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The Evil Intent to Destroy Israel by Nils A. Haug

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21928/intent-to-destroy-israel

Raging against Israel are those hypocritical, self-righteous, self-seeking, egocentric, cowardly leaders: Emmanuel Macron (France), Keir Starmer (UK), Anthony Albanese (Australia), Mark Carney (Canada), Pedro Sanchez (Spain) and their ilk, seemingly without an ounce of integrity between them, supporting an avowed genocidal death cult that publicly expresses the desire to murder all Jews, Christians, and other “infidels,” and take down the West.

If you do not want to fight the invasions in your own countries, at least stand aside and do not obstruct someone else doing it for you. These feckless so-called leaders even fail to protect their own Jewish citizens from domestic terror. By so acting, and by legalizing Islamic Sharia law, they are oozing toward complete submission to the Islamist hordes they have encouraged to reside in their midst. In this way, as Trump cautioned, they are actively destroying their own nations and Western civilization itself.

Sadly, suicidally, it is also about appeasing their radical Islamist voters – who will probably reciprocate, as Trump noted, by wanting more.

There are no longer gray areas in the implied intent of major Western nations, such as France, Spain, Portugal, Canada, the UK, Australia and others, to isolate or destroy Israel.

Hamas and associated jihadist murderers are not Israel’s primary enemies; rather, Israel’s real enemies are its purported allies — those Western powers seeking its demise by legitimizing a terror-dominated Palestinian state alongside, and within, the borders of the world’s only Jewish homeland. Ironically, these are the countries Israel is defending as it fights a seven-front war, sacrificing nearly a thousand of its heroic soldiers. Israel is defending these Western nations against an invasion that President Donald J. Trump clearly warned is “not sustainable”:

“You’re destroying your countries…. Europe is in serious trouble. They’ve been invaded by a force of illegal aliens like nobody’s ever seen before. Illegal aliens are pouring into Europe, and nobody’s doing anything to change it, to get them out. It’s not sustainable. And because they choose to be politically correct, they’re doing just absolutely nothing about it….

“Now they want to go to Sharia law, but you’re in a different country, you can’t do that. Both the immigration and their suicidal energy ideas will be the death of Western Europe if something is not done immediately. This cannot be sustained. What makes the world so beautiful is that each country is unique, but to stay this way, every sovereign nation must have the right to control their own borders…. as we do now, and to limit the sheer numbers of migrants entering their countries and paid for by the people of that nation that were there and that built that particular nation at the time. They put their blood, sweat, tears, money into that country, and now they’re being ruined….

“Proud nations must be allowed to protect their communities and prevent their societies from being overwhelmed by people they have never seen before with different customs, religions, with different everything. Where migrants have violated laws, lodged false asylum claims or claimed refugee status for illegitimate reasons, they should, in many cases, be immediately sent home. And while we will always have a big heart for places and people that are struggling and truly compassionate, answers will be given. We have to solve the problem and we have to solve it in their countries, not create new problems in our countries.”

Trump’s Bold Gaza Peace Plan Is an Offer Hamas Can’t Veto Trump’s 20-point Gaza Peace Plan, backed by Arab states and Israel, could rebuild Gaza and sideline Hamas—even if Hamas rejects it. By Fred Fleitz

https://amgreatness.com/2025/10/03/trumps-bold-gaza-peace-plan-is-an-offer-hamas-cant-veto/

Although it appeared, as this article went to print, that Hamas would not accept President Trump’s historic 20-point Gaza Peace Plan without substantial changes, the beauty of this plan is that it may bring peace to the Middle East and initiate a process to rebuild Gaza, regardless of what Hamas decides. This is because, due to President Trump’s leadership, Arab states, the Palestinian Authority, and Israel support this plan; the war will soon end, and a process to rebuild and secure Gaza will proceed, even if Hamas rejects the plan.

Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar support the 20-point plan. Even the Palestinian Authority (PA), which rejected previous peace plans as insufficient, has accepted this plan. European states have voiced their support. Although the Israeli government is uncomfortable with some provisions of the plan, it has accepted it.

Some of the provisions of the 20-point plan are similar to previous plans that failed due to Hamas’s opposition. The plan calls for a cease-fire, the release of all hostages held by Hamas, and the release of almost 2,000 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. Hamas will be disarmed and its weapons will be destroyed. Hamas will be barred from playing any role in the future governance of Gaza. Hamas members who pledge to live peacefully and support coexistence with Israel will be offered amnesty. Those who refuse will be provided safe passage out of Gaza.

