Shocking Footage Reveals PA’s Price List for Killing Israelis

 

Exposed by “Ad Kan” – the Palestinian Authority pays terrorists more the longer their prison sentence.

The more Jews you murder, the higher your salary.

These are the people the world wants to put in charge of Gaza.

Tamar Gershoni is te "Alteh Katchkeh" That wanted to Kill Netanyahu ...

The court on Thursday cleared for publication that Tamar Gershoni, a Tel Aviv resident and left-wing activist, is the woman indicted for plotting the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Gershoni was formally charged last week with attempted conspiracy to commit an act of terrorism and aggravated murder.

According to the indictment, Gershoni, recently diagnosed with a serious illness, decided to kill the Prime Minister in what she viewed as a self-sacrificial act for the sake of opposing the government, believing that such a move would help “save the State of Israel.”

Prosecutors allege that in late June, Gershoni met with a fellow protester at her home, shared her plan, and requested his assistance. He refused and tried to dissuade her, asking for time in order to delay the plan’s execution.

In a subsequent meeting, she allegedly asked him to help her procure an RPG for the assassination and gather intelligence on the Prime Minister’s movements and security detail. During these meetings, Gershoni made sure that phones were not brought into the room.

The activist, unable to deter her, contacted an attorney who then alerted security authorities. An investigation was opened, ultimately leading to the indictment.

Alongside the indictment, the prosecution requested that Gershoni remain under full house arrest until the end of legal proceedings.

In the motion, the prosecution cited her expressed willingness to die as a “female shahid” and sacrifice herself for the cause. “Tragically, the illness that led her to devise this plan to kill the Prime Minister and thus end her life, similar to, 'let me die with the Philistines,' still exists, and therefore the risk of her again attempting to carry out the plan against the Prime Minister or other government officials remains real and indicates a high level of danger,” the motion concluded.

 

INSANE!!!! Mamdani holds a wide edge among Jewish voters

 

Zohran Mamdani leads among Jewish voters by a 17-point margin in the race to become New York’s next mayor, according to a new poll.

The survey from Zenith Research and Public Progress Solutions predicted that Mamdani would dominate all four of his opponents combined, with 50% of the vote. The Democratic nominee shifted the landscape of New York politics with his primary victory over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo last month.

The poll found that 43% of Jewish voters said they would vote for Mamdani, including 67% of Jewish voters aged 18 to 44. Cuomo trailed with 26% of Jewish voters, followed by Mayor Eric Adams with 15%.

The poll is the latest in a series to project a Mamdani win but the first to assess the attitudes of Jewish voters specifically ahead of the general election. A poll before the Democratic primary found that Mamdani was the second choice of Jewish voters at the time, behind Cuomo.

Mamdani’s vocal criticism of Israel has raised questions about his support among New York’s Jewish population, the largest outside of Israel. During the race, Mamdani has alleged that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, affirmed his support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel, and said that he would arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he visited New York, citing the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant.

This poll suggests that many younger, less observant Jews are not deterred by his views from planning to vote for Mamdani. Another survey released this week found that Mamdani’s pro-Palestinian advocacy motivated a majority of his primary voters, including 83% of new voters.

The Zenith Research and Public Progress Solutions poll surveyed 1,453 New Yorkers from July 16-24, noting a 2.9% margin of error among registered voters and a slightly higher margin among Jewish voters, due to sample size. Public Progress Solutions, which commissioned the poll, is led by Mamdani ally Amit Singh Bagga.

The poll found that Jews over 45 and more observant Jews constituted some of the largest blocs for Cuomo and Adams — but that neither candidate could prevail in a head-to-head match against Mamdani.

Several Jewish real estate tycoons and hedge funders are forming super PACs to defeat Mamdani, who says he will raise taxes on the wealthy and corporations to fund social services. Jewish hedge funder Ricky Sandler has pledged $500,000 to tank Mamdani; Jewish billionaire Bill Ackman said he will give “hundreds of millions of dollars” to a competitor.

