Arab Bus Driver in Tel Aviv

 An Arab Muslim woman works as a bus driver in Tel Aviv. She earns around $3K monthly, says she is treated with respect, and that the Israeli company considers her part of the family. Now try to imagine a Jewish woman working as a bus driver in Cairo.

Answering the Libels (Part 2)

 The Ethnostate Libel

This libel insists that Israel is an "ethnostate," defined by racial exclusion and supremacist intent — a Jewish version of apartheid South Africa or Nazi Germany. It ignores that Israel is a civic democracy, home to over two million Arab citizens, alongside Druze, Circassians, and others, with full voting rights, legal protections, and representation in parliament, the courts, and civil society.

Like all nation-states, Israel prioritizes the self-determination of a particular people — in this case, the Jews — but it does so without negating the civil equality of others. The libel collapses the distinction between ethnic self-determination and racial supremacy, and in doing so, it reframes the very concept of a Jewish state as inherently immoral. Its aim is not critique — it is the delegitimization of Jewish nationhood.

The Apartheid Libel

The apartheid libel accuses Israel of operating a racialized system of segregation akin to white South Africa, with Jews as the ruling caste and Palestinians as a disenfranchised underclass. This comparison is both false and inflammatory. It ignores the distinction between Arab citizens of Israel — who enjoy equal legal rights — and Palestinians in disputed or occupied territories, whose political status is shaped by a long, complex conflict with competing national claims.

This libel treats security infrastructure (checkpoints, the security barrier, restricted zones) — built in response to decades of terrorism — as evidence of racial hatred rather than defense policy. It inverts causality, blaming Jewish fear and survival mechanisms as the origin of Palestinian suffering, and renders Jewish self-defense as aggression. The apartheid libel is not aimed at reform. It is aimed at erasure.

Learn more:

§  The Apartheid Myth – HonestReporting
A short but powerful resource breaking down why the term “apartheid” is false and misleading when applied to Israel.

§  Apartheid and the Media’s Complicity in a Modern-Day Libel – CAMERA
Examines how major news outlets amplify the apartheid narrative without context or fact-checking, effectively spreading a modern blood libel. 

The Organ & Skin Theft Libel

This libel revives perhaps the oldest and most lurid antisemitic myth: that Jews murder the innocent and profit from their bodies. Modernized for today’s conflicts, it accuses Israeli forces of harvesting Palestinian organs, trafficking body parts, or — in its most grotesque version — tanning Palestinian skin. These claims, while entirely baseless, are circulated with solemn intensity by academics, activists, and state actors.

These narratives are not just lies — they are ritualistic reenactments of ancient fantasies. They reduce Jews to archetypes of demonic cruelty. And they serve one purpose: to create an emotional environment in which Jewish lives are not only unworthy of empathy, but deserving of vengeance.

Learn more:

§  The Blood Libel That Won’t Quit – Tablet Magazine
A deep dive into the history and durability of the organ theft accusation, tracing its evolution from the 2009 Aftonbladet scandal to its viral afterlife on social media.

Answering the Libels (Part 1)

 The Colonizer Libel

The colonizer libel asserts that Zionism is a form of settler-colonialism — that Jews are foreign invaders in a land to which they have no organic connection. This libel erases the continuous, indigenous presence of Jews in the Land of Israel for millennia, the historic trauma of exile, and the deeply rooted religious and cultural longing for return that has animated Jewish thought, prayer, and life for two thousand years.

By recasting Jews as European colonists rather than a dispersed people reclaiming ancestral land, this libel turns Jewish history inside out. It treats the Jewish return not as decolonization — which it is — but as occupation. The goal is not to critique Israeli policy; it is to de-indigenize Jews, severing their historical legitimacy and recasting their very presence as a crime.

Learn more:

a)     Keep Digging: How Archaeology Debunks the “Israel as Colonizer” Libel – HonestReporting

b)    UN Called Out: Natasha Hausdorff Exposes Libel Against Israel – YouTube

The Genocide Libel

The genocide libel accuses Israel of systematically attempting to annihilate the Palestinian people — a charge that is grotesquely false and historically obscene. It exploits the vocabulary of Jewish trauma to reverse moral polarity, casting Jews as Nazis and Palestinian violence as resistance. This libel is not grounded in demography, fact, or law — Palestinian populations in both Gaza and the West Bank have steadily grown. It is grounded in the deliberate inversion of Holocaust memory.