The plan includes some new ideas involving Israeli concessions that address previous stumbling blocks. Israel will not annex the Gaza Strip, and Israeli troops will gradually withdraw and be limited to a perimeter presence.

A temporary international stabilization force will be deployed in Gaza to oversee security, demilitarization, and reconstruction in Gaza following a ceasefire and the disarmament of Hamas. This force will reportedly be staffed mainly by troops from Gulf Arab states. A Palestinian Authority police force will eventually be deployed after the PA is reformed and deradicalized.

A Board of Peace will be established as a temporary international oversight body to manage Gaza’s transitional governance and redevelopment. President Trump will chair this board. Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair will be a prominent member. Arab and European members will join them. The board will eventually be dissolved and replaced by the PA after it undergoes substantial reforms and deradicalization.

Finally, the plan keeps the door open to a future Palestinian state, albeit as a distant Palestinian aspiration. According to the plan, “when Gaza’s redevelopment has been advanced and the PA reform program has been implemented, the conditions may be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian statehood, which is recognized as the aspiration of the Palestinian people.”

The idea of any role for the Palestinian Authority in administering or securing Gaza and proposals for a Palestinian state have been anathemas for Israeli officials in the aftermath of the October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre against Israel. However, Israel’s grudging acceptance of vague provisions on these ideas was crucial to winning the support of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar, and the UAE. Coupled with Netanyahu’s apology to Qatar for violating Qatari sovereignty in Israel’s recent airstrike, Hamas now has no Arab support in opposing the Trump plan. This may set the stage not just to rebuild Gaza but also to expand the Abraham Accords.

The Gazan Suicide Bomber Who Attacked Israeli Hospital That Saved Her Life Catherine Salgado

https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/10/01/the-gazan-suicide-bomber-who-attacked-israeli-hospital-that-saved-her-life-n4944341

Here’s a story every American should hear — the Gaza woman who twice received extensive life-saving care from Israel, obtained her education through Israel, and then returned to blow up the hospital that saved her life. And she told an American journalist that she would attempt another terrorist attack in a heartbeat if she could.

Westerners tend to be cultural imperialists, which means that they make the false assumption that the overwhelming majority of human beings have basically the same goals and standards and want the same outcomes. The number of egregiously stupid mistakes that American politicians, for instance, have made because they refuse to acknowledge that Communist and Islamic regimes don’t value the lives or prosperity of their people is appalling. 

Even the new America-brokered deal pressed on Israel that would require the release of hundreds of Gaza jihadists — Oct. 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar was previously released through just such a deal — does not seem to acknowledge that the overwhelming majority of the so-called Palestinians fanatically and fundamentally believe they must wipe Israel off the map for Allah. They are taught that from school, the media, and mosques from the youngest ages. As long as Gaza exists as a Muslim-run territory, Israel will be fighting off terror attacks.

But Sinwar was only one of about a thousand Gazans traded back in a deal for a single Israeli hostage, just as the brand new deal would release around 2,000 Gazans in exchange for the nearly 50 Israeli hostages. Among the other Gazans in the Sinwar deal was Wafa, an attempted suicide bomber who targeted the very Israeli hospital that had saved her life. 

Back in 2012, Leland Vittert told The Free Press’s Bari Weiss that he was a foreign correspondent for Fox News. He described how normal it was as a Middle Eastern correspondent to have to cover suicide bombings against Israel and riots in the “West Bank,” which is the Palestinian propaganda term for the Israeli land the Bible calls Judea and Samaria. But the Obama-backed “Arab Spring” that gave birth to so many Islamic terrorist movements had been occupying his time. 

Hamas says, ‘Yes, but’…and the world looks away By Warren H. Cohn

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/10/hamas_says_yes_but_and_the_world_looks_away.html

There’s finally a deal on the table.  Eight Muslim nations signed on.  The Palestinian Authority signed on.  The world is ready to stop the bloodshed.  And yet — predictably, infuriatingly — Hamas shrugs and says, “Yes, but…”

Every time there’s a glimmer of peace, Hamas moves the goalposts.  Another round of haggling.  Another round of delay.  Another chance to keep the chaos going — because chaos is the only currency Hamas knows how to spend.

And here’s the question no one seems to ask: Where are the protesters now?