Many of these donors plan to consolidate funding around “anybody but Mamdani,” said Marty Burger, the Jewish chief executive of Infinite Global Real Estate Partners, in an email seen by The New York Times. Other rank-and-file Jewish New Yorkers have formed WhatsApp groups in hopes of organizing against the candidate. But even if all Mamdani’s rivals but Cuomo dropped out, the new poll still forecasted Mamdani to win 52% to 40% in a direct matchup, with 8% undecided.

Trump Administration Figures Who Met Laura Loomer’s Ire Are Out. A Look at Her Influence

 President Donald Trump has downplayed the influence of Laura Loomer, a right-wing provocateur known for her incendiary social media presence, in his administration’s decision-making.

But the list of administration officials who have drawn Loomer’s ire and swiftly thereafter gotten the axe from Trump has been growing.

Among the latest is Dr. Vinay Prasad, the Food and Drug Administration’s polarizing vaccine chief, who announced this week he was leaving the agency after a brief tenure that drew the ire of biotech executives, patient groups and conservative allies of Trump. Prasad had recently become a target of right-wing activists, including Loomer, who flagged Prasad’s past statements criticizing Trump and praising liberal independent Sen. Bernie Sanders.

On Wednesday, Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll directed the U.S. Military Academy at West Point to remove Jen Easterly, a newly announced hire who led the nation’s cybersecurity agency under President Joe Biden, shortly after Loomer criticized her.

Loomer, who has publicly encouraged Trump to purge aides who she believes are insufficiently loyal to the “Make America Great Again” agenda, has taken credit for some of the ousters, tearing into some of Trump’s allies and advisers and calling out what she calls a “vetting crisis” within the White House. Trump, meanwhile, has long praised Loomer while distancing himself at times from her most controversial comments and downplaying her direct impact on his choices.

Here’s a rundown on connections between Loomer’s criticism and Trump administration departures:

Vocal opposition to Health and Human Services appointees
Two people familiar with the situation told The Associated Press that Prasad was ousted following several recent controversies. The people spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal personnel matters.

Last week, Loomer posted on X of Prasad, “How did this Trump-hating Bernie Bro get into the Trump admin???”

Rabbi Who Paskened that you Can't Eat Chulent on Thursday Now Says "One May Desecrate Shabbat, Leave Israel Rather Than Go To IDF"

 DIN: I guess once you issue a Fatwa against eating chulent on Thursday night, you can say the most outrageous things!

The good Rabbi Zilberstein said that Rav Yechezkel Abramski z"l said that  "One May Desecrate Shabbat, Leave Israel Rather Than Go To IDF"

Rav Zilberstein, I know you follow my blog so let me tell you that Rav Yechezkel Abramski z"l passed away in 1976 and now knows the truth. 

I wonder if Rav Zilberstein would have held this hashkafa, if on Simchas Torah 2023, 6,000 Hamas had entered Bnei-Brak, Chas Vesholom, raped, mutilated, chopped off babies ' heads and had taken Bnei- Brak hostages ?

I wonder why when Moshe Rabbeinu asked the Bnei Gad and Bnei Reuvein

?האחיכם יבוא למלחמה ואתם תשבו פה

why didn't they just answer him "

"We don't want to serve in the Jewish Army and we would rather live in Lakewood "

In fact at the time of the Meraglim, the Moetzes Ha'Torah of that generation did in fact say, according to the Zohar,
" we want to remain in Chutz Le'aaretz to learn Torah, rather than work in Eretz Yisrael"

in fact the Torah records that they, the Moetzes Ha'Torah said 

"Let's appoint a new leader and return to Mitzrayim" .... that statement is not a Zohar, its explicit in the Torah itself! 

Im wondering if its ok with Rav Zilberstein and the rest of his cronies, that Chilonim die for them?? Is that ok? what's with

?לא תעמוד על דם רעך

At the anti-draft meeting of Gedolim held Wednesday night in Ma’ale HaHamisha, Rabbi Yitzchak Zilberstein, a member of the Council of Torah Sages of the “Degel HaTorah” party, quoted a halachic ruling in the name of his teacher, Rabbi Yechezkel Abramski Zts’l:

“If it is impossible to (obtain an exemption) from the army, then there is a mitzvah for every person to leave the Land of Israel and make every effort not to live here.”

