Black Parents Fed-Up With NYC Schools ...Want Out

 A growing legion of black parents in Queens say the Department of Education has failed their kids through mismanagement and neglect — fuelling an exodus out of the public school system.

Fed-up families in District 29 — a primarily black area which includes Hollis, Rosedale, and Cambria Heights — said the DOE has long tolerated abysmal math and English proficiency rates, despite high per-student spending.

“There are a lot of black middle-class homeowners here,” said local activist Michael Duncan of the newly formed Students Improvement Association. “These are successful people, successful families. The results in our schools are not reflective of the community. Something is wrong here.”

Duncan said many families — including his own — have been forced to pay out of pocket for private schools in recent years due to DOE dysfunction.

Duncan and the grassroots SIA have begun collecting and analyzing district statistics and promoting awareness among local parents.

“I think a lot of parents knew that it was bad,” he said. “But they didn’t know it was this bad.”

Despite spending roughly $27,000 per student, PS 134 in Hollis saw only 6 percent of 5th graders pass their 2019 state math proficiency test and 17 percent hit that minimal mark in English.

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Watch How Bais Yisrael Residents Welcome the Mayor of Yerushlayim Moshe Leon

 

Moshe Leon the mayor of Yerushalyim went to visit a Bais Yaakov in the Bais Yisrael neighborhood, this was his Kabolos Panim from the residents of Yerushalyim, these aren't the crazed "Aarelich" with the striped bathrobes, these are the regular residents....some with long white beards...and this wasn't a small group of "extremists,"  this was a mob ....screaming "Rasha" at him!

I don't get it ... they learn Torah, they learn mussar, they are seeking to figure out why we are having so many tragedies, why so many innocent lives were lost in the last year, and yet this is how they treat another Jew!

What did he do to them? He went to visit a Bais Yaakov? Is that now a crime?

He is a Shomer Torah Umitzvos, was endorsed by all the Gedoilim and this is how they treat him?

Is this what the Ribono Shel Oilim wants? 

You ...Yes I'm asking you!

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Frum Girls Attacked by Meah Shearim residents While Passing Through

 

קבוצה של בנות דתיות שבדרכן לריקודגלים מותקפות ע"י קיצוני מאה שערים
צילום @yedidya_epshtei pic.twitter.com/7TgCT4KR9P

— נעם | نوعام (@NoamRos1) June 15, 2021

We all suffered thru covid, we  suffered thru 4,000 rockets from our enemies, we suffered as arabs attacked us in Yerusalyim and in Lod ,we all mourned together when the Meron tragedy happened

Now frum girls walk in fear in the streets of Yerushlayim , not from arabs but from "frum" Jews...

I say tear down the entire neighborhood and build Hi-Rise buildings, let them move to the neighborhood of "Bnei Gad, Bnei Reuvein  and part Bnei Menashe, on the other side of the Jordan ....

How are they different than the Arabs throwing rocks at Jews?

Because they wear "shluf" kappelich? That's it, they are holy because they wear "shluf" kappelich!

How did they know where the girls were heading? 

Oh! They were going to the "flag parade" ....is it their business, where the girls were going to?

 Not one girl carried a flag, and all were dressed "tzeeneesdik"and even if they were carrying flags... 

 Are Meah Shearim residents Shvartzes and Puerto Ricans from The Bronx, that  no one they like can walk thru their neighborhoods? 

So smartphones are assur, but throwing and pelting Jewish girls is ok!

A group of religious girls were attacked by extremists while walking through the Meah Shearim neighborhood in Jerusalem on their way to the flag parade on Tuesday. 

The girls were pelted with water bags and catcalled by the extremist elements, who called the police.  When they arrived, police attempted to create a buffer between the protesters and the girls.

A bus carrying about 30 girls got stuck in the narrow streets of the neighborhood and the girls alighted in order to walk to the flag parade. However the extremists surrounded the bus and protested against the girls attire. They also complained about the flag parade, claiming that it was “provocation against the gentiles.” 

מהומות בירושלים: ערבים יידו אבנים לעבר שוטרי מג"ב, פרש אחד נפל מסוס pic.twitter.com/x7TjUJECBN

— מעריב אונליין (@MaarivOnline) June 15, 2021

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White House in Damage Control After Chaotic Start at Biden-Putin Summit ... Biden had no clue what was going on

 

President Biden on Wednesday called Russia a “great power” and appeared to nod when asked if he trusts Russian President Vladimir Putin, sending the White House into damage control amid an awkward introduction to the leaders’ first meeting of Biden’s presidency.

