THE TERRORIST MASSACRE COMMITTED BY HAMAS AGAINST INNOCENT ISRAELIS ON OCTOBER 7, 2023 BROUGHT GREAT TRAUMA TO THE STATE OF ISRAEL.
BUT IT ALSO HAS BROUGHT GREAT CLARITY.
It is this clarity that tells us we must try something NEW.
It is this clarity that tells us Israel must plan its future on its own and not obsess about what others think.
And it is this clarity that compels us to go back to basics — to return to the biblical values and divine covenants that unite the Jewish people.
It is this clarity that has inspired David Friedman, former US Ambassador to Israel and bestselling author of SLEDGEHAMMER, to write and lead a new movement:
ONE JEWISH STATE
The Last, Best Hope to Resolve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.
One of the leading architects of the historic Abraham Accords, David Friedman explains why in these turbulent and dangerous times, the simple phrase of three words – ONE JEWISH STATE – must be the guideline for Israel and the world’s collective future.
Each word of ONE JEWISH STATE is deeply instilled with meaning:
ONE: There is only ONE country earmarked for the Jewish people; ONE. There are 49 Muslim countries, and many Christian, Buddhist, and Hindu countries, but only ONE Jewish State.
JEWISH: This Jewish State is exactly that – JEWISH. It is the place where Jewish history was born, where Jewish values were created and where more Jews live than anywhere else. It is situated on the land given to the Jewish people by God in the words of the Holy Bible.
STATE: Israel is not just a place; it is a country with sovereignty over its land and responsibility for its inhabitants. Today that sovereignty has been called into question by the nations of the world and even by some within Israel. But Israel cannot be Jewish without sovereignty over the places that make it Jewish.
Friedman proposes a goal and a path, with God’s help, for Israel to have complete sovereignty over all its biblical homeland – in a just manner that brings peace, prosperity, and essential human dignity to ALL of Israel’s inhabitants. In ONE JEWISH STATE he will explore:
• The History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
• The True History of Jews and Muslims in the Disputed Territories
• Past, Present & Future Legal Issues
• Prior Proposals, Peace Plans and So-Called “Solutions,” and Why They ALL Failed
• Why Israel has Succeeded as a Regional Superpower While its Arab Neighbors Have Failed
• Palestinian Tribalism and the Creation of a Nationalist Movement
• Religious and Biblical Issues, Conflict and Agreement
• Palestinian and Muslim Leaders and Goals for Their Peoples
• Geographic and Security Considerations for ALL
• Hamas and the Gaza Strip – Insoluble for Now
• American Evangelicals and Their Influence
Ambassador Friedman’s book persuasively explains the many reasons why in this massive world there MUST remain room for ONE JEWISH STATE.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/israeli-hostage-confronts-pro-hamas-ucla-encampment-leader/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mXI4reXwnk
At 6 A.M. on October 7, Moran Stella Yanai saw rockets rain down from the sky into southern Israel, where she was attending the now-infamous Nova music festival. Like other Nova attendees, when Yanai realized that terrorists had invaded Israel, she ran and tried to escape via car. When she contacted Israeli police, they told her to get off the road, where Hamas terrorists were slaughtering anyone who dared to flee.
Yanai ran into a field where she was eventually captured by terrorists who filmed her kidnapping. Yanai’s parents discovered that their daughter had been taken hostage by that video. Thirteen Hamas members then dragged Yanai into a car and drove her across the Gazan border, where she remained for 54 days until she was freed in November’s hostage deal.
She promised other hostages in captivity that she would do “everything” within her power to bring them home. One of the ways she’s done so has been by sharing her story here in the United States with skeptics, government officials, and friends of Israel. At 40, Yanai is a poised, powerful, well-spoken individual who, months ago, sat down to debate Aidan Doyle, one of the University of California-Los Angeles students responsible for leading the university’s anti-Israel encampment, on the merits of Israel’s war in Gaza. The second part of the debate was released this week and has since gone viral — mainly because, even when speaking with the former hostage, Doyle refused to shed his pro-terrorist outlook.
Doyle is not a foreign policy expert, nor has he ever been to Israel or Gaza, but he is a mustached young progressive whose social-media feed went viral when the UCLA anti-Israel encampment sprung up, which has made him somewhat of an online hero among radicals. The philosophy student posted a series of videos after police arrested multiple encampment-occupiers for trespassing and vandalism, bemoaning the police’s cruel use of force.
