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The”Palestine state” extermination gambit Today’s surrender to evil comes in the guise of a human rights lawyer Melanie Phillips

By on July 30th, 2025

https://melaniephillips.substack.com/p/thepalestine-state-extermination

Britain’s prime minster, Sir Keir Starmer, is widely thought to be boring but decent, technocratic but moderate, a bulwark of centrism against the crazies.

This is wildly mistaken. He is monstrous.

He said today:

The UK will recognise the state of Palestine by the United Nations General Assembly in September unless the Israeli government takes substantive steps to end the appalling situation in Gaza, agree to a ceasefire and commit to a long-term, sustainable peace, reviving the prospect of a Two State Solution. And this includes allowing the UN to restart the supply of aid, and making clear there will be no annexations in the West Bank.

Like French president Emanuel Macron who has also threatened to recognise “Palestine” at the UN in September, Starmer is thus rewarding Hamas for its barbaric and depraved pogrom in southern Israel on October 7 2023.

He is blaming Israel, not Hamas for the “appalling situation” in Gaza. This even though Hamas is responsible for the war by slaughtering 1200 Israelis and others on October 7; taking more than 240 of them hostage and still refusing to release around 50 of them after 22 months incarceration; and stealing food and other aid with the intention of starving Gazans to get patsies like Starmer to say what he’s just said.

Far worse, Starmer is now threatening the Israeli victims of Hamas. Like some mafioso who’s draped his sawn-off shotgun in a keffiyeh, he says that unless Israel stops the war by September he’ll recognise “Palestine”. He imposes no conditions, however, on Hamas. Israel alone gets the treatment.

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Hungry to revive the world’s oldest hatred Ruthie Blum

By on July 30th, 2025

https://www.jns.org/hungry-to-revive-the-worlds-oldest-hatred/

Let’s not kid ourselves. Israel’s heightened efforts to guarantee that humanitarian aid reaches the residents of Gaza without falling into the hands of Hamas aren’t going to put a dent in the “purposeful starvation” propaganda campaign.

We don’t have to look far for evidence that this is the case. Take Israel’s exposing of the false depiction of certain children in the Strip with congenital diseases as victims of the “Israel-imposed famine,” for instance.

Revealing the truth behind the viral photos and front-page fabrications hasn’t stopped mainstream media outlets, including Israeli ones, from perpetuating the lie. Nor has it prevented European leaders from finger-wagging at Israel.

On the contrary, the more that Israel presents the facts, the louder the cacophony grows. The same goes for the higher the number of compromises it makes with Hamas—in order to secure the release of at least some of the hostages—and the greater the amount of aid it provides to Gazans. Indeed, the blood libels lobbed at the Jewish state since Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre nearly two years ago only increase with each passing Israeli concession.

The timing of the current Hamas-spurred media blitz isn’t accidental. It coincided with the ceasefire/hostage-release talks in Qatar. To be more precise, it began when the American and Israeli delegations had reached the end of their rope—with the terrorist group’s constant upping of its ante in the negotiations—and returned home.

Hamas’s intransigence was given a boost by the likes of The New York Times, the United Nations, and, of course, French President Emmanuel Macron, who announced his country’s unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state as a reward for Hamas atrocities.

It’s not surprising that none of those professing grave concern for the plight of hungry Palestinians bothers to mention the massive amounts of aid stolen by Hamas or the truckloads of food decaying at the border, due to the refusal by the United Nations to distribute it.

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Beware, International Community! Jews Did Not Burn the Church by Bassam Tawil

By on July 23rd, 2025

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21777/taybeh-church

There is no evidence… that Jews were behind the alleged arson.

[US Ambassador to Israel Mike] Huckabee should be commended for understanding that the Palestinians had lied to him when they claimed that Jews were behind the arson.

“In recent days, a despicable and false blood libel has been raging around the world against the settlements, reminiscent of dark periods in Europe, and it has so far managed to deceive quite a few lovers of Israel in the US… No ‘nationalist crime’ event by Jews was carried out, no church was set on fire, and no cemetery was desecrated. Exactly the opposite—Christian Arabs from the village of Taybeh set fire to open areas four times in one week to prevent Jews from grazing there.” — Elisha Yered, a Jewish father of three living in the West Bank, X, July 21, 2025.

“Throughout the entire event, no damage was caused in any way to the church or the cemetery, and they certainly weren’t ‘completely set ablaze’ or ‘suffered heavy damage’—thanks in part to the residents who fought the fire with their bare hands. This is a fact, not an interpretation.” — Elisha Yered, X, July 21, 2025.