For months, we’ve seen mobs in the streets screaming, “Ceasefire now!”  They chained themselves to bridges.  They stormed college campuses.  They shouted down Jewish students and politicians.  But now — when there’s actually a ceasefire deal that Israel and the Arab world have signed off on — the silence is deafening.

Why aren’t the protesters outside Hamas’s offices, demanding they accept the deal?  Why aren’t they rallying against the terrorist group that’s blocking peace?  Because it was never really about peace.  It was about blaming Israel.

Hamas survives by saying, “Yes, but.”  It always has.  It feeds on delay, on endless negotiation, on bloodshed dragged out just long enough to buy itself another news cycle.  Meanwhile, innocent families — Israeli and Palestinian alike — suffer while the “resistance” leaders hide in tunnels and play politics with people’s lives.

Bibi Tells the Truth (Again) Israel’s battle against terror isn’t limited to the region. by Cal Thomas

https://www.frontpagemag.com/bibi-tells-the-truth-again/

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the UN General Assembly was partly performance, but mostly profound.

The performance part included a QR code on his lapel which delegates were invited to zoom in with their camera phones and see atrocities committed by Hamas that are too gruesome for TV networks to show. He also arranged for his statement that Israel has not forgotten the hostages to be blasted over loudspeakers set up in Gaza for that purpose.

The profound part included repetition of what he has said before with some twists. Netanyahu reminded the delegates that Israel’s battle against terrorism is not limited to the region, but that the terrorists want to return the entire world to the “Dark Ages.”

A few excerpts from his speech:

“Iran’s aggression, if not checked, will endanger every single country in the Middle East, and many, many countries in the rest of the world, because Iran seeks to impose its radicalism well beyond the Middle East.”

“Hamas steals the (humanitarian aid) and then they hike the prices … and that’s how they stay in power.”

“Israel must also defeat Hezbollah in Lebanon. … It has tentacles that span all continents. It has murdered more Americans and more Frenchmen than any group since Bin Laden. It’s murdered the citizens of many countries represented in this room. And it has attacked Israel viciously over the last 20 years.”

“For 18 years, Hezbollah brazenly refused to implement UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which requires it to move its forces away from our borders. Instead, Hezbollah moved right up to our border. They secretly dug terror tunnels to infiltrate our communities and indiscriminately fired thousands of rockets into our towns and villages.”

“In this battle between good and evil, there must be no equivocation. When you stand with Israel, you stand for your own values and your own interests.”

“We see this moral confusion (about which side is good and which side is evil) when Israel is falsely accused of genocide when we defend ourselves against enemies who try to commit genocide against us. We see this too when Israel is absurdly accused by the ICC Prosecutor of deliberately starving Palestinians in Gaza.”

Trump’s peace plan is the Western left’s worst nightmare By turning the screws on Hamas, Trump has exposed who’s really responsible for this dreadful war. Brendan O’Neill

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/09/30/trumps-peace-plan-is-the-western-lefts-worst-nightmare/

Has the prospect of peace ever been greeted with such gloom? No sooner had President Trump unveiled his peace plan for Israel-Gaza than the opinion-forming classes were frantically sowing cynicism. The possibility that the ghastly war in Gaza will be brought to a close gave rise not to optimism but to sarcasm, suspicion, even an eerie grumpiness unbecoming of a deal that might save thousands of lives. From the BBC to Sky News to the Israelophobic swamp of social media, the cry went up: ‘It’ll never work.’

I’m sure some of this haughty scepticism springs from the faint strains of Trump Derangement Syndrome that linger in elite circles. Hence, the BBC’s focus was less on the lives that might be preserved in Gaza than on Trump’s ‘hyperbole’ and his ‘exotic overstatement’. The Beeb preferred to rip the piss out of Trump for probably thinking this was ‘one of the greatest days in the history of civilisation’ than to ponder on a better future for Gaza. Nice moral priorities you have there.

Sky’s analysis positively dripped with derision. What happens when the ‘applause dwindles’, it wondered, and either Hamas or the Israeli ‘far right’, with all its ‘spitting fury’, rejects the plan? You would think a media empire that has convinced itself the war in Gaza is a ‘genocide’ would be more sanguine about a deal that might bring the ‘genocidal’ horrors to an end. You would be wrong.

A strange melancholy likewise descended on the digital haters of the Jewish State. They noisily gnashed their teeth over the ‘problematic’ small print in the deal, which is a weird way to respond to something that might bring to an end what they claim (insanely) to be an Auschwitz-level calamity. ‘The Palestinians must reject this surrender deal’, said Roshan M Salih of the Islamic website 5Pillars. So let the ‘genocide’ continue? It’s an original rallying cry, I’ll give him that.

