בתקשורת הבינלאומית ממשיכים לעוות את המציאות ולהציג את הנרטיב השקרי החמאסי. חייבים להילחם בכל תוכנית! pic.twitter.com/worBdAkfa1
— איילת שקד Ayelet Shaked (@Ayelet__Shaked) October 18, 2023
“I don’t speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don’t have the power to remain silent.” Rav Kook z"l
בתקשורת הבינלאומית ממשיכים לעוות את המציאות ולהציג את הנרטיב השקרי החמאסי. חייבים להילחם בכל תוכנית! pic.twitter.com/worBdAkfa1
— איילת שקד Ayelet Shaked (@Ayelet__Shaked) October 18, 2023
The central decision is that "Israel will not allow any humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip as long as the hostages are not returned."
In addition, the message stated that: "Israel demands that the Red Cross visit the hostages and is working to enlist international support for this demand."
The Prime Minister's Office added: "In light of Biden's demands, Israel will not stop the provision of humanitarian aid from Egypt as long as it is only food, water, and medications for the civilian population that are in the southern Gaza Strip or are evacuating there, and as long as those supplies don't reach Hamas. Any supplies that reach Hamas will be stopped."
Amid US President Joe Biden's solidarity visit to Israel, MK Amit Halevi took to social media to refute the president's statement that "Hamas does not represent all the Palestinian people, and has brought them only suffering."
"No, President Joe Biden, no!" MK Halevi wrote, "Today you declared that 'we need to remember that Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people.' Well, no. This is a fundamental mistake that endangers Israel's security and future."
Halevi explains: "Nearly 2 million reside in the Gaza Strip. 80% of them were educated by Hamas and its objective to destroy Israel since Hamas brutally took control of Gaza in 2007. The adults among them were the ones who elected Hamas in a free election in 2006, in which it won.
Thus, contrary to your statement, today in the Gaza Strip, approximately 2 million people support Hamas, whose hearts are filled with a deranged religious hatred towards Jews and Israel.
This, Mr. President, is why masses of citizens participated in the horrific massacre and openly expressed sadistic pleasure from acts of rape, beheading, and the burning of infants.
This is also the reason why their supporters in the Palestinian Authority and around the world justify these actions by Hamas."
Halevi concludes: "And why is your mistake so critical? Because if you came here to rescue some hostages, to demonstrate our friendship, but still ensure that by the end of the war, Israel doesn't control the Gaza Strip, and the life there returns to normal, then – Don’t!"
Here's a story for you about how the news industry works.
— Daniel Rubenstein (@paulrubens) October 17, 2023
Earlier tonight, the group that invaded Israel, massacred 1000+ people, burned families to death in their homes, took hostages back to Gaza, and recorded it all with GoPros – this group announced that Israel bombed a… pic.twitter.com/6vX6Cuc5Rx
Pierre Poilievre casually smacks down a left wing journalist while munching on an apple. pic.twitter.com/FeAcjCncvw
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) October 17, 2023
Wow! What a speech! This is the most incredible articulate speech I have heard in a very long time.
Sorry guys, do not have the time to translate the speech in English, but you get the gist.
If any reader wants to translate be my guest and I will post it here!
A former ally of ex-prime minister and defense minister Ehud Barak blamed him Tuesday for the Hamas invasion October 7 in which its terrorists murdered some 1,400 men, women and children and took more than 200 people as hostages into the Gaza Strip.
Haim Rimon, once a senior member of the Labor party and an ally of Barak, excoriated the former premier in a post to Twitter/X, accusing him of being the “father” of Israel’s policy of containment for Hamas, which Rimon said ultimately led to last week’s massacre.
“When Ehud Barak was interviewed today and explained that it is impossible to completely wipe out Hamas in the Gaza Strip and that it is only necessary to eliminate its operational capabilities, we must remember that he is the father of the concept of ‘coexistence’ with the Hamas regime,” Ramon posted to X.
This concept “that Barak conceived and promoted is the basis of the failure that allowed the terrible massacre,” he wrote. “Barak is responsible for the concept that failed, and despite this he calls for it to be added and maintained and still opposes the elimination of Hamas rule in the Gaza Strip.”
