E1: Just Another Pretext to Discriminate Against Jews

 (With thanks to Honest Reporting)

Yesterday, UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband announced an import ban on products from Israeli settlements in the West Bank and also deemed the “occupation” to be illegal, along with potential sanctions against British companies for various offenses deemed helpful to any Jewish presence in the regions of Judea and Samaria as well as “East” Jerusalem.

Several weeks prior, Israel issued a construction tender for a small piece of land between Jerusalem and Maaleh Adumim known as E1. E1 has been in the news off and on for over 30 years, with the first plans to build there coming from the government of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, hardly a right-wing extremist. There is nearly unanimous consensus, in Israel and internationally, that E1 will remain part of Israel in any conceivable final status agreement with the Palestinians.

Despite these facts, the UK did what they and others have done in the past. They seized on a bureaucratic housing announcement, in an area nobody believes will ever be part of any country but Israel, to condemn the Jewish state. The claim most often associated with E1, an area of only 4.5 square miles, is that building there by Israel will cut the West Bank in two, thus making any possible future Palestinian state unviable.

The reason given for this assessment, as shown in the map below, is that the distance from Maaleh Adumim to the Dead Sea is only about 10 miles. Putting aside for a moment whether a Palestinian state between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean is viable in any case, or if it is truly the Palestinian end goal, how do the British and others who advocate so vociferously for a Palestinian state along the 1948 armistice lines make the claim that a state just 10 miles wide lacks viability when it is exactly what they demand Israel accept?

The UK is saying that it is infeasible to have a viable country with a narrowest point very similar to an area where millions of Israelis live. In other words it is OK for Israelis living in Netanya but not Palestinians living near Maale Adumim!

This makes something abundantly clear: E1, as always, is just a pretext.

The UK government has its reasons, foreign and domestic, for why it believes it is in its interest to demand a judenrein Palestinian state, for why it believes Jews, and Jews alone, should be banned from living in a large part of the land of Israel, including our capital city, because we are Jews. Foreign Secretary Miliband listed some in his announcement on social media yesterday. Most were even more unconvincing, dishonest and inflammatory than any argument around E1.

Whatever the real reasons are, they have nothing to do with E1. E1 is simply their excuse to take discriminatory action against the State of Israel and the Jewish people.

Is the UK in Free Fall or Not?

 

How does the US transport oil through Hormuz?

 At least 25 million barrels of oil were transferred yesterday 25^th August from small tankers to supertankers, after crossing Hormuz via the southern route near the coast of Oman. This is in excess of the average 20 million barrels shipped prior to the outbreak of war with Iran

Small tankers, moving without signaling, cross Hormuz—without risking that expensive supertankers will be hit by Iranian launches—and then transfer their oil "back to back" to supertankers that are outside the range of Iranian danger, and from there they continue outward to the world.

The oil is transferred from all the Gulf states except from Iran.

This is how the US reduces the risk of damage to the large oil tankers and minimizes exposure to harm from Iranian launches.

 

Meanwhile Qatari liquefied gas exports have crashed by 96% over the past six months following the war with Iran

During these months, Qatar exported only 18 shipments of liquefied gas compared to 509 shipments in the same period last year.

According to Reuters, Qatar lost $24 billion in liquefied gas revenues. The increase in American liquefied gas exports strengthened at Qatar's expense and covered part of the global demand; however, Europe's gas reserves are depleted—which could lead to a rise in gas prices.

Summary:

1. Because of Iran, Qatar lost $24 billion in revenue (less money for incitement against Israel, which is already reflected in a significant reduction of Qatari budgets).

2. The US is selling more gas.

3. Europeans are going to pay dearly for gas this coming winter.

Palestinians Poison Sheep & No One Reports It

 

I'll spare you the gruesome video of the dying sheep. It happened yesterday.

Arabs from a village near Binyamin scattered poisoned dates and bread 
in a farm's grazing land. Not the first time, the ninth in two years.

Last time it was water troughs, oil mixed in so the poison would float and get scooped up in the first bucket. This time, dates and bread laced with poison and left where the sheep would find them first. They found them first. Convulsions, foam at the mouth. A shepherd found the rest.

I went looking for who else was covering it. The UN report: doesn't exist. The BBC piece: doesn't exist. The AFP wire: doesn't exist.

What I found instead was a headline from the last time this happened, when Jewish-owned sheep died the same way: "Israeli Colonizers Poison Sheep." Ours. Not theirs. Ours, with the victim and the perpetrator swapped, printed and shared and believed.

So let me save everyone the suspense. There will be no UN OCHA report on the bread, no BBC segment on the dates and Btselem and Yeah Din will not cover any if this.

The people who merely yawned when Jewish babies were stabbed in their cots will not be losing sleep over the sheep

GAZA HUMANITARIAN AID SINCE CEASEFIRE

 According to the IDF, more than 2 million tons of food have entered Gaza since the October 2025 ceasefire. Around 600 trucks enter daily, with 70–80% carrying food, while food prices have fallen by approximately 72%. Forty-one internationally operated bakeries are producing more than 3 million pita breads per day alongside dozens of local bakeries. (Hamas still attempting to claim taxes on products entering Gaza)

The IDF says Gaza is receiving more than 70,000 cubic meters of water daily, exceeding 60 liters per person. The water system is supported by roughly 250 water trucks, 2,800 distribution points, four operational pipelines, desalination facilities and dozens of wells. 

More than 78,000 tons of hygiene and sanitation supplies have also entered.

More than 21,000 tons of medical equipment have entered since the ceasefire, while hospital-bed capacity has increased by more than 50%. Eight permanent hospitals, four field hospitals and four medical centers are operating in northern Gaza, while two permanent hospitals and eight field hospitals are operating in the south.

The IDF says the volume of aid entering Gaza exceeds humanitarian requirements assessed by UN agencies and international organizations. It accuses Hamas of interfering with humanitarian operations, exploiting civilian infrastructure and distribution mechanisms, and attempting to smuggle prohibited items under cover of aid. Israel says it will continue coordinating with international partners to expand the humanitarian response while preventing Hamas from exploiting it.

IDF Killing Gazan Children

The military wing of Hamas confirms that it is recruiting 15-year-old children 

to fight against the IDF

The RPG children in Gaza: In recent days, the military wing of Hamas has published  a video "in honor" of "the martyr" Zahib Labad, a military operative in its ranks who, already at the age of 15, served in a military role in the fighting: he planted explosives and fired an RPG at IDF forces.

After he was killed in combat against the IDF, he was listed by the Palestinian 

Ministry of Health in Gaza as a "child killed by Israel."

"Gazan child."

When you are told that Israel kills children in Gaza, show them Zahib Labad.

 

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