As for the Palestinians, they always get what they sow. They are driven by hatred and make poor choices and decisions. It is their history.
I have little empathy for Palestinians because they have rejected every opportunity to have half a loaf. Israelis accepted half a bagel and proceeded to make it blossom.
To the victor belongs the spoils.
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You do not have to be an MD to know this.
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Former WH Doc: Biden Should Not Be in the White House
By Leah Barkoukis
The White House physician for former Presidents Obama and Trump weighed in Monday on President Biden’s fitness for office, noting how much he's declined in just the past few years.
Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) said on "Fox and Friends" that he recently watched videos of Biden when he was running for president in 2020 and compared it to video from now. "It's incredible to see the difference," he told host Steve Doocy.
In Jackson’s opinion, the president, who turned 81 on Monday, does not have “the cognitive ability to do the job”—a point he’s been making for a long time.
"I think now the Democrats are starting to get to the point where they can't deny [Biden's] decline," he added.
Being commander in chief is just too much for the octogenarian, let alone having to campaign on top of it, Jackson noted.
"He's got these people that surround him that are inappropriately encouraging him to continue to run because it builds up who they are and what they do. But our border, our wars overseas, our economy, you know, it's just a disaster right now. And he just can't do the job. And it's just on display every day that he's not capable of doing this job anymore," Jackson said.
Facing questions about the president's age on Monday, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre insisted "there’s no alarm happening behind the scenes."
“Our perspective is that it’s not about age, it’s about the president’s experience. That’s what we believe,” she added. “The president has used his experience to pass more bipartisan legislation in recent time than any other president. That’s just a fact. It’s something that we have seen this president do, and that’s because of his experience. He’s been able to manage multiple foreign policy challenges. That’s because of his experience.”
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You just cannot trust them. Agreements have a tendency to melt..
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Regavim: 'This threat can turn into a front line terrorist outpost in seconds'
Regavim reveals that the PA has built 18,899 illegal buildings in Area C on the Judea and Samaria border; that can turn into a front line terrorist outpost in seconds
Regavim published a special warning criticizing the illegal construction by the Palestinian Authority (PA) on the borders of Judea and Samaria.
Tamar Sikorel, Regavim spokeswoman, discussed the threat that has been brewing for years along the Green Line. without any binding response from Israel: “Regavim maps the areas of Judea and Samaria, as well as the Negev. Now, following the Gaza war and the explosion of the conspiracy in the Gaza Strip, we have decided to undertake a special inspection operation of what is happening on the seam line. We have mapped the entire length of the fence from the north of the Jordan Valley to the south of the Dead Sea, a distance of about three hundred kilometers, up to one to four kilometers from the fence. This of course is Area C, an area that is completely controlled by Israel and is supposed to be sterile, guarding the security of the cities in the center, the coastal plain, and Ben Gurion airport.”
Sikorel continued: “The data we found is frightening and threatening, telling an explicit and clear story: The PA has built 18,899 illegal structures along this line that are sitting right on the fence - for example, in the IDF training area in the Samaria region, whose proximity to Rosh Ha’ayin is ridiculous, and overlooks Benny Gantz’s personal balcony.”
“This has been clear to us and to all residents of Judea and Samaria for many years. Now it will explode after October 7th. If the distance between Gaza and Ofakim is 25 kilometers, here it is barely 5 kilometers," she said, noting that this construction of almost twenty thousand buildings is in addition to the construction of about 100,000 buildings further into the area. She stressed that the focus in this mapping effort was made precisely around the Green Line, in order to understand the threat this construction poses to the settlements surrounding Judea and Samaria.
“The statement we are trying to hone now is that it is true that there is illegal construction that needs to be fought against, but there is illegal construction that also poses a real danger; a ticking bomb. It does not depend on whether we withdraw from there or not. This involves a moment's decision by the Palestinian Authority, as a leading terrorist organization, to turn its guns on the center of the country. Maybe it's time to wake up here as well and realize that abandoning this area could lead to disaster, as we saw in the Gaza Strip.”
Sikorel called on each individual to “open our eyes and ears” and pointed out that the PA itself has been saying this publicly for years. “They themselves have been claiming it. They have a minister for fence and settlement affairs. They have entire departments of planning and construction, and they invest all their energies in terrorism and taking over territory, with their goal being the establishment of a terrorist state in the heart of Israel. They say it all the time and at every opportunity. For them it is not the borders of '67, but ‘from the river to the sea.’ They repeat it everywhere, and the funds that flow from all over the world go towards this initiative.”
