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Dear Dick, Today the IDF exposed and destroyed "the heart of Hamas' weapons manufacturing industry" above and below ground in central Gaza. The area was filled with weapons factories and production facilities, along with dozens of tunnel shafts that led to a senior Hamas official’s residence. This video published by the IDF shows the tunnels and ammunition uncovered. I encourage you to read this new analysis by John Spencer, the Chair of Urban Warfare Studies at the Modern War Institute, detailing the immense investment that went into the tunnels and the strategic challenge they pose to the IDF:The sheer size of Hamas’s underground networks may, once fully discovered, be beyond anything a modern military has ever faced." +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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| ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ He is one of the slimiest politicians to ever serve. +++ Adam Schiff’s Telltale 2024 AgendaHis radical plans should focus Republicans on electable candidates.The Editorial BoardMr. Schiff’s agenda is pitched as “defending democracy,” but it’s really a plan to rewrite the rules of American politics into a winner-take-all system, with Democrats as the winners. Mr. Schiff claims, incredibly, that the Senate filibuster is currently being used “to solidify a new generation of Jim Crow.” Abolishing the 60-vote rule would let Democrats pass their dream legislation with 50 partisan yeses, and no need to compromise. Explicit promises from Mr. Schiff include “a national right to abortion”; “meaningful gun safety legislation”; passage of the PRO Act to tilt labor negotiations in favor of unions; an increased corporate tax rate of 35% (from today’s 21%); a cancellation of “at least $50,000 in student loan debt for every borrower”; federal “child allowances”; and a pilot program for a “Universal Basic Income.” He’d “increase the number of justices on the Supreme Court from 9 to 13.” He’d pass a Democratic bill to federalize elections, called the For the People Act, which would legalize ballot harvesting nationwide, while forcing states to tally mail votes that arrive 10 days late, as long as they’re timely postmarked. Do Republican voters realize that these are the stakes if their candidates lose in November? The Senate map this fall is favorable to them, with winnable races in right-leaning states like Arizona, Montana and Ohio. Yet Republicans have a history of picking Senate nominees who can’t win a general election. The same worry hangs over a re-nomination of Donald Trump, given his baggage with swing voters. The only way to block Mr. Schiff’s agenda is to win elections. If the GOP chooses candidates mainly because they claim to be fighters but who can’t win suburbanites and independents, the party will be taking a gamble on living in Adam Schiff’s America. And: +++ The US campaign to oust NetanyahuBy Caroline Glick The U.S. secretary of state has tried to compel the Israeli prime minister to agree to a plan that would see the Palestinian Authority, which nominally controls Palestinian autonomous areas in Judea and Samaria, take over Gaza. The anti-Bibi forces in Israel are helping him. Op-ed.Caroline B. Glick is the senior contributing editor of Jewish News Syndicate and host of the “Caroline Glick Show” on JNS. She is also the diplomatic commentator for Israel’s Channel 14, as well as a columnist for Newsweek. Glick is the senior fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs at the Center for Security Policy in Washington and a lecturer at Israel’s College of Statesmanship. (JNS) Is Israel on the cusp of political upheaval? In recent days, evidence has grown that two key actors—the Biden administration and Israel’s security establishment—are both pushing the country in that direction to advance their longstanding common goal of ousting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the religious-right bloc from power. The Biden administration showed its hand on Tuesday when U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken gave Israel an ultimatum to support Palestinian statehood or risk demonization by the administration. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Blinken restated the administration’s demand that Netanyahu present a plan for the day after the war against Hamas in Gaza and the administration’s goal of using the war to establish a Palestinian state. Blinken insisted that the only side that refuses to accept the administration’s goal is the Israeli public—and its leader, Netanyahu. Insisting that “Arab leaders, Palestinian leaders” have prepared their people for Palestinian Arab statehood, Blinken said: “I think the challenge now, the question now, is is Israeli society prepared to engage on these questions? Is it prepared to have that mindset?” Israelis, of course, have engaged in the question of Palestinian Arab statehood. After the atrocities that the Palestinian