By accusing Jews of genocide, the libel does two things: it erases Jewish victimhood (including ongoing Israeli civilian deaths) and reimagines Jewish survival as mass murder. It is an emotional and symbolic assault designed to place Israel — and by extension, Zionism — beyond the bounds of redemption, diplomacy, or peace.

Learn more:

§  Isn’t There a Genocide of Palestinians? – Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA)

§  Amnesty’s Disgraceful Genocide Slander Against Israel Disqualifies the Group – JNS

 Hamas’ October 7th Genocide: Legal Analysis and the Weaponisation of Reverse Accusations – A  Study in Modern Genocide Recognition and Denial

Syrian Terror Threats

Israel is not heading toward peace with Syria as hostile forces, among them the Iran-backed Houthis, are planning a ground incursion into communities in the Golan Heights, Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Wednesday, speaking in a closed meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.

The minister noted that the defense establishment is taking such a scenario into account in its plans to protect Israel’s north, according to Israel’s public broadcaster Kan.

He further stressed that Israel is watchful over the situation of the Druze in Syria.

“The [Israel Defense Forces] have a prepared plan; and if raids on the Druze Mountain happen again, we will intervene, including blocking the border,” he said, apparently referring to the dozens of Israeli Druze who in July crossed the border into Syria at Majdal Shams to aide their relatives who clashed in heavy fighting with Sunni Bedouin and regime forces.

Kan also reported on Wednesday that the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas terrorist organizations were bolstering their “military” forces in Palestinian camps in Syria, including near Damascus, with the cooperation of the regime.

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa is not necessarily involved in this development, but other elements within the regime are fully aware of it, according to the report.

Islamic Jihad denied the report.

Kan cited a Syrian security official who said that “If there are things that bother Israel regarding the Palestinian organizations, then they should update the Syrian side, and it will be handled.”

The official added that there is no intention whatsoever to allow military actions against Israel, and any launch toward it harms the Syrian state, which is trying to rebuild itself.

The Eighth Front – How BOTs Acted to Influence the Israeli Public with Hamas Messages.

The Great BOT Purge on the X Network (Twitter): Who Is Behind Them.

A BOT is an automated software program designed to perform repetitive tasks over a network, often imitating or replacing human actions, but at a much faster speed and higher accuracy. These programs can be helpful, but they can also be malicious, used for tasks like sending spam or launching denial-of-service attacks.  

BOTs run independently based on a specific set of instructions, without needing a person to manually start them each time.

They are ideal for performing tasks that would be tedious or time-consuming for humans, such as communicating with users.

Today, after the hostage-release deal is behind us and the X network (formerly Twitter) removed overnight a wide range of accounts that were impersonating an individual in one simple and ingenious move of revealing the operator’s location such as Qatar, Turkey, Bangladesh, Pakistan and others, none of whom were in Gaza as they purported to have one believe.

The public in Israel, were a target for foreign attacks - the eighth front in its full force!

The campaign strategy is to flood messages on social networks on a large scale, utilizing the Hamas propaganda messages. High-quality messages formulated by the management layer of initiator, with a deep understanding of Israeli society, with emphasis on a very rapid response to current events, using well-crafted profiles that appear to be Israeli or Gazans but are not.

a. Many groups of user-operators participated in running the network uploaded thousands of tweets on to X (Twitter):

b. By adopting a political identity, the user identified the issue of the hostages and opposition to the government as points through which there is potential to bring the war to an end and lead the campaign to ‘adopt’ an Israeli opposition political identity.

d. Almost all the fake profiles of the campaign adopted the identity of left-wingers, opponents of the government, and supporters of a deal for the release of the hostages.

e. The campaign’s messages were formulated in an attempt to align with the messages of the hostage families and the opposition in Israel, in order to create identification and cause them to share the messages.

f. Comprehensive monitoring of the campaign revealed that there is no activity in it to spread right-wing messages or support for the government.

g. The initiators studied Israeli society - what its values are, who the tribes composing it are, and who its key figures are - in order to find the cracks through which they could promote messages that would tilt Israeli public opinion toward supporting a halt to the war.

h. The network operated to publish statements of the spokesperson of Hamas’s military wing, despite Israeli censorship, in order to bring the harsh content to the knowledge of the public in Israel and assist Hamas’s influence and psychological warfare efforts and tilt Israeli public opinion.