“We would be happy to think and imagine that this is sporadic construction by a Bedouin who has no place to build, but that is not the case. A zoom-out examination of the map shows that all these small sites contain a full story, connections between areas A and B, through Area C, blocking roads, suffocating local Jewish communities, etc. There is a deliberate plan that has been growing here over the years.”
Sikorel added that Regavim has been showing the data to the decision-makers, but in general it is difficult to draw their attention to these issues and the answer that they receive is that this is random construction of those who have no other place to live.
“In the meantime, we do not feel a dramatic change in the attitudes of the heads of the security forces and the Israeli leadership, or in their understanding of the situation. It seems that they are still clinging to the old concepts that want to see the Palestinians as partners and the existing reality as normal, and do not consider it in terms of terrorism and of taking over the territory,” she concluded.
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The war is going to spread as Hezbollah has probably been told by Iran the leash is no longer on them. Same for Yemen.
Is Israel’s Northern Border Heating Up?
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Week 7 - Ahead of prisoner swap, rocket barrages intensify
IDF continues to battle Hamas terrorist organization in Gaza as attacks from Lebanon continue.
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Cliff May is a very fine analyst and thoroughly reliable.
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The unmaking of the United Nations
How the U.N. became the handmaiden of terrorists
By Clifford D. May
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres observed last month that Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israelis “did not happen in a vacuum.” He’s not wrong.
But what he neglected to mention are the multiple ways the U.N. encouraged Hamas’s orgy of mass murder, rape, and child-stealing; the U.N.’s efforts to demonize and delegitimize Israel; and its campaign to make Israel an international scapegoat, whipping boy, and pariah.
I’d trace this campaign back to 1975, when the Soviet Union led the U.N. General Assembly to adopt a resolution calling Zionism “a form of racism.”
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Daniel Patrick Moynihan rose to declare that “this is a lie” and to denounce that “the abomination of antisemitism has been given the appearance of international sanction,” and to state unequivocally that the United States “does not acknowledge, it will not abide by, it will never acquiesce in this infamous act.”
Ambassador Moynihan understood that, prior to 1948, Zionism was the movement in support of self-determination for the Jewish people in part of their ancestral homeland which had been, for millennia, under the rule of foreign empires.
Since Israel’s declaration of independence, Zionism has meant supporting Israel’s right not to be annihilated. And let’s acknowledge the obvious: The disestablishment of Israel would require genocide.
In 1991, the U.N. underwent a moment of sanity: 111 nations voted to revoke the “Zionism is racism” resolution, with only 25 nations, “mostly Islamic and hard-line Communists,” as The New York Times reported, “voting against.”
That reflected “the shifting political currents of recent years, the Persian Gulf war in particular, which split the Arab and Islamic worlds, and the changes in the former Soviet bloc, fostered by the collapse of Communism.”
Before long, however, the Jew-haters were back. On September 22, 2001, the U.N. staged an “anti-racism” conference in Durban, South Africa that morphed into a festival of Jew-hatred.
Participants held up signs reading: “For the liberation of Quds [Jerusalem] machine-guns based upon FAITH and ISLAM must be used!” and “The martyrs’ blood irrigates the tree of revolution in Palestine!” and “Down with Nazi-Israeli apartheid!”
American and Israeli representatives walked out. But the U.N. has stuck to its guns, so to speak. There’s been a Durban II, III, and IV.
And, at the 20th-anniversary gala in 2021 in New York City Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, foreign minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran, declared: “I’m honored to announce that my nation’s willpower is dedicated to the total elimination of all forms of racial discrimination, including apartheid and Zionism.”
I need to note how ludicrous is the apartheid charge. Israeli Arabs – about 20% of the country’s population – have political parties, vote, and hold office. Jewish and Arab students matriculate in the same universities. Jewish and Arab doctors work together in Israeli hospitals. Israeli Arabs volunteer to serve in the Israel Defense Forces.
As for Gazans, they’ve been ruled by Hamas since 2007— two years after Israelis withdrew from that territory. The only Jews in Gaza are hostages.
Palestinians in the West Bank are governed by the Palestinian Authority. Israeli civilians are barred from entering Palestinian cities. Israeli troops enter only to battle terrorists.
To see apartheid in practice, you need only visit Mr. Amir-Abdollahian’s country where Baha’i, Christians, Sunni Arabs, and other minorities face intense discrimination and persecution, and women are maimed and murdered for not “properly” covering their hair.
Yet last week, Martin Griffiths, the top U.N. humanitarian aid official, met with Mr. Amir-Abdollahian to discuss the situation in Gaza.
And last month Tehran became chair of a U.N. human rights forum – appointed by the president of the U.N. Human Rights Council, which has become a club for human rights abusers.