“I have my Masters in archeology. I remember it’s a Byzantine church. Let’s go see how one burns down an ancient church made of stone. So, we’re walking in. I don’t see any signs of a fire. I don’t see a church burned down…. And even on the outskirts or the outer walls there are no signs of fire. I can’t find any. So, it doesn’t look like the church has been burned down… So who has the interest to display this bonfire as the settlers burning down the church?” — Eliana Passentin, tour guide and archeologist, X, July 21, 2025.

“Contrary to the widely reported accusations, TPS-IL found evidence of firefighting efforts by local Jewish residents and raised serious doubts about the fire’s origin – casting a shadow over the political motivations behind the allegation made by a promising Christian leader in the Holy land.” — The Press Service of Israel (TPS-IL), July 20, 2025.

However, [Huckabee], like many in the media and the international community, does not appear to be familiar with the Palestinians’ long-time practice of spreading lies and fabrications with the purpose of vilifying Israel and demonizing Jews.

Last week, US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee visited the Palestinian Christian village of Taybeh in the Binyamin region of the West Bank, where he was told by local leaders that Jewish settlers had burned down the ancient Church of Saint George. There is no evidence, however, that Jews were behind the alleged arson. In fact, Jews living near the village actually helped extinguish a fire that was lit by Palestinians to prevent Jewish shepherds from grazing their cattle.

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Mamdani’s Father Defends Suicide Bombers Who will interview – and question – Mahmoud Mamdani? by Hugh Fitzgerald

By on July 22nd, 2025

https://www.frontpagemag.com/mamdanis-father-defends-suicide-bombers/

Zohran Mamdani has described how, at the dinner table, his views were formed in long discussions about politics and society with his father, Mahmood Mamdani, who is a professor of government at Columbia University. Mahmood Mamdani has described suicide bombers as worthy to be considered as “soldiers.” He has been a supporter of the anti-Israel BDS (Boycott, Divest, and Sanction) movement that hopes to so damage Israel’s economy that the Jewish state will have to submit to territorial demands by its Arab enemies, including the terror group Hamas.

More on Mahmoud Mamdani can be found here: “Mamdani’s father sits on council of anti-Israel group tied to terror, legitimizes role of suicide bombers,” by Andrew Mark Miller, Cameron Cawthorne, Fox News, July 12, 2025:

Mahmood Mamdani, the father of socialist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, sits on the advisory council of an anti-Israel organization that supports boycotts and sanctions of Israel, routinely accuses the Israeli government of committing “genocide”, and has expressed sympathy for suicide bombers.

The Gaza Tribunal, founded in London in 2024, says its primary goal is “to awaken civil society to its responsibility and opportunity to stop Israel’s genocide in Gaza,” according to its website.

Also on its website, Mahmood Mamdani is listed as a member of the group’s “advisory policy council” and is mentioned as having attended the group’s official launch in London last year.

Richard Falk, the president of the tribunal, outlined the group’s support of BDS in an online post saying, “the aim of the Tribunal is or [sic] legitimize and encourage civil society solidarity initiatives around the world such as BDS.”

BDS is described as “an international campaign to delegitimize the State of Israel as the expression of the Jewish people’s right to national self-determination by isolating the country economically through consumer boycotts, business and government withdrawal of investment, and legal sanctions,” according to Influence Watch.

Zohran Mamdani has also promoted BDS as recently as May, when he declined to say whether Israel has a right to exist and said his support of BDS “is consistent with my core of my politics, which is non-violence.”

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‘A Covenant of Blood’ Between Druze and Israel Israel’s moral battle to protect the Druze. by Christine Williams

By on July 22nd, 2025

https://www.frontpagemag.com/a-covenant-of-blood-between-druze-and-israel/

Just when you think the New York Times couldn’t sink any lower, after favorably showcasing and quoting Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, along with his “warning” that “Israeli attacks threaten ‘chaos’ in Syria,” the Times went on to serve as al-Sharaa’s mouthpiece by reporting that his attacks on the Druze were based on the paranoia of the Druze community. The Times stated that the Druze “deeply distrust Syria’s new authorities” and “thought that the government forces were coming to attack the Druze. The militias then mobilized to repel the incoming government forces.”

The Druze community in Syria is anything but naïve or jumpy. They are astute, know their enemy, and are of vital importance to Israel for strategic and historical reasons. The predominantly Druze city of Sweida is not far from the Israeli border. The Arab Weekly explains why the Druze are so critically important to Israel as allies, stating, “Beneath the moral justification lies a layer of realpolitik. Southern Syria has long been a zone of strategic anxiety for Israel”:

Unlike Muslim and Christian Arabs, Druze men are conscripted into the military. They serve in elite combat units, rise to high ranks in the IDF, and have long been held up as a model of Arab integration. Several senior military officers, intelligence officials and Knesset members are Druze.