 

 

Abuse of Palestinian Children

 

Tax money has gone to educate children how to become
 murderers and martyrs. How nice. Also think it's
 child abuse of course. Their lives could have been 
great, instead they got Hamas.

Why Most Arab Countries Do Not Want Palestinians

     (With thanks to Khalid Abu Tomeh)

Countries such as Jordan and Lebanon had extremely negative experiences with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and other Palestinian armed groups who were trying to overthrow or destabilize their governments (Black September in Jordan in 1970 and the Lebanese Civil War 1975-1990). Arab leaders often make strong statements, issue condemnations of Israeli actions, and attend high-profile summits that express solidarity with the Palestinians. Their gestures, however -- apart from Iran and Qatar -- are often not matched by decisive steps... The refusal of the Arab countries to absorb Palestinians (including the ex-prisoners) is... proof why it would be a mistake to rely on the Arab countries to help rebuild and demilitarize the Gaza Strip. US President Donald J. Trump, who seems to be pinning his hopes on the Arabs to assist in funding and establishing a new government as well as deploying an international force in the Gaza Strip, needs to bear in mind that most of the Arab heads of state and regimes actually do not care about the Palestinians. By now, most Arab heads of state see Palestinians as having caused immeasurable harm wherever they went and as having rewarded with treachery whoever stretched out a hand to them. For the Arab leaders, the Palestinian issue is just another tool to advance their own political objectives, shore up their own popular support at home, or unite various factions against a common enemy.

Most Arab leaders, in short, will continue to pretend that they are eager to help the US administration with its efforts to implement Trump's 20-point plan for peace in the Gaza Strip. In reality, the Arabs will continue to do their utmost to stay away from the Palestinians -- apart from helping them to regroup in the Gaza Strip

Should Israel Give in and Pay Up Again

Reporter עמית סגל Amit Segal, just before Shabbat, about Israel’s fundamental change of attitude towards its enemies since October 7th - no more accomodation; it's up to the world to appease US. (This translated from the Hebrew.)

"There’s been a sudden reversal: instead of Israel begging for information, offering concessions, and shouting “everyone now!” regarding the hostages in Gaza, Hamas is the one demanding proof of life and the immediate release of its members, who are of course vile murderers, not innocent civilians. (this referring to the terrorists trapped in a tunnel and whom Israel insisted must be disarmed before being sent back to the hands of Hamas) The real number is apparently below 200—much lower—and life in tunnels under the boots of the IDF is not exactly a recipe for longevity.

The Rafah story is a critical test—a turning point in Israel’s relationship with its enemies. For decades, Israel normalized a protection racket culture—paying the bully so that he won’t bully. Hamas and Hezbollah invented countless forms of extortion—border marches, balloons, Qassam rockets, tunnels, tents—and Israel was willing to pay dearly, just for quiet.

That equation flipped on October 7. From that moment, and for the past two years, Israel was the one saying, “hold me back.” We remember the campaigns: “just not a ground maneuver,” then “just don’t enter Lebanon,” “just don’t strike the Dahieh,” and “just don’t enter Rafah.” Every time Israel initiated an attack, the world had to pay to make it stop.

So it was too with the strike in Qatar. The mediators, Hamas, and the entire axis were sure Israel had lost control. They were ready to pressure Hamas in ways they hadn’t for two years—just to calm down “the Zionists.” That’s how the deal bringing 20 hostages home was cooked up.

Now, following the ceasefire, the whole world is trying to push Israel back into a defensive stance. The same country that once adopted a doctrine of keeping wars within its borders fought on seven fronts simultaneously. The world doesn’t like that. Jews, after all, are expected to defend, not attack.

And so we arrive at the 200 terrorists in Rafah. The mediators demand Israel releases them in exchange for quiet, for some grand peace plan. And this is the test: will Israel revert to what it was two years ago, or has the lesson been learned? Will the world pay Israel to calm down, or will it be the other way around?"