Arabs carried out against their people and state on Oct. 7—and as the full mobilization of Palestinian Arab society in Gaza and Judea and Samaria on behalf of Hamas’s war of genocide against Israel has been revealed—Israeli support for Palestinian Arab statehood dried up. As Direct Polls revealed last month, 81% of Israelis, including Arab Israelis, say there is no prospect for peace with the Palestinian Arabs, including 70% of left-wing voters. Some 88% of Israelis do not trust the Palestinian Arab leadership. Blinken, however, doesn’t seem to care what Israelis think. He wants them to obey, and he views Netanyahu as the obstacle to Israeli obeisance to the administration’s program. As a result, he wants the prime minister ousted from power, as NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell reported on Wednesday. She wrote that during his visit to Israel last week, Blinken offered Netanyahu a deal. In exchange for Israeli support for Palestinian Arab statehood, Saudi Arabia would normalize its ties with Israel. Netanyahu said no. Netanyahu’s position, the administration believes, means he has to go. “Three senior U.S. officials say the Biden administration is looking past Netanyahu to try to achieve its goals in the region. Several senior U.S. officials told NBC News that Netanyahu ‘will not be there forever,’” Mitchell wrote. “The Biden administration is trying to lay the groundwork with other Israeli and civil society leaders in anticipation of an eventual post-Netanyahu government. In an attempt to work around Netanyahu [during his visit to Israel], Blinken also met individually with members of his war Cabinet and other Israeli leaders, including opposition leader … Yair Lapid.” A ‘civil society’ action group Significantly, Blinken tried to compel Netanyahu to agree to a plan that would see the U.S.-supported, Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority that nominally controls the Palestinian autonomous areas in Judea and Samaria take over Gaza. -The P.A.’s U.S.-financed forces train for war against Israel and participate in terrorist attacks. -The P.A. pays salaries to jailed terrorists, including the Hamas murderers and rapists who carried out the Oct. 7 atrocities. -The P.A. schools, universities and media indoctrinate Palestinian Arab children and society as a whole to seek the annihilation of Israel and the Jewish people through a genocidal jihad. -The P.A.’s official position since Oct. 7 is to seek the establishment of a unity government between Fatah and Hamas in Judea and Samaria, as well as Gaza. In other words, empowering the genocidal P.A. means maintaining Hamas’s grip on power. Neither P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas nor any P.A. or Fatah official has yet condemned the atrocities of Oct. 7. Blinken insists that Israel cannot win a military victory in Gaza. As Mitchell put it, “Blinken told Netanyahu that ultimately there is no military solution to Hamas … and that the Israeli leader needs to recognize that or history will repeat itself and violence will continue.” War, in other words, is futile. Although the public and Netanyahu reject this view, Blinken does have partners in Israeli “civil society” for his position. And those partners—led by retired generals—began a massive, multimillion-dollar campaign for new elections just before Blinken arrived in Israel. Last month, the Hakol Hayehudi news agency reported that immediately after Oct. 7, the Mitvim think tank put together a “civil society” action group led by retired general Nimrod Sheffer to build a plan for the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state after the war. Sheffer, a retired head of the Israel Defense Forces’ Planning Division and a fighter pilot, was one of the most prominent retired generals pushing for Netanyahu’s ouster during the 10-month-long left-wing insurrection that preceded the Oct. 7 Palestinian Arab invasion of southern Israel. Among other things, Sheffer was a leader of the campaign to convince active reserve Israeli Air Force pilots to refuse to serve in reserves as long as the government advanced its legislative effort to limit the powers of the Supreme Court. Hakol Hayehudi published the minutes of Sheffer’s group’s weekly meetings. From week to week, as the depth of the public’s rejection of Palestinian statehood became clear, the group realized that they wouldn’t be able to sell their plan to the Israeli people. So, they changed gears. They wouldn’t bother trying to convince the public of anything other than that the “settlers” and the “extremist right” are responsible for the war. Instead, they would have the United States run their campaign. “The Americans are the ones that need to lead, craft and manage the process,” they wrote. “The U.S. needs to implement policy steps that Israel won’t be able to veto.” To safeguard their plans for Palestinian Arab statehood, the Mitvim group argued that Israel must not destroy Hamas’s “civil infrastructure,” which it