The Middle East Institute points out that Druze political and military forces “wield a great deal of influence” in Sweida province, where they have “established checkpoints,” “enacted community policing,” and clashed with jihad terror groups whenever they “made incursions into the province.” Some of these clashes have been with Hizballah.

Newsweek points out a deep history of loyalty that binds Israel and the Druze together:

Druze in Israel have forged what is often referred to as “a covenant of blood” with the Jewish state. Jethro—the biblical prophet Moses’ father-in-law—is the most important prophet in the Druze religion and the ancestor of all Druze. Alongside the Jewish majority, the Druze in Israel are the only religious community that is required by law to serve in the Israel Defense Forces (at the request of Druze religious and communal leaders).

The Hill notes the immediate source of the Sunni government of al-Sharaa’s desire to persecute the Druze: the “Druze are Arabs but not Muslims,” even though the Druze religion is an offshoot of Islam that originated a millennium ago.

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Yael Bar Tur Activists Say the Anti-Israel Cause Is Mainstream. New York Proves It’s Not Despite the rise in hate crimes, not everyone wants to “normalize the Intifada.”

By on July 22nd, 2025

https://www.city-journal.org/article/new-york-jews-israel-hamas-anti-semitic

You knew something was off when Kylie Jenner deleted her Instagram story. On October 7, 2023, as terrorists dragged hostages into Gaza and roamed the streets of Israel, the reality star posted that she “stand[s] with” the Jewish state, a familiar “thoughts and prayers” gesture, typical of celebrities after tragedies.

But faced with a backlash from her millions of followers, Jenner deleted the post. Others followed suit, removing their own expressions of solidarity. The message was clear: acknowledging Israel’s suffering had become, at best, “problematic”—and, at worst, unwelcome in polite society.

Silence has become all too familiar to American Jews. They’ve experienced it from international organizations and women’s advocates in the face of the devastating evidence of Hamas’s sex crimes; from academic institutions as Jewish students were harassed on elite university campuses; and from fellow New Yorkers amid rising anti-Semitic hate crimes, particularly in New York City.

That silence has been broken—not by Jewish defenders, but by voices that accept or even condone violence against Jews, Zionists, and the people of Israel. Arguments once unthinkable are now aired openly: that the atrocities of October 7 were justified resistance; that Israel should be abolished; that terrorists held in Israeli prisons are morally equivalent with Jewish civilians held hostage in Gaza.

These views have proliferated in part because of our academic institutions. Schools offer students a distorted, one-dimensional portrait of the Middle East. They depict the Israeli-Palestine conflict as a simplistic struggle between oppressors and the oppressed. Young users on social media, where many Americans get their news, see these views reinforced in short, viral videos.

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Jews… in the Koran? Diane Bederman

By on July 21st, 2025

https://dianebederman.com/jews-in-the-koran/

So I was sitting on the couch, my legs on the coffee table, flipping through the Koran, glass of dry white wine in one hand and a platter of pita with hummus on the table, and, WOW. Almost spilled the wine. Jews in the Koran? In the second sura(chapter)? Seems Mohamed talked about the Jews in the Koran! Where were these Jews? In Germany? Poland? No?

Oh, in Arabia, today’s Saudi Arabia-the Middle East. So when people scream to Jews, today, go back to Poland and Germany, nope. Wrong places.

Jews didn’t come from Poland and Germany. According to Mohamed, they were in the Middle East BEFORE Islam, Germany or Poland. I’ll be damned. Who knew?

All I read is that Jews are colonizers of the Middle East, especially Israel. But it seems that’s all wrong!

During the days of Jewish clashes with the Roman Empire, Jews fled to areas outside the control of Rome and founded many towns and villages in Arabia. One very famous town, almost certainly founded by Jews, was Yathrib. Today Yathrib is better known as Medina and is considered Islam’s second holiest city (after Mecca).  Mohamed’s journey to Yithrab in the year 622 CE, the year 1 of the Islamic calendar, was immortalized as the Hegira, his flight from Mecca to Medina, “the city of the prophet, in 622 where he was welcomed by the Jews. The Jews? Yes, Medina, founded by Jewish tribes who planted a date palm oasis after fleeing Roman conquered Judaea, and gave Muhammad refuge from his enemies in Mecca. I”be darned!

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French court frees terrorist behind murder of Israeli, US diplomats By David Isaac

By on July 19th, 2025

https://www.jns.org/french-court-orders-release-of-terrorist-behind-murder-of-israeli-us-diplomats/

Israel, through its embassy in Paris, expressed its “regret” over the decision of a French appeals court on Thursday to release Lebanese terrorist Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, 74, who served 40 years of a life sentence for his role in the murder of Israeli and American diplomats in 1982.