How Anti-Israel Falsehoods Go Viral – and Stay There

 For full article go to https://honestreporting.com/3-lies-in-1-week-how-anti-israel-falsehoods-go-viral-and-stay-there/

CNN, ABC News, and the BBC.

Three of the largest and most influential news organizations in the world – with a combined reach in the hundreds of millions across television, radio, and digital platforms – and a responsibility to match. When outlets of that size make mistakes, it doesn’t just distort a single news cycle; it brainwashes public understanding of an entire conflict.

Within the span of a single week, all three organizations published or aired egregious, deeply consequential errors. Honest Reporting has exposed throughout the war: misinformation travels at full speed, while corrections limp in far too late – if they actually arrive at all.

This is not an isolated problem. It is a cumulative one. After two years of audiences being bombarded with misleading reports, mistranslations, euphemisms, and fabrications, these mid-October errors offer indicate damage done – and why media accountability remains essential. 

The Three Mistakes – and What They Reveal

1. CNN: Amanpour Makes Light of Hostage Torture

On October 13, CNN’s chief international anchor Christiane Amanpour claimed Israeli hostages had “probably been treated better than the average Gazan,” describing them as “pawns” Hamas had an incentive to care for. Honest Reporting exposed the comment, prompting widespread outrage.

Amanpour later issued an on-air apology, admitting her remarks were “insensitive and wrong” after learning the hostages had reported being starved, electrocuted, held in chains and cages underground, forbidden from crying, and forced to dig their own graves.

This was not a slip of the tongue. It was a worldview – one that reflexively downplays Israeli suffering even in moments where facts should be indisputable.

2. ABC News: Terrorist Given a Hero’s Edit

That same week, ABC News aired footage presenting a Hamas operative as a heroic rescuer during the ceasefire, without identifying him as a member of a U.S.-designated terror  group.

Honest Reporting revealed the man’s affiliations and role in Hamas terrorism. ABC has not used him in any subsequent reporting since.

Sources tell us this story was filed outside ABC News’ normal editorial process and was produced solely by a Gaza-based cameraman – with no ABC reporter involved.

This was more than a lapse in judgment. It was a breakdown in due diligence: allowing material sourced entirely inside Hamas-controlled territory to transform a terrorist into a supposed rescuer – and broadcasting it to millions. This is a fundamental failure to verify by ABC News.

3. BBC News: Calling Prisoner Releases a “Hostage Exchange”

Also on October 13, the BBC described the release of Israeli hostages – kidnapped civilians held underground for two years – as part of a “hostage exchange” with Palestinian prisoners.

This false equivalence has become a persistent media trope, flattening the distinction between abducting civilians and incarcerating individuals accused and convicted of violent crimes.

The BBC did not issue a clarification. Instead, the journalist who wrote it later insisted the phrasing was not meant to equate Israeli hostages with Palestinian prisoners.

The Truth These Three Incidents Reveal

These three errors did not happen in a vacuum.

They are part of the same ecosystem of misreporting that has shaped public perception since October 7, 2023. In the fog of war – and the political pressure that follows – legacy news organizations have repeatedly rushed out unverified claims, adopted activist language, platformed extremists, and framed Israeli self-defense as aggression.

Corrections, if they appear at all, are muted, delayed, and reach only a fraction of the audience. 

The result?

Two years of global opinion shaped not by facts, but by a steady stream of skewed, inaccurate, and sometimes, outright false reporting. The mid-October ceasefire week is not an outlier but a case study, a compressed timeline showing just how quickly anti-Israel misinformation can spread, embed, and harden into “truth.”

And if three such egregious mistakes can appear in a single week – from three of the world’s most influential newsrooms – it gives a sense of what Honest Reporting has been up against for the past two years. This is the scale of the problem: tens of millions of people encountering distortions in real time, while corrections – if they appear at all – arrive quietly, too late to matter.

Because if that week in October proved anything, it’s that misinformation about Israel isn’t by chance. It’s systemic. It’s influential.

And unless challenged, it becomes the story.