Also last month, the U.N. General Assembly failed to pass a resolution condemning Hamas’s most recent war crimes.
Other U.N. agencies that are soft on Hamas include the WHO (World Health Organization); the U.N. Office on Genocide Prevention; and UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency), a welfare agency that employs Hamas members and confers refugee status on the millions of descendants of the 1948 Arab war against Israel. This definition of “refugee” applies nowhere else in the world.
Francesca Albanese, the U.N.’s Special Rapporteur on Palestine, argues that Israel has no right of self-defense because Gaza is a land “it colonizes” – ignoring the fact that Jews lived in Gaza centuries before armies from Arabia conquered and colonized the territory. Also, as noted above, all Israelis left Gaza in 2005.
And then there’s Navi Pillay, who heads the U.N. Commission of Inquiry, a sort of Spanish Inquisition charged with blood libeling Israel in perpetuity. She claims Israelis have no right to defend themselves because the International Criminal Court opined that self-defense is limited to combating state actors, not terrorist groups. Hamas’s response to that opinion: “We salute the court’s decision.”
The U.N.’s hostility toward Israel is augmented by its incompetence. One example: After the 2006 war in Lebanon, the U.N. Security Council passed Resolution 1701, establishing a multinational force to disarm Hezbollah in the territory adjacent to Israel’s border. Hezbollah has since installed tens of thousands of missiles in that territory with no serious objections – much less actions – by the U.N. Hundreds of those missiles have been fired at Israel since Oct. 7.
The United Nations came into existence in October 1945, in the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust. It was meant “to maintain international peace and security, give humanitarian assistance to those in need, protect human rights, and uphold international law.”
It consistently fails to accomplish those missions.
Instead, it has become the handmaiden of Islamic supremacists, Chinese Communists, Russian imperialists, and Palestinian terrorists.
No good can come from failing to recognize this disappointing reality.
Clifford D. May is founder and president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) and a columnist for the Washington Times.
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Hamas can regroup but their fate is sealed if Biden hangs tough. Bibi has Biden to worry him more than Hamas, .
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Innocents will be freed, but the terrorists get a chance to regroup.
The Editorial Board
During the cease-fire, Israel will allow more fuel and aid into Gaza. The pause might also extend longer if Hamas gives up more hostages, 10 for each additional day.
The deal again shows the moral gulf between the two sides. Hamas kidnapped Israeli children as young as nine months to use as hostages and spring its jihadists who have been arrested or convicted in a fair trial for their crimes. Israel takes military risks to save its citizens. Hamas risks Palestinian civilians to save itself.
Even as Israelis rejoice for the women and children who will return home, they know Hamas is rejoicing too. Its war crimes have been rewarded. It will steal fuel from its own people to power its terror tunnels. Its shattered northern Gaza brigades will use the cease-fire to regroup, escape from weak positions and set more ambushes for Israeli troops. Israel’s leaders made this deal knowing that their soldiers will pay for it.
Every Israeli also knows that Hamas’s leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, was among the 1,027 prisoners Israel released in 2011 in exchange for one kidnapped IDF soldier, Gilad Shalit. In that deal, 280 of the released Palestinian prisoners were serving life sentences for heinous crimes. This time Israel says none of the prisoners it will release have been convicted of murder.
Expect Hamas to drag out the cease-fire in hopes of making it permanent. Dribbling out 10 hostages a day, Hamas could stall for a few weeks. Or what if it claims after day two that Israel has broken the deal and hostage releases will continue only after Israel holds off for another few days? What if it pulls that trick over and over?
The domestic and international picture will become more complicated for Israel. At home a nation united will be divided over how long to wait. Abroad, the pressure to continue the cease-fire indefinitely will grow, and Israel can expect harsher criticism when it resumes fighting. Israelis know all this, but they are willing to accept the costs to retrieve the captives.
They are also unwavering in their determination to overthrow Hamas. The Israeli cabinet says fighting will resume immediately once the cease-fire is up.
The deal’s timing isn’t bad for Israel. Having assumed a dominant position in Gaza’s north, it needs to prepare to turn south. U.S. deputy national security adviser Jon Finer stressed on Sunday that more time is needed before an Israeli advance to determine how to protect civilians in Gaza’s south. Israel can do that and prepare its next move.
Much depends on the Biden Administration. Complaints from the Democratic left are no reason to let the Hamas jihadists who carried out the Oct. 7 massacre stay in power in Gaza. President Biden has said Hamas needs to be destroyed. If he means it, he will back Israel’s right to resume fighting and finish the job after hostages are released.
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The Nightmare of Air Travel Symbolizes Social Chaos 
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No Ceasefire. Annihilate Them.
By Matt Vespa
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