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https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/06/12/breaking-israel-bombs-iran-in-preemptive-strike-n4940748?utm_source=breakingemail&utm_medium=email
The Israel Defense Forces [IDF] confirmed that it has bombed Iran’s nuclear assets in a preemptive strike against the Islamic regime that has vowed to wipe Israel off the map.

The Israeli Air Force launched its attack, dubbed “Operation Rising Lion,” late Thursday on Iran’s nuclear program. According to The Times of Israel. “Home Front Command spokesman says Israel could experience ‘heavy missile attack’ in coming hours, but no fire from Iran as yet and no need to go to bomb shelter.” 

Israel has declared a state of emergency, according to the Jerusalem Post, and has closed its airspace. 

It appears that an all-out war could be beginning between Iran and Israel rather than the unending wars by proxy in which Iran has been engaging. 

The Post reported, “Iran developed a plan with Hezbollah and Hamas and other proxies to destroy the State of Israel, potentially including attempts to attack via all borders, including Egypt and Jordan. This was the point of no return, according to the IDF.”

The Times of Israel stated:

The IDF confirms it has launched an aerial campaign against Iran’s nuclear program.

Dozens of targets across Iran related to the nuclear program and other military facilities are being struck by the Israeli Air Force, it says.

In a statement, the IDF said, “A short while ago, following the directive of the political echelon, the IDF launched a preemptive, precise, combined offensive based on high-quality intelligence to strike Iran’s nuclear program, and in response to the Iranian regime’s ongoing aggression against Israel.”

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21683/abbas-condemn-hamas

In all his speeches in Arabic since October 7, 2023, Abbas has very carefully avoided condemning the attack and the murder of a large number of Israelis and foreign nationals.

The official Palestinian news agency Wafa, which regularly reports on Abbas’s meetings, statements, and diplomatic events, also did not report about the letter, including Abbas’s alleged condemnation of the October 7 massacres against Israel.

If Abbas actually did condemn October 7 in his letter, he did so only to appease France and encourage it to recognize a Palestinian state. The Palestinian public knows absolutely nothing about the letter or Abbas’s supposed “condemnation.”

If France really wanted a condemnation of the October 7 atrocities, they should have asked Abbas to issue a statement in Arabic to his own people, and not send a letter (in French) to French President Emmanuel Macron. Such a statement should have been issued by Abbas’s office in Ramallah, not the Élysée Palace in Paris.

Macron and his government are…. are apparently trying to show the world that Abbas deserves a Palestinian state because he has purportedly “condemned” the Hamas-led massacres. Unfortunately, however, this is the same Abbas, however, who still pays salaries to families of convicted terrorists who murder Jews, and who consistently glorifies terrorists by calling them heroes and martyrs.

France and the European Union are actually planning to reward the Islamist jihadists who slaughtered hundreds of Jews by giving them a terrorist state funded and armed by Iran’s mullahs.

This conference, to recognize a genocidal terrorist state, is evidently Macron’s way of appeasing the Muslim jihadists who are now rioting on the streets of French cities. The same holds true for other European leaders: they are willing to sacrifice Jews to placate their Muslim communities.

France claimed this month that Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas had condemned the invasion of Israel on October 7, 2023 by Hamas, the Iran-backed terrorist group. During the attack, Hamas terrorists and other Palestinians murdered 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals, wounded thousands. They kidnapped another 251 people to the Gaza Strip, where 52 – dead and alive – remain in captivity.

Paris said in a statement that the purported condemnation was included in a letter Abbas sent to France on the eve of a United Nations conference in New York, scheduled for this month, to push for recognizing the establishment of a Palestinian state. The conference is to be co-chaired by France and Saudi Arabia.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/06/11/why-privileged-israelophobes-cant-handle-azealia-banks/

We live in an age of grotesque double standards and cloying fakery from celebs. The overwhelming majority seem to think that their job is not to entertain us, but to strike fashionable poses and shove hypocrisies down our throats.

And then there’s Azealia Banks. She is, as the kids say, a real one.