foresees the P.A. taking over. Last month, opposition leader Yair Lapid participated in a Mitvim conference on “the day after.” The next day, Lapid parroted Mitvim’s plan in an interview with Israel Radio. While Lapid is a big fish, the IDF General Staff and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant are even bigger fish. For more than a month, the General Staff has insisted that the government must begin discussions about “the day after the war.” On Jan. 4, Gallant presented his plan for “the day after” and insisted that the government discuss it. To date, Netanyahu has refused. Gallant’s plan bears notable similarity both to Mitvim’s plans and the Biden administration’s positions. It calls for the P.A. employees in Gaza, who operate the “civil” infrastructure of the Hamas regime, to be retained in their positions. The fact that these 17,000 P.A. employees overwhelmingly support Hamas, that many Oct. 7 terrorists were P.A. employees and that Fatah forces in Gaza, ostensibly subordinate to the P.A., filmed themselves participating in the slaughters of Oct. 7 clearly made no impression on him. Gallant insisted that a U.S.-led international force, including Arab governments, should have overall control over governance. Gaza residents who left their homes should be allowed—even forced—to return. Gallant’s plan calls for the IDF to have the right to operate freely in Gaza. But his plan does not foresee any permanent IDF presence—and through it, control—over Gaza. Reportedly due to massive pressure from Blinken and against the expressed recommendations of commanders on the ground, on Friday the General Staff stunned the public by announcing that it was removing a division from Gaza. In the days immediately following the troop withdrawal, the city of Netivot was attacked by rockets twice from areas IDF forces had abandoned in central and northern Gaza. On Monday, Gallant gave a news conference where he restated his demand that the cabinet and government discuss his “day after.” Gallant insisted that without a plan for the day after, the army wouldn’t know what to fight for. “The end of the military campaign has to be anchored in a diplomatic action. The diplomatic plan must be the roadmap for military action. The absence of a diplomatic decision is liable to undermine military operations.” Notably, when Gallant laid out the government’s war goals on Monday evening, he failed to mention the goal of eradicating Hamas’s political capabilities. He also scaled back the goal of defeating Hamas militarily from “eradicating” to “dismantling.” According to Channel 13, the day before Gallant’s press conference, Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi essentially said that from his perspective, the war was basically over, and it was up to the government to develop a diplomatic plan for the day after. According to Channel 13’s report of Halevi’s remarks, he insisted that all of the army’s hard-fought achievements were about to be erased “because there is no strategy for the day after.” Halevi said: “It’s possible that we’ll have to go back and act in areas where we already finished fighting.” “We are worried that the Hamas will reorganize in northern Gaza. We need to determine the way we want to finish the war. The current achievements in the war are being eroded. We need a civil [governance] plan,” he continued. Like Netanyahu and the public, Halevi and Gallant must know that the only way to secure Israel’s war aims is to complete the IDF’s conquest of all of Gaza. Even then, the only way to ensure that Gaza does not pose a continued threat to Israel is for the IDF to remain in charge of Gaza for the foreseeable future and for the population of Gaza to be permitted to leave the area for third countries. The administration totally opposes all of these actions. This then brings us to the reason Netanyahu has to date refused to set a plan for the day after the war. Given Israel’s requirements for victory, the moment Netanyahu allows the government to discuss them—much less adopt them—Israel will find itself in an open breach with the Biden administration. So long as Sen. Charles Schumer, the Democratic Senate Majority Leader from New York, blocks the Senate from voting to approve the $14.3 billion military aid package Biden pledged to Israel in October, Israel cannot risk such a breach. Given the depleted state of Israel’s current inventory of ammunition for its ground and air forces, without the supplemental aid, the IDF will be hard-pressed to fight the war to victory. By demanding that Netanyahu adopt the softened version of the U.S. position, the General Staff and Gallant, along with the anti-Netanyahu national security establishment as a whole, are presenting Israel’s leader with an impossible choice. Netanyahu can adopt a policy for victory but endanger U.S. rearmament, thus increasing the danger that the United States will abandon Israel at the United Nations. Or he can accept a version of the U.S. position and commit