He continued with a shocking statement:
“I said to my rabbi, ‘I’m horrified to hear that.’
But he responded, ‘You haven’t heard everything yet. Listen to what I’m saying: desecrate the Sabbath and flee the country.’
I asked again, ‘Rabbi, can such things really be said in public?’
And he said, ‘If you won’t say it, I will.’
And indeed, he went and said it publicly. “If there’s someone among us being forced into the army, and there’s a concern he might stray from the religious path, I command him to desecrate the Sabbath.”

Two weeks ago, Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef, the former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel and spiritual leader of the Shas party, launched a sharp attack on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and MK Yuli Edelstein. The reason: Netanyahu’s claim that a charedi youth can serve in the army while maintaining a religious lifestyle.

Rabbi Yosef lashed out:

“The Prime Minister said that one can join a charedi unit and stay charedi—why are you lying?! What brazenness!” He then escalated: “Maran (referring to his late father, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef) said he [Netanyahu] is a blind goat, and I say he’s a blind fox, not a goat.You’re lying like that? No one leaves the army the same. Anyone who enlists becomes corrupted—there’s no doubt.”

This rhetoric reflects the deepening opposition within the charedi leadership to any form of military conscription, and signals the growing tension between the charedi public and the Israeli government, particularly as the issue of mandatory enlistment returns to the political and legal forefront.

Knesset Speaker in Geneva ..."Palestinian state Should be established in London and Paris

 

During the Global Parliamentary Summit today (Wednesday), hosted at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), Speaker of the Knesset Amir Ohana addressed dozens of parliamentary leaders from around the world. The Iranian, Yemeni, and Palestinian Authority stormed out of the summit when Ohana got up to speak.

Ohana harshly criticized Western recognition of a Palestinian state, saying: “Rewarding Hamas with statehood will not bring stability, partnership, or peace. It will only lead to more bloodshed of Israelis and Jews. If you want to establish what you call a Palestinian state - establish it in London, Paris, in your own countries, which are increasingly resembling the Middle East.”

At the height of his speech, Ohana displayed an iPad and screened footage from a session of the Iranian Parliament held this past June, in which members were seen chanting “Death to Israel, death to America.”

“This is not some underground terrorist cell. This is the official parliament of the Islamic Republic of Iran - a full member of this forum - openly calling for the annihilation of two sovereign nations. Sadly, too many remain silent in the face of such threatening rhetoric, just as they did eighty years ago,” Ohana said.

Ohana also condemned Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who moments earlier had presented a photo from the New York Times of a “starving” child in Gaza.

He responded: “This claim is false. The child suffers from cerebral palsy. Even the New York Times admitted that today. But Ghalibaf will use any blood libel the fake news media offers him. Shame on that newspaper. Shame on that chairman. Shame on both of you!”

He continued: “We have learned from our history the cost of ignoring threats of annihilation. Today, Khamenei knows the price of threatening Israel. Since October 7th, Israel has risen from the depths to new heights - reaching control over Iranian skies.”

Addressing the issue of the hostages still held by Hamas, Ohana stated: “As we speak, fifty of our innocent brothers and sisters are held hostage by Hamas. They are starving. They are tortured. They are terrified. And they are alone, in the dark tunnels of Gaza. Not one Gazan has lifted a finger to help bring them home. We will bring them back.”

The volume of Ohana's microphone was lowered as he began to speak about the hostages.

Earlier in the day, Speaker Ohana met with Dr. Ali Rashid Al Nuaimi, Chairman of the Security and Foreign Relations Committee of the UAE. This meeting was part of a series of diplomatic engagements, including talks with the heads of parliament from Chile, Brazil, Belgium, and expected meetings with over 20 more, including Germany, Italy, Switzerland, the UK, Slovakia, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Ghana, Nepal, and Congo.