The summit got off to a chaotic start Wednesday inside the stately Villa de la Grange in Geneva, Switzerland, as reporters and security got into a shoving match that drowned out most of Biden’s opening remarks and at some points appeared to confuse the 46th president.

The US president seemed to put Russia on equal footing with the US, saying in remarks that were not initially audible to TV audiences, “We’re two great powers” — before nodding after a reporter asked if he trusts the Russian leader.

White House communications director Kate Bedingfield promptly tweeted a cleanup: “It was a chaotic scrum with reporters shouting over each other. [Biden] was very clearly not responding to any one question, but nodding in acknowledgment to the press generally. He said just two days ago in his presser: ‘verify, then trust.'”

Professing to trust Putin would draw poor headlines for Biden on the heels of provocative Russian war games near Hawaii just hours before the two leaders shook hands, and crippling Russia-based cyberattacks on US industries in recent weeks.

Biden’s introductory remarks were interrupted by a loud squabble among reporters and security, according to reporters in the room.

A pool report from Anita Kumar of Politico said that when reporters were allowed in, “we were pushed and shoved by security officials and Russian media. Poolers tripped over cords.”

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Video of Italy cable car disaster released

 

talian media published on Wednesday video footage of the deadly cable car disaster which occurred in northern Italy about three weeks ago.

14 people were killed in the accident, including five Israelis, all from the the same family.

The documentation shows the cable car advancing up the mountain, stopping, disconnecting from one of the cables to which it was connected and beginning to violently swing down the mountain before disconnecting from the line entirely and falling dozens of feet to the ground.

Meanwhile, the condition of 5-year-old Eitan Biran, who was seriously injured in the incident, continues to improve. Eitan was the sole survivor of the disaster. He lost his parents Amit Biran, 30, and Tal Peleg-Biran, 26, as well as his 2-year-old brother, Tom. Eitan's grandparents, Barbaria Cohen, 71, and Yitzhak Cohen, 81, also died in the accident. They were visiting their family in Italy in order to escape the Hamas rocket barrages at Tel Aviv over the previous two weeks.

Eitan was released from the hospital on Thursday.

The police in Italy have arrested three suspects - the director of the company which operates the cable car site, the business director and the head of the engineering department who told investigators: "it's all my fault. I will settle my account with G-d."

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EU high court tells rabbis to change rules of Shechitah

 

Jewish leaders in Europe say the European Union is not only banning some methods of kosher and halal slaughter, but telling Jews and Muslims how to practice their religions.

That’s according to many who have read a recent ruling by the EU’s highest court. It upholds bans in Belgium on producing kosher and halal meat, outlawing a practice whereby livestock is slaughtered without first being stunned electrically into unconsciousness.

Jewish and Muslims authorities forego stunning under similar religious laws that require animals be conscious when they are killed for meat. The court and animal rights activists say that’s cruel.

But the decision on Dec. 17 by the Court of the European Union goes a step further: Remarkably, the 11,000-word document suggests that Jews and Muslims should and could find a way to allow animals to be stunned using electricity.

This aspect of the ruling is already rekindling internal communal debates in Muslim and Jewish communities amid allegations that the court is eroding the separation of church and state. 

“That part of it is astonishing,” said Shimon Cohen, campaign director for Shechita UK, a London-based organization that lobbies against attempts to ban shechita, or kosher slaughter. A secular court does not have “the authority to tell people if they can practice elements of their faith. I may disagree with some of the restrictions, but not with the mandate. But a secular court has no right to tell me how to practice. That’s gross overreaching.”

Pinchas Goldschmidt, the president of the European Conference of Rabbis, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that for the court “to seek to define shechita is absurd.”

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Israeli’s new UK passport lists birthplace as ‘Occupied Palestinian Territories’

 

A Jerusalem-born Israeli woman with British citizenship said Wednesday she was shocked to discover that her new UK passport lists her birthplace as the “Occupied Palestinian Territories.”

Ayelet Balaban, whose father is British, was born at the Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital in Jerusalem.

