‘Turkey is becoming the new Iran in Syria’

 By Vered Weiss, World Israel News

Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter told Israel National News that Israel should not place too much trust in the new regime in Syria, where “Turkey is becoming the new Iran.”

Although the Syrian rebels that overthrew the regime of Bashar al-Assad have made several statements about not wanting conflict with Israel, Dichter said their background with terrorist organizations should be regarded with caution.

Dichter said, “The new regime in Syria has left many uncertain about its origins.”

He explained, “Abu Mohammad al-Julani, the current leader, has ties to Al-Qaeda. His spiritual mentor, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was once a key figure alongside Osama Bin Laden. Given this background, it’s hard to believe that this regime will eventually guide Syria in the way we expect.”

Dichter also cautioned against the growing influence of Turkey in Syria.

“Turkey is increasingly resembling Iran in Syria. While Iran backed Bashar al-Assad, Turkey supports Abu Mohammad al-Julani,” he said.

“As we know, Turkey is no longer the reliable ally it once was. The key difference is that Iran was never part of NATO, whereas Turkey is a member,” Dichter added.

Since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war, Turkey has become increasingly hostile toward Israel. Erdogan has hosted Hamas leaders and threatened to invade Israel to forcibly stop the war in Gaza.

He has repeatedly urged Israel to avoid military actions in Lebanon and Syria. However, Turkey itself seems poised to launch a military operation in Syria aimed at Kurdish groups.

Furthermore, Erdoğan backs the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) terrorist group, which is led by Abu Muhammad al-Julani, who now uses his real name, Ahmed al-Sharaa.

Erdoğan accuses Israel and the IDF of intentionally killing Palestinian civilians in their fight against terrorism.

However, experts argue that Turkey’s military actions in Iraqi Kurdistan, which have directly targeted civilians, violate international humanitarian law and raise serious concerns about genuine human rights abuses.

The moment those glasses came off

 

The moment those glasses came off… pic.twitter.com/J85tS4yz0k

— non aesthetic things (@PicturesFoIder) January 2, 2025

Europe Chizuk Trip with R’ Eli Stefansky

 

3 senior DOJ officials leaked confidential info to harm Trump before the election.

 DOJ IG report reveals 3 senior officials leaked confidential info to harm Trump before the election. 

Officials left DOJ before the probe and refused to cooperate. 

Potential Hatch Act violations flagged.

Woke FBI Covering up New Orleans Attack because of “Islamophobia"

 The most curious aspect of the attack in New Orleans in the early morning of New Year’s Day is the naked and open contradiction between the city’s mayor and the FBI about what exactly happened. And that contradiction may mean that we will never know what really happened.

The basic facts of the incident are fairly straightforward, but they’re the only straightforward aspect of this. 

At around 3:15 a.m. on Wednesday as New Year’s revelers packed the streets at Canal and Bourbon Street in New Orleans, a large truck plowed into them at high speed. By all accounts, the driver did this deliberately, killing at least ten people and injuring dozens more in the process.

And the man wasn’t finished. After crashing his truck, he jumped out and started firing at the cops who were beginning to assemble at the scene, wounding two of them. The police returned fire, and the attacker was killed. It appears that he had plans for even more mayhem, when the police searched his truck, they found improvised explosive devices.

This is where the story takes a strange turn. 

At a hastily convened press conference early on Wednesday morning, New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said that the incident was a “terrorist attack,” although she offered no information or speculation about what kind of terrorist attack it might have been. Once Cantrell was finished, however, FBI Special Agent Aletha (that’s how Fox has her name; NPR and CNN have “Alethea”) Duncan contradicted her, asserting that it was “not a terrorist attack.”

Now, this is just weird. What else does the FBI propose to call an attack in which a driver deliberately plows a truck into a crowd, then gets out and fires on the cops, and had explosives ready so as to kill or injure even more people? If that isn’t a terror attack, what exactly is a terror attack? Does the woke, clueless, compromised, and corrupt FBI only consider an incident to be a terror attack when it can plausibly claim that the perpetrator was a “white supremacist” Trump supporter?

Is it possible that the FBI doesn’t want to call what happened in New Orleans a terror attack because doing so might lead some people into “Islamophobia”? Absolutely. There is no information available as yet about the New Orleans attacker, but vehicular attacks are a favored tactic of Islamic jihadis. And the FBI of Christopher Wray and Robert Mueller has been busy downplaying and denying the reality of Islamic jihad for years.