The 34-year-old rapper from Harlem has been controversial for quite some time, sounding off on social media on a variety of topics. But last week she outdid herself by bluntly standing up for Israel at a time when pretty much all of the luvvie class has gone the other way.

‘I’m a Zionist’, she posted last Wednesday. Unsurprisingly, this unleashed a torrent of largely hostile commentary. Many young, privileged Westerners now unthinkingly loathe Israel. For them, a black rapper’s refusal to toe the ‘progressive’ line just doesn’t make sense.

It’s been particularly difficult for woke, finger-snapping white girls. They’re normally only too eager to shout ‘yaaas queen!’ when a black woman speaks. But on this occasion, they’re struggling, as Banks has not stuck to the script.

It should be said that, at points, Banks’s Israel commentary has veered off into dodgier, identitarian territory. ‘BITCH DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY FUCKING BLACK CHILDREN HAVE BEEN MURDERED AT THE HANDS OF ARABS?’, she tweeted last week. Then there was this: ‘I do not support the expansion of genocide of any more peoples of the world at the hands of Arab Muslims.’ Banks, it seems, was referring to the the centuries-long Arab slave trade, which involved the enslavement of millions of Africans right up until the 20th century.

No wonder Banks got progressives’ knickers in a twist. We know that blaming anyone other than the bad white / Jewish man for slavery and genocide is enough to trigger a mass-casualty event at Columbia University.

We live in an age where female celebrity takes mainly two forms: Meghan Markle’s grandiose self-delusion and manufactured virtue, or hectoring harpies with pronouns in their bios. But here comes Banks to shred her opponents openly, and with the most inventive use of swear words I have ever heard. And I grew up in Brooklyn!

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm-plus/recalling-a-clear-case-of-genocide/

Last month, Megha Vemuri, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology class of 2025, denounced the “genocidal Israeli military” and contended that the MIT community “would never tolerate a genocide.” Such proclamations, widely repeated on Ivy League campuses, invite a look at the actual genocide going on 50 years ago.

In April, 1975, troops of the communist Khmer Rouge occupied Cambodia’s capital of Phom Penh. One of the last correspondents to leave was David Aikman of Time magazine, author of  “Cambodia: An Experiment in Genocide.” As Aikman recalled:

After a few hours, the black-uniformed troops began firing into the air. It was a signal for Phnom Penh’s entire population, swollen by refugees to some three million, to abandon the city. Young and old, the well and the sick, businessmen and beggars, were all ordered at gunpoint onto the streets and highways leading into the countryside.

Among the first pitiful sights on the road, witnessed by several Westerners, were patients from Pnomh Penh’s grossly overcrowded hospitals, perhaps 20,000 people all told. Even the dying, the maimed and the pregnant were herded out stumbling into the streets. Several pathetic cases were pushed along the road in their beds by relatives, the intravenous bottles still attached to the bedframes In some hospitals, foreign doctors were ordered to abandon their patients in mid-operation. It took two days before the Bruegel-like multitude was fully under way, shuffling, limping and crawling to a designated appointment with revolution.

With almost no preparations for so enormous an exodus —how could there have been with a war on?—thousands died along the route, the wounded from loss of blood, the weak from exhaustion, and others by execution, usually because they had not been quick enough to obey a Khmer Rouge order. Phnom Penh was not alone: the entire urban population of Cambodia, some four million people, set out on a similar grotesque pilgrimage. It was one of the greatest transfers of human beings in modern history.

The slaughter was soon to follow. The Khmer Rouge executed victims by blows to the head with hoes, clubs and other blunt instruments. The Communist soldiers killed infants and children by smashing their heads against trees. They cut victims’ throats with knives, bayonets and scythes. Some were poisoned or suffocated with plastic bags.