The North Is at Risk of Flaring Up

 (With thanks to Amit Segal)

 It’s Monday, November 17, and what does Benjamin Netanyahu cancelling his Wednesday testimony in his criminal trial for a “security reason” have to do with the north flaring up? Let’s break it down.

 With reports flowing about money and weaponry being smuggled into Lebanon, and the rate of IDF strikes intercepting these deliveries increasing, Israeli security officials are concerned that the northern border is moving worryingly close to another outbreak of violence.

 Don’t forget: two weeks ago, I wrote that foreign intelligence officials believe Hezbollah has partially reestablished its smuggling route—and is doing so at a pace the Lebanese military cannot compete with.

 But after receiving such a beating at the hands of Israel, and after the fall of the Assad regime in Syria cut off a vital supply route, many of you were probably wondering how Hezbollah is already rearming itself. Well, thanks to Ynet’s Ron Crissy, we now have a partial answer.

 “After air and land routes were shut and senior Quds Force operatives were killed,” Crissy wrote, “Iran and Hezbollah rebuilt a smuggling system relying on third countries, maritime routes and money-exchange networks, transferring arms and hundreds of millions of dollars.”

 Indeed, since the beginning of 2025, Iran has sent around one billion dollars to Hezbollah, according to the U.S. Treasury, primarily “through money-exchange agencies and cash-based businesses, using legitimate financial mechanisms to disguise its origin and destination,” Crissy explained.

 But what about Syria? “They shifted smuggling networks to Turkey and Iraq [and] made greater use of maritime routes,” according to Crissy, who noted that Iran and Hezbollah have even changed the actual materials they are smuggling: instead of bringing weapons into Lebanon, the Iranian proxy is smuggling components in pieces and reassembling them inside Lebanon.

 Why? According to the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, Crissy wrote, “the shift from ‘weapons transport’ to ‘independent production capability’ inside Lebanon allows Hezbollah to rely less on vulnerable supply lines and more on local manufacturing based on Iranian know-how, parts and technology.”

 Ok, so let’s put this all together. Hezbollah is rearming; the Lebanese military is failing—or refusing—to disarm it; Washington is threatening “to leave Beirut to its fate” if it continuously fails to dismantle Hezbollah; Israel is increasing its strikes on Hezbollah smuggling missions; the IDF is on heightened alert in the north; and now, Israel’s prime minister has cancelled his upcoming testimony for a “security reason.”

 Putting aside the absurdity that, in order to get out of court, Netanyahu has to publicly announce to Israel’s enemies that there are critical security developments in the offing, one can’t help but wonder: what does Jerusalem have in store for Lebanon?

THE ILLUSION OF PALESTINIAN PEACE

 (written by Fiamma Nirenstein)

The orgy of blood on Oct. 7, 2023, and everything that followed should have inspired a dream of peace. For anyone with a conscience, the horror would be enough to say: “Never again.”

Yet that isn’t what happened. When you ask Israelis how they are, their automatic “Fine, thank you” is no longer true; it’s merely a social convention. Their souls remain shaken.

But across the divide, in the Palestinian territories, the picture is far more disturbing. According to a recent survey by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, 59% of Palestinians living under the Palestinian Authority—that is, in Judea and Samaria—believe that the decision to carry out the Oct. 7 massacre was “correct.” In Gaza, 44% agreed.

Even more shocking, 54% blame Israel for Palestinian suffering, while only 14% blame Hamas. And so, we must ask: what peace are we talking about? The one preached endlessly by the U.N., by Europe, and by French President Emmanuel Macron — “two states for two peoples”? Not only does it lack realism; a majority of Palestinians reject it outright.

The same survey shows that 40% of Palestinians believe an independent state must come through armed struggle, not negotiation; in Gaza, 35% say the same. These are not marginal numbers—they represent a society still enthralled by the myth of “resistance,” not the idea of coexistence.

As Israeli journalist Amit Segal has noted, Shany Mor’s essay “Ecstasy and Amnesia” explains this phenomenon well: the intoxication of violence, the inability of parts of the Islamic world—and the Palestinian one in particular—to separate history from religious emotion.

The “ecstasy” of jihad was visible on Oct. 7, in videos of young men calling their parents to boast about killing Jews with their own hands, and in the mobs cheering as kidnapped Israeli girls were paraded through Gaza’s streets.