There are numerous examples. Although the recent vehicular attack at the Christmas Market in Magdeburg, Germany is mired in controversy over whether or not the attacker had genuinely left Islam as he claimed to have done, there is a long history of jihadis using this tactic and precious few examples of non-Muslims resorting to it.

 Recently, in Oct. 2024 in Israel, another truck driver injured 35 people in a vehicular jihad attack at a bus stop near Tel Aviv. Just weeks before that, a Syrian Muslim migrant with a Palestinian flag wounded 31 people in arson and ramming attacks in Essen, Germany. Also in September in Darmstadt, Germany, an Afghan Muslim migrant ran through several red lights at high speed and tried to run over pedestrians, explaining that he did it “on behalf of Allah.”

Vehicular jihad has taken place in the U.S. as well: at Ohio State University in Nov. 2016, a Somali Muslim migrant mowed down students with his car, then jumped out and started stabbing anyone he could reach. Eight people were injured. As far back as 2014, the Islamic State (ISIS) was calling upon Muslims in Western countries to carry out vehicular jihad attacks.

Whoever carried out the New Orleans attack, there is another curious aspect of it: on X, a photo showed that the truck had a flagpole attached to its back bumper, and the driver was apparently flying some kind of flag. What kind, however, is unknown as of this writing on Wednesday morning, for it seemed as if one of the first things that the police did was cover the flag with a coat. Or did they? Another X user posted a different photo of the truck that was apparently taken just moments after the attack, and although the photo itself is not all that clear, asserted that “it was always just a black coat on a pole.”

Would some nut fly a black coat from a flagpole? Sure. Would the cops cover up a flag that an attacker was flying because seeing it might make people think negatively about a group that enjoys protected status from the left and its establishment media lapdogs? That possibility cannot be counted out, either.

So what happened in New Orleans?

We can only hope that the FBI and New Orleans authorities will follow up with a thorough investigation, without regard for woke niceties. But given the deep corruption of both, that seems unlikely in the extreme.

Corrupt Lying FBI Knew that the New Orleans Attack Was a "terrorist attack" When they announced that it wasn't

 An image taken by a tourist from the 10th floor of a nearby hotel shows FBI agents in New Orleans documenting an ISIS flag displayed on the truck of Shamsud-Din Jabbar during his deadly attack on New Year’s Eve. 

This photo was taken before FBI Special Agent in Charge Aletha Duncan publicly stated, “this is not a terrorist event,” despite evidence suggesting otherwise.

 

Is the Jewish State the "Ultimate Evil" or a Golden Opportunity? Actions Of R' Yoel Teitelbaum ..Satmar Rebbe

German woman who lives in home looted from Jews must give it up, judge rules.

 

The Stolpersteine (Stumbling Block) outside Anna Donat's home shows when she was deported.

A German court has ruled that an 85-year-old woman and her son who live in a property sold under duress by its Jewish owners in 1939 must give up their home.

The ruling earlier this month capped a decade of legal wrangling over the home, located in Wandlitz, outside Berlin. For many paying attention to the twists and turns, the fight over the lakeside property came to symbolize the pain and turmoil of nearly a century of history — as well as the ways in which German families tell themselves complicated stories about their role during the Holocaust. It has also surfaced lingering resentments, some of them clearly antisemitic, about Germany’s efforts to repay Jews for its crimes against them.

The Wandlitz estate is likely one of the last property restitution cases to be adjudicated in Germany, as virtually all looted or “aryanized” property has already gone through the restitution process or been lost to history, with no one left to claim it. The deadline to file property claims passed decades ago.

The case centers on an estate, located in a bucolic area about 20 miles from central Berlin, that functioned in the 1930s as a summer retreat for an orphanage operated by two Jewish women, Alice Donat and Helene Lindenbaum. To comply with Nazi laws meant to expropriate Jewish wealth, they sold the land, complete with a structure in poor condition, to Felix Moegelin in 1939 for 21,100 Reichsmarks, a relative pittance.

Moegelin had to sign the statement “I am Aryan,” while the two women had to sign that they were Jewish according to the Nuremberg Laws of 1935.

The original house was torn down and eventually replaced, and Moegelin and his family settled in on Wegener Street. Donat and Lindenbaum were deported from Berlin by the Nazis in 1943 and murdered.

