BEFORE SIGNING OFF FOR SHABBAT...

HAMAS MUST SURRENDER
UNCONDITIONALLY

Remorseless anti-Zionists such as Lara Friedman, Kenneth Roth, Peter Beinart, and Gideon Levy are working overtime to save Hamas so it can fight another day. Naturally, they don't quite put it that way.

But they are lobbying against evacuating civilians from the northern Gaza Strip.

What these self-styled human rights campaigners should be telling Hamas is "SURRENDER UNCONDITIONALLY!"

And if they can't bring themselves to say that, they should, at the very least, not rouse Hamas to continue using human shields. They should at least tell Hamas leaders in bunkers below Gaza's hospitals to get out from behind the wounded.

Tell Palestinian civilians to move south. If the anti-Zionists value human life, they need to tell Palestinians to move south.

The IDF is coming for Hamas.

How do you deal with a morally relativist Sky Newsreader?

Who's asking why Israel is letting Palestinian babies die in the incubators?

Watch how Naftali Bennett handles it.

Alumim coming home with your help. Kibbutz Alumim, located on the border of the Gaza Strip, was founded in 1966. For the 57 years of its existence, it has flourished, producing prime agriculture, and generations of children and youth.

But all came to a standstill during a long day of battle. On the morning of 7th October 2023, on the joyous festival of Simchat Torah, Dozens of terrorists infiltrated the kibbutz.

They attacked and murdered foreign farm workers, burnt agriculture infrastructure and kibbutz institutions, and then a grand battle ensued, led by the kibbutz security squad, who drove them away. We are raising funds to rebuild and restore Kibbutz Alumim, and we appeal to all of you to assist us as much as you can. Alumim has not fallen and never will With your help, we can restore Alumim to its magnificent glory and bring her home.

Link: https://pe4ch.com/ref/sBtgV2pH2cen

With heartfelt gratitude - The Members of Kibbutz Alumim.

I can vouch for this appeal. It is being conducted by our friends on the Kibbutz. We know the kibbutz well - Elliot.

Journalist Amir Bar-Shalom says he heard Persian (Farsi) spoken during the Hamas attack and again in Gaza - I am not sure what to make of this, but it deserves dissemination and professional analysis.

This is a screenshot.

Here is the link. (h/t IM)

Hard as it is to believe, if Israeli elections were held now, plenty of patsies would still vote for Smotrich, Ben-Gvir, and Netanyahu. Watching Bibi address the Knesset last night, I can understand why. He's a wizard bedeviling the masses. It's like he's just arrived on the scene to clear up the mess that Bennett, Lapid, Rabin, Golda, and Ben-Gurion left for him in Gaza. He's so dazzlingly manipulative I almost felt sorry that it had all been thrust on his shoulders! I almost forgot he was shtuping Hamas with suitcases of money and insisting on maintaining the Islamists in power to counter the PLO. I almost forgot that he had no time to talk to the generals, that he fired his defense minister, then took him back but would not talk to him...I almost forgot. But I didn't.

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Opposition leader Yair Lapid explains why he has not joined Netanyahu's government:

בעקבות המלחמה: רכבת ישראל תפעל במהלך השבת, הנסיעת יהיו חינם

The Economist (a superior weekly not known for its Philo-Zionism) offers this podcast with Hamas politburo member Moussa Abu Marzouk. The editor is discomfited by dead Jews, so it is a contentious interview. By next week, I'd expect the Economist to be back to form.

Daniel Gordis has been doing exceptional blogging on the war. My friend Gary brought it to my attention, and I am sharing it with you.

Islamists have declared today in the Land of Israel and in the Diaspora a "Day of Rage." Their "rage" is understandable. Hamas tried to slaughter us - we resisted - and now we are coming after them - so they are enraged.

Sanhedrin 72a-b

Ha-ba le-horgekha, hashkem le-horgo – if someone comes to slay you, you should hurry to slay them first.

Having been a graduate student at NYU and an adjunct instructor of political science there for many years, I was curious to "meet" the head of the New York University Law School Student Bar Association whose first reaction to the slaughter of Jews on Israel's side of the Gaza border was, "I will not condemn Palestinian resistance.”