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BEWARE: Egypt Prepares to send 15,000 Palestinian police to Gaza. What could possibly go wrong?

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“The P.A. is a jihadist and corrupt organization. To have them take over Gaza would be to lose the war, admitting defeat… Only Israel has to take control over the Gaza Strip. Nobody else is going to be able to do the job for us.” — Yishai Fleisher, international spokesperson for the Jewish community in Hebron.

WATCH: Egypt trains hundreds of Palestinians for future Gaza police force

BEWARE: EGYPT PREPARES TO SEND POLICE TO GAZA

by Micha Gefen

November 30, 2025 israelunwired.com

Egypt has quietly begun training thousands of Palestinian security personnel earmarked for deployment in a post-Hamas Gaza Strip, according to senior Palestinian sources quoted by AFP and the London-based Al-Arabi Al-Jadeed.

The program, which Israeli defense officials have been tracking closely for months, is already well underway. In March 2025, the first cohort of over 500 Palestinian recruits completed an Egyptian-run course that included physical training, weapons handling, crowd control, and police theory. Additional groups of several hundred have been cycling through Egyptian facilities since September, with Cairo publicly committing to prepare as many as 5,000 officers in total.

From Israel’s standpoint, the Egyptian initiative is a double-edged sword.

On one hand, Jerusalem has repeatedly stated that Hamas must not be part of any future Gaza administration, and a professional, Egyptian-trained police force could theoretically fill the security vacuum left after the terror group’s military defeat. Israeli officials have long insisted that any post-war governing body be fully demilitarized and incapable of threatening Israeli communities bordering the Strip.

On the other hand, serious concerns remain in Israel’s security establishment:

  • The exact vetting process for recruits is unclear, and there are fears that Hamas or Islamic Jihad sympathizers could infiltrate the new force.
  • The program is tied to the November 2024 Cairo agreement between Fatah and Hamas, which envisions merging the 5,000 Egyptian-trained officers with 5,000 existing Hamas-controlled “police” who never disarmed.
  • Funding for the new force will reportedly come from the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah—an entity that continues to pay salaries to terrorists under the “pay-for-slay” policy, a point of ongoing friction with Israel.

Defense officials in Tel Aviv note that while Egypt has proven itself a responsible actor in mediating ceasefires and preventing arms smuggling through the Philadelphi Corridor, Cairo’s vision of “Palestinian unity” often clashes with Israel’s red line of zero tolerance for any Hamas presence in Gaza’s future security apparatus.

Prime Minister Netanyahu’s office declined to comment directly on the training program but reiterated Israel’s longstanding position: “Any force that enters Gaza on the day after must be thoroughly vetted, completely disconnected from terrorist organizations, and willing to cooperate fully with Israel on security matters. Anything less is unacceptable.”
As IDF operations continue to dismantle Hamas’s military structure, the question of who will hold the ground afterward grows increasingly urgent. For now, Israel is watching Egypt’s police project with cautious optimism—and a very close eye.

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Speaker Johnson: Judea and Samaria Belong to Israel

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While much of the world prattles on about a “two-state solution” that will supposedly bring about a permanent peace between Israel and the Palestinians, in America, influential Republicans recognize that Judea and Samaria, as a matter of historic right and of international law, must belong to Israel. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, in a recent visit to the city of Ariel, which lies beyond the 1949 armistice lines (known as the Green Line), repeated his support for Israel retaining these territories, and deplored the use of the term “West Bank,” which was invented by the Jordanians in 1950 in order to efface the Jewish connection to the land that the toponyms Judea and Samaria made clear. More on Mike Johnson’s visit, and the increasing support in the Republican Party for Israel to retain all of Judea and Samaria, can be found here: “Republican recognition grants Israel historic chance to cement West Bank sovereignty – editorial,” Jerusalem Post, August 5, 2025:

US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson’s decision to stand in the Samaria city of Ariel on Monday and declare that “Judea and Samaria… must remain an integral part” of Israel was far more than a private photo op. It marked the clearest sign yet that today’s Republican leadership is steadily erasing the Green Line from United States policy toward the Jewish state.

Johnson’s visit capped a string of high-level steps taken since President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January. On his first afternoon back in the Oval Office, Trump revoked Executive Order 14115 and lifted financial sanctions that the previous administration had imposed on a handful of what they called “extremist settlers” accused of West Bank violence.

Less than two weeks later, Sen. Tom Cotton introduced the RECOGNIZING Judea and Samaria Act, a bill that would bar federal agencies from using the term “West Bank” in official documents, replacing it with the biblical term favored by Israel’s settler movement.

People who try to undermine the use of the place names “Judea and Samaria” scoffingly refer to them as “biblical terms,” but surely that long usage, going back thousands of years, does not weaken, but strengthens the Jewish claim to those territories. And curiously, those who decry use of the terms “Judea and Samaria” because they are “biblical” have no problem with using the place name “Gaza,” which is no less “biblical” a toponym.

In February, the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) adopted a resolution urging Washington to “recognize Israel’s sovereignty over Judea and Samaria.”

On the same day, House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Brian Mast circulated an internal memo instructing Republican staffers to follow suit in all committee correspondence.

The place names Judea and Samaria were in continuous use for 3,500 years until 1950, when Jordan, which had seized those territories in the 1948 war, stopped using those terms so redolent of Jewish history, and instead concocted a new term — the “West Bank.” Their aim was the same as that of the Romans some 2,000 years before, when they renamed the Kingdom of Judah as “Palestine.” Now House Speaker Johnson, Senator Tom Cotton, and Congressman Brian Mast all say “West Bank” should be abandoned and the historic names of “Judea and Samaria” be brought back into circulation.

Diplomats followed politicians. In a June interview with Bloomberg, US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee abandoned the long-standing American goal of an independent Palestinian state, suggesting instead that any eventual Palestinian entity be established “elsewhere in the Arab world.”…

The Israelis are prepared to give the Arabs in Judea and Samaria the freedom to rule themselves, but not to rule over the 700,000 Jewish Israelis who live there, on state and waste lands, as well as on lands bought from Arab landowners at exorbitant prices. Nor would the Palestinian Arabs possess a military that could threaten Israel. They would have a “state-minus.” As Prime Minister Netanyahu has repeatedly said, “I think Palestinians should have all the powers to govern themselves, but none of the powers to threaten us.”

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U.S. Imposes Sanctions on Both PA and PLO Members

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Better late than never:, the American government will now impose sanctions on both members of the Palestinian Authority and on the PLO as an organization. More on this welcome news can be found here: “US to sanction Palestinian Authority, PLO members, State Dept. confirms,” by Guy Alster, Reuters, July 31, 2025:

The United States will impose sanctions on several members of the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization, the State Department said on Thursday.

The State Department announced it had reported to Congress that neither the PLO nor the PA complied with their commitments under the PLO Commitments Compliance Act of 1989 and the Middle East Peace Commitments Act of 2002.

The offenses listed included “taking actions to internationalize its conflict with Israel” through the International Criminal Court and International Court of Justice, as well as supporting and glorifying violence, particularly in textbooks, and the pay-to-slay program.

The move prevents those targeted from receiving visas to travel to the United States, the statement said. “It is in our national security interests to impose consequences and hold the PLO and PA accountable for not complying with their commitments and undermining the prospects for peace.”

The State Department did not confirm which individuals would be sanctioned.

These sanctions on PA and PLO officials come after the State Department imposed sanctions on more than 115 Iran-linked individuals and entities. Their assets in the U.S. may be frozen and they be prohibited from entering the United States. This might extend to Iranian diplomats currently assigned to the U.N. It will certainly make the life of Iranian officials much more difficult. Foreigners who serve as apologists for, and agents of, Iran, while living in this country, such as the sinister Trita Parsi, a Swedish citizen, are likely to have their visas revoked.

The US has already imposed sanctions on Iranian-linked individuals and on the UN’s Special Rapporteur for Conditions in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese. The UN now says that the American government has no power to deny the antisemitic Albanese from entering the US. The American State Department does not agree; it has no intention of allowing Albanese, who has been carrying on a campaign at the UN against both Israel and America, to visit, or live, or work in the US. We’ll see who wins that diplomatic tug of war.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is smiting the enemies of this country and of Israel hip and thigh as has never been done by any administration before. He’d be an excellent presidential candidate in 2028.