Ramon was justice minister when Barak was defense minister in Ehud Olmert’s government in 2007 and came up with the idea when Hamas wrested power over the coastal enclave from the Palestinian Authority in a violent coup, Ramon wrote.
He claimed that he had “strongly opposed” Barak’s concept, demanding “the overthrow of Hamas’ rule,” but that the defense minister had favored containment of the terror instead to the villages in the south.
Ramon also took issue with Barak’s charge, posted to X, that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whom he has worked for years to topple, was the only one responsible for strengthening Hamas. While Netanyahu is “foremost” at fault for preserving the operational concept, Barak is “right behind him on the list,” he wrote.
Presumably Netanyahu should get the lion’s share of the blame because of his 16 years at the country’s helm, when the phrase “mow the grass” became a euphemism describing the military operations Israel has executed against the terror regime every few years to deter it after periodic rounds of mass rocket launches and other terror attacks against the Jewish state’s civilian population.
According to Ramon, Barak had even “tried to prevent Operation Cast Lead,” the first of these missions, under Olmert, and after the government overrode his opposition, “he worked ceaselessly to stop it. Towards the end of Cast Lead, when we could have liquidated the entire leadership of Hamas, which was hiding under the Shifa Hospital, Barak threw all his weight into preventing their elimination
“Unfortunately,” he concluded, “all those who rightly demand that Netanyahu acknowledge his responsibility, for some reason exempt Barak from his responsibility and even avoid mentioning who it was who came up with the concept and led it for years.”
Israel declared war on Hamas the day after its mass attack, and is now poised at the border for a land invasion involving masses of ground troops and armored columns. Netanyahu has vowed to utterly destroy the terror organization.
An Israel Defense Forces airstrike in Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighborhood killed 14 relatives of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, health authorities in the Gaza Strip claimed on Tuesday. The terror leader’s brother and nephew were killed in the alleged strike, reports said. Haniyeh himself resides in Qatar, where he has an office under the protection of the Gulf Arab country’s government.
Shortly after the reported airstrike, terrorists in Gaza fired heavy barrages of rockets at southern and central Israel, with alarms sounding in major cities, including Rishon Letzion, Petach Tikvah, Bnei Brak, Ramat Gan and Bat Yam.
Earlier on Tuesday, Hamas said that Ayman Nofal, a member of the General Military Council of its Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, died in an IDF airstrike.
“We just eliminated Ayman Nofal, a senior Hamas operative,” the IDF confirmed in a post on X (formerly Twitter).
According to the Israeli military, “Nofal directed many attacks against Israeli civilians and besides being one of the most dominant figures in the terrorist organization, he was involved in the planning of the abduction of Gilad Shalit.”
“We won’t stop until we eliminate Hamas,” concluded the post.
The military’s ‘top priority’
President Joe Biden landed Wednesday morning at Ben Gurion Airport for a snap visit of several hours to discuss with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the war cabinet the campaign against Hamas. Biden was greeted and hugged by Netanyahu and President Herzog, who told him: “Welcome President, God bless you for your defense of Israel.”
Well, that remains to be seen. Many on Israel’s right have been wondering if the burgeoning American presence on Israel’s shores, including a contingency of some 2,000 marines, is aimed at halting a potential second front with Iran’s proxy Hezbollah, or at making sure that the Israeli victory for which many IDF soldiers will, God forbid, shed their blood, would conclude in Pax Americana installing Mahmoud Abbas as President of the State of Palestine on either side of Israel.
Meanwhile, according to Ynet, citing American and Israeli sources, the US has been convinced by evidence that was provided by the IDF that it was a misfired Islamic Jihad rocket that landed on the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza, killing 500.
Hamas operative #1: I'm telling you this is the first time that we see a missile like this falling.
Hamas operative #2: And so that's why we are saying it belongs to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Hamas operative #1: What?
Hamas operative #2: They are are saying it belongs to PIJ.
Hamas operative #1: It's from us?
Hamas operative #2: It looks like it!
Hamas operative #1: Who says this?
Hamas operative #2: They are saying that the shrapnel from the missile is local shrapnel and not like Israeli shrapnel.
Hamas operative #1: What are you saying (Name)?
Hamas operative #2: But God Bless, it couldn't have found another place to explode?