The Khmer Rouge also maintained 189 interrogation centers, including S-21 in a former school now called Tuol Sleng. The Communists tortured prisoners with electric shocks and beat them into forced confessions. Of the 14,000-17,000 prisoners held there, only 12 survived.

http://New report debunks ‘settler violence’ narrative https://www.jns.org/new-report-debunks-settler-violence-narrative/ David Isaac

The “settler violence” campaign, which claims that violence against Arabs by Jewish “settlers” spiked post-Oct. 7, 2023, is based on fraudulent numbers, according to a report published on Sunday.

The campaign’s goal, according to the report, is to defame not merely the Jewish communities of Judea and Samaria, but the Israeli army and by extension the entire State of Israel.

The 125-page report, “False Flags and Real Agendas,” produced by Israeli NGO Regavim, describes the “settler violence” smear as a “modern-day blood libel.”

The report dissects the narrative and the numbers behind the slander, which went into overdrive following the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack. A flurry of news items appeared in the liberal mainstream press in the United States and elsewhere about escalating “settler violence” in Judea and Samaria.

These reports claimed that Jewish violence had increased in retaliation for the Hamas massacre. “The breadth and intensity of the violence has revived memories of the ‘nakba,’ or catastrophe, during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forced from their homes, never to return,” reported The Washington Post on Nov. 9, 2023.

In February 2024, the Biden administration, for the first time, sanctioned Israelis it claimed had engaged in violence against Arab civilians, citing “high levels of extremist settler violence, forced displacement of people and villages and property destruction.” It would sanction more Israelis in subsequent months, along with certain pro-Israel NGOs, including Regavim.

The Biden White House justified its interference in another country’s internal affairs by claiming that Israel’s government had not done enough to “hold accountable extremist settlers who commit acts of violence,” in the words of then-State Department spokesman Matthew Miller.

https://www.jns.org/israels-brilliant-handling-of-the-flotilla-affair/

It was supposed to be a grand act of defiance—another headline-grabbing spectacle in the ongoing campaign to vilify the Jewish state. Instead, it became a floating punchline.

The so-called “freedom flotilla” set sail earlier this month from Sicily, bound for Gaza, carrying meager amounts of food and other forms of aid. Aboard the lone boat, the British-flagged schooner Madleen, was a small cast of sanctimonious “humanitarians.”

Chief among them was Swedish climate crusader Greta Thunberg. Joining her was French Member of the European Parliament Rima Hassan and another 10 or so activists trying to make themselves relevant.

What they billed as a noble mission was actually a farce. Wasting no time in exposing the charade, the Israeli Foreign Ministry mockingly christened the vessel the “selfie yacht.”

And with good reason.

From the moment the motley crew departed, the journey resembled an influencer retreat more than a relief operation. Social media lit up with snapshots of a gleeful, keffiyeh-clad Greta and her companions beaming with self-congratulatory pride.

Responding with neither alarm nor outrage, Israel chose an approach that blended humor with restraint and just the right amount of ridicule. When the ship was some 120 miles away from its destination, Israeli naval forces intercepted and boarded it—bearing refreshments.

Yes, really.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/israel-is-committing-genocide-in-gaza/

Let us examine the lunacy of that statement: Israel is Committing Genocide in Gaza:

1- If there was an actual genocide in Gaza, Hamas would return the hostages and surrender. Then the “Genocide” would end.

2- Which leads us to the next point. Has there ever been a genocide in history that the victim could end the second they wanted to? The answer is no. If they can end the fighting by simply returning our people and they choose not to, then it’s not genocide.

3- If Israel wanted to commit genocide, why not just bomb from the air and flatten Gaza? Why send in foot soldiers and risk their lives?

4- If Israel wanted to kill all Gazans, which is what genocide would mean in this context, why would Israel drop pamphlets to let civilians know where they’ll be attacking and when?

5- If Israel wanted to commit genocide, why would it send millions of tons of aid into Gaza?

6- Even if you believe Hamas’ ridiculously inflated numbers, in fact, double them, how are there not millions dead, or at least a million given Israel’s military superiority, if Israel wanted to commit genocide?

7- If Israel wanted to commit genocide, why use precision weapons and not just bomb the whole place?