The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) is an international organization representing the world’s parliaments. It includes 193 member states, among them Iran and numerous Arab countries.

Sen. Cotton: “Israel Has No Responsibility To Provide Aid To Its Enemy During A War”

 

US Sen. Tom Cotton pointed out the “unique standards” that the world imposes on Israel, demanding that it provide during a war to the very enemy that provoked the war.

Speaking on the Hugh Hewitt show, Cotton said, “I just want to point out to you what an unusual, I would say singular, standard that the world seems to impose on Israel yet again. Israel was viciously attacked on October 7, without provocation. People were slaughtered, children were killed, women were raped, and yet the world expects Israel to provide food to the people from the land that launched that attack.”

“Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t remember food aid going from the United States to Germany and Japan in World War II. Sure, there’s a lot of aid after the fact to help those countries rebuild and keep out Russian communism, but in the middle of a war, a war of aggression that was launched against Israel, Israel really has no responsibility whatsoever to provide any kind of aid to Gaza. And the fact that they’re doing so just proves they always go the extra mile because they always face unique standards in the world.”

Cotton posted the interview on his X account, writing, “Israel has no responsibility to provide any kind of aid to Gaza. They are repeatedly held to a different standard than the rest of the world.”

EVIL BBC: Leaked Memo Tells Staff To Blame Israel “Regardless Of Facts”

 

A leaked email is just one more piece of evidence of how the UK’s BBC has constantly distorted events related to Gaza since the October 7 massacre.

British journalist Jonathan Sacerdoti wrote in a recent article in The Spectator that the memo, entitled “Covering the food crisis in Gaza,” acts as “a top-down editorial diktat that discards impartiality.”

The memo, sent to BBC staff on Friday, July 25, states that “the argument over how much aid has crossed into Gaza is irrelevant.” Instead, “we [staff] should say” that the current distribution system ‘doesn’t work.'”

The distribution system it is referring to is the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which succeeded in distributing aid without allowing Hamas terrorists to commandeer it. It’s “intriguing” how the BBC prefers the UN distribution system, with the aid falling into the hands of Hamas.

Sacerdoti wrote, “The closer the GHF and Israeli army get to finally defeating the terrorists, the more shrill the BBC’s insistence that the Jewish state is deliberately starving children.”

Of course, the leaked memo is only one of millions of incidents that prove the BBC’s antisemitic and anti-Israel slant over the years, including the photo of an emaciated child it published as proof of the “starvation” in Gaza despite being fully aware the child’s emaciation is caused by multiple illnesses, including a genetic disorder and cerebral palsy.

Journalist David Collier said that he watched BBB broadcasters openly lie on a live broadcast when they interviewed the ill child’s mother. She spoke about the child’s cerebral palsy and the physiotherapy he received for it. BBC ignored her and reported that Mohammed’s curved spine is a result of famine.

Yeda‘yah son of Asayahu's Seal Found lived 2,647 years ago

As part of the Temple Mount Sifting Project, a rare seal impression (bula) from the First Temple period bearing an inscription in ancient Hebrew script was discovered about three weeks ago, on the evening of the 17th of Tammuz. The seal impression was found by archaeologist Mordechai Erlich, a member of the Temple Mount Sifting Project.

Made of clay, the bulla was found intact, and after research by project scholars Dr. Anat Mendel-Geberovich and Zachi Dvira, all the letters were deciphered except one, which was suggested to be the letter Ayin.

The full inscription proposed by the researchers is: “Yeda‘yah (son of) Asayahu”. Based on markings on the back of the object, it appears to have been used to seal a sack or another storage vessel. A fingerprint, likely of the seal’s owner, is also visible on the side of the artifact. Based on the script style, the seal impression is dated to the late First Temple period (second half of the 7th century BCE to the early 6th century BCE).

The Lying New York Times adds editors’ note to front-page image of emaciated Gaza toddler after backlash

A haunting photo of an emaciated toddler cradled by his mother dominated the front page of Friday’s Lying New York Times, quickly becoming a symbol of the hunger crisis in Gaza. Now, the newspaper has amended some aspects of his story amid criticism.

“Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, about 18 months, with his mother, Hedaya al-Mutawaq, who said he was born healthy but was recently diagnosed with severe malnutrition,” the original caption said.

But over the weekend, skeptics about the scope of the hunger crisis in Gaza — and especially about whether Israel is to blame — cried foul over the image and its use. They charged the newspaper with perpetrating a “blood libel” against Israel

On Tuesday night, the newspaper announced that it had revised the story, saying that it had learned that the child had underlying medical issues that affected his muscle development. The revision removed the mother’s quote from the story saying that Mohammed had been born healthy and added context from his doctor, though it did not back away from the other reporting in the story, “Gazans Are Dying of Starvation,” including its claim that the child was suffering from malnutrition due to food shortages.

“This additional detail gives readers a greater understanding of his condition,” the newspaper said in a statement about an editor’s note appended to the story.

The editors’ note followed days of criticism of the newspaper and other outlets for running photographs that the critics said exaggerate the extent of hunger in Gaza and lay blame for any crisis solely at Israel’s feet.

“Muhammad is not simply a victim of starvation. His condition stems from a health disorder, not from a lack of food caused by Israel,” the pro-Israel media watchdog Honest Reporting wrote in a report issued Sunday titled “Another Photo. Another Lie.”

While Honest Reporting acknowledged that there is “suffering in Gaza,” it claimed that the blame lies with Hamas, which it accused of looting aid intended for civilians and disrupting Gaza’s medical system with its attack on Israel and continued hostage-holding.

“He is a sick child in need of medical care and specialized nutrition. Care that was once available, and could be again,” its report said.

Honest Reporting and other pro-Israel voices, including the Israeli government, have long accused various media organizations of distorting their presentation of the Israel-Hamas war to paint Israel in the harshest light possible. 

Julia Hyman, Jewish graduate of Cornell, killed in Manhattan shooting

Julia Hyman, a Jewish graduate of Cornell University, was identified on Tuesday as one of the four victims of Monday night’s shooting attack in Manhattan.

Hyman, 27, was murdered after the shooter, Shane Tamura, accidentally took the wrong elevator to her employer’s floor and encountered her, according to the New York Post.

Hyman had worked for Rudin Management, the company that owns the skyscraper where Tamura launched his rampage.

She graduated from Cornell in 2020 and had worked as a Rudin associate for less than a year, according to her LinkedIn page.

Cornell President Michael Kotlikoff issued a statement in her memory on Tuesday in which he said, “Today, I join you in mourning the loss of Julia Hyman, a 2020 graduate of the Cornell Nolan School of Hotel Administration, who has been identified by news reports as one of the victims in Monday’s horrific shooting attack in New York City.”

“Julia, a native of Manhattan and an associate at Rudin Management, graduated summa cum laude with a major in hotel and restaurant administration and a minor in real estate. Her first job after graduating was with Sagehall Partners, founded by a fellow Cornellian. Julia was on campus earlier this summer for her five-year reunion,” he added.

“We are devastated for Julia’s friends and family, including her parents and sister Ali, a 2017 graduate of the College of Human Ecology. We also extend our sympathy to the loved ones of the three other victims, including New York Police Officer Didarul Islam. We extend our deepest condolences to all the families whose loved ones were lost in this senseless act,” said Kotlikoff.

Hyman is the second Jewish victim of Monday’s shooting. Wesley LePatner had been named earlier as one of the victims.

The UJA Federation of New York issued an announcement on LePatner’s death, saying, "We are heartbroken by the tragic loss of Wesley LePatner, a cherished member of the UJA community and a dedicated member of our board of directors, who was killed in yesterday’s mass shooting in Midtown."

Wesley was described as "exceptional in every aspect of her life — personally, professionally, and philanthropically. She was extremely engaged as a member of the Jewish community. She was a board member of the Heschel Jewish Day School on the Upper West Side. As a leader of rare talent and integrity in the financial world, she brought vision, intelligence, and deep compassion to all that she pursued."