The medical center sits within the territory that formed an Israeli exclave between the 1948 War of Independence and the 1967 Six Day War, at which time Israeli forces captured the surrounding area from Jordan. The Mount Scopus site, which the hospital shares with Hebrew University, was never part of Jordanian-controlled East Jerusalem.

Balaban applied for her new passport online and says she sent the old one by mail to the UK on May 23, two days after the end of the 11-day conflict between Hamas and Israel known as Operation Guardian of the Walls.

She said she received her new documentation back on Monday night.

“I was shocked to see that my place of birth was changed from Jerusalem to Occupied Palestinian Territories,” she told The Times of Israel.

Balaban initially thought that she had made a mistake in filling out the online form, or perhaps that the fact that she now lives in the relatively new Ganei Tal village, founded by settlers who left the Katif bloc in Gaza during Israel’s 2005 withdrawal from the Strip, had accounted for the policy.

“I never lived there [before 2005], but I thought that maybe they got mixed up. But the place where I live doesn’t even appear on my passport,” Balaban said.

Balaban and her husband Avi run a plant and flower nursery in Ashkelon. The nursery, which was hit by Hamas fire, was closed during the Gaza conflict in May.

“Living in the south, and working near the Gaza border, we had just [been through] the [military] operation and I was just completely shocked,” Balaban said. “After everything we’ve been through, how do you do this to my personal passport?”

“It really was a hard feeling, because we closed for 11 days,” she said. “We had rockets that fell in our greenhouses, so we couldn’t even go there.”

“We’ve just been trying to lick our wounds and it was been really shocking for me,” she said.

Balaban has not reached out to the UK embassy in Israel but when asked for a statement, the embassy said only that it was looking into the case.

Balaban said that her brother, who renewed his British passport two years ago, was still listed as being born in “Jerusalem,” leading her to believe that this could be a new policy.

She said she emailed Israeli Ambassador to the UK Tzipi Hotovely to seek an explanation, but has yet to hear back.

The listed place of birth for those born in Jerusalem was a contentious issue also for dual-US citizens, some of whom waged a long legal battle in order to have “Jerusalem, Israel” listed on their US passports instead of just Jerusalem.

In 2015, the US Supreme Court struck down a disputed 2002 law that would have allowed Americans born in Jerusalem to list their birthplace as Israel on their US passports. The court ruled 6-3 that Congress overstepped its bounds when it approved the law, which would have forced the State Department to alter its longstanding policy of not listing Israel as the birthplace for Jerusalem-born Americans.

But last year, then-US secretary of state Mike Pompeo announced a change in the longstanding State Department policy, allowing Jerusalem-born US citizens to decide if they want “Jerusalem, Israel” on their passports.

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Explosive! FBI Themselves Helped Organize Attack on the Capitol' Jan 6 ...To Make Sure the Demented Biden Gets In

 

Tucker Carlson claimed Tuesday that the Capitol rioters who were named as 'unindicted co-conspirators' in court documents, were actually federal agents, orchestrating the attack.

Carlson on Tuesday night referenced a report in Revolver News, which looked into the indictments of the around 400 people charged over the January 6 unrest.

More than 2,000 criminal charges have been filed against 411 suspects, including hundreds of felonies such as assaulting officers and trespassing with a weapon.

Carlson noted that many of the indictments mentioned 'unidentified co-conspirators.'

'Without fail, the government has thrown the book at most people who were present and in the Capitol on January 6,' he said. 'There was a nationwide dragnet to find them. Many of them are still in solitary confinement tonight.

'But strangely, some of the key people participating on January 6th have not been charged.

'Look at the documents, the government calls those people unindicted co-conspirators.

'What does that mean? It means that potentially with every single case they were FBI officers.

'Really, in the Capitol, on January 6th.'

Carlson pointed to the case of Thomas Caldwell, a 66-year-old former naval officer who allegedly conspired with members of the Oath Keepers to storm the Capitol.

Caldwell's charging document says that he spent the night before the riot staying in the same hotel as 'person two'.

Another individual, 'person three', led Caldwell to believe there would be a 'quick reaction force' participating in their storming of the Capitol.

'But wait, here's the interesting thing,' said Carlson.

'Person two and person three were organizers of the riot. The government knows who they are, but the government has not charged them.

'Why is that? You know why. They were almost certainly working for the FBI.