At 6 A.M. on October 7, Moran Stella Yanai saw rockets rain down from the sky into southern Israel, where she was attending the now-infamous Nova music festival. Like other Nova attendees, when Yanai realized that terrorists had invaded Israel, she ran and tried to escape via car. When she contacted Israeli police, they told her to get off the road, where Hamas terrorists were slaughtering anyone who dared to flee.
Yanai ran into a field where she was eventually captured by terrorists who filmed her kidnapping. Yanai’s parents discovered that their daughter had been taken hostage by that video. Thirteen Hamas members then dragged Yanai into a car and drove her across the Gazan border, where she remained for 54 days until she was freed in November’s hostage deal.
She promised other hostages in captivity that she would do “everything” within her power to bring them home. One of the ways she’s done so has been by sharing her story here in the United States with skeptics, government officials, and friends of Israel. At 40, Yanai is a poised, powerful, well-spoken individual who, months ago, sat down to debate Aidan Doyle, one of the University of California-Los Angeles students responsible for leading the university’s anti-Israel encampment, on the merits of Israel’s war in Gaza. The second part of the debate was released this week and has since gone viral — mainly because, even when speaking with the former hostage, Doyle refused to shed his pro-terrorist outlook.
Doyle is not a foreign policy expert, nor has he ever been to Israel or Gaza, but he is a mustached young progressive whose social-media feed went viral when the UCLA anti-Israel encampment sprung up, which has made him somewhat of an online hero among radicals. The philosophy student posted a series of videos after police arrested multiple encampment-occupiers for trespassing and vandalism, bemoaning the police’s cruel use of force.
https://jihadwatch.org/2024/11/biden-administration-sent-over-2000000000-to-palestinians-since-oct-7?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=biden-administration-sent-over-2000000000-to-palestinians-since-oct-7
Kill over 1,000 people in one of the worst Islamic terrorist attacks in modern history and what do you get?
Over $2 billion and counting. Or around $2 million for every person they murdered on Oct 7.
USAID, which has been repeatedly accused of complicity in funding Islamic terrorism around the world just bragged that it handed out another $230 million while boasting of its total of $2.1 billion in ‘aid’ since Oct 7.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is providing $230 million in additional funding to support economic recovery and development programs in the West Bank and Gaza. This significant investment highlights USAID’s commitment to improving the lives of individuals and communities in the region amidst challenging conditions. Since 2021, USAID/West Bank and Gaza has invested over $600 million in economic support funding of the Palestinian people, in addition to the over $2.1 billion in humanitarian assistance since October 7, 2023.
The Biden-Harris administration has made America one of the world’s leading funders of Islamic terrorism. Take away a lot of our ‘humanitarian aid’ and a lot of the terrorism will go with it.
https://www.jns.org/elise-stefaniks-un-debut-cant-come-soon-enough/
Whether the Biden administration is planning a last hurrah for the Jewish state at the United Nations—a lame-duck good riddance, à la Barack Obama, in the form of an abstention in a hostile Security Council vote—remains to be seen. The updated draft of a resolution relating to the war in Gaza and Lebanon is no better, if not worse, than its first anti-Israel version.
No surprise there. The only question is how Washington’s current dubious “ironclad commitment” to its key Mideast ally will stand up to scrutiny where the international vipers’ nest in Midtown Manhattan is concerned.
What’s certain is that President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to replace U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield can’t come soon enough.
To grasp the difference between Thomas-Greenfield and her soon-to-be-successor, Elise Stefanik, one need only compare their statements about Israel and the Iran-backed enemies bent on its annihilation.
Thomas-Greenfield opened her address last week to the UNSC by issuing a harsh rebuke. Not to Hamas, of course. No, instead, she began her Nov. 12 tirade by citing remarks by acting U.N. under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and relief coordinator Joyce Msuya.
“There is no need to mince words here,” Thomas-Greenfield stated at the outset. “As we heard from our briefers, the situation in northern Gaza is dire. Catastrophic, as we heard from Ms. Msuya. An unconscionable number of Palestinian civilians, many women and children, have been killed.”
She proceeded to invoke a false Integrated Food Security Phase Classification report, according to which “nearly every civilian in Gaza is without adequate food, medication, clean drinking water or housing,” adding, “They simply cannot be left to suffer indefinitely.”