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Hebron Sheikhs Could Join Abraham Accords in another Major Middle East Shake-Up

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While Middle East peace was certainly on the menu of things that President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu planned to talk about Monday evening, the biggest surprise may be who’s asking for it. In a stunning plot twist to the ongoing drama in Israel, a group of five sheikhs in the city of Hebron are proposing to leave the Palestinian Authority (PA) and join the Abraham Accords. “If we will get the blessing of honorable President Trump and the United States for this project, Hebron could be like the Gulf, like Dubai,” Wadee’ al-Jaabari told The Wall Street Journal in a blockbuster story.

The ancient land of Hebron, where David was first anointed king — and which served as Israel’s capital before moving to Jerusalem — is rich with biblical and regional history. But the idea that this area, part of the so-called West Bank, would secede from the grip of the Palestinian governing structure and link arms with Israel seems almost inconceivable to some. And yet, the sheikhs’ letter, which was sent to Israeli Economy Minister Nir Barkat, was witnessed by the WSJ’s own Elliot Kaufman, who broke the groundbreaking news.

“We want cooperation with Israel,” Jaabari insisted, raising the eyebrows of many in the Jewish state, who feel like they’ve been down this road before. As Kaufman points out, “The leader of Hebron’s most influential clan has said such things before, as did his father. But this time is different,” he writes. Their call for “co-existence” is accompanied by a pledge to fully recognize Israel and create a distinct Emirate of Hebron.

After more than 30 years, the sheikhs insist that the Oslo Accords, which created and acknowledged the Palestinian Authority as the “legitimate representatives” of the Palestinian people, “only brought damage, death, economic disaster and destruction.” To them, the PA — which they call “corrupt” — has wrongly rebuffed the “traditional, authentic local leadership” that their clans have represented. “Nobody in Israel believes in the PA,” the letter’s recipient admitted, “and you won’t find many Palestinians who do either. Sheikh Jaabari wants peace with Israel and to join the Abraham Accords, with the support of his fellow sheikhs. Who in Israel is going to say no?”

There’s also a growing realization that a “two-state solution” is almost certainly off the table after Hamas’s attack. “There will be no Palestinian state,” Jaabari conceded, “not even in 1,000 years. After October 7, Israel will not give it.” It’s time, he argues, for “new thinking.” Other Hebron sheikhs who signed the letter but remain anonymous, blasted the PA and its parent group, the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), as out of touch. “To think only about making a Palestinian state will bring us all to disaster.”

“The PLO called itself a liberation movement. But once they got control, they act only to steal the money of the people,” another said. “They don’t have the right to represent us — not them and not Hamas, only we ourselves.” In frustration, the group talked about the oppression their city has endured under the grip of the PA, which they claim steals their water, taxes the people, and keeps them from earning decent wages.

As far as these leaders are concerned, the greatest proof that this system of Palestinian rule has failed for the last 33 years is Hamas — which cares nothing about the traditional customs and beliefs of the people, only radical Islam. Hebron, they argue, is “much more conservative.” It would make the perfect “test case” for this idea of the emirates if other cities in the historic region of Judea and Samaria want to follow and normalize relations with Israel.

Of course, there are practical concerns — and Netanyahu is rumored to be taking a cautious approach, both because of past disappointments and very legitimate questions. “How do you deal with dozens of different families, each of them armed, each under its own control?” wondered retired Major General Gadi Shamni of the IDF.

The backdrop to all of this, interestingly enough, is the debate over the West Bank itself — an area of land that conservative U.S. leaders are lobbying to restore to its original name of Judea and Samaria. In fact, in the U.S. House, Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) has even introduced language requiring that all American documents and materials recognize this area as Judea and Samaria, the heartland of Israel, a place where over 80% of what we read in the Bible took place. When Arabs talk about the two-state “solution,” this is the region they want Israel to surrender. So this attempt to blot out the ancient name only undermines the Jewish state’s historic sovereignty in the region.

Just this past week, members of Netanyahu’s Likud party called for the prime minister to apply Israeli law “immediately on Judea and Samaria.” Pointing to the deep seed of anti-Semitism, violence, and hostility that was allowed to grow in Gaza, the ministers warn that these “settlement blocks” pose a real and deadly threat to Israel. “The task must be completed … and another massacre in the heart of the country must be prevented.” The era of “land for peace,” Family Research Council President Tony Perkins warned, is over.

So the sheikhs’ campaign for peace, which they insist includes a solemn vow to fight terrorism, comes at an interesting time — not just for Netanyahu’s country, which is at a crossroads, but also for Donald Trump. The driving force behind improbable peace deals, the president has proven that he’s capable of getting people to the table and shaking up the status quo in ways the world has never seen.

Could that happen here? U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, in Saturday’s sit-down with Perkins on “This Week on Capitol Hill,” wouldn’t be surprised. “Because of President Trump’s leadership and the stage that he’s already set for [peace], I think the world is going to be … shocked and surprised to see the Abraham Accords move forward dramatically. And,” he added, “with a great depth and breadth. It’s very likely that you’re going to see a number of nations that have historically been very hostile to Israel sign agreements of normalization, trade, tourism, [and] diplomatic relationships.” It will be, the ambassador reiterated, “far more expansive than what we saw in the first term of President Trump.”

And while the two men weren’t specifically addressing Hebron, the reality, Huckabee said, is that “with this president, I always want to be optimistic, because when the world is thinking nothing will move, nothing will happen … it’s almost like President Trump knows how to pull a rabbit out of the hat and make the trick work. So I always am approaching his sense of diplomacy with a great deal of optimism.”

Also optimistic? Sheikh Jaabari. When Kaufman asked if he’s concerned about pushback from the Palestinian people about his plans, he blew it off. “The betrayal was done in Oslo. You forgot, but I remember — 33 years of it.” He paused. “I believe in my path. There will be obstacles,” he conceded, “but if we confront a rock, we will have iron to break it.”

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A New Gaza

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The fifty-year record of Palestinianism is bloody and awful and reached a crescendo on 7 October 2023. For decades in Gaza where, when they were not killing each other they were killing us. But 10/7 was the day that the world should have come to its senses and said, “No more! This is where it leads. This is where it must end.” 

It must die in the cursed ruins of Gaza, but in these ruins comes new hope and the possibility of a new and better future not only for Gaza, but for the Middle East.

Put aside, for heaven’s sake, the idea of bringing the corrupt, failed, leadership of the Fatah-PLO in Ramallah to rule over Gaza. They don’t even have the support of their own people, according to every Palestinian poll and actual elections. Let’s be brutally honest and acknowledge that the half century experiment of a two-state non-solution is dead in the water, killed along with thousands of Israelis by those incited and rewarded by the Palestinian Authority (PA).

The PA was driven out of Gaza by Hamas and by the people. It should not be revived in Gaza because this will condemn an already violent Middle East to another half century of conflict. And Hamas must be driven out as well. Clearly, Gaza needs to be built from scratch. The rubble of its violent past has to be swept away along with its ideology.

It must not be mismanaged by those whose principles led to its ruin. It must be led by people rejecting its violent past, totally dedicated to making Gaza a better place to live rather than looking obsessively at Israel which they do not possess and never will.

Better to offer a non-violent prosperous future for Gaza and have it serve as an example to those suffering under the failed Ramallah regime.

Potential for a Better Future

The location of Gaza makes it a place that can become the Cote D’Azur of the Middle East. Does that sound unattainable? Consider that there is no geographic difference between the Gaza coast and the Israeli cities of Ashdod and Ashkelon and Tel Aviv. Consider that Beirut was once – for good reason – called the Paris of the Middle East, before the intrusion of dangerous and deadly forces such as radical Islam, Syria, the PLO under Yasser Arafat. And now, Hezbollah.

A solution is desperately needed, and Gaza is the best place to start. The project must be founded on the rejection of radical Islam to be replaced by a moderate Islam. This new experiment should be incorporated into Gaza through the spirit and fabric of the Abraham Accords.

Not only should the PA have no permanent governing role in a future Gaza, neither should Israel. It is clear that neither should step in and impose their governing rule over the people there. Instead, there should be an international administration to construct a future Gaza while establishing a future local leadership based on merit, moderation, and modernization.

And it should not be farmed out to the United Nations whose agencies have made such a mess of the Middle East.