8- If Israel wanted to commit genocide, why would it have agreed to multiple deals to end the fighting, all of which were rejected by the “victim” of the genocide, Hamas?

9- If Israel wanted to commit genocide, why would it treat Gazans in its own hospitals, including Sinwar himself whose life Israel saved when he had a brain tumor.

10- If Israel wanted to commit genocide (and ethnic cleansing. Don’t forget that insanity.) how is it that the population of Gaza has grown over the past 70 years by hundreds of percentages?

Bonus point: If there was a genocide in Gaza, why won’t Hamas let civilians hide in the miles and miles of tunnels they created? Why not give them the tons and tons of aid stored in warehouses in Gaza? Why prevent them from leaving?

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21674/hamas-wants-to-sacrifice-palestinians

Like most senior Hamas leaders, [Khalil] al-Hayya and his family members live outside the Gaza Strip, having fled the Gaza Strip before the October 7 attack on Israel. These Hamas leaders are leading safe, often resplendent lives in Qatar, Lebanon, Algeria, Turkey and other comfortable countries.

Hamas, [these Palestinians] say, has decided to sacrifice tens of thousands of Palestinians to please its patrons in Qatar and Iran.

“Khalil al-Hayya’s statement of sacrificing Gaza isn’t a slip of the tongue – it’s the mask coming off. When he says Gaza ‘offered itself as a sacrifice,’ what he means is that the people of Gaza were handed over…to foreign capitals and thrones… Gaza wasn’t ‘offered’- it was ‘traded.’ Traded for relevance in Tehran, applause in Doha, and invitations to summits where men in suits congratulate themselves for their loyalty [to Iran and Qatar] while entire neighborhoods [in the Gaza Strip] are flattened. What al-Hayya revealed – with disturbing pride – is that Hamas has never seen Gaza as a society to build or protect, but as a tool to elevate themselves in the eyes of unelected monarchs and ideological overlords…. to secure long-term contracts of power and protection from the patrons they truly serve….. [f]or the Qatari ruling elite who fund the fire from a safe distance, then host the [Hamas] arsonists as statesmen. Hamas offers Gaza as a sacrifice … because they know that a Gaza in ruins keeps them relevant, funded, and feared.” — Hamza Howidy, a Gaza-born peace and human rights advocate, X, June 6, 2025.

“[O]ur lives have been stolen. People in Gaza… are furious. They’re asking: how dare he (Khalil al-Hayya) speak in our name while he lives safely abroad with his family in Qatar? His words echo something even more horrifying once said by the late Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh: ‘We need the blood of children and women to awaken the spirit of revolution within us.’ What kind of ideology is this? What twisted logic allows men living in comfort to turn the suffering of an entire people into a slogan? I can’t describe how infuriated I feel right now. I want to smash my head against the wall.” — “Alaa from Gaza,” X, June 5, 2025 [Emphasis in the original].

“Khalil al-Hayya’s statement of sacrificing Gaza isn’t a slip of the tongue – it’s the mask coming off. When he says Gaza ‘offered itself as a sacrifice,’ what he means is that the people of Gaza were handed over… Traded for relevance in Tehran, applause in Doha…” — Hamza Howidy, a Gaza-born peace and human rights advocate. Pictured: Al-Hayya speaks on Al Jazeera, in June 2025. (Image source: X.com/Osint613)

On the eve of the Islamic feast of Eid al-Adha (Festival of Sacrifice), Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya — in charge of the negotiations to release the hostages and reach a ceasefire agreement with Israel — delivered a speech in which he said: “Gaza has offered itself as a sacrifice for the Muslim ummah [nation] and deserves its full support in return.”

Al-Hayya’s statement triggered a wave of angry reactions and condemnations from many Palestinians, especially those from the Gaza Strip who have been facing death and destruction since October 7, 2023, when Hamas and thousands of “ordinary” Palestinians invaded Israel and murdered 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals. Another 251 people were kidnapped to the Gaza Strip, where 55 – dead and alive – remain in captivity.