Even academics in the West, such as Cornell’s Russell Rickford, revealed the same moral sickness when he called the massacre “exhilarating.”

Arab–Palestinian wars have always followed this script: an initial eruption of homicidal and suicidal ecstasy, followed by crushing defeat—the War of Independence (1948), the Six Day War (1967), the Intifadas, and now the war of Oct. 7. Yet from each failure, what remains in memory is the thrill of violence, not the price of it.

 

The BBC has failed, UK government should demand full enquiry

 A leaked BBC dossier acknowledges serious editorial failures in BBC Arabic coverage, confirming and overlapping with years of research by the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting & Analysis (CAMERA).

The 19-page internal memo by Michael Prescott, a former adviser to the BBC’s Editorial Guidelines and Standards Committee, accuses BBC Arabic of systemic anti-Israel bias, platforming extremist voices, and amplifying Hamas propaganda. The memo was reported by The Telegraph yesterday.

Prescott’s findings mirror and expand upon documentation first publicly exposed by CAMERA UK and CAMERA Arabic researchers throughout the two years that followed October 7, 2023. See full report at https://www.camera.org/article/press-release-cameras-complaints-of-bbc-bias-vindicated-by-bombshell-dossier/

These new revelations follow calls by Leader of the Opposition Kemi Badenoch MP for wholesale reform of BBC Arabic after the publication of CAMERA’s widely-read March 2025 report examining the network’s promotion of extremist voices, whitewashing of violence against Israelis, and failure to enforce editorial standards over the past 5 years.

We are satisfied that people close to the BBC seem to be paying attention to our criticism and hope this will lead to real change in the corporation’s coverage of Israel and the Middle East after decades of failures, but it would be unwise to get our hopes up just yet.”

The mounting body of evidence against BBC Arabic is something we have been warning the BBC about for years, but management repeatedly chose to ignore it. They have failed to act against journalists who publicly celebrated the October 7 attacks and even assigned some of these individuals to cover Israel and Gaza.

CAMERA calls on the BBC Board to launch a full and transparent inquiry and to ensure that the BBC’s international services finally meet the impartiality standards required of a publicly funded broadcaster. We also call on the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, which co-funds BBC Arabic, to do likewise. 

Israel to Manufacture its Own Aircraft Engines?

 ( With thanks to imra.org.il  )

With the success of the Muslim Brotherhood getting their candidate for the New York mayor elected, many analysts are suggesting that after Trump, the White House could very well be occupied in the future by Democratic leaders who opt to use their authority to initiate an arms boycott against the Jewish State. 

We Israelis cannot plan our future based on best case assumptions. 

As we race to develop supply boycott resistant military capabilities it is imperative that this portfolio includes jet engines for Israeli made airframes.

And while Beit Shemesh Engines Ltd. (BSEL)  is world class for engine parts manufacture, we don't need to do this alone. 

India would be a natural partner.

We could collaborate in an arrangement which shares the costs of R&D and tooling with India ultimately manufacturing the bulk of the engines (and thus bearing most of the costs)  while BSEL also makes complete engines in Israel.

That way if for some unforeseen reason in the future, India boycott us, we can rely on our in-house production. 

This isn't going to be easy. We can very well appreciate that the shift to "Made In Israel" while we still benefit from American largess in the form of US funded "Made in the USA" equipment is difficult.

But we cannot afford to ignore the very real potential changes which may take place in America in the years to come.

 

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Europe has Fallen, USA not Far Behind

 The Muslim Brotherhood is no longer just a Middle East threat;

it’s Europe’s nightmare and America’s next invasion.

Riots. No-go zones. Anti-Semitic terror. Political infiltration.

The Brotherhood’s goal is simple: replace Western

democracy with Islamic rule, and they’re closer than you think.

How Hamas's Disinformation Deceived the International Media

 Exposed - how Hamas succeeded to deceive the international media

Palestinian Pulls Wool over European Eyes, ‘Pay-for-slay’ policy not over.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas had signed a decree in February canceling the program, an announcement which was met with widespread European approval.

However, The PA paid stipends to security prisoners and to families of “martyrs” at PA post offices on Saturday morning, despite publicly claiming to have ended the practice, according to a new report by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) director Itamar Marcus on Sunday.