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21121/unrwa-hires-terrorists
According to Israeli intelligence, more than 450 terrorists belonging to terrorist organizations in Gaza, mainly Hamas, are also employed by UNRWA.
“By not firing them, the UN Secretary-General and UNRWA’s Commissioner General are brazenly demonstrating their determination to continue employing members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad even after having been presented with incriminating evidence to this effect. It is time for donor governments to wake up and stop funneling their taxpayers’ money to members of designated terrorist organizations.” – www.idf.il, August 5, 2024
UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini recently told the UN General Assembly that his agency provides tolerant, respectful and anti-extremist education in Gaza. However, IMPACT-se’s new report unveils institutional teaching material taught in five UNRWA schools in Gaza, where Hamas commanders have been exposed masquerading as school principals.
A poem taught to seventh-graders… calls on knights, symbolizing Arab leaders, to liberate the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem “from the fist of unbelief, from Satan’s aides – revenge to the Jews.”
What is disturbing is that the UN chief and other donor countries refuse to see what many Palestinians already see, namely that UNRWA has long been playing a significant role in inciting hatred against Israel and raising another generation of Palestinian children on the glorification of violence and terrorism. It is time for this agency, as well as the entire UN, to be dismantled and removed, or at least, as suggested years ago, to have nations pay only for what they want and to get what they pay for.
It is also time for the Palestinian “refugees” to move on with their lives and stop relying on Western taxpayers’ money.
www.verygoodnewsisrael.blogspot.com
This week’s newsletter sees Israel valiantly advancing in its war to topple Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran and its terror proxies. Meanwhile, Israel’s citizens have been awarded top national and international honors including as “Lions of Zion”, rocket scientists, sports champions, and religious leaders. These achievements are just some of the highlights of Israel’s continuing efforts to produce top innovations that benefit humanity. Michael Ordman
POSITIVE NEWS IN A WAR
What to do with captured weapons? The IDF is examining the possibility of establishing anti-tank units using the huge number of weapons and missiles seized from the Hezbollah terrorist organization, including tens of thousands of Russian Kornet and Iranian Almas anti-tank missiles.
https://www.jns.org/idf-may-form-anti-tank-units-using-captured-hezbollah-materiel/
IDF’s veteran unit. The IDF’s Har Zion 0710 Unit represents a unique phenomenon in modern military history: hundreds of Israelis aged over 45 years old, many decades past their military service, have voluntarily returned to uniform to defend their nation. The unit was spontaneously established overnight after Oct 7 2023.
https://www.jns.org/how-israels-veteran-civilians-returned-to-the-front-with-the-har-zion-unit/
Doing good on the Gaza border. For the past year, volunteers from all over the world have been running a 24×7 refreshment station for IDF soldiers entering and leaving the Gaza strip. The Shuva brothers’ refreshment stand has served half a million IDF soldiers. It also stocks all the supplies that soldiers need.
https://video.i24news.tv/en/9e44d596-82e6-4c4c-8a1c-96f84ae49bd5/content/6364563050112
Jewish Federations help Israeli nonprofits. (TY Nevet / ADL) Amitim is a pro bono mentoring program, which links former Jewish federation CEOs to the needs of the leadership of nonprofits in Israel and kibbutzim affected by Oct 7. It recognizes that US Jewish retired executives have skills and experience to benefit Israelis.
https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/new-initiative-amitim-looks-to-bring-former-federation-ceos-experience-to-israeli-nonprofits/
28 Lions of Zion. 28 altruistic individuals and partnering organizations were honored in Gush Etzion at the Ari Fuld Project’s annual “Lion of Zion” awards ceremony, for their tireless support of Israeli soldiers during Israel’s current multifront military campaign. The awards are in memory of Ari Fuld z”l (see here previously).
https://www.jns.org/ari-fuld-project-awards-lion-of-zion-prizes/
Another amazing escape. One of many near misses, as a Hezbollah rocket landed between cars on an Israeli highway. https://unitedwithisrael.org/watch-rocket-miraculously-lands-in-between-drivers-on-highway/
ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
Alpha radiation to treat lung cancer. (TY OurCrowd) Israel’s Alpha Tau Medical (see here previously) has treated its first patient with recurrent lung cancer using its innovative Alpha DaRT® alpha-radiation cancer therapy. The WHO reports 2.5 million new lung cancer cases annually and the most cancer-related deaths.
https://www.ourcrowd.com/startup-news/alpha-tau-treats-first-patient-with-recurrent-lung-cancer
https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05632913
US approval for heart repair device. (TY Atid-EDI) Israel’s Pi-Cardia (see here previously) has received US-FDA approval for its ShortCut heart valve decalcification device. ShortCut is used to remove calcium from heart valves, making them more flexible, prior to heart valve replacement (e.g. TAVR or TMVR) procedures.