After October 7th, she led a UJA solidarity mission to Israel, exemplifying her deep dedication to the Jewish people in times of heartbreak and need. She lived with courage and purpose, nurturing in her two children a profound love for Judaism and the Jewish community.

 

The UN refuses to feed Gaza civilians unless it feeds Hamas leaders first

 

The starvation blood libel gained new traction last week at the exact same time Hamas blew up the latest ceasefire talks, ensuring that the international media would dutifully report on alleged Israeli evils rather than Hamas guaranteeing the war would continue.

As if by magic, somehow the 90 million free meals, two million a day, delivered by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) in recent weeks left Gazans hungrier than ever, according to the propaganda. Meanwhile, the United Nations continues to let its own aid rot in Gaza rather than attempt to feed the very people it claims are starving.

The starvation myth is as much a lie now as it was when OCHA head Tom Fletcher claimed without evidence or a shred of truth that 14,000 babies would die of starvation in Gaza in 48 hours. After 48 hours had passed, the number of babies who reportedly died of starvation was zero. But the truth did not matter, only the lie Fletcher spread on behalf of the UN and on behalf of Hamas.

The Netherlands Banning Entry To Jews Again ..Now Banning Ben Gvir And Smotrich; Threatens Sanctions

 

The Dutch government on Monday evening announced that it has imposed an entry ban on Israeli ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, along with a series of other anti-Israel measures.

Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp wrote in a letter to Dutch lawmakers that the cabinet has decided to “declare Israeli ministers Smotrich and Ben-Gvir persona non grata and will register them as undesirable aliens in the Schengen registration system.”

“This is because they have repeatedly incited settler violence against the Palestinian population, continuously advocated the expansion of illegal settlements, and called for ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip.”

Frum Lady Wesley LePatner Blackstone Executive, Identified as Manhattan Shooting Victim

 Wesley LePatner (Michal Ziva bas Aryeh Leib a”h), a senior managing director at Blackstone and a respected figure in New York’s Modern Orthodox Jewish community, was tragically killed in the mass shooting in Midtown Manhattan on Monday. She was 43.

LePatner, a longtime member of The Altneu shul, also served on the boards of the UJA-Federation of New York and The Heschel School. Her sudden death has left friends and colleagues reeling.

“Broken. The unspeakable has happened,” wrote a friend. “Our dear friend, mentor, community member & builder Wesley LePatner was killed in yesterday’s shooting… the kindest and sharpest human being.”

“Just a few weeks ago, we sat for lunch and spoke about the future, our children, women’s leadership, Torah, our love for Israel,” her friend wrote. “I looked up to her so deeply.”

In addition to her role at Blackstone, where she served as Global Chief Operating Officer of the firm’s Real Estate group, LePatner was widely respected in the business world for her sharp intellect and steady leadership.

She leaves behind her husband, Evan, and their children.

Levaya arrangements have not yet been announced.

Yehi Zichra Baruch.

To end food shortages in Gaza, the world should unite to end . . . Hamas

 

The plight of Gazan civilians lacking enough food has made headlines, but make no mistake: Whatever hunger exists in Gaza is Hamas’ fault — and the way to address it is to end Hamas. And thus, the war.

Claims of “mass starvation,” of course, are utter baloney. They’re based by all sorts of falsehoods, including, most recently, lurid, upsetting photos of supposedly sick, malnourished kids, whose protruding bones make them look like Nazi concentration-camp prisoners.

Numerous publications published one particularly disturbing photo, of a boy named Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq, to show the effects of “widespread hunger.”

Only it turns out the boy is not malnourished but has a genetic disease; uncropped pictures show his well-fed brother nearby. 

It’s likely many Gazans have trouble getting enough food for their families day-to-day. But relying on any information out of Gaza about food supplies is a dangerous business.

Reports of “mass starvation” there have been circulating from early in the war. In May the BBC reported that “14,000 babies in Gaza could die in the next 48 hours,” yet that turned out to be a willful misreading of a projection by the United Nations (itself an unreliable source).  