Today, Moegelin’s granddaughter, Gabriele Lieske, 85, still lives in the house with her son, Thomas Lieske, 61. They dug in their heels after a lower court ruled last year that they must give up the property or pay for it. Located in the suburbs of Berlin, where real estate is hot, the property is worth about $1.6 million today.

Now, the property will be seized by the state and transferred to the Conference of Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, the legal successor to unclaimed Jewish property in the former East Germany. No living heirs to the murdered owners were ever identified.

This will never get old ... MSNBC Election Night Coverage ...From Ecstatic Hope to Depression in less Than an Hour

 

MSNBC's election night coverage.

This will never get old 😂pic.twitter.com/MKGTkgAwjv

— Defiant World (@DefiantWorld) December 31, 2024

This is Why No One Trusts the Media Anymore .... Wake Up America!

 

And this is why no one trusts the media anymore

X is currently the best platform to get the latest news pic.twitter.com/2lINeQ2L4r

— Wake Up America (@_wake_up_USA) December 30, 2024

Scott Jennings absolutely destroys CNN anchor who asks if we should be concerned about Elon Musk's foreign business dealings.

 

🚨 NEW: Scott Jennings absolutely destroys CNN anchor who asks if we should be concerned about Elon Musk's foreign business dealings.

“I have no concerns about Elon Musk. I have been looking at pictures of Joe Biden and Hunter Biden meeting with Chinese political leaders lately… pic.twitter.com/n84NSI8rA2

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 31, 2024

Carter Was a Very Evil Man Who Destroyed the US and the World and We are Still Suffering!

 

A bad bad man and there’s no reason to sugarcoat it. pic.twitter.com/XpAyIMgntB

— Hillel Fuld (@HilzFuld) December 30, 2024

"He [Jimmy Carter] was a terrible President, that's why he lost in a landslide."

"If it's possible, I think he was an even worse ex-president."

"Obama didn't even have him speak at his convention."

Scott Jennings is speaking the unadulterated truth about Jimmy Carter on CNN… pic.twitter.com/gWYu7FN0DV

— Nick Adams (@NickAdamsinUSA) December 31, 2024

CHECKMATE.

"He [Jimmy Carter] wrote letters, to all of our allies, and to Arab States, asking them to abandon their cooperation and coalition with the United States of America."

"If it's not treasonous, it's borderline treasonous." pic.twitter.com/z7VDvIN0zK

— Brigitte Gabriel (@ACTBrigitte) December 31, 2024

Brave Jewish Lady Asks Mayor of Toronto "Why are you here?"

 

The mayor of Toronto, @oliviachow, was confronted by a brave Jewish woman while attempting a photo op during a Hanukkah celebration in the city. The woman asked, "You do nothing for the Jewish community. Why are you here?"pic.twitter.com/u38hnmWcw9

— Awesome Jew (@JewsAreTheGOAT) December 31, 2024

Israel kills Hamas commander who led Oct. 7 attack on kibbutz Nir Oz....Mossad going after each one of the Terrorists that were involved

 

An elite Hamas commander who led one of the most horrific attacks on Israeli kibbutzim Oct. 7, 2023, was killed in a targeted strike in southern Gaza, the Israel Defense Force announced Tuesday. 

Abd al-Hadi Sabah, the head of the terror group’s Nukhba platoon in Hamas’s West Khan Younis Battalion, was wiped out during an intelligence-based attack in a Israeli-designated humanitarian zone in Khan Younis, according to military officials. 

Officials said measures were taken to minimize civilian harm during the operation, led by the IDF and the Israel Security Agency. 

“The IDF and ISA will continue to operate against all of the terrorists who took part in the murderous October 7 massacre,” The IDF posted on X on Tuesday, along with a photo of Sabah in Israel during the terrorist attack.

Sabah was responsible for leading the invasion of Kibbutz Nir Oz, a community located fewer than 2 miles from the Gaza border fence and where dozens of civilians were murdered and scores more taken hostage, according to the IDF. 

Hamas methodically burned all 250 cars at the kibbutz during the attack so that residents who weren’t immediately murdered or abducted couldn’t escape. Homes within the community, once considered a joyous paradise for nearly seven decades, were also destroyed. 

Thirty-eight residents were killed and 75 kidnapped during the murderous rampage – leaving the kibbutz one of the communities most devastated by the terror attack.

Survivors were evacuated after the devastation and are now living in temporary housing about an hour away in Kiryat Gat.