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240928442730/en/Pi-Cardia-Receives-FDA-Market-Clearance-for-ShortCut%E2%84%A2
Alternative to heart valve replacement. Israel’s Innoventric has developed Trillium – a device to fix a leak in the tricuspid valve, one of four valves that regulate blood flow through the heart. But instead of replacing the valve, the prosthetic device is inserted into a large vein in a 10-minute procedure under conscious sedation.
https://www.israel21c.org/prosthetic-valve-to-revolutionize-common-heart-condition/ https://innoventric.com/ https://innoventric.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Innoventric-Trillium_01.05.24-1.mp4
https://innoventric.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Echo-video-for-the-website-clinical-evidence-1.mp4
HBOT treatment for PTSD. (TY Nevet & UWI) Researchers from Tel Aviv University and Shamir Medical Center in Beer Yaakov found that hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) can significantly alleviate PTSD symptoms, particularly for patients unresponsive to traditional therapies or medications.
https://tps.co.il/articles/hyperbaric-oxygen-therapy-may-be-game-changing-ptsd-treatment-say-researchers/
New target for Parkinson’s treatment. Tel Aviv University researchers have discovered a mutation of the TMEM16F protein secretes α-synuclein to enhance the spread of Parkinson’s pathology through nerve cells in the brain. Blocking or modulating TMEM16F activity may reduce α-synuclein and cure Parkinson’s disease.
https://tps.co.il/articles/researchers-identify-key-protein-in-parkinsons-disease-spread/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/acel.14387
Brain stabilizer discovered. The brain’s NMDA receptor (NMDAR) is known to be vital for learning and memory. Now Tel Aviv University researchers have discovered that it also maintains stable brain function during environment and physiological changes. The discovery may lead to new treatments for brain diseases.
https://www.aftau.org/news_item/tau-researchers-identify-key-role-of-nmda-receptors-in-brain-function/
https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(24)00735-9
An antibody against aging. (TY UWI) Scientists at Israel’s Weizmann Institute have uncovered how aging cells evade the immune system. The protein PD-L1 stops the immune system from recognizing and destroying aging (senescent / “zombie”) cells. Antibodies to PD-L1 reduced inflammation and numbers of senescent cells.
https://tps.co.il/articles/zombie-cells-exposed-new-research-could-transform-age-related-therapies/
An Israeli genetic database. Psifas is the Israeli Genome project. With a budget of NIS 250 million, it aims to create a genetic database of 100,000 Israel’s citizens. The information collected from patients of the Clalit health company, already provides information that will make it possible to treat life-threatening diseases.
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/8l45gkhby
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-797390
Based on the Torah, the Jewish people and Judaism are defined by two concepts: (1) Following God’s commandments and the belief in one God, ethical monotheism; (2) Establishing a society based on Jewish sovereignty in Eretz Yisrael, the Land of Israel. Israeli sovereignty, the basis for its national existence as a Jewish state, the homeland of the Jewish people, is defined in Israel’s Declaration of Independence in 1948. It incorporated much of UN Resolution 181, passed in 1947, including the rights of its non-Jewish residents. Following the war in 1948-9, Israel was accepted as a member state of the United Nations.
The result of the war was inconclusive. Israel and the Arab countries that had attacked Israel agreed to a ceasefire, and an armistice was signed based on temporary – de facto, not de jure – “borders.” The area that was conquered by Jordan became known as “the West Bank.” However, local Arab terrorists and those from neighboring countries continued to attack Jews.
Since the beginning of its existence as a state, therefore, Israel was faced with a problem: What to do with Arabs who lived under its jurisdiction and did not accept Israeli sovereignty. Many, if not most, still do not. For them, Israel’s survival and victory in the war of 1948-49 was a nakba (catastrophe) – the essence of the Palestinian narrative, and its ideology, Palestinianism.
