agent of Israel.” His comments were met with swift condemnation from GOP leaders, including those with strong pro-Israel stances.

In response to the backlash, the White House assured both Israeli leaders and GOP lawmakers that Boehler would be pulled from the Israeli hostage file. Despite this action, some Republican senators have called for Boehler’s complete removal from his role, citing a loss of trust in his ability to represent U.S. interests in the region.

Boehler’s nomination to become the ambassador for hostage affairs, which requires Senate confirmation, remains in limbo as Republicans weigh their next steps.

Netanyahu to Visit Hungary Despite International Arrest Warrant

 

 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit Hungary in the coming weeks, a Hungarian minister said Thursday, despite an international arrest warrant for the Israeli leader over the war in the Gaza Strip.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s chief of staff, Gergely Gulyás, told a news conference in Budapest that Netanyahu would likely visit Hungary before Easter, which falls this year on April 20.

Orbán, a right-wing populist and close Netanyahu ally, had earlier vowed to disregard the International Criminal Court warrant against the Israeli leader, accusing the world’s top war crimes court based in The Hague of “interfering in an ongoing conflict for political purposes.”

Member countries of the ICC, such as Hungary, are required to detain suspects facing a warrant if they set foot on their soil, but the court has no way to enforce that. Several European countries that are members of the court have declared they would enforce the warrant if Netanyahu were to enter their territory.

The ICC issued the arrest warrant in November for Netanyahu as well as for his former defense minister and Hamas’ military chief, accusing them of crimes against humanity in connection with the war in Gaza.

The warrants said there was reason to believe Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant used “starvation as a method of warfare” by restricting humanitarian aid and intentionally targeted civilians in Israel’s campaign against Hamas in Gaza — charges Israeli officials deny.

On Thursday, Gulyás said he would “very much support” Hungary withdrawing from the ICC, claiming it had “lost its meaning by conducting political instead of legal activities.” Hungary’s government, however, has not made any decision on the matter, he added.

Neither Israel nor its close ally the United States is a a member of or recognizes the ICC, the world’s only permanent global tribunal for war crimes and genocide.

Last month President Donald Trump signed an executive order imposing sanctions on the court over investigations of Israel. The order accused the ICC of engaging in “illegitimate and baseless actions targeting America and our close ally Israel” and of abusing its power by issuing “baseless arrest warrants” against Netanyahu and Gallant.

Sorotzkin Made his Child's Wedding all about Him! You would never know that this was a wedding! They Sang Neturei Karta Songs

 

This was a spectacle for the books! A friend of mine who attended the wedding told me that he never saw the Chassan, all he saw was S.B Sorotzkin, he admitted that he wasn't there for the entire wedding but for the two hours that he was there, he thought that he was at a tish of some rebbe! 

At this holy event of his child getting married he made sure to have a singer that denigrated the State, though he gets 25 million Shekel a year from the Zionists! 

Thousands of yeshiva bochurim and avreichim from the Ateret Shlomo mosdos participated on Tuesday evening at the chasunah of the son of the Rosh Yeshivah, HaGaon HaRav Shalom Ber Sorotzkin, and the granddaughter of HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Soloveitchik, which was held at the D-CITY hall in Ma’ale Adumim, near Jerusalem.

At one point, singer Ahrele Samet, who is a Toldos Aharon chassid, began singing the Toldos Aharon song:

 “ד’ הוּא מַלְכֵּנוּ וְלוֹ אֲנַחְנוּ עֲבָדִים, הַתּוֹרָה הִיא אֱמוּנָתֵנוּ וּבָהּ אֲנַחְנוּ מַאֲמִינִים. בְּשִׁלְטֹון הַכּוֹפְרִים אֵין אָנוּ מַאֲמִינִים, אֵין אָנוּ מַאֲמִינִים וּבְחֻקּוֹתֵיהֶם אֵין אָנוּ מִתְחַשְּׁבִים, אֵין אָנוּ מִתְחַשְּׁבִים. בְּדֶרֶךְ הַתּוֹרָה נֵלֵךְ בָּאֵשׁ וּבַמַּיִם”.