Israel to strategic defeat. If he does the former, he will face a protest campaign led by the media and the security brass accusing him of destroying Israel-U.S. relations and enabling them to plunge Israel into a new round of political instability. And if he does the latter, his coalition partners are likely to leave the government and overthrow it, and give the United States and the left their wish for new elections in the midst of war. And: Can Biden and Blinken Read the Middle East?The Israeli public is in no mood today to give Palestinians a state, but the U.s. keeps pushing it.Secretary of State Antony Blinken laid out in Davos on Wednesday the perennially failing solution to Middle East problems. “If you take a regional approach, and if you pursue integration with security, with a Palestinian state, all of a sudden you have a region that’s come together in ways that answer the most profound questions that Israel has tried to answer for years,” he said. “Iran is suddenly isolated,” he envisioned, “and will have to make decisions about what it wants its future to be.” Special points for Mr. Blinken’s use of “all of a sudden.” Presto, peace. Tehran wants to erase the Jewish state from the map, but the main obstacle Mr. Blinken sees to his plan is Israel. “When in previous times we came close to resolving the Palestinian question, getting a Palestinian state,” he said, “I think the view then—Camp David, other places—was that Arab leaders, Palestinian leaders, had not done enough to prepare their own people for this profound change. I think a challenge now, a question now: Is Israeli society prepared to engage on these questions? Is it prepared to have that mind-set?” In other words, the Oct. 7 attack and broad Palestinian support for it have demonstrated that Palestinians now want to make a deal for peaceful coexistence. Why in the world would Israel hesitate? If this sounds bizarre, recall that it was the liberal internationalist reflex throughout the 1990s. The more Palestinian terrorism Yasser Arafat unleashed, the more Israelis had to prove they were committed to peace. Senior Biden Administration officials leaked to NBC this week that Mr. Blinken is ready to revive the peace process: Arab states will help rebuild a Palestinian-run Gaza if Israel signs on to a new pathway to a Palestinian state. “Blinken told [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu that ultimately there is no military solution to Hamas,” NBC reports. Unwarranted defeatism about the war gives way to untethered optimism in diplomacy. Apparently, political concessions to terrorism are the only way forward. On Thursday Mr. Netanyahu confirmed that he told the U.S. there’s no chance of that. “In all the territory we evacuate, we get terror,” he said. Accordingly, NBC reports, “three senior U.S. officials say the Biden administration is looking past Netanyahu to try to achieve its goals in the region.” But by pushing a Palestinian state at this unpromising juncture, at the summit of Palestinian violence and rejectionism, the Administration is handing Mr. Netanyahu a lifeline. He gets to stand up to President Biden on behalf of the overwhelming majority of Israelis. Take it from Israeli President Isaac Herzog, a Netanyahu opponent and former Labor Party leader. “If you ask an average Israeli now,” he said Thursday, “nobody in his right mind is willing now to think about what will be the solution of the peace agreements.” Israelis are focused on winning a war the Palestinians started, and the extent of Israel’s recent advance in southern and central Gaza is underappreciated. In the Biden Administration’s eagerness for a foreign-policy success, it shouldn’t forget that the more thorough the Hamas defeat, the more room Israel will have to compromise. Victory would do the most to pave the way to peace. Secretary of State Antony Blinken laid out in Davos on Wednesday the perennially failing solution to Middle East problems. “If you take a regional approach, and if you pursue integration with security, with a Palestinian state, all of a sudden you have a region that’s come together in ways that answer the most profound questions that Israel has tried to answer for years,” he said. “Iran is suddenly isolated,” he envisioned, “and will have to make decisions about what it wants its future to be.” Special points for Mr. Blinken’s use of “all of a sudden.” Presto, peace. Tehran wants to erase the Jewish state from the map, but the main obstacle Mr. Blinken sees to his plan is Israel. “When in previous times we came close to resolving the Palestinian question, getting a Palestinian state,” he said, “I think the view then—Camp David, other places—was that Arab leaders, Palestinian leaders, had not done enough to prepare their own people for this profound change. I think a challenge now, a question now: Is Israeli society prepared to engage on these questions? Is it prepared to have that mind-set?” In other words, the Oct. 7 attack and broad Palestinian