Abdallah is a “terrorist responsible for the murders of the Israeli diplomat Yaacov Barsiman-Tov, killed in front of his wife and daughter, and the American diplomat Charles Ray. Such terrorists, enemies of the free world, should spend their lives in prison,” the embassy said.

The Paris Appeals Court agreed to release Abdallah on July 25, arguing that he posed “no serious risk in terms of committing new terrorism acts,” Reuters reported.

The decision upholds an earlier one from Nov. 15, 2024, by a French court, which ordered Abdallah to be released on Dec. 6 of last year. That ruling was suspended when the prosecution appealed, Le Monde reported.

The United States and France’s general prosecutor opposed Abdallah’s release. Although he had been eligible for parole since 1999, all his past applications had been turned down, except in 2013, when he was granted release if he left France. Then-Interior Minister Manuel Valls refused to enforce the order and Abdallah remained behind bars, Le Monde reported.

Abdallah, former head of the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions (LARF), a Marxist-Leninist terrorist group, was detained in 1984 and convicted in 1987 for complicity in the murder of the aforementioned U.S. Army Lt. Col. Ray and Israeli diplomat Barsiman-Tov. Both men were 43.

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Arab Clan Leader in Gaza Declares Open War on Hamas He’s blaming Hamas, not Israel, for the Gaza War – and the misery it has brought. by Hugh Fitzgerald

By on July 18th, 2025

https://www.frontpagemag.com/arab-clan-leader-in-gaza-declares-open-war-on-hamas/

Yasser Abu Shabab is the leader of one of the largest clans in Gaza, and is fighting against Hamas. More on him can be found here: “‘No stopping a civil war against Hamas,’ Gaza militia chief Abu Shabab tells KAN,” Jerusalem Post, July 7, 2025:

Yasser Abu Shabab, leader of the allegedly Israel-backed, anti-Hamas Popular Forces group, revealed to Israeli public broadcaster KAN on Sunday that his militia is actively working against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, particularly operating in the Rafah area.

“There is no stopping a civil war against Hamas,” Abu Shabab said in the interview.

He told KAN that those who comprise his militia do not belong to any political or organizational ideology. However, Abu Shabab told Army Radio in an interview last month that he denied working with Israel and confirmed his group’s relationship with the Palestinian Authority. In that interview, he said that he wouldn’t rule out cooperating with the IDF on issues such as humanitarian aid distribution in the future….

Abu Shabab may deny working with Israel, but he is believed to have accepted weapons from the IDF; for obvious reasons, he keeps quiet about that. And he knows that his forces, and the IDF, share a common goal: to fight against and destroy Hamas. He has also said that he could see his group cooperating with the IDF on the distribution of humanitarian aid and similar issues, no doubt including the rebuilding of hospitals and schools. He claims to be open to people of all ideologies — except for Hamas, which is the Gazan branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. He also said that he has a relationship to the Palestinian Authority, which is Hamas’ bitter enemy, but offered no details.

He’s blaming Hamas, not Israel, for the Gaza War, and the misery that the war that Hamas started on October 7, 2023 has brought to so many people in Gaza. The “aggression” he deplores is that of Hamas, not the IDF. It’s a remarkable statement from a Palestinian leader in Gaza.

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French, Saudi leaders bow out of own UN summit amid political headwinds David Isaac

By on July 18th, 2025

https://www.jns.org/french-saudi-leaders-bow-out-of-own-un-summit-amid-political-headwinds/

A United Nations summit set for the end of the month with the goal of establishing a Palestinian state is off to a shaky start. Originally scheduled for June but delayed by Israel’s operation against Iran, it’s now reported that the co-hosts will be no-shows.

Le Monde reported this weekend that neither of the conference’s conveners, French President Emmanuel Macron nor Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, will attend, though earlier reports said they had planned to appear at the summit.

The two leaders may have encountered political headwinds, most significantly from the United States. On June 10, a week before the summit’s original scheduled date (June 17-20), the United States sent a cable warning other countries against participating, stating that those taking “anti-Israel actions” following the conference would be considered to be acting against U.S. foreign policy interests, Reuters reported.

“The United States opposes any steps that would unilaterally recognize a conjectural Palestinian state, which adds significant legal and political obstacles to the eventual resolution of the conflict and could coerce Israel during a war, thereby supporting its enemies,” the cable read.

“The United States opposes the implied support of the conference for potential actions including boycotts and sanctions on Israel as well as other punitive measures.”

It continued: “Unilaterally recognizing a Palestinian state would effectively render Oct. 7 Palestinian Independence Day,” referring to the Hamas onslaught on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, when the terror group indiscriminately murdered more than 1,200 people, wounded thousands and kidnapped 251 more.

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