The terrorist leader also led numerous attacks against Israeli troops in Gaza since the Jewish state was ambushed last year, the IDF stated.

Along with Sabah, the IDF also announced it killed Anas Muhammad Masri, commander of the northern sector of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s rocket unit, the Jerusalem Post reported.

Masri had been actively commanding rocket fire from northern Gaza into Israel, according to the IDF, which described him as a “significant figure responsible for executing numerous terrorist operations, managing and directing actions by the organization that targeted Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers.”

Hamas murdered more than 1,200 people – mostly civilians, including women and children – and kidnapped another 251 in the 2023 terrorist attack.

Ami Chooses the one with the LONGER PEYUS to be their WH Correspondent

 Ami staff took a ruler and measured the peyus of Turx and Zionce, and bingo, Zionce has 2 inches longer peyus, so he won the contest! 

Am I the only crazy one here? 

Why in Heaven's name do they keep their long peyis out in Golus mingling with Goyim and Shiksis? Then they will wail and yell when they are being mocked and ridiculed! 

Put your peyis behind your ears like Rav Ahron Kotler, R" Moshe Feinstein and R Yaakov Kaminezky z"l, you have on who to rely on!

Yes, Chassidishe Rebbes and Chassidim have their peyos out, but then again they don't work in the White House! 

Ami Magazine has named a new Senior White House Correspondent. In an X post, the popular magazine announced that the torch was being passed from Jake Turx to Shloime Zionce, the Chassidic Youtube world traveler and influencer who has focused on foreign affairs.

In the post, Ami wrote: “Passing of the torch. Everyone’s beloved Ami writer, popular YouTuber and social influencer Shloime Zionce is now our senior White House Correspondent.”

Zionce posted: “Humbled. Thank you @Ami_Magazine for giving me a shot in 2017, and for your continued belief in me up until this momentous day. Very grateful as always, and wishing much luck and success to @JakeTurx on the next step of his journey. I’m excited for what’s to come IYH.”

The announcement led to widespread speculation about the fate of the popular and beloved Jake Turx, who has held the position for years. Turx implied that he is getting promoted to Chief WH Correspondent.

Turx posted: “Thrilled to finally get upgraded to chief White House correspondent and I look forward to teaching Shloime everything I know.”

However Turx is known for his wit and sarcasm, and it is not clear if he was being serious.

 

Happy New Year!! Arabs Running Wild in Paris Shooting Mortars at Police already Burned 1,000 Cars

 

Who is shooting mortars at police in Paris?
Who is burning cars?
We need to realize that Paris is no longer Paris and France is no longer France and adjust our policies to align with what France is today. https://t.co/ARIxYnyf9u

— Caroline Glick (@CarolineGlick) December 31, 2024

Ruthless reel of Dems calling Biden ‘sharp’ Days Before He Dropped out!

 

They blamed it on a "Stutter."
They blamed it on "Russian Disinfo."
They blamed it on "Cheap-Fakes."
They hid him at every opportunity.
They scripted every public event.
They denied the Hur Report findings.
They sent him on vacation for 570 days.
They brazenly lied to you FOR… pic.twitter.com/ovnQtFsX8t

— Byron Donalds (@ByronDonalds) December 30, 2024

Remember when almost every legacy media outlet lied that Biden was “sharp as a tack” right before the Presidential debate where it was obvious he had dementia?

Well, they’re still lying just as much now. https://t.co/gyKBBsRfSN

— Kekius Maximus (@elonmusk) December 30, 2024

Jimmy Carter's aid to the Ayatollahs

 

With the passing of former US President Jimmy Carter, former Israeli envoy to Washington Yoram Ettinger discussed the tragic mistakes Carter made, many of which still affect the Middle East today.

Ettinger recalled, "President Jimmy Carter strongly supported the Ayatollah regime's takeover of Iran. In 1978, Carter and his advisors concluded that the Persian Shah, America's Gulf policeman, was obsolete, and they believed Ayatollah Khomeini, who was in exile in Paris, would suit the US as he was anti-Communist and anti-Soviet."

Ettinger added, "Carter went so far as to declare—ten days before Khomeini landed in Tehran—that US intelligence determined Khomeini would be an Iranian Gandhi. He also claimed Khomeini had no desire to spread the revolution outside Iran, would focus on tractors rather than tanks, and be a loyal envoy for the interests of the free world."