The reconstruction of a new Gaza should be established by a regional board led by the Abraham Accord partners. And Saudi Arabia should be invited to play a major part if it can put aside its outdated dedication to a corrupt PA leadership in Ramallah. The reason the PA has never held an election is that they know the people would reject their failed corrupt Fatah leadership. If its democracy we want in Gaza we won’t find it in the example of the corrupt Fatah in Ramallah.

The ultimate goal must be to lead Gaza into becoming the model for a new peaceful Middle East. Done properly, this Gaza can become an independent state in its own right and led into becoming a new member of the United Nations.

Protectorates

In effect, the budding State of Gaza would begin life as an Abraham Accord Protectorate. As a political and governing system, the concept of Protectorates has been successful in the past and is currently working well in the international arena.

They are recognized under international law and the specific relationship between the “Protectorate” and the “Protector” is set out under a treaty signed by both parties. There are many successful examples of how small budding countries and destroyed nations have flourished when guided by larger democratic nations.

France has several protectorates including Guadeloupe, Guiana, Martinique, La Réunion, Mayotte, Saint-Barthélemy, and even several Polynesian islands. All peaceful and prosperous.

The United Kingdom has 14 protectorates, known as UK Overseas Territories, perhaps the most famous being the Falkland Islands in which the British came to its defense when invaded by Argentina in 1982.

The United States has five protectorates ranging from Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands to Guam and Samoa in the Pacific.

Do not forget that, after the United States defeated Japan in World War Two, including the utter devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by two atom bombs, it became a protectorate of the United States. Part of that responsibility was not only the rebuilding Japan but also a deradicalization program for its people.

The same applied in Europe after the defeat of Nazi Germany, when the Allies occupied Germany including its divided capital Berlin. Under the Marshall Plan West Germany was rebuilt, but an essential part of that reconstruction was and intensive denazification program.

In both places, American and allied control of the government – including writing laws and constitutions – plus control of courts, schools, and unions, resulted in the creation of two prosperous, peaceful democratic counties – allies to the United States and their prior enemies.

Gaza Protectorate

In the case of Gaza, the “Protectors” will be multi-layered.

The wealthy, moderate Arab nations will play a central role in both the physical and spiritual revitalization of a modern, moderate Gaza – including rebuilding the mosques and madrassahs – and hiring the imams and religious teachers teaching their moderate form of Islam, while the United States and Israel will lend their talent and expertise in building a modern educational system for the next generation of Gazans in reading, writing and math (rather than indoctrination) leading to hi-tech, business and administrative skills needed to fill leadership and managerial roles in a new Gaza.

Israel and Egypt both have vested interests in protecting the borders of a peaceful Gaza. Both have transit points for goods, services, and people to flow in and out of Gaza for work or business.

In the past, Israel proposed a Gaza with an offshore airport, marina, and seaport with a connecting road and rail bridge to the mainland. This ambitious project should be revived, and Gaza could easily become a tourist-based economy as a prosperous hub bordering on two powerful and peaceful neighbors.

Israel proved when it developed Gaza that it has huge agricultural potential.

And a successful Gaza would serve as a positive example to Arabs living under a failed Ramallah leadership.

We can no longer be led or influenced by those with limited, failed, vision. Better that we follow original thinkers who can open up a new future. Perhaps a three-state solution is a better vision than a half-century two-state failure.

A new Gaza heralds a new Middle East. And the route to that success is through an enlarged Abraham Accord Protectorate.

This column orignially appeared in Jewish Policy Center.

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Trump Halts All Aid to the Palestinian Authority Security Forces

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Mahmoud Abbas likes to present himself, as head of the Palestinian Authority (PA), as the “moderate” alternative to Hamas. The idea seems to be that the PA’s largest faction, Fatah, does not engage directly in terrorism, and therefore the PA deserves the vast sums the American government has been providing it. But “off-duty” members of the PA’s security forces have engaged in terror attacks on Israelis in Judea and Samaria. The PA continues its “Pay-For-Slay” program, by providing large monthly stipends to imprisoned terrorists and to the families of terrorists who died while committing their attacks. The PA has recently tried to disguise those payments by having them sent not directly to their intended recipients, but first through another PA agency — an attempt to camouflage the “Pay-For-Slay” program that has fooled neither the Israelis nor the Americans. “Pay-For-Slay” both rewards past, and incentivizes future terrorism. Furthermore, the PA has failed to condemn the Hamas atrocities carried out on October 7, with some PA officials praising the attacks as part of the “Palestinian Resistance.”

Now the Trump administration has halted all aid to the Palestinian Authority’s Security Forces because of its members who have engaged in terrorist attacks against Israelis. More on this welcome development can be found here: “Trump Admin Freezes Funding to Palestinian Authority ‘Security Forces’ Behind Terror Attacks on Israelis,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, February 19, 2025:

The Trump administration froze funding for the Palestinian Authority Security Forces (PASF), a group that purportedly aims to crack down on terrorism in the West Bank but employs terrorists who have carried out attacks on Israelis.

The move, part of the administration’s broader global aid freeze, comes as the Palestinian Authority and its leader, Mahmoud Abbas, jockey for control of post-war Gaza. The Biden administration pushed to make the PASF a central player in its future plans for the war-torn strip, showering it with tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer cash even as it acknowledged that the aid could boost Hamas. Some of that money, issued just before the administration left power, allowed the PASF to conduct “firearms and ammunition” training, the Washington Free Beacon reported.

The Washington Post, which first reported the funding freeze, described the PASF as “the linchpin to the Palestinian Authority’s ability to maintain law and order” in both Gaza and the West Bank. The outlet did not mention the scores of attacks off-duty members of the forces have carried out against both Israeli soldiers and civilians.

Far from opposing all terrorism, members of the PA Security Forces have taken part in terrorist attacks on Israelis. Some have been “dual use” Palestinians, who try to crack down on members of rival groups hoping to replace the PA in Judea and Samaria — that is, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — insofar as those terrorists challenge the supremacy of the PA’s rule. But the PA remains an enemy of Israel; it simply wants to do the minimum against terrorists that will assure it of hundreds of millions of dollars in American assistance for its security services.

An investigation released last year by the watchdog group Palestinian Media Watch documented at least 55 such attacks since 2020. In February 2024, for example, a first lieutenant in the PASF opened fire on Israeli troops at a checkpoint near the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Another member of the forces, Capt. Ahmed Abdullah Abu Shalal, was a terrorist leader with the Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, an internationally designated terror group. He was killed in an Israeli airstrike after carrying out an April 2023 shooting in East Jerusalem that wounded two Israeli civilians.

Before the freeze, Abbas reportedly sought more than $680 million in U.S. taxpayer funds to “ramp up security operations” in the West Bank and Gaza. The request came in mid-December, after President Donald Trump won the presidency but before his inauguration. His administration appears increasingly unlikely to grant it….

Abbas, making one last request of the patsies in the Biden administration before they left office, asked in mid-December for more than $680 million for his security forces. Too late: Biden was a lame duck, who did not even try to get Congress to approve that colossal request. And the Trump administration has not only refused Abbas’ request for more money to support the PA Security Forces (PASF), but ended altogether the previous financial support the Biden administration had provided to the PASF.

Mahmoud Abbas must be beside himself with impotent rage. As long as Trump is president, Mario Rubio is secretary of state, and Mike Waltz is national security adviser, there will be no flow of dollars to the corrupt, corrupting, and altogether meretricious Palestinian Authority. Trump had already frozen all other aid to the PA, with an exception made for the PA Security Forces; now he has ended even that. How will the PA survive? Can it count on European nations to take up the slack, when they are all scrambling to spend billions of dollars more on their own defense, so as to not just meet the 2% of GDP that NATO members are committed to spending on defense (but only 25 of its 32 members have been doing so), but far more that will now need to be spent, given the Russian threat to NATO’s eastern flank.

NATO head Mark Rutte now calls for 3% of GDP to be spent by each member, while the Americans, who have borne the lion’s share of NATO’s funding ever since its founding, are now calling for the other members of NATO to spend 5% of their GDP on defense spending. In such an environment, no NATO country will likely be willing to provide financial support to the PA. The only place for Abbas to find such support is from the rich Arab states of the Gulf. And they have been contributing very little to the PA for many years. Why, when they are now gearing up to spend billions of dollars on reconstruction in Gaza, would they change that policy?