'So FBI operatives were organizing the attack on the Capitol on January 6th. According to government documents.'

Carlson said that there were more than 20 unindicted co-conspirators mentioned in the Oath Keeper indictments, 'all playing roles in the conspiracy who have not been charged for virtually the exact same activities.'

He concluded: 'So it turns out that this white supremacist insurrection was again, by the government's own admission in these documents, organized at least in part by government agents.'

The Fox News host pointed out that Merrick Garland, the Attorney General, had identified white supremacist groups as the biggest domestic terror threat currently confronting the United States.

But, he said, the FBI had a long history of tracking and infiltrating them.

Carlson noted that two people involved in the plot to kidnap and kill Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer last year were FBI agents, and said that a 2015 Islamist terrorist in Garland, Texas, had been texting with an FBI agent.

'So because of January 6th, says the chief law enforcement officer in the United States of America and other members of Joe Biden's cabinet, we must now use law enforcement and military force to arrest, imprison, and otherwise crush anyone who leads opposition to Joe Biden's government,' Carlson said.

'That is their position, for they said that out loud, they did today.

'We are living through the transformation of a formerly democratic republic and to something else.

'This is an authoritarian system.'

Carlson also questioned why more than 10,000 hours of footage from the Capitol riot were yet to be released, and why the member of the Capitol Police who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt had not been named.

'What could possibly be the reason for that?' Carlson asked.

'Even as they call for more openness.

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AP Says It Will No Longer Name Suspects In Minor Crimes

 

The Associated Press said Tuesday it will no longer run the names of people charged with minor crimes, out of concern that such stories can have a long, damaging afterlife on the internet that can make it hard for individuals to move on with their lives.

In so doing, one of the world’s biggest newsgathering organizations has waded into a debate over an issue that wasn’t of much concern before the rise of search engines, when finding information on people often required going through yellowed newspaper clippings.

Often, the AP will publish a minor story — say, about a person arrested for stripping naked and dancing drunkenly atop a bar — that will hold some brief interest regionally or even nationally and be forgotten the next day.

But the name of the person arrested will live on forever online, even if the charges are dropped or the person is acquitted, said John Daniszewski, AP’s vice president for standards. And that can hurt someone’s ability to get a job, join a club or run for office years later.

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Chassidishe Guy's "Open Letter to the Public" About Chassidishe Life

 

Doniel Katz & His Family 

There's something I need to get off my chest.

I'm an Ultra-Orthodox, Chassidic, Hareidi Jew. I live in Jerusalem, in an area that is exclusively Ultra-Orthodox Hareidi for street after street, suburb after suburb, for miles and miles. In all of these neighborhoods where the roads are blocked off and no cars drive on Shabbos, each black-hat-wearing family has many many children and literally no TV’s. I personally only ever wear black and white clothes, my wife only dresses in Chassidic levels of tznius (modesty), and my boys and girls all attend mainstream Hareidi Chassidic schools where the main language is Yiddish. My kids don’t and never will have smartphones, nor have they ever been on the internet at all. Period. They don’t know what social media is and they’ve never seen a movie — not even Disney animation. 

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Satmar Rebbe Describes His "Fear" riding thru the "shetachim" in Israel .....

 What's funny is that he doesn't mention that he never stepped into Bnei-Brak, during this entire trip, and thats because he "feared" a rebellion within his own faction in Bnei Brak ....as we reported previously, there is a civil-war within the Israeli Ahroinim itself ...

In this video he tells the story of when his ancestor the Yismach Moshe travelled to Bereksaz from his hometown Ihel. On the way back some chassidim suggested that he detour to Munkatch, but he replied that he wants to go directly home.

Well, some "chachamim" had other ideas and they paid the driver to detour and head towards Munkatch anyway... on the way he asked those accompanying him "where are we going?" and they admitted that they were detouring to Munkatch... he asked that they go back towards Ihel.

One of those accompanying the Yismach Moshe, wondered how the Yismach Moshe knew that this was a detour since there was no indication on the road where they were heading?

So the Yismach Moshe related, that once the Viener Rav was heading to a town and some of his followers wanted to detour to another town despite the wishes of the  Viener Rav who wanted to go directly to the town. On the way he asked "where are we heading to"? and they admitted that they were detouring to another town because people over in the other town very much wanted to see him, he asked that they go directly to the town that he had chosen... when they asked the Viener Rav how he knew they detoured, he responded that when he travels, he sees the Name of Hashem in front of him and that he noticed that the letters of Hashem were jumbled! 