Media And U.N. Portray Mahmoud Abbas As A World Leader Despite Lack Of Elections Moshe Phillips

https://thej.ca/2025/09/29/media-and-u-n-portray-mahmoud-abbas-as-a-world-leader-despite-lack-of-elections/

ABC News coverage of Abbas’s Sept. 25 U.N. address drew criticism for calling him a world leader while he remains in office well past his elected term and faces allegations of failing to uphold Oslo commitments.

Mahmoud Abbas was elected to a single four-year term as chairman of the Palestinian Authority well over 20 years ago. Several journalists at ABC News, in their reports on Abbas’s speech (given via video to the UN General Assembly on September 25), referred to him as a “world leader” and otherwise skewed their coverage of the man who has been chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) since Yasser Arafat died in 2004.

This is significant, since the official emblem of Abbas’s PLO still features a map of “Palestine” that leaves no room for any State of Israel—”from the river to the sea.”

When Abbas looks around him, he must be astonished at how news outlets and the international community have acquiesced to his brutal dictatorship and unwillingness to hold elections.

Here are some direct quotes from the ABC News staffers:

Shannon Kingston breathlessly reported that it was “remarkable to see Abbas … say that… he would work with him (Trump) and that’s because the two leaders have a lot of bad blood in the past.” It is disturbing that Kingston would draw any such comparison between an elected U.S. president and the leader of the murderous PLO.

Kyra Phillips (no relation) called Abbas the “leader of the war-torn region.” What’s worse, she said, “(Abbas) also called for the release of all hostages on both sides.” Israel does not hold any hostages; it has prisoners and detainees.

You’ll Totally Believe Who’s Secretly in Charge of the Gaza ‘Relief’ Flotilla

https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2025/09/30/youll-totally-believe-whos-secretly-in-charge-of-the-gaza-relief-flotilla-n4944291

Surprise! That Sumud “relief” flotilla crossing the Mediterranean to the Gaza Strip is actually a Hamas operation, according to secret documents just uncovered by Israeli forces operating in Gaza.

As I reported earlier this month, Greta’s Gaza blockade-buster flotilla is perhaps the largest effort of its kind. The most recent reports indicate that the flotilla consists of more than 50 vessels from 44 countries. Its sponsors include the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, Global Movement to Gaza, Maghreb Sumud Flotilla, and Sumud Nusantara.

Ostensibly, the flotilla is supposed to make its way to Gaza City, where it will provide relief, end the war, and allow everybody to live happily ever after.

In reality, Sumud’s mission is far more sinister — an attempt at Hamas “enlarging” its way out of a deadly impasse. I’ve read it all so that you don’t have to, but you do need to take a quick look at the evidence.

OSINT investigator Eitan Fischberger has all the boring details on X, including copies of the original documents and their English translations. But the quick and dirty version is that Greta & Co. are nothing more than the Western face of “Hamas Abroad,” as Fischberger described Hamas’s overseas branches, which run the flotilla “through the PCPA [Palestinian Conference for Palestinians Abroad].”

“A second document lists flotilla operatives, including Zaher Birawi (UK), longtime flotilla leader, and Saif Abu Kashk (Spain),” Fischberger continued. And how about that, Hamas bigwigs openly operating in Britain and Spain? I’ll give you a moment to pretend to pick your jaw up off the floor.

Aside from that, I’ll keep light on the paperwork details because they’re not of much interest to anyone outside the intel community…

…but what they reveal is fascinating.

If we set the Wayback Machine to Oct. 7, 2023, to re-witness the unimaginably cruel Hamas terror invasion of southern Israel — don’t worry, I won’t actually ask you to watch any of that again — it requires no imagination at all to infer what Hamas was up to.

I mean, aside from setting babies on fire, raping women to death, and taking hundreds of hostages. That was all in Hamas’s idea of good fun, I suppose, but the methods were not the goal. The goal was to provoke the kind of murderous response-in-kind from Israel that would isolate the Jewish state completely, even from its allies in America.

Two Historic Speeches at the UN General Assembly Trump and Netanyahu bring truth to the globalist hall of lies. by Joseph Klein

https://www.frontpagemag.com/two-historic-speeches-at-the-un-general-assembly/

President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered stern but much-needed addresses to the United Nations General Assembly during this year’s annual General Assembly High-Level Week. Both leaders presented stark truths rather than the platitudes and strident rhetoric that normally permeates the General Assembly Hall. 