"These evaluations were the fruits of delusions of a reality that didn't match the Middle Eastern reality," Ettinger said, noting that "Carter's approach also characterized his stance on the Palestinian issue and influenced the development of the peace agreement with Egypt."

Regarding the peace agreement, Ettinger discussed how Carter's insistence on including a national home for the Palestinians, potentially a Palestinian state, nearly derailed the agreement: "Carter is credited with bringing Israel and Egypt to a peace agreement. While neither Carter nor the US initiated or were the central figures in this process, Carter's alternative worldview, seeing the Palestinian issue as central to the Arab-Israeli conflict, led him to push for the Palestinian question to be at the core of the peace negotiations between Israel and Arab states."

"He didn't want an Israeli-Egyptian conference but an international one, which would grant roles to the Soviet Union and a veto to extremists in the Arab world. Israeli PM Begin and Egyptian President Sadat rejected this, so the direct initiative eventually led to a significant rapprochement between Israel and Egypt. Of course, the US played an important role, given Egypt's demands, which only the US could meet. Still, it's crucial to remember that the idea of a Palestinian state emerged due to President Carter, despite Sadat not considering it significant for Egypt," Ettinger explained.

The fact that both sides opposed this led to the Palestinian issue not becoming part of the peace agreement.

Ettinger highlighted Zbigniew Brzezinski's influence on Carter, noting how Brzezinski co-authored the Brookings Report, suggesting that a Palestinian state should be a prerequisite for an Israeli-Arab peace agreement. This perception, Ettinger stated, still guides members of the institute today.

"Carter's involvement in the peace agreement nearly collapsed the negotiations due to his insistence on establishing a Palestinian state," Ettinger reiterated, also recalling Carter's statements suggesting Hamas' intent for peace.

This perception, held by many in the Washington establishment due to the State Department's influence, is marked by continued failure in the Middle East since 1948 - failures that have reflected on Carter as well.

Asked if these failures contributed to Carter not being re-elected, Ettinger responded that Carter's perspective also impacted domestic issues, dragging the Democratic Party far left and contributing to his defeat by Republican Ronald Reagan, significantly influencing the rise of conservative views in America.

"Carter's election victory occurred amid Vietnam War discontent and anger at American leadership, following the brief Ford presidency after Nixon's resignation, and Americans saw Carter's election as a beacon of hope. It was a call which unfortunately he didn't fulfill," Ettinger noted.

Ettinger stressed the fundamental change Carter initiated in the Middle East, turning Iran from America's Middle Eastern policeman into a major enemy, fostering terrorism, drug trafficking, money laundering, advanced weaponry, and more worldwide. Carter, though not solely responsible, gave substantial backing to the Ayatollah regime.

Ettinger describes how Khomeini won Carter's trust, sending peaceful messages, which Carter accepted, and restraining the Iranian military's response. Khomeini exploited this restraint to succeed in his mission, leading to the Tehran hostage crisis.

Ettinger concluded by saying, "Carter's legacy is crucial, especially considering how it still impacts perceptions in Israel towards the US State Department."

New York Times Latest anti-Israel Hit Job

 

by Ruthie Blum

It’s hard to imagine The New York Times stooping any lower than usual in its coverage of Israel’s defensive war in Gaza. Yet the Gray Lady seems to have managed to outdo itself on this score once again.

Its latest hit job took the form of a lengthy news feature on Thursday, titled “Israel Loosened Its Rules to Bomb Hamas Fighters, Killing Many More Civilians.”

The article, marked by as many bylines as anonymous sources, attempted to lull readers with a neat trick: using the Israel Defense Forces’ self-imposed “purity of arms” doctrine, a stricter code of ethics than that of any other military in history, to highlight the Jewish state’s allegedly unacceptable behavior on the battlefield.

The subhead perfectly encapsulated the chutzpah: “Surprised by Oct. 7 and fearful of another attack, Israel weakened safeguards meant to protect noncombatants, allowing officers to endanger up to 20 people in each airstrike,” it read. “One of the deadliest bombardments of the 21st century followed.”

The piece began with mention of an order that was issued on the day of the Hamas massacre, which “granted mid-ranking Israeli officers the authority to strike thousands of militants and military sites that had never been a priority in previous wars in Gaza.”

This directive, which the NYT took credit for revealing, gave the IDF more leeway to “pursue not only the senior Hamas commanders, arms depots and rocket launchers that were the focus of earlier campaigns, but also the lowest-ranking fighters.”