The Yismach Moshe said that he also sees Hashem's Name and he saw that the letters weren't in the same order that he usually sees when he travels.

So the Satmar Rebbe continued, saying that after staying in Teverye they decided early in the morning to head back to the airport, but that instead of going "bederech ha'melech" the driver was going thru the Arab villages, where the "rotizchim" live 

“We followed a car that showed us the way,” the Rebbe recalled, “and we passed localities where Arabs live, or as it is called, the ‘territories.’ We passed near the communities of the settlers and I saw places where it was written, ‘Here was murdered’ – places where people were murdered in the past, and I sensed true terror and fear,” the Rebbe continued.

He asked "where are we going"? 

When the driver said that this route is the fastest at this time; he began to fear for his life, and was never as scared in his entire life and was sure that he wouldn't make it out alive, and even though he is now back in the States, he still cannot get past this unbelievable fear that he had ...and when he made the blessing of "goimel" he said like he never said it before ...

 not just for having survived the transatlantic flight  “but I think the danger I felt when we passed those places was greater than the danger of the flight. It’s true that I crossed above the sea, but the danger of the wild animals in the desert is greater, and I want to thank God that nothing happened to anyone.”

He did say that he didn't see the Name of Hashem....in any order

Here in Israel, people are laughing and joking saying that at least by driving thru the "shatichim" he survived and that he would have never survived had he stepped into Bnei Brak!

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"Miron Sh'Miron" ..Bnei Brak Residents Continue to Build Illegal Dangerous add-ons "Tragedy Waiting to Happen"

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Black Girl Points Out "apartheid" in Israel ..."The truth about Zionism"

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Jon Stewart Crushes Media's Denial of Wuhan Lab Theory

 

Jon Stewart stuns liberals: Crushes media's denials of Wuhan Lab theory on late night television in hilarious fashion. Watch:🔻 pic.twitter.com/LIEe1wsIGX

— Becker News (@NewsBecker) June 15, 2021

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This is the guy who will stand up to Putin

 

Listen to these questions from CNN's Jeff Zeleny and then President Biden's attempt to answer them.

This isn't some sort of stuttering thing. He's totally lost here. He's not with it at all. pic.twitter.com/Z2UgMyr8a3

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) June 14, 2021

This is who we expect to stand up to Putin? https://t.co/6kQNFjNHhJ

— US Rep. Mike Turner (@RepMikeTurner) June 15, 2021

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IDF attacks Hamas in Gaza for the firing of incendiary balloons

 

Over the past day, arson balloons were launched from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory. In response, overnight, IAF fighter jets struck military compounds belonging to the Hamas terror organization, which were used for terror activities. pic.twitter.com/1HgZwERaKh

— Israeli Air Force (@IAFsite) June 16, 2021

For the first time since Prime Minister Naftali Bennett took office, the IDF attacked targets in the Gaza Strip overnight Tuesday in retaliation for the firing of incendiary balloons from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory.

The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said that fighter jets attacked Hamas military compounds that served as camps and meeting places for terrorists in the Khan Yunis and Gaza brigades.

Terrorist activity took place in the compounds that were targeted, according to the statement.

"The Hamas terrorist organization is responsible for what is happening in the Gaza Strip and will bear the consequences of its actions. The IDF is prepared for all scenarios, including the resumption of hostilities, in the face of continued terrorist operations from the Gaza Strip," the IDF statement said. 

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Meron Claims Another Victim as Shlomo Rotenberg, 22, who was to be married next week Killed in Car Accident on his Way Back from Meron

 

We must ask ourselves whether R' Shimon ben Yochai really wants us there!

The man killed in a Monday car accident on Route 90 has been identified as Shlomo Rotenberg, a 22-year-old who was to be married next week.

Rotenberg's wedding had been scheduled for next Wednesday and was to be held in the Heichalei Malchut hall in Bnei Brak.

According to his friends, he traveled to Meron on Monday to pray at the gravesite of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai (Rashbi), ahead of his wedding. The accident occurred as he was traveling back home.