support for it have demonstrated that Palestinians now want to make a deal for peaceful coexistence. Why in the world would Israel hesitate? If this sounds bizarre, recall that it was the liberal internationalist reflex throughout the 1990s. The more Palestinian terrorism Yasser Arafat unleashed, the more Israelis had to prove they were committed to peace. Senior Biden Administration officials leaked to NBC this week that Mr. Blinken is ready to revive the peace process: Arab states will help rebuild a Palestinian-run Gaza if Israel signs on to a new pathway to a Palestinian state. “Blinken told [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu that ultimately there is no military solution to Hamas,” NBC reports. Unwarranted defeatism about the war gives way to untethered optimism in diplomacy. Apparently, political concessions to terrorism are the only way forward. On Thursday Mr. Netanyahu confirmed that he told the U.S. there’s no chance of that. “In all the territory we evacuate, we get terror,” he said. Accordingly, NBC reports, “three senior U.S. officials say the Biden administration is looking past Netanyahu to try to achieve its goals in the region.” But by pushing a Palestinian state at this unpromising juncture, at the summit of Palestinian violence and rejectionism, the Administration is handing Mr. Netanyahu a lifeline. He gets to stand up to President Biden on behalf of the overwhelming majority of Israelis. Take it from Israeli President Isaac Herzog, a Netanyahu opponent and former Labor Party leader. “If you ask an average Israeli now,” he said Thursday, “nobody in his right mind is willing now to think about what will be the solution of the peace agreements.” Israelis are focused on winning a war the Palestinians started, and the extent of Israel’s recent advance in southern and central Gaza is underappreciated. In the Biden Administration’s eagerness for a foreign-policy success, it shouldn’t forget that the more thorough the Hamas defeat, the more room Israel will have to compromise. Victory would do the most to pave the way to peace. Finally: Blinken was willing to sell his integrity, what little he has, so murderous Palestinians can get bonus payments. +++ Palestinian ‘Pay for Slay’ Keeps GrowingBy The Editorial BoardBlinken touts reform while the PA adds more terrorists to the payroll.Recently we told you that Palestinian Authority law requires the Oct. 7 terrorists to be compensated financially for a massacre well done. Now the PA has taken steps toward making that a reality. It acted just in time for Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to Ramallah. Last Wednesday’s Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, the PA’s newspaper and mouthpiece, announced 23,210 additional “martyrs,” using the Hamas-supplied Gaza casualty figure that includes every dead Hamas terrorist. The PA pays a one-time lump sum plus a monthly stipend for life to the families of any “martyr” killed attacking Israel or in a confrontation with Israel. The PA also recognized 3,550 new prisoners held by Israel since Oct. 7. Most were arrested in West Bank counterterrorism raids, though 661 are Hamas terrorists from Gaza. They, too, will receive PA salaries, which rise over time such that the most gruesome crimes yield the biggest payments. This practice has helped earn the program its “pay for slay” moniker. Itamar Marcus of Palestinian Media Watch explains that “the PA does not differentiate between Hamas terrorists who committed atrocities after invading Israel on Oct. 7, the Hamas terrorists killed by Israel in the ensuing war, and civilian non-combatants killed in the Gaza Strip while being used as human shields by Hamas.” All are treated as heroic martyrs to be compensated by the PA, whose activities are subsidized with Western aid. Meanwhile, in Ramallah, Mr. Blinken said that PA leader Mahmoud Abbas is “committed” to reform. Where’s the evidence? His four-year term is stretching into its 20th year. Even as the PA complains of a budget crunch, it is readying to move from glorifying the Oct. 7 attack to compensating its participants. Why, again, does President Biden insist Israel hand over postwar Gaza to this group? Mr. Blinken also talks prematurely of giving it a state. No wonder the PA sees little reason to change. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++  Fitton is The SIRC Lincoln Dinner, Feb 8, guest speaker. +++ Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton talks with the "Just the News, No Noise" about Joe Biden’s use of an email alias to correspond with family members, including his son Hunter. Why Did Hunter Give Up Secret Service Protection?  Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton appeared on "Gateway Pundit" to discuss then-Vice President Joe Biden’s use of an email alias to correspond with family members, including son Hunter and brother James. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ |
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