But he sang the song with a twist: “ובשלטון הכופרים אין אנו מאמינים” [we don’t believe in the heretical government], “ובלשכותיהם אין אנו מתייצבים” [we won’t be recruited to their offices] – a reference to the current efforts to recruit bnei yeshivos – ending with “בדרך התורה נלך באש ובמים.”

Videos of the song posted by Israeli media outlets on Wednesday morning led to a political uproar, with politicians slamming the calls for draft evasion at a holy event no less! 

Democrats’ Israel betrayal: How the party flipped on its staunchest ally

 

The arrest of the student who organized anti-Israel demonstrations at Columbia University has provoked an escalating row about free speech.

Columbia has been the epicenter of the harassment and intimidation of Jewish students on campuses around America, as part of a globally orchestrated campaign against Israel’s war in Gaza following the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, massacres.

The Columbia ringleader, Mahmoud Khalil, a 30-year-old Syrian of Palestinian-Arab descent, was arrested over the weekend by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and faces having his green card revoked.

A judge Monday temporarily blocked any attempt to deport him.

The Department of Homeland Security said Khalil had “led activities aligned to Hamas.”

Yet Senate Judiciary Democrats tweeted: “Free Mahmoud Khalil.”

Other Democratic lawmakers, along with civil-rights activists and advocacy groups, have protested that Khalil is being targeted merely for expressing support for the Palestinians.

Such indifference to the outrageous lawbreaking, harassment and intimidation that has consumed universities, which have echoed for months chants for Israel’s destruction and the murder of Jews, throws into even sharper relief the shocking revelation that support for Israel in America has fallen to below 50% for the first time.

The latest Gallup polling revealed only 46% of Americans say their sympathies lie more with Israel than the Palestinians, while 33%.

Thirty-three percent sympathize more with the Palestinians, up by 6 percentage points from last year.

How could this have happened?

American support for Israel has long been as reliable as the sun rising in the morning.

Israel is not only regarded as America’s indispensable bulwark in the Middle East; Americans’ support for it has been more full-throated and emotional than among many Jewish communities around the world.

The huge drop in support overall has been caused by Democrat supporters, who have registered a stunning 59% support for the Palestinians versus only 21% for Israel.

In sharp contrast, Republicans support Israel over the Palestinians 75% to 10%.

In other words, Israel has become a partisan issue.

So why have the Democrats turned against the Jewish state?

Gabbard reconsiders appointment of critic of Israel’s war in Gaza

 Tulsi Gabbard, the US director of national intelligence, decided against appointing a critic of Israel’s war in Gaza to a key position responsible for managing presidential briefings, after the proposed appointment caused concern within President Trump's coalition, The New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing sources familiar with the matter.

Daniel Davis, a senior fellow at a Washington think tank known for his skepticism about US military intervention overseas, had been under consideration for the role of deputy director for mission integration. This influential position oversees the President’s Daily Brief, a critical collection of intelligence assessments provided to the White House and top policymakers.

The news of the potential appointment led to backlash from right-wing figures. A senior administration official confirmed to The New York Times that Gabbard reconsidered her decision after the criticism, a sentiment echoed by other officials.

Before the appointment was rescinded, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) condemned it, calling Davis' potential role “extremely dangerous.” In a social media post, the ADL accused Davis of downplaying the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack and undermining American support for Israel.

Davis' candidacy also stirred opposition from pro-Israel conservatives in Congress, who quietly lobbied the administration to reconsider. They feared that Davis' opposition to the Gaza war could undermine Trump's support for Israel.

Supporters of Davis defended him, asserting that there was no indication of antisemitism in his work. They explained that he is critical of military interventions that do not serve US interests, and he is particularly concerned with the use of proxies in situations where the US is unwilling to deploy its own forces.

The New York Times noted that, despite Trump’s calls for Gazans to be removed from Gaza to facilitate its redevelopment, Davis has described such actions as “ethnic cleansing.” In January, he wrote on social media that US support for Israel’s actions in Gaza was a “stain on our character as a nation, as a culture, that will not soon go away.”