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Hamas Must Be Destroyed Not Just Militarily, But As a Political Threat

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Hamas is the terror group in Gaza that has been responsible for murdering thousands of Israeli civilians in acts of terror carried out by its members since 1987. For decades, it carried out terror attacks, using rockets, missiles, drones, suicide bombers, rifles, and knives, to kill Israelis. The apotheosis of its terror took place on October 7, 2023, when 3,800 Hamas members, accompanied by 2,200 ordinary Gazans who accompanied them so as to join in the fun, smashed into Israel, where they proceeded to rape, torture, decapitate, burn alive, mutilate, and murder 1,200 Israelis and to kidnap 250 more. Since then, the IDF has been dismantling Hamas’ military forces. It has killed about 20,000 Hamas members — half the prewar strength of the terror group, and is now in the process of taking apart what remains of its forces, as they try to regroup in northern Gaza. The IDF has discovered and destroyed hundreds of miles of terror tunnels. It has found and seized, or in some cases destroyed, huge caches of weapons hidden everywhere — in apartment buildings, in schools, in mosques, in hospitals and, of course, in the network of tunnels, some 450 miles of them, underground.

The Palestinian Authority has been trying to patch things up with Hamas after years of enmity. Mahmoud Abbas did not denounce, but praised, the “valor” displayed by Hamas on October 7. He has spoken of the need to form a coalition government between Fatah and Hamas to jointly rule in Gaza “the day after.” Khaled Abu Toameh, the Israeli Arab analyst, denounces this attempt by Mahmoud Abbas to legitimize Hamas here: “Hamas Must Be Defeated, Not Legitimized,” by Khaled Abu Toameh, Gatestone Institute, 

More than a year after the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, the Palestinian Authority (PA) continues to view the Iran-backed Islamist movement as a legitimate partner.

Last week, representatives of the PA’s ruling Fatah faction (headed by PA President Mahmoud Abbas) and Hamas held talks in the Egyptian capital of Cairo to discuss establishing a joint administration to rule the Gaza Strip. An Egyptian source confirmed that the Fatah-Hamas discussions aim at to create a committee to manage the affairs of the Gaza Strip, in addition to pursuing efforts to reach a ceasefire there.

Another Egyptian security source was quoted as saying that the talks “aim to unify the Palestinian ranks and alleviate the suffering of the Palestinian people.” According to the source, the Fatah and Hamas negotiators “showed more flexibility and positivity towards establishing a committee to manage the affairs of the Gaza Strip.”

Tayseer Nasrallah, a senior Fatah official who participated in the talks with Hamas, expressed “optimism” that the talks with Hamas would lead to the formation of a committee for the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip. The talks, he said, “aim to unify visions regarding the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip” in the aftermath of the current Israel-Hamas war, which erupted after the October 7 attack that resulted in the murder of 1,200 Israelis and the injury of thousands. During the attack, many Israelis were beheaded, raped, tortured, and burned alive. In addition, more than 240 others were kidnapped to the Gaza Strip, where 101 – alive and dead – remain in captivity.

Hamas, for its part, said: “We held a meeting with our brothers in the Fatah faction, and the atmosphere of the meeting was positive and frank.” The terrorist group added that the two sides discussed “the formation of a body to follow up on the affairs and needs of the Gaza Strip,” and noted that the meetings with Fatah will continue.

Last month, Fatah and Hamas representatives held similar talks in Cairo to discuss ways of ending the rivalry between the two parties and establishing a Palestinian unity government. Senior Hamas official Taher a-Nunu said that the purpose of the talks was to “achieve Palestinian national unity and strengthen security and political coordination between the two sides.” Unnamed Fatah officials were quoted as saying that their faction has agreed to the formation of a joint committee to manage the affairs of the Gaza Strip….

The main military component of the Palestinian Authority is the armed group Fatah, of which Mahmoud Abbas — along with being the PA’s president-for-life — is the head. He now sees a way to gain a foothold for Fatah in Gaza, from which it was bloodily expelled by the men of Hamas in 2007. He has been negotiating with Hamas for sharing rule in Gaza. He wants to share in the governance of Gaza, and Hamas wants to continue, by agreeing to share power with Fatah, to be seen as acceptable — its terrorism diluted, in a sense, by the presence of Fatah — by the United States.

The IDF is close to completely destroying Hamas as a military threat. But Hamas must also be destroyed as a political threat, lest, in a power-sharing arrangement with Fatah, it manages to reconstitute itself, is then resupplied with weapons from Iran and attracts new recruits from inside Gaza. It has to be not embraced, but shunned, by the Palestinian Authority. It should be accused by the PA of having caused the destruction of so much infrastructure in Gaza, and held responsible, too, for the killing of thousands of civilians, the result of its policy of deliberately embedding its fighters, and hiding its weapons, in civilian areas, including schools, mosques, hospitals, and apartment buildings. Mahmoud Abbas may be afraid of rejecting Hamas outright from a possible role in a coalition that would rule Gaza. He remembers how many hundreds of Fatah members were murdered by Hamas in 2007 — but Abbas is 88 years old, and his successor may not feel the same. After all, Hamas is a lot less powerful now than it was before October 7, 2023, and only one-third of Gazans still support it. Fatah’s hour may have come round at last, to hold itself out as the sole governing group that the Americans can accept. Hamas is detested by the rich Sunni states of the Gulf. They see Hamas, correctly, as the Gaza branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, and are well aware that the MB wants to overthrow their “decadent” monarchies. But if Gaza is to be rebuilt, most of the money will have to come from Saudi Arabia and the UAE, among Arab states, and possibly some money will come — but not while Trump is in office — from the Americans as well, and none of the three would welcome a continuing Hamas role in Gaza.

Mahmoud Abbas must stop voicing his approval of Hamas. His attempts to legitimize the terror group will further antagonize not only Israel — which will have the largest say in who governs Gaza once the fighting in the Strip has stopped — but also the United States, which has designated Hamas as a terror organization, and the two Arab countries, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates, that are expected to contribute the most to rebuilding — s-l-o-w-l-y — Gaza. How willing will they be to fund projects if Hamas is still taking part in Gaza’s government? Everyone should just let Israel finish the job of defeating Hamas. It won’t be long now. The end is nigh.

AUTHOR

Hugh Fitzgerald

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Jihad mass murder rewarded: ‘State of Palestine’ takes seat in UN General Assembly

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The message to the “Palestinians” is clear: murder more Jews, and you’ll get even more of what you want. The “State of Palestine” is, after all, only a stepping-stone to the total eradication of Israel and a new genocide of the Jews.

“‘State of Palestine’ takes seat in UN General Assembly despite lack of full membership,” Times of Israel, September 11, 2024:

UNITED NATIONS — Palestinians took a seat among member states at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, a new right accorded to the Palestinian Authority’s delegation despite it not being a full member of the body.

In May, an overwhelming majority of the General Assembly asserted that Palestinians deserved full membership, a move that has been blocked by the United States, which along with Israel says recognition of Palestinian statehood must come through a peace agreement.

The General Assembly granted the delegation certain new rights in a resolution, which still excludes it from being able to vote or be a member of the Security Council.

Starting with the 79th General Assembly session, which began Tuesday, the Palestinians can submit proposals and amendments, and sit among member states.

The Palestinian Authority’s envoy to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, took his place on Tuesday afternoon at a table marked “State of Palestine” between Sri Lanka and Sudan.

“This is not merely a procedural matter. This is a historic moment for us,” said Egyptian Ambassador Osama Mahmoud Abdelkhalek Mahmoud….

AUTHOR

Robert Spencer

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WATCH: Fatah brags it took part in October 7 slaughter. [GRAPHIC IMAGES]

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Fatah brags: “We killed [them]… and stepped on their heads … We had a prominent and clear role.”

Fatah released a video in which terrorists of Fatah’s terror wing, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, are seen participating and bragging about their role in the October 7 slaughter of Israelis.

The video was publicized on the day of the massacre, in which terrorists murdered over 1,400 Israelis. The faces and voices of the terrorists were blurred and muffled by Fatah to hide their identities.

The video opens by showing Fatah terrorists with yellow Fatah headbands firing Kalashnikov rifles at an Israeli kibbutz. Screams of “Allahu Akbar” (“Allah is greatest”) are played in the background.