In the accident, which occurred on Route 90 near Al-Auja in the Jericho area, a truck rammed into Rotenberg's vehicle. Magen David Adom (MDA) paramedics declared Rotenberg's death at the scene and provided medical treatment to the truck driver, who had suffered light injuries.

Rotenberg's body was extracted from his vehicle by firefighters from the Samaria Regional Station. Fireman officer Yossi Dahari, who was the shift manager, said: "When we arrived at the scene of the incident, we discovered a very difficult scene - that of a road accident between a private vehicle and a truck, in which the private vehicle was ripped apart from the force of the impact, and it's driver was in his seat and no longer looked human."

"Medical forces declared the vehicle's driver dead. Afterwards, we began difficult and complex extraction operations...in order to extract the dead man's body with a maximum of care and sensitivity for corpse."

Magen David Adom paradmedics Roman Belman and Daniel Mossai said: "We saw that there had been a very serious accident between a private car and a truck. The car was completely crushed, and a man in his 30s was trapped in it. We conducted medical examinations but he had no signs of life and we declared his death at the scene. The truck driver was treated at the scene and evacuated to Emek Medical Center in light condition."

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Despite concerns, flag march will go ahead as planned

 

by Yoav Limor

Within the first 48 hours of its inception, Naftali Bennett's new government is facing its first security-diplomatic test. The so-called flag march set to take place Tuesday evening in Jerusalem has the potential to spark a possible escalation in the south and as a result – a political crisis.

Despite this, and perhaps because of it, new Public Security Minister Omer Bar-Lev decision to approve the parade was the correct choice. The Bennett government doesn't want to begin its tenure by caving to a Hamas ultimatum. Doing so would put it in an uncomfortable position, as the perception would be one of weakness both externally and internally.

Across the board, therefore, the professional opinion was that the march must go ahead. However, similar to last week – when the march was postponed due to recommendations from these very officials – the decision was made to hold the march but to alter its route to minimize friction with the city's Palestinian population. Hence the parade will not pass through Damascus Gate; the marchers will be allowed to dance and celebrate in the plaza outside the Old City and then walk along the outer walls toward Jaffa Gate, enter the Old City from there, and then make their way to the Western Wall.

This is a reasonable route, which on one hand takes into account the right to freedom of movement and the need to express Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem, and on the other hand the security needs and desire to avoid a provocation that could instigate violent riots in Jerusalem and beyond. It will allow Israel to claim it did not bow to ultimatums and threats, while the Palestinians will be able to say they "prevented harm to Al-Aqsa."

Naturally, the march will require the attention of the defense establishment. While the police will secure the marchers with extra units, the IDF and Shin Bet will look to the south in anticipation of a possible response from Hamas. The previous flag march, on Jerusalem Day, was disrupted by missile fire at the city, which led to Operation Guardian of the Walls. This time, the belief is that Hamas is deterred and won't act in such a brazen manner; and that if it does react – and defense officials disagree whether Hamas will respond with words only or with action – it will opt for something relatively minor in scope, such as launching incendiary balloons or a single rocket (which will likely be fired by some recalcitrant group), to ingrain the idea of its connection to Jerusalem.

Israel has already declared it will view any action of this sort as a gross violation of the ceasefire and will respond harshly. The response threshold approved by the outgoing government, following sweeping recommendations from defense officials, is to henceforth respond disproportionately to any act of aggression from Gaza to establish and maintain strong deterrence against Hamas.

This outline could be put to the test on Tuesday evening, although it's reasonable to assume that decision-makers in both Israel and Gaza don't want matters to escalate to the point of a broad conflagration. The sides are supposed to begin long-term ceasefire talks soon, but the gaps are considerable and the Israeli demand to condition any progress on resolving the matter of its captive fallen soldiers and living civilians does not portend imminent progress. This will most likely result in growing aggravation in Gaza (also due to the blockage of Qatari cash), which Hamas could soon express by seeking to raise tensions, in a controlled manner, in the south.

This will obligate Israel, at some point, to "go crazy" on Gaza. This will be one of the new government's first challenges, which it should only seek to tackle after discussions and defining a clear strategy and at the time of its choosing (not when Hamas decides). Israel, therefore, needs to get through the event as peaceably as possible and move forward, fully aware that the next test on the Gaza front is already just around the corner.

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