The report also noted that, while Gabbard has remained relatively quiet on the Gaza conflict, many of Davis’ views align closely with hers and he has also expressed support for Gabbard’s foreign policy stance on social media.

Rav Sholom Ber Sorotzkin who "schnoored" For his Child's Extravagant Wedding Calls On Students ‘Not To Enlist’ At the Wedding

Harav Sorotzkin on his smartphone 

Rav S.B. Sorotzkin's entire success is because by enrolling in his institutions, a bochur avoids the draft. If there was no IDF requirement for anyone to enlist he would have empty institutions. There are no מר-ברב אשי is any of his Yeshivos, and his institutions have not produced one single known Torah Scholar! It is no surprise that at his own child's wedding which cost over 250,000 shekels, he would call on his naive sheep not to enlist! If they would G-d Forbid enlist, Sorotzkin would be out of business! And the sheer chutzpa of this "Smartphone Owning" R'Y to call against enlisting while taking 25 million shekels a year from the Zionist government! 

 Rabbi Sholom Ber Sorotzkin, the head of the Ateres Shlomo Torah network of institutions, celebrated the wedding of his daughter at the D-City complex in Maale Adumim together with thousands of students from the yeshivos. During the course of the dancing, Rabbi Sorotzkin sang the anthem of Neturei Karta “We don’t believe in the government of the heretics”, changing some of the words to stress that “We do not enlist at their offices”, in a reference to the demand by the Defense Ministry that tens of thousands of charedim should enlist in the IDF.

Rabbi Sorotzkin’s wedding did not go unnoticed by opposition MKs, who were incensed that the rabbi expressed the anti-Israel sentiments of Neturei Karta despite receiving 50 million NIS for his institutions in the past two years, or about a third of his entire budget.

אלפי בחורי ישיבות חרדים בחתונת בנו של הרב שלום בער סורוצקין ראש מוסדות עטרת שלמה. שרים בלהט נגד גיוס לצבא: "ובלשכותיהם אין אנו מתייצבים, בשלטון הכופרים אין אנו מאמינים - בדרך התורה נלך באש ובמים" pic.twitter.com/HySTj3a8WB

— יואלי ברים yoeli brim (@yoeli_brim) March 11, 2025

אשרי העם שככה לו: אלפים בשמחת בית עטרת שלמה לכבוד נישואי בנו של ראש הישיבה הגרש״ב סורוצקין במרכז מתחם די סיטי pic.twitter.com/hcRKnD8DOc

— יעקב מלמד (@yaakov_melamed) March 11, 2025

Trump Correctly Points Out That Schumer is a "Palestinian" He is Not Jewish

 

"Schumer is a Palestinian as far as I'm concerned. He's become a Palestinian. He used to be Jewish. He's not Jewish anymore. He's a Palestinian."

Air Canada’s flight map deliberately removed Israel, replacing it with “Palestinian Territories.”

 

Tulsi Gabbard Taps an Anti-Israel commentator as her deputy director

 Daniel Davis, a senior fellow at the isolationist Defense Priorities think tank with a record of strident criticism of Israel, has been tapped as a deputy director of national intelligence, three sources with knowledge of the selection told Jewish Insider. Davis has also lambasted U.S. support for the war in Gaza as a moral and strategic mistake.

He has opposed military action to destroy Iran’s nuclear program, and suggested that it is only U.S. and Israeli policy and actions that are pushing Iran toward pursuing a nuclear weapon.

Three sources told JI that Davis, a retired military officer and early critic of the Afghanistan war, has been offered and accepted the position of deputy DNI for mission integration, one of the top jobs at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence under DNI Tulsi Gabbard, and is waiting on the completion of his background check.

The mission integration role “serves as the DNI’s principal advisor on all aspects of intelligence,” according to the DNI website, and does not require Senate confirmation.

Davis joins a growing series of appointees in key positions across a number of national security agencies who fall far outside of the mainstream on Israel and Middle East policy, several of whom, including Michael DiMino, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East, and Dan Caldwell, a Pentagon senior advisor, are also alumni of the Koch-linked Defense Priorities.

As recently as Jan. 12, Davis called U.S. support for the war in Gaza a mistake.