Hamas operative #1: Nevermind, yes, (Name), they shot it from the cemetery behind the hospital.
Hamas operative #2: What?!
Hamas operative #1: They shot it coming from the cemetery behind the Al-Ma'amadani Hospital, and it misfired and fell on them.
Hamas operative #2: There's a cemetery behind it?
Hamas operative #1: Yes, Al-Ma'amadani is exactly in the compound.
Hamas operative #2: Where is it when you enter the compound?
Hamas operative #1: You first enter the compound and don't go towards the city and it's on the right side of the Al-Ma'amadani Hospital.
Hamas operative #2: Yes, I know it.
The was in the Rachmistrivka Shul in Yerushlayim
Yazmeen Deyhimi — a junior at the top university who once worked for the Anti-Defamation League — admitted to tearing apart banners that were plastered outside NYU’s Tisch Hall, in a shameless act that was caught on video.
Deyhimi came clean on her Instagram account after the action ignited social media outcry and calls for the school to hold the perpetrators accountable.
“I have found it increasingly difficult to know my place as a biracial brown woman, especially during these highly volatile times,” she wrote.
“I have felt more and more frustrated about the time we currently find ourselves in, and that misplaced anger into actions that are not an accurate representation of who I am as a person.”
“In this age of social media and digital footprint, these moments of anger are selfish and self-absorbed, and not reflective of who I am as a person or who my family had raised me to be.”
The post has since been taken down.
Jordan has called off a four-way summit scheduled for Wednesday with U.S. President Joe Biden and other leaders, the country’s foreign minister told state-run television.
Ayman Safadi told al-Mamlaka TV that the war between Israel and Hammas was “pushing the region to the brink” and the summit would be postponed.
After visiting Israel Wednesday, Biden had planned to travel to Amman for the meeting.
The White House said Biden had hoped to use the summit to discuss the bloody Oct. 7 Hamas militant attack on Israel with the United States’ Arab allies and the Palestinian Authority, which exercises limited autonomy in parts of the occupied West Bank.
The Hezbollah terrorist organization announced on Tuesday that Wednesday would be a "day of rage" to condemn a strike on a Gaza Strip hospital which was blamed on Israel.
"Let tomorrow, Wednesday, be a day of rage against the enemy," Hezbollah said in a statement quoted by AFP.
The terrorist organization described the strike as a "massacre" and a "brutal crime".
Israel had been blamed for the explosion at the Gaza hospital, which Hamas claimed killed hundreds of Gazans, but the IDF on Tuesday night officially confirmed that the IDF did not attack the hospital and that the explosion was caused by an Islamic Jihad rocket.
"Following an additional review and cross-examination of the operational and intelligence systems, it is clear that the IDF did not strike the hospital in Gaza," the IDF Spokesperson's Unit said in a statement.
"The hospital was hit as a result of a failed rocket launched by the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization."
"The terrorist organizations within the Gaza Strip fire indiscriminately toward Israel. Since the beginning of the war, approximately 450 rockets launched toward Israel have fallen within Gaza, endangering and harming the lives of Gazan residents," the statement said.
It remains unclear how Hezbollah’s “day of rage” will be expressed, but any activity would take place during US President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel, which is scheduled for Wednesday.
Biden's plane, Air Force One, took off on Tuesday evening from Andrews Air Force Base to Israel. On Monday night, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken officially confirmed Biden would be making a solidarity visit to Israel amid the war with Hamas.
Hezbollah has in recent days fired from Lebanon towards northern Israel. The IDF has responded by firing back and by striking Hezbollah military infrastructure in Lebanon.
The proof is from Arab books themselves, that recorded it for posterity.
All facts! No exaggeration.
Eyal Waldman, Israeli high-tech tycoon, founder and CEO of Mellanox Technologies, stunned the tech industry and the whole Arab world by creating R&D centers five years ago, first in Judea & Samaria and then two years ago in the Gaza sector, hiring hundreds of Arab developers.
BIDEN & BLINKEN WILL HAVE MORE BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS
— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) October 17, 2023
I want Americans and Israelis to understand that Biden and Blinken are doing two horrific things now: 1. with the restrictions they are placing on the Israeli armed forces, they will ensure that the young IDF soldiers will…