Meanwhile, Israel is permitting truckloads of aid into Gaza, and facilitating air drops. This week it even paused military action for 10 hours a day to allow for humanitarian aid.

Remember, though, that food shortages in Gaza have largely been orchestrated by Hamas, which steals international aid for its own members and to resell to finance its war efforts.

And this morally perverse group actually wants its people to starve, so the world will blame Israel and pressure it to halt its attacks on . . . Hamas.

That strategy has been succeeding, which is why Hamas has refused to surrender or even agree to a cease-fire.

Just this weekend, for example, French premier Macron fecklessly “recognized” Palestine as a state.

That just rewards Hamas further, and encourages it to keep the war going. Expect only more suffering for Gazans. 

At least President Donald Trump is wise to the game: Last week, he pulled US negotiators back from cease-fire talks, saying Hamas “didn’t want to make a deal,” but rather “wanted to die.”

Spot on: The group is nothing more than a power-hungry death cult that gloats over the “martyrdom” of innocent people it hides behind. It built hundreds of miles of tunnels for its soldiers but not one shelter for its people. 

If the world wants to improve the lives of suffering Gazans, it needs to unify against Hamas, not Israel.

Once Hamas is defeated, the war can end and Gazans will be free of their true oppressors.

That will also bring about the best chances yet for long-term peace.

Rashi was an ardent Zionist

 

by Tzvi Fishman

This past Friday marked the yahrzeit of the great Torah commentator, Rashi, Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaki. Almost everyone is familiar with the famous first Rashi on the Torah. He asks - since the Torah is the Book of Law which Hashem gave to the Jewish People, why does it begin with the account of Creation and not with the commandments? 

Rashi answers the question by quoting a Midrash of Rabbi Yitzhak which explains that if the nations of the world claim that we stole the Land of Israel from them, we can answer that since the Holy One Blessed Be He created the world, He can give the Land of Israel to whomever He chooses.

Did Rashi have political savvy? 

Did he foresee the day when the Arabs, the European Union, the BDS, the United Nations, Hague, and the U.S. State Department would call Israel thieves, claiming that we stole Eretz Yisrael from the Palestinian Arabs? 

Maybe, but I don’t think he was stockpiling ammunition for Bibi to convey to the UN. Rashi didn’t write his commentary for the Gentiles - he wrote it to teach the Jews.

Rashi wants to teach us that without Eretz Yisrael there is no Torah, no Am Yisrael, nor Sanctification of Hashem in the world. 

Eretz Yisrael is the foundation of the entire Torah. The Torah was given to be kept in Eretz Yisrael. The Jewish People can only be a Nation in Eretz Yisrael. And the establishment of the Kingdom of Hashem - the goal of the Torah - can only be established in the world when the Nation of Israel dwells in its Land, all of the Jews in all of the Land.

Without Eretz Yisrael we are scattered Jews, not a Nation. We struggle to survive but assimilation eats away at us, threatening Diaspora Jews with extinction. Without Eretz Yisrael, the Jews are defenseless minorities in other peoples’ lands, dependent on the non-Jew for everything.

Rashi teaches that Torah is meant to be kept in the Land of Israel, the only place it can be observed in all of its fullness, with its many laws relating to the Land of Israel, the Kingship of Israel, the army of Israel, the justice system of Israel, and the Beit HaMikdash which you can’t build in Moscow, Berlin, of Brooklyn. 

He reminds us that we perform mitzvot in the Diaspora only so that we remember how to do them, for the commandments were given to be performed in the Holy Land (Devarim, 11:18).

 In several places in his Torah commentary, Rashi cites the Gemara which states that a Jew who lives in Israel is like someone who has a God, and a Jew who dwells outside the Land of Israel is like someone who worships idols (Vayikra 25:38).