Sounds reasonable, considering the magnitude of Hamas atrocities and terrorist infrastructure in the Strip. Yet, the Times didn’t see or present it that way.

No, it gasped that IDF officers were now provided the authority, in each strike, “to risk killing up to 20 civilians.” This, said the Times, meant that Israeli troops “could target rank-and-file militants as they were at home surrounded by relatives and neighbors, instead of only when they were alone outside.”

Jerusalem Court Tries Activist for Smuggling Sufganiyot into Temple Mount

 

Last week, the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court held an in-depth discussion – two years after the event –– late, on the seriousness of the offense committed by Temple Mount activist Tom Nissany on Hanukkah 5783 (Dec. 2022). The police indicted Nissany on “entering the checkpoint with sufganiyot,” and “after being asked to get rid of them, staying and arguing with the police. Later, he tried to pass through with stickers and a sign that were forbidden to bring into the Temple Mount.”

The indictment included no fewer than 27 prosecution witnesses.

Nissany and another activist, former Likud MK Yehuda Glick, were also accused of not moving “at the pace of the accompanying policeman and in a unified group during the tour of the compound. They stopped at every moment to take pictures, despite the warnings of the policeman who accompanied the group.”

Glick was also accused of “breaking away from the group, wandering around in the nearby grove, and even trying to climb the Dome of the Rock.” Also, “after the policemen ordered him to return to the group’s route, Glick told them: ‘I pay you a salary, I am your boss.'”

Glick and Emmanuel Brosh were accused of sitting down at the entrance to the mountain and blocking it, in protest at being prevented from entering the compound.

The defense attorneys protested having to appear in court to justify acts that could not be classified as crimes.

“It’s not so clear how this is a crime,” said attorney Eitan Lehman, who represents Nissani. “We don’t think that breaking away from the group is a crime. Photographing the place is not a crime. We will submit a request to see the rules, and on what they are based.”

The lawyers submitted to the court a video of the “blocking incident,” which clearly showed the entrance to the mountain was not blocked by Nissani and Brosh, and their sitting there did not disturb anyone.

They also argue selective enforcement, because “in much more obvious cases of roadblocks” in the past two years – by left-wing activists protesting against Knesset legislations, for example – the police looked on with indifference and did not bother to prosecute anyone.”

Attorney Lehman also addressed the sufganiyot affair, suggesting it was “the funniest accusation. Is distributing donuts to people a crime? Many people brought sufganiyot on Hanukkah two years ago and distributed them to the police and ascenders to the Temple Mount throughout that morning. Of course, in the trial, we will question the police officers who decided that the defendant could not distribute sufganiyot. It’s true that he argued with the officers because he wanted to distribute sufganiyot, but arguing with police officers is not a crime.”

As to the charge of not keeping pace with the accompanying officer, Attorney Yitzhak Bem, representing Glick, argued “The defendant is charged with not walking at a pace that satisfied the police on the Temple Mount that day. He is disabled, a victim of hostilities following an assassination attempt on his life, and has lost more than half a lung. I’d like to see these policemen trying to run without half a lung.”

On October 29, 2014, Yehudah Glick delivered a speech at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem. According to an eyewitness, a man on a motorcycle with a “thick Arab accent” approached Glick as he was loading equipment into his car after the conference. The man confirmed Glick’s identity before shooting him four times in the chest and fleeing the scene on his motorcycle.

Despite sustaining serious injuries, Glick survived the assassination attempt and was rushed to Shaare Zedek Medical Center for treatment. Later, Glick recounted that the assailant had apologized before opening fire, saying, “I’m very sorry, but you’re an enemy of Al-Aqsa. I have to.”

Judge Anat Greenbaum-Shimon asked the police to rethink the charges and postponed the next hearing so that she could “have a talk with the prosecution,” in the hope that she would succeed in getting the police down from the treetop.

The police representatives at the hearing refused to take the hint, and so another hearing in the crucial case of smuggled sufganiyot was scheduled for early February.

Sufganiyot-Gate is far from over.

Incidentally, during the court hearing on December 23, 2022, following the arrest of Tom Nissani, police representative Anan Zaida claimed that “there is a rule prohibiting the bringing of doughnuts into the Temple Mount in order to prevent provocations.”

The Beyadenu movement pointed out that while police were bravely fighting illegal sufganiyot, a huge Hamas banner praising terrorists was unfurled on the Temple Mount:

By David Israel