As a result of the War of Independence, many Arabs fled to other countries, especially to Jordan. Nearly a million became “refugees,” most of whom were cared for by UNRWA, and about 156, 000 who remained in Israel and became Israeli citizens. In addition, as a result of the war, Israel acquired abandoned Arab villages and property, and areas which had not been assigned to Israel in 1948, especially in the Galilee, the Negev, and western Jerusalem – which Israel declared as its capital – with their Arab populations. Arabs still consider these areas as “disputed,” and they oppose any form of Israeli sovereignty.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21117/golden-age-middle-east
Iran launched from its own soil hundreds of ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and attack drones at Israel, a country smaller than the state of New Jersey — a demonstration of the regime’s fundamentalist commitment to destroying the Jewish state.
President-elect Donald J. Trump at present seems averse to regime change in Iran. Unfortunately — due to the regime’s commitment to “wipe Israel off the map” and, as stated in its constitution, to export its version of Islam across the world — there does not appear to be the possibility for a real long-term peace in the Middle East without regime change. Anything short of that simply invites the regime to wait Trump out, as well as whoever succeeds him.
Not enough can be said to warn nations of the dangers that can arise from a lack of robust leadership, the perils of underestimating the ambitions of adversarial states, and the paralysis of being unable to confront an adversary for fear of escalation. The adversary, not the leader of Free World, is supposed to fear “escalation.”
The repercussions of allowing Iran… to operate without meaningful deterrence, simply underscores the need for a “Golden Age” — especially a new regime in Iran more aligned with the dreams of so many of its citizens — and not a moment too soon.
Never underestimate the power of an administration’s single term or the harm that policies – whether constructive or poorly-informed — can have on the international stage.
As President Joe Biden’s administration approaches the end of its term, it is hard not to see the global volatility, emboldened adversaries, and fractured alliances.
Those are lessons to be learned about the costs of weakness in leadership and the consequences of strategic missteps in foreign policy.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/11/israel_is_a_true_american_ally_by_every_metric.html
Americans should be grateful that Israel had the courage and resolve to strike hard against the enemies of civilization. All free world democracies must salute Israel’s initiative when erstwhile allied media and politicians cautioned Jewish state leaders to de-escalate operations and refrain from actions that could lead to a wider war. Sunni Arab countries, especially those on the Arabian Peninsula who are targets for destruction by the Shia regime of revolutionary Iran and its allies, also have reason to be thankful.
While Israel acted resolutely in its own interest by launching crippling blows against Hezbollah’s military assets and political leadership, the beneficent results reverberate around the globe. Israel’s government, aware that Hezbollah was planning an imminent Hamas-style attack against northern Israel (like what took place on 7 October last year), struck first in what could be described as a pre-emptive retaliatory attack.
Americans particularly owe a debt of gratitude to Israel for the targeted killing of the world’s leading terrorist mastermind, Hassan Nasrallah. The theological and political leader of Hezbollah was responsible for decisions that murdered countless innocents. Hezbollah was directly responsible for killing hundreds of American servicemen in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1983 by dispatching a suicide bomber via a truck bomb that destroyed their barracks.
It’s to be hoped that US Department of Justice (DOJ) bureaucrats wiill notify their Israeli counterparts of their satisfaction that Israel Defense Forces (IDF) also eliminated Hezbollah General Faud Shukr, who was the liaison from the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Lebanon-based terrorist group. Skukr was responsible for killing many US soldiers in Iraq and was on the DOJ’s wanted list.
https://preview.mailerlite.com/r4u4m2n6w0/2613061146306942124/h5v6/
Everyone at the CIA would shudder with horror at the idea that a Muslim official might have more loyalty to the umma than to the United States government. The very idea would be “Islamophobic,” although it is standard Islamic theology, as is the idea that Jews are the worst enemies of Muslims (cf. Qur’an 5:82).
Meanwhile, will Asif W. Rahman be charged with treason, which is defined as giving aid and comfort to the enemy, for helping Iran in this way? Come on, man! Beltway insiders will protect him.
More on this story. “CIA official with top security clearance charged for leaking highly classified docs about Israel’s plans to strike Iran,” by Emily Crane, New York Post, November 13, 2024:
A CIA official has been charged with leaking highly classified US documents about Israel’s potential plan to strike back against Iran over a missile attack.
Asif W. Rahman, who worked overseas for the agency and held a top secret security clearance, was arrested by the FBI in Cambodia on Tuesday over the leaks, the New York Times reported.