Fatah terrorist: “We have plundered from them… Today we broke into the military post Nahal Oz, (sic., It is a civilian kibbutz) and we hit what we hit, we took as plunder what we took,  and we killed soldiers and stepped on their heads.”

PMW has blurred the picture of the Fatah terrorist stamping on the head of a murdered Israeli. Fatah released it without blurring to maximize the horror.

Another Fatah terrorist gloats that the video of the dead Israeli will be seen by Israelis:

“You [Israelis] will see this with your own eyes, Allah willing.”

Another Fatah terrorist continues to brag about Fatah’s participation in the slaughter:

“Allahu Akbar and praise Allah… From the heart of these temporary [Israeli] settlements, Allah willing, we had a prominent and clear role.”

The Palestinian Authority, Fatah, and Hamas all describe all of Israel as “occupied territory” and all Israeli towns and cities as “settlements.” Here Fatah boasts that the “settlements” of southern Israel are “temporary.”

The final picture shows a Fatah terrorist raising one finger – symbolizing Allah –  standing in front of a burning Israeli vehicle.

The video carries the logo of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, which includes this quote from the Quran: “So fight them and Allah will punish them at your hands, put them to shame, help you overcome them, and soothe the hearts of the believers” [Quran 9:14, Sahih International translation]

The posted text on Telegram that accompanied the video: “Your brothers – the fighters of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades (i.e., Fatah’s military wing)/Fatah from the battlefield.”

Palestinian Media Watch exposed another video in which Fatah’s terror wing bragged that it helped Hamas “behind enemy lines” and praised the massacre as a first step to liberate all of “Palestine.”

As noted above, Fatah’s attack was on Nahal Oz, an Israeli civilian kibbutz, not a military post. In addition, Hamas and Fatah terrorists murdered mostly Israeli civilians in the massacre, not soldiers.

PA Chairman Abbas’ Fatah Movement has been very outspoken about its support for Hamas’ terror war on Israel and the terrorists’ massacre on Israeli civilians. Palestinian Media Watch exposed that:

  • Fatah’s terror wing urged Palestinians to “strike the sons of apes and pigs… slaughter everyone Israeli”
  • Fatah’s Student Movement has called for murder of Jews and terror in the West Bank
  • Fatah sees Hamas’ atrocities as a “heroic operation” and the massacre brought “a morning of victory, joy, and pride”

About Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades 

The Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades was established by Fatah during the Palestinian Authority terror campaign (AKA, intifada). It was very active during the years 2000 – 2004, murdering hundreds of Israelis in suicide bombings and drive-by shootings.

The purpose of the Brigades was to enable Fatah to take an active terror role yet be able to claim that Arafat and the PA were not involved in terror.

In recent years the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades have become active again with numerous branches throughout the West Bank participating in terror. PMW has documented, that numerous terrorists from Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades also had positions in the Palestinian Authority Western-funded security services.

PMW has confirmed that Fatah’s Bethlehem Telegram Channel which released this video documenting and celebrating the participation of Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades in the October 7 massacre of Israelis, is directly connected with Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah Movement.

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The World Prepares to Recognize a Hamas Palestinian State

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A “Palestinian” state will be a state of the terrorists, by the terrorists and for the terrorists.

Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the PLO’s Palestinian Authority and the other Islamic terrorist groups who make up the official “Palestinian” leadership have been invited for unity talks in Moscow.

The terrorist unity talks scheduled by the Putin regime for the end of February are a homecoming for a “Palestinian” movement invented by Soviet propagandists. Mahmoud Abbas, the long-serving dictator of the PA, wrote his Holocaust denial thesis while studying at Moscow’s Patrice Lumumba University which had trained a generation of third world terrorists.

The invitation to Moscow comes from Putin’s Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov. Materials from a KGB defector revealed that Abbas had worked for the KGB under Bogdanov. Back then Abbas had the KGB codename “mole”, these days, his code name is “president”.

Some of the same ex-Soviet operatives who helped set up and fund the PLO, the PFLP and the rest of the “Palestinian” movement are now trying to unite them all under one single banner.

While the State Department in D.C. and British Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron are talking about immediately recognizing a “Palestinian” state as soon as they can force Israel to stop its campaign to destroy Hamas, the Palestinian Authority is trying to bring Hamas into the state.

The media claimed that Abbas had visited Qatar to hold talks with the Islamic tyranny’s leaders on a “ceasefire”. In reality, the Palestinian Authority leader had been meeting with the Qatari regime, another state sponsor of Hamas, to pursue unity talks with the fellow terror group.

Putin’s relationship with Iran makes Moscow, like Doha, home turf for Hamas. Some weeks after Oct 7, top Hamas leaders had flown out to Moscow to meet with Bogdanov after the Russian official had previously chatted with leaders of the terror group in their home base in Qatar.

In 2006, Putin had reacted to the Hamas takeover of Gaza by declaring that “we are maintaining our contacts with Hamas and intend, in the near future, to invite the leadership of this organisation to Moscow” and emphasized that, “we have never called Hamas a terrorist organisation.” Putin invited Hamas leader Khaled Mashal, who recently claimed that “the Russians told us they would study our Oct. 7 attack in their military academies.”

A week after the Oct 7 attacks, Hamas stated, “we in the Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS) appreciate Russian President Vladimir Putin’s position on the ongoing Zionist aggression against our people and his opposition to the siege of Gaza”.

After Oct 7, Putin and China’s Xi had blocked a UN condemnation of the Hamas atrocities. Now Russia is working on uniting its old PLO friends and its new Hamas friends. But Russia and Qatar are not alone. The Biden administration and the European Union are all pushing for a “Palestinian” state after they force a ceasefire. And that state will inevitably include Hamas.

“Russia has invited all Palestinian factions who will be meeting on the 26 of this month in Moscow. We will see if Hamas is ready to come to the ground with us,” Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh informed the Munich Security Conference. “We are prepared to engage. If Hamas is willing to join us, that’s positive. We need Palestinian unity,”

“One should not continue focusing on October 7,” he warned attendees at the forum.

“Hamas is an essential part of the Palestinian political map. Israel’s talk of eliminating Hamas will not happen and are not acceptable to us,” Shtayyeh had told Qatar’s Doha Forum in December around the same time that the PA was holding unity talks with Hamas in Doha.

After the Oct 7 attacks, Biden claimed that, “the vast majority of Palestinians are not Hamas. Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people.” In reality, polls show that Hamas would easily win any current election, as it won the last set of “Palestinian” elections in 2006, leading Abbas and his Fatah faction to seize total control of the West Bank and reject any future elections. Hamas was able to take over Gaza leading to the two “Palestinian” statelets.

In January, Abbas’ spokesman had promised to “hold general elections, and if Hamas wins, the president will hand over the [Palestinian] Authority.”

With polls showing that Hamas would handily win an election, If Abbas is serious this time, that means recognizing a “Palestinian” state will mean creating a Hamas state inside Israel.

Hamas and the Palestinian Authority had been holding unity talks on and off, including four months before the Oct 7 attacks, and quickly began holding them again afterward.

The current proposal, like previous ones coming out of the unity talks, places Palestinian Authority officials up front, so that terrorists can receive foreign aid from America and the EU, while Hamas officials maintain an official subsidiary role but continue to control Gaza.

In the past, Hamas had been able to siphon foreign aid through UNRWA, but as it now faces the possibility of utter destruction in Gaza, it may be more willing to accept the proposal being advanced by Qatar, Russia, the EU and the Biden administration. While Russia and Qatar may be more publicly supportive of their Hamas allies, all the proposals come down to a government of “technocrats” serving as the public face of the Palestinian Authority and Hamas.

Shtayyeh is an example of one of those “technocrats”, academics with experience in extracting foreign aid and telling foreign diplomats what they want to hear, but with no actual political power, who were put into place to act as a cover for the Arafat and Abbas regimes. A similar puppet regime of technocrats subsidiary to Afghanistan’s warlords had operated in Kabul before it fled the Taliban. The Taliban and the Biden administration have resurrected a version of its “technocrats” to administer the funds going from the United States to Afghanistan.

The current plan is to blame Oct 7 entirely on Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in Gaza, and a few of his cronies, to demand their expulsion, and then to make a deal with the “moderate” Hamas leaders in Doha before putting the plan for a “Palestinian” state in overdrive. But the Moscow summit is a warning that any such state will never be anything other than a terror state.