President Trump asked the fundamental question about the UN today. What is its purpose? “The UN has such tremendous potential,” he said. “All they seem to do is write a really strongly worded letter, and then never follow that letter up. It’s empty words — and empty words don’t solve war. The only thing that solves war and wars is action.”

Even worse, the UN has created problems of its own. “Not only is the UN not solving the problems it should,” President Trump said, “too often, it is actually creating new problems for us to solve.” He noted, for example, that the United Nations is “funding an assault on Western countries and their borders,” including spending in 2024 “$372 million in cash to support 624,000 migrants to journey into the United States to infiltrate our southern border.”

President Trump denounced in his speech what he called the “double-tailed monster” of uncontrolled open borders and the “green energy scam.”

“In the United States,” he said, “we reject the idea that mass numbers of people from foreign lands can be permitted to travel halfway around the world, trample our borders, violate our sovereignty, cause unmitigated crime and deplete our social safety net.” He called upon other nations, particularly in Europe, to follow his administration’s example or risk losing their countries.

What President Trump made crystal clear in his speech is his insistence that each nation is sovereign with its own history, heritage, traditions, and culture that “makes each nation majestic and unique” in its own right.

President Trump reminded the global assemblage that so-called climate “experts” and environmental activists have been making apocalyptic predictions for years that unchecked climate change would wreak catastrophic devastation unless humanity quickly reverses course. According to the fearmongers, we must abandon fossil fuels and convert to total reliance on green energy before it is too late.

Will Meloni give in to the pro-Palestine mob? Protests, riots and strikes over Gaza have pushed the Italian PM to waver on her principled defence of Israel. Dominic Standish

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/09/29/will-meloni-give-in-to-the-pro-palestine-mob/

Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni has been one of the few European leaders not to have lost her head over the war in Gaza. Not only has she refused to give credence to the baseless claim of an Israeli ‘genocide’, she has also made recognising Palestinian statehood conditional on Hamas surrendering. After all, it was Hamas that started the current war, and that has ruthlessly prolonged it, with its refusal to return the hostages it captured on 7 October 2023.

Yet Meloni has never been under more pressure to abandon Israel and back Palestinian statehood unconditionally. Last week, Italy went pazzo over Gaza. Protests and riots were sparked by Italy’s refusal to join other Western countries in recognising a Palestinian state. Weathering these protests will be the biggest test of her leadership to date.

The protests kicked off last Monday, when a number of Italy’s powerful unions called for a day of strikes across the country, impacting as many as 75 cities and towns. Among the unions protesting the ‘inertia’ of Italy in recognising Palestine was the Italian General Confederation of Labour, by some way Italy’s biggest union. Consequently, Italy was effectively shut down for a day. In the port city of Genoa, ships and containers were blocked on the unlikely grounds that they were being used to smuggle weapons into Israel, stifling trade and tourism.

The biggest protests took place in Milan and Rome. In Rome, at least 20,000 people gathered outside the city’s Termini station. In Milan, the number was estimated to be closer to 50,000. Clashes at the main train station, Milano Centrale, injured as many as 60 police officers in the process.

The protests have put serious pressure on Meloni. Indeed, there are already signs that she may be buckling. The first hint of this was in her government’s response to the Global Sumud Flotilla, which has Greta Thunberg on board. Last week, the flotilla’s communication system was temporarily disabled by ABBA music, a prank many suspect to have been carried out by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF). As two Italian MPs are part of this woke armada, Meloni’s defence minister, Guido Crosetto, has ordered an Italian naval ship to give safe passage to the boats. Israel has promised to intercept the ship before it reaches Gaza. This raises the question: what does the Italian government intend to do then? Engage in a naval battle with Israel in the Mediterranean?

Then, there was Meloni’s address to the UN General Assembly on Wednesday. ‘It is Hamas that started the war’, she began by saying. ‘It is Hamas that could end the suffering of the Palestinians by immediately freeing all the hostages. It is Hamas that seems to thrive on the suffering of the Palestinian people.’

Then, she turned her ire on Israel, which she accused of ‘violating humanitarian norms’ and massacring civilians. She said the IDF’s actions against Hamas were not proportionate. And she also promised to recognise Palestine, if two conditions are met: the release of all hostages, and the assurance that Hamas would play no role in government.