If anyone still clinging to the Diaspora doubts that Hashem wants His children to dwell in the Chosen Land, he or she only glance at the upcoming Torah portion as we begin the Book of Devarim:

“‘Moshe began to explain the Torah, saying, ‘The Lord our God spoke to us in Horev, saying, You have dwelt long enough in this mountain - TURN AND TAKE UP YOUR JOURNEY - go to the Land of Israel! BEHOLD, I HAVE SET THE LAND BEFORE YOU, GO IN AND POSSESS THE LAND THAT THE LORD SWORE TO YOUR FATHERS, AVRAHAM, YITZHAK, AND YAACOV TO GIVE THEM, AND TO THEIR SEED AFTER THEM” (Devarim, 1:6-8).

Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda HaKohen Kook explained to his students at the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva in Jerusalem: 

“The Torah wasn’t given to be kept in Sinai, nor in Russia or America. The Torah isn’t a ‘religion’ like Buddhism or Christianity, God forbid. The Torah isn’t some abstract spirituality floating like a cloud in the sky. The Torah has an EARTHLY BASE. Not Sinai. Not Europe. Not the United States. The Torah is the DIVINE CONSTITUTION of the NATION OF ISRAEL, and every NATION needs its own LAND. And the holy CHILDREN OF ISRAEL have their own unique HOLY LAND.

“What is the first and fundamental message that Moshe explains when he teaches the Torah to Am Yisrael? Not Shabbos. Not kashrus. ‘Do you want to know what Torah is?’ Moshe asks them. ‘If you really want to keep it, GO IN AND POSSESS THE LAND! That’s the basis of Torah. Only in the Holy Land will you be able to understand what the Torah is all about and only there can all of the Torah be kept.’”

That’s what Rashi is coming to tell us at the very start of the Torah. Hashem created the world and gave the Land of Israel to the Jews. Hashem wants His Children to live in the Holy Land and not scattered around the world.

May Rashi’s memory be for a blessing.

UN 'mobsters' barred NGOs from French-Saudi 2-State conference

 

The French and Saudi-led UN conference calling for the creation of a Palestinian State began today (Monday). The three-day conference is being held following French President Emmanuel Macron's controversial announcement last week that France would recognize a Palestinian State in September.

Professor Anne Bayefsky, President of Human Rights Voices and Director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust, told Arutz Sheva - Israel National News that all NGOs were prohibited from attending the conference despite assurances that the event would be open.

"Today, the UN mob, led now by France and Saudi Arabia, went on a manic anti-Israel blitz. The closest analogy is the speed of October 7th itself. Nothing tells you more about how this international gang works than the manner in which this conference is being conducted," Prof. Bayefsky stated.

Qatar behind Hamas 'starvation' propaganda campaign

 

Israeli officials believe that Qatar is leading Hamas’ propaganda campaign about a "famine in Gaza," which is gaining widespread international traction, according to a report on Channel 12 News this evening (Monday).

The campaign portrays Israel as the direct cause of a "famine crisis in Gaza" and is being amplified by major media outlets around the world. Some Israeli media outlets are also echoing Hamas’ narrative, amid the circulation of disturbing images of severely underweight children in Gaza.

Just today, Israel's Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) exposed the falsehoods behind Hamas’ "starvation" campaign and responded to accusations that Israel is responsible for the "starvation" of a 5-year-old boy from Gaza, Osama al-Rakab.

The photo, which went viral and was widely shared internationally, including by media outlets, showed the child in poor health, with claims that his condition was due to "starvation in Gaza caused by Israeli actions."

However, al-Rakab has not been starved by Israel, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) reported. In reality, al-Rakab suffers from a genetic illness unrelated to the war, which is responsible for his condition. And left Gaza with his mother and brother, and is now being treated in Italy.

"The Facts: Osama suffers from a serious genetic illness unrelated to the war," COGAT tweeted. "On June 12, we actively coordinated Osama's exit from Gaza with his mother and brother through the Ramon airport."

"He is now receiving treatment in Italy."

COGAT stressed: "Tragic images rightfully stir strong emotions, but when they’re misused to fuel hatred and lies, they do more harm than good. Don’t let compassion be exploited for propaganda. Check the facts before parroting blame."