The primary difference between the Qatari and Russian positions, and the Biden and EU position, is plausible deniability. Qatar and Russia want Hamas out front, while Biden and the EU prefer it out back. And we already know from Afghanistan how that will end up working out.

The Qataris negotiated our deal with the Taliban that would have made the Islamic terrorist group a part of a multilateral government. Americans died to maintain that State Department fiction as the Taliban were advancing to take over the entire country. Hamas had its chance to be part of a multilateral government with other Islamic terrorists and each time it chose to try and take everything. Biden and the EU may want to keep Hamas in the background, but history tells us that, like the Taliban, it will eventually seize power and dominate any “Palestinian” state.

It’s difficult to know whether Secretary of State Blinken and the State Department personnel who pretended until the last moment that the Taliban were not trying to take over Afghanistan, but only to take a stronger position in the negotiations for a united government really believed that. It’s also difficult to know whether they truly believe that their proposed “Palestinian” state will be anything other than a terrorist state that will eventually fall into the hands of Hamas.

But we know that not only Qatar and Russia, but the Biden administration and the EU, have urgently fought against any Israeli move into Rafah that would finish off Hamas in Gaza.

It’s obvious why Qatar or Russia’s Bogdanov are condemning an attack on Rafah, but the Biden administration has introduced a draft UN resolution calling for a ceasefire, and from Biden on down have warned Israel against going into Rafah. The internal reasoning is probably similar to the one that guided Nixon and Kissinger during another October war 50 years ago.

During the Yom Kippur War, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had told Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin that “my nightmare is a victory for either side.” He warned that without negotiations and a deal, “the Israelis [will] have pushed the Arabs out of every territory and “If we do nothing by Tuesday, Wednesday at the latest, Arabs will have been defeated.”

“I do not mean to imply that he wanted Israel to lose the war, he simply did not want Israel to win decisively. He wanted Israel to bleed just enough to soften it up for the post-war diplomacy he was planning,” Admiral Elmo Zuwalt, the former head of the Navy, wrote in his memoir.

The Biden administration also wanted Israel to defeat Hamas, but not to defeat it too much.

The administration is worried that if Israel wins in Rafah, it will win too much and be much less interested in its diplomatic solution of creating a “Palestinian” state which it believes is the real solution to the conflict. And it needs Hamas to provide pressure on Israel to create such a state.

The same failed idea that has haunted the region for decades is that Islamic terrorism can only be defeated by giving the terrorists some, but not all, of what they want. Much as it did not occur to the State Department that the Taliban would want everything, it refuses to believe that Hamas would want everything. And every time the negotiations fall apart, history is rewritten again.

In an article published in early October, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan described the negotiations that had brought peace between Hamas and Israel. “We have de-escalated crises in Gaza,” he boasted. The online version of the article has been edited to remove those words.

Since December, Sullivan has taken to warning Israel to “transition” to a new “phase” of the war in which it stops its military campaign and goes back to occasional drone attacks on Hamas leaders. And then he and the rest can get started building their “Palestinian” state. And when Hamas takes over again, more articles will have to be edited and more bodies will be buried.

The Biden administration, the European Union (for now only being held off by Hungary), Russia and the rest of the international community are preparing to reward Oct 7 with a terrorist state. A ‘Palestinian’ state will be a state of the terrorists, by the terrorists and for the terrorists.

The 10/7 attacks reminded Israelis of what Americans had known and forgotten after 9/11.

The Israeli soldiers battling in Gaza are not just fighting for their country, but to remind America and the world that it is possible to defeat Islamic terrorists, instead of negotiating with them. A victory there will show everyone that we can all fight and win, instead of surrendering to Islam.

A lot is riding on that battle for Israel, for America, Europe and the free world. That is why the leaders of the international community and the diplomats of the world are fighting to save Hamas. What happens in the next weeks will hand the Islamic terrorists and their enablers either one of their greatest defeats or their greatest victory: a Hamas ‘Palestinian’ state.

AUTHOR

DANIEL GREENFIELD

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VIDEO: The Road To October 7 – Education For Jihad And Martyrdom

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Palestinian Authority | MEMRI Daily Brief No. 558

This extensive collection of MEMRI TV clips exposes educational materials that encourage Palestinian and Muslim youth to wage jihad and to become martyrs, in the spirit of Islamic fundamentalism. These materials are taught at kindergartens, schools, and other educational settings, as well as by mothers and fathers at home, by religious scholars, in mosques, and by political leaders in various settings.

To view this collection below:

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Yigal Carmon

Yigal Carmon is Founder and President of MEMRI.

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Biden Regime Boycotts Israel

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Straughn informed the organizers that the State Department canceled her authorization to fly.

This is governmental BDS, but it also reminds me of how the Obama administration gamed the shutdown by forcing the cancelation of all sorts of events and venues just to make a point. If this story is accurate, then part of the Biden admin’s pressure campaign on Israel involved the cancelation of completely apolitical events.

Astrophysicist and deputy project scientist of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Amber Straughn canceled her scheduled Israel Physical Society conference appearance due to tensions between Israel and the United States.

Straughn told the conference organizers at Bar-Ilan University that the cancelation was due to instructions from the U.S. State Department.

In addition to her appearance at the conference, which was slated for next week, Straughn was also scheduled to give a lecture this week sponsored by the university’s physics department to some 300 students and researchers. She additionally was set to hold a lecture open to the public at Jerusalem’s Bloomfield Science Museum on Friday.

Straughn said at the start of the week that NASA and the State Department might order her to cancel her appearance due to bilateral tensions.

On Tuesday afternoon, a few hours before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced he was pausing his government’s judicial overhaul legislation, Straughn informed the organizers that the State Department had, in fact, canceled her authorization to fly.

That is really ugly, if true.

One issue with this story is that it’s Haaretz, an extreme left publication, one that is a longtime opponent of Israel and its government, and which has credibility issues. Also it seems like a story out of Bar-Ilan University would not be the immediate vector to Haaretz.

But the premise is credible enough. If this were happening, then it would be part of a broader package of similar canceled events. We’ll see if that turns out to be the case. The lack of response by Jewish groups to this entire situation is disgusting and predictable.

A petition has been created challenging the culture of lies about democratic judicial reform that all of this has been based on.

It notes that…

We have different views on these reforms, but many of them parallel existing practice within the United States and all are compatible with democracy. The U.S. Constitution even allows Congress to eliminate most of the federal judiciary, and President Joe Biden himself has considered “packing” the Supreme Court.

There is room for criticism and debate, and good friends can disagree, even on fundamental issues. But the attacks have gone too far. They echo the worst claims of Israel’s enemies in the “Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions” (BDS) movement — an antisemitic effort to isolate Israel, as the White House is now doing.

It is a slander against the Jewish state to claim that its government is mounting a “coup” because its newly-elected legislature is engaged in the democratic process of lawmaking.

With stories like these, we see that the campaign against democratic judicial reform has become BDS.

AUTHOR

DANIEL GREENFIELD

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ZOA Accuses Biden’s Handlers of Planning to Train, Equip and Deploy Palestinian Terrorists in Judea and Samaria

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The Biden administration is either dangerously naïve or worse. It is presenting this plan under the pretext of helping to curb terrorism in Judea and Samaria, yet ZOA says this “unconscionable and illegal plan” would aid Palestinian jihadists. Meanwhile, another report has exposed the U.S. State Department’s funding of an anti-Netanyahu Leftist group that is behind the chaotic protests in Israel. What exactly is the motivation of the Biden administration?

A news article by Tablet Magazine stated of America’s most recent plan:

Incredibly, the U.S. is now proposing to take advantage of its ally’s political weakness by standing up a potential 5,000-man Palestinian terror army that would ostensibly fight terrorism in the West Bank in place of the IDF.

Washington, D.C.’s latest bout of Mideast pyromania began with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to Ramallah at the end of January, right after a Palestinian terrorist shot dead seven Israelis outside a synagogue in Neve Yaakov.

The key words are “ostensibly fight terrorism in the West Bank in place of the IDF,” which puts a different spin on America’s possible intent from that of the ZOA below. But what would make the Biden administration actually think its plan could possibly work to bring Palestinians to “fight terrorism”? Given the administration’s consistent anti-Israel stance, does it really believe that arming, training and deploying Palestinians could be a trusted strategy to “fight terrorism,” rather than help perpetuate it?

In reality, such a plan would greatly empower the Palestinian “resistance.” History bears out the fact that the Palestinians do now want and never wanted peace. They aim to obliterate Israel from the River to the Sea, as is stated in the founding Charters of all the major Palestinian organizations, and they’re watching closely as America further positions itself as their ally rather than the ally of Israel.

Surely America should know that Israel cannot allow such a plan. The IDF, in fact, beefed up troops in Samaria last month in response to the escalating violence.

ZOA: Stop Biden/Blinken/Amr Unconscionable Plan to Establish Army of 5,000 Palestinian-Arab Terrorists plus U.S./Foreign Forces

Zionist Organization of America, March 17, 2023:

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) denounces, in the strongest possible terms, the Biden Administration’s unconscionable, illegal plan to provide commando training in Jordan to 5,000 Palestinian-Arab army of terrorists or future terrorists; and to then equip and deploy this Palestinian-Arab commando army in Judea/Samaria, along with foreign and U.S. forces.

The administration’s horrific, frightening, dangerous plan also requires Israel “to sharply curtail IDF counterterror operations.” U.S. security coordinator Lieutenant General (LTG) Michael Fenzel, who is currently responsible for training Palestinian Authority (PA) police in Judea and Samaria, proposed training the new 5,000-strong commando army, and deploying foreign forces, including U.S. military forces, on the ground.

Thus, under the Biden administration’s plan, Israel would be restricted from defending innocent Israelis from terrorists; and much of Judea/Samaria would become a “safe haven” for terrorists to retreat to and be celebrated after perpetrating murderous terror attacks in Israel, with no consequences.

Moreover, American and other foreign forces on the ground would become sitting ducks, subject to Palestinian-Arab terror attacks. American and foreign soldiers would also become human shields, who block Israel from going after the terrorists, lest foreign forces be caught in the crossfire. Further, the PA will want foreign forces to include Iranians, thereby introducing even more terror into the region…..

Read more.

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After Biden Sent $1,000,000,000 to PLO, Israeli Deaths Rose 900%

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It cost $10,000 to kill a 6-year-old boy and the terrorists have the money. 

When Secretary of State Blinken met with PLO leader Mahmoud Abbas, he boasted of the over billion dollars in aid that the Biden administration had programmed for the terrorist territories.

That aid has come with a very heavy price.

In Feb 2019, President Trump’s total cutoff of aid became official. That year, 10 Israelis or people in Israeli controlled areas were killed in stabbings, shootings, rocket and other attacks, down from 12 the previous year, and 15 in 2017, and 16 in 2016.

In 2020, however, only three Israelis were killed.

These numbers reflected the diminished capacity of the Islamic terrorists. The reduction in numbers was not due to the pandemic. 2020 still saw attacks, including firebombings, rocket launches and stabbings, but the success and lethality rates for these attacks were lower.

The numbers turned around dramatically once again in 2021.

In April 2021, the Biden administration restored aid to the PLO. Terror incidents, reflecting attack attempts, shot up sharply from 91 in February and 89 in March to 130 in April.

By May, major fighting resumed with 13 Israelis, including two children, killed.

By the time the year was over, 17 people in Israeli areas had been killed. The over 400% increase in deaths was only the beginning. In 2022, 31 Israelis or people in Israeli areas were killed, up from only 3 in 2020, for a massive 900% increase in casualties since the restoration of foreign aid to the terrorists. This was the worst death toll since 2015 under Obama.

But in January and the first half of February of 2023, 10 Israelis have already been killed, including a 6-year-old boy and an 8-year-old boy.

Three times as many have been killed in a month and a half of 2023 as in all of 2020. That’s a 233% increase over 2020 in just a fraction of a year, but it’s also a marked month-to-month escalation from 2022 which featured no attacks at all in January or February. More people have already been killed by terrorists in 2023 than through most of March in 2022.

What a difference a billion dollars makes.

While the media has tried to portray the terrorism as “lone wolf” attacks, they’re crowdsourced violence of the kind that Al Qaeda and ISIS helped innovate. But the PLO’s version is unique through its ‘Pay-to-Slay’ program which rewards terrorists, regardless of their formal affiliation, including ISIS and Hamas members, with salaries and payments for their families.

Terrorists are paid based on the length of their prison sentence. That means successful killers can earn $2,000 to $3,000 a month in a part of the world where the average salary is around $700 a month. It’s five times more profitable to be a terrorist than a teacher.

The Palestinian Authority calls for the murder of Jews, praises it and then rewards it.

Muhammad Al-Lahham of the Fatah Revolutionary Council, which runs the political movement behind the terrorists of the Palestinian Authority, was caught on video praising the “patriotic conscience” of a terrorist who had killed a rabbi taking his 2-year-old son for a walk in 2022.

The Trump administration cut off aid to the PLO’s Palestinian Authority and Congress passed the Taylor Force Act banning funds from going to finance Pay-to-Slay.

Throughout all this, PLO leadership have been consistent in refusing to stop financing terrorism.

“We will neither reduce nor prevent [payment] of allowances to the families of martyrs, prisoners and released prisoners, as some seek, and if we had only a single penny left, we would pay it to families of the martyrs and prisoners,” Abbas had bragged. By “martyrs”, he meant those Islamic terrorists who were killed while carrying out terrorist attacks.

Despite this, the Biden administration had restored aid and rebuilt diplomatic relations. Biden and Blinken have met with Abbas. And while they have attacked Israel over everything from letting Jews pray on the Temple Mount (due to Jewish prayers offending Muslim sensibilities) to democratic judicial reform that will limit the unilateral authority of pro-terrorist judges, Biden and Blinken have had nothing to say to the terrorists about the program funding the murder of Jews.

America First Legal, under Stephen Miller, filed suit against the Biden administration on behalf of the parents of Taylor Force: a non-Jewish Afghanistan war vet murdered in Jerusalem.

“The Biden Administration is well aware that the PA pays Palestinian terrorists to injure or kill innocent Americans and Israelis in Israel. Yet, in blatant violation of  the Taylor Force Act, a federal law that prohibits the government from sending American taxpayer dollars to the PA until it stops supporting terrorism, President Biden and Secretary of State Blinken have resumed payments to the PA after the Trump Administration had stopped these payments in compliance with the Taylor Force Act,” America First Legal declared..

“The Taylor Force Act, named after our son, was passed by Congress and signed by President Trump to stop this Pay to Slay. Yet the Biden Administration has resumed payments to the PA notwithstanding its Pay to Slay program,” Stuart Force, Taylor’s father, said.

The Biden administration’s decision to fund the Palestinian Authority has consequences beyond Israel. Islamic terrorism is a global threat and has been a reliable killer of Americans abroad.

“Robbi and I call upon President Biden to stop sending fungible taxpayer dollars to the PA that will end up funding terrorism,” Stuart Force appealed.

And the latest wave of violence shows just how ‘fungible’ that money is.

The massive uptick in successful terrorist attacks is not a coincidence. The numbers become more significant when we distinguish between so-called “lone wolf” attacks which are most directly impacted by ‘Pay-to-Slay’ and rocket attacks by other terrorist groups. 14 people were killed in direct terrorist attacks in 2018. That number dropped to 5 in 2019, the year Trump cut off aid to the PLO. By 2020, it fell to 3, in 2021, the year Biden restored aid, it rose to 4 and then shot up to 32 in 2022 reflecting the ‘slow burn’ effect of fungible aid money being taken away and then restored within a government bureaucracy even if it’s run by and for terrorists.

As the Biden administration continues pumping money into the terrorist entities occupying parts of Israel, the violence is drastically increasing. 2023 is already on track to top 2022 which had the worst numbers since 2015. The level of Islamic terrorism is returning to that of the Obama administration and that means that we can expect an even higher death toll in Israel.

The billion dollars in aid is a factor, but an even bigger factor is that the Biden administration, like its Democrat predecessor, has made no secret of its support for the Palestinian Authority. And the Biden administration has gone even further with its diplomatic support for the PLO regime and its pressure on Israel. The latest murders are the work of a terrorist group that knows that Washington D.C. has its back and will intervene to protect it from Israel.

The Biden administration’s decision to appoint Hady Amr, an open supporter of Islamic terrorism and opponent of the Jewish State, as its key liaison to the PLO, who was inspired by the intifada, has consequences, and dead bodies in Jerusalem are among the most obvious ones.

Islamic terrorism runs on money and foreign support. The Biden administration has provided both. The Palestinian Authority spends hundreds of millions of dollars a year on Pay-to-Slay.

The pipeline of terror may end with a 6-year-old boy lying dead on a Jerusalem street but it begins with cash coming out of Washington D.C. The attacks of September 11 cost Al Qaeda about half a million dollars. The cost to the PLO of killing that little boy, his brother and a newly married man going to spend the Sabbath with his wife’s family probably comes out to about $30,000 a year. Or $10,000 per dead Jewish person. That’s a fraction of the millions of dollars in foreign aid which could be used to finance hundreds and thousands of more murders of Jews.

$10,000 to kill a six-year-old boy, another $10,000 to kill his 8-year-old brother. Thanks to the financiers of murdering Jews in the Biden administration, the terrorists have the cash.

And we’re the ones providing it.

AUTHOR

DANIEL GREENFIELD

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Biden Tells Israel to Give Money to Terrorists, Not Terror Victims

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The most anti-Israel administration stands with Islamic terrorists.

The Biden administration condemned Israel for giving $39 million in tax revenues to the victims of terrorism instead of the terrorists.

“It is morally just and important for the war against terror. There is no greater justice than using the funds for the victims of terror,” Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said of the move.

State Department spokesman Ned Price condemned Israel’s actions as a “unilateral response” that will “exacerbate tensions. and warned that the administration will raise the issue with Israel.

Price did not address whether the Palestinian Authority spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to finance terrorist attacks against Israelis through the ‘Pay-to-Slay’ program raises any tensions. The ruling PLO body spending millions to kill Jews is not unilateral, but Israel refusing to finance the murder of its own citizens is a dangerous move that will make peace difficult.

Palestinian Authority PM Mohammad Shtayyeh claims that if Israel doesn’t give it $39 million, that “will promptly lead to its collapse.”

The terror organization has been claiming variations of the same thing for over two decades.

“Palestinian Authority Broke and In Disarray,” the media agonized in 2004. “Palestinians Threaten to Collapse the Palestinian Authority,” they clamored in 2009. “Suspended tax transfers leave Palestinian economy on the brink” came the warnings in 2015. “Palestinian finances near collapse as cuts deepen,” we were told in 2019.

The PLO’s terror infrastructure is always on the verge of collapse, but sadly never does.

“Israel sells us everything, including water treatment, electricity and drinking water, and in fact profits from all of this,” Shtayyeh whined.

Why after 30 years can’t the aspiring terror state do anything for itself? The “Palestinians” have received an estimated $40 billion in foreign aid. Other estimates have put it at $50 billion.

Over $14 billion of that money went directly to the Palestinian Authority. What did all that money buy apart from mansions for top terrorists?

Pinchas Rutenberg, who had unsuccessfully urged Russia’s liberal Kerensky government to execute Lenin and Trotsky before it was too late and fought to the last to defend the Winter Palace against the Bolsheviks, headed to Israel and began electrifying the country.

“No one doubts the duty of the British Empire to develop the Land of Israel, but who will be charged the financial burden? The British taxpayer? Or perhaps the Arab public that has lived in the country for hundreds of years and has not lifted a finger to develop it. True, Rutenberg is a Jew, and he recruited businessmen and Jewish capitalists to develop the natural resources of the Land of Israel and create jobs for its Arab residents, but is it therefore necessary to disqualify his vision?” Churchill opined.

In a matter of years, much of Israel was powered by the generators that Rutenberg had built.

And all of this happened over two decades before Israel even achieved independence.

Somehow Jewish refugees could do a better job of providing electricity in the 1920s after only a few years than the Palestinian Authority has managed in the 2020s after 30 years.

Churchill correctly observed that the Arab invaders and colonizers had lived there for “hundreds of years” yet had “lifted a finger to develop it.” The cost of developing the territories under PLO control has passed right back to the British taxpayer, the American taxpayer and the Israelis.

Every few years, Israel threatens to cut off the power unless the terrorists pay their debts. The last time around the debt had shot up to $500 million. Each time diplomats warn that if Israel cuts off the power, there will be a humanitarian crisis. But when isn’t there a crisis?

Biden directed over half-a-billion dollars to the terrorists since taking office. And yet the PLO claims that it’s still on the verge of collapse and Israel has to save it all over again.

“The PA must stop its involvement in terror if it wants to survive. As long as it continues to encourage terror, it is our enemy and as such, what interest do we have to help it?” Israeli Finance Minister Smotritch pointed out.

The Palestinian Authority has never run out of money to pay the terrorists, but it can’t manage to pay for its power bill or accomplish anything useful for its people.

Secretary of State Blinken and Jake Sullivan, Biden’s national security adviser, are headed to Israel to scold the Jewish State for not giving money to the terrorists. The administration has used every possible forum to show contempt and undermine Israel: including a recent UN session denying Jews the right to visit the Temple Mount which is the holiest site in Judaism.

When National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir visited the Temple Mount, the Biden administration called it an “unacceptable” violation of the “historic status quo” that bans Jews.

And yet Ben-Gvir’s visit came and went.

Since then, he’s told the police to take down the terrorist flags of the PLO.

“It is inconceivable that lawbreakers will wave terror flags, incite and encourage terrorism,” Ben Gvir said. “I have issued instructions for the removal of the flags, which support terrorism, from the public space and to stop incitement against the State of Israel.”

The Biden administration, which funds terrorism and incitement against Israel through its foreign aid to the Palestinian Authority, is probably unhappy with this. Its spokesmen repeatedly accuse Israel of “unilateral” acts that increase “tensions”. Every time a Jewish person sneezes in Jerusalem, Ned Price appears at a State Department podium to intone about unilateral sneezing, raising tensions. And yet it’s the Biden administration that is conducting unilateral actions meant to undermine Israel’s status like its rogue diplomatic operation to the PLO.

The level of pettiness included stepping in when an Iron Age spoon was seized from the founder of Birthright Israel to “return” it to the Palestinian Authority even though the Arab Muslim colonists had invaded the area a thousand years later and have no claim to the ancient artifact.

The spoon was identified in the files as coming from the country of Israel, “from the Hebron area” that “is the area of the richest Iron age Jewish tombs (many royal).”

The pettiness of seizing an artifact that originated from an Israeli source and turning it over to the Arab Muslim terrorists who currently occupy parts of Hebron to make a point is emblematic of the Biden administration’s determination to undermine the Jewish People’s claim to its land.

The Biden administration and the media are furious that Israel’s new patriotic government is asserting its rights. It’s a belated act of self-defense that the media treats as an attack.

A hysterical AP news story denounces Netanyahu’s new government as “hard-line”,  “ultra-nationalist”, and the “most hard-line and religious government in Israel’s history” that is “shaking the foundations of Israel’s democracy”, “fomenting divisions” and “barreling toward conflict”.

And that’s just the first two paragraphs of a deranged screed masquerading as news coverage.

Israel’s new government is not “shaking the foundations of Israel’s democracy”, it’s restoring it after decades of hijacking by an activist judiciary by implementing a system of checks and balances to equalize its power with that of the legislature.

It is not “fomenting divisions”, it’s confronting divisions created by leftists and dealing with them. And it’s not “barreling toward conflict” but responding to the attacks against the Jewish State.

What has Israel’s “ultra-nationalist” and “hard-line” government done so far? It diverted money that will be used by terrorists to finance the murder of Jews to the victims of these attacks.

One of its cabinet members briefly visited the holiest site in Judaism. Another suggested that the terrorists need to choose between getting money through Israel and killing Jews.

All that outrage over basic acts of decency.

It’s hard to argue with any of these actions when they’re described objectively. That’s why shrill labels like “hard-line” and  “ultra-nationalist” are being used to silence any meaningful debate.

The media doesn’t want to talk about why Israel and the United States should be financing Islamic terrorism against Jews. Israel’s new government is determined to make that the issue.

Anyone in the Biden administration, the media and activists who scream about “unilateralism” and “ultra-nationalists” should be asked to put away their thesauruses and answer why money should go to terrorists not terror victims.

AUTHOR

DANIEL GREENFIELD

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