“Yesterday, Saturday, Oct. 25, at 10:00 a.m., the PA Post Offices paid terrorists’ salaries and stipends to families of terrorist ‘Martyrs,’” Marcus wrote, adding that there was “no official announcement” and that payments were delayed so “everyone, even the terrorists’ families, would think that the program had ended.”

PMW published screenshots of social media conversations among recipients discussing the amounts deposited, including one exchange stating, “50% of the salaries and [those making less than 2,000 received] the full amount. FYI, the salary is for June.” PMW said the percentage matched the partial salaries the PA paid civil servants earlier this month due to its fiscal crisis.24:15

/The watchdog outlined a two-week timeline in which families of prisoners and those killed in attacks pressed the PA for updates, held small demonstrations in Ramallah on October 20, and were told informally by post-office staff that payments would be made on Saturday without an official statement. On the morning of October 25, local Telegram channels began reporting that “the salaries of the prisoners, the wounded, and the Martyrs have arrived at the post office,” and PMW said that payments proceeded “as usual” through the day.

PMW argued that the PA could not announce the transfers because it had assured donors it had ended so-called “pay for slay.” PA President Abbas signed a decree in February revoking the system of payments to families of prisoners and those killed or wounded in attacks, according to multiple reports at the time.

Europe 'welcomes the reforms'

European officials later welcomed what they described as reforms. In a September 25 communiqué, the French Foreign Ministry said, “We welcome the reforms already underway by the Palestinian Authority, including: the abrogation of the prisoners’ payment system, that is now effective.”

Yet again the PA manages to pull the wool over the eyes of the international community.

Hamas Pallywood Productions Produce a Body

 Hamas clearly staged a body “recovery” in Gaza yesterday: Eyewitness accounts from IDF reservists stationed in eastern Gaza City said Hamas operatives were seen digging in the area, then bringing a body from a nearby building, and burying it in a shallow pit. The group then reportedly called the Red Cross to observe as they “uncovered” the body, attempting to portray it as a genuine recovery.

Army Radio reported that the entire sequence was filmed by an Israeli military drone, though the IDF has not yet commented on the incident. Later that night, Hamas handed the body to the Red Cross, which transferred it to IDF troops in Gaza. The body was then taken to the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute in Tel Aviv for identification.

 After a dramatic night, Israeli authorities now believe that the body transferred by Hamas does not belong to one of the 13 fallen soldiers whose remains are still missing. The identification process continued under strict forensic review. When a body, belonging to Ofir Tzarfati, 27, was first recovered from Gaza, some remains were missing. Hamas has now handed over additional remains belonging to Ofir under the guise of them belonging to one of the 13 dead hostages still in Gaza.

When will President Trump realise that Hamas is making a mockery of the “ceasefire” deal.

Hamas has regained de facto control over the Strip

As most Israelis expected, the Trump deal has given Hamas the opportunity to regain control of the Gaza Strip. Israeli intelligence and security assessments indicate that Hamas has regained control of the Gaza Strip after the recent ceasefire and hostage deal was implemented. As per the agreement, Israeli troops withdrew from urban areas and suspended combat operations against the terror group.

Hamas has resumed many of its pre-October 7 governing functions, including collecting taxes from residents, operating municipal services, and violently suppressing any opposition to its rule, Hebrew-language Channel 13 reported.

Numerous videos emerging from Gaza show Hamas terrorists publicly executing and torturing members of local clans accused of collaborating with Israel or attempting to establish an alternative administration in the territory.

“Hamas operatives are on the ground, and naturally they’ll rule,” a Gaza resident using the pseudonym Salah told The Times of Israel. Salah added that most Gazans oppose Hamas’ rule but “feel there is a vacuum; there is no one to enter and replace them.”

Israeli diplomat Jeremy Issacharoff told ILTV that the United States is “very concerned” about Hamas’ delay in implementing Phase Two of the Trump-brokered ceasefire agreement, which requires the group to disarm and allow an alternative governing force to be established.

Hamas claims it does not know the whereabouts of the remaining 13 hostage bodies — including two foreign nationals and five IDF soldiers — but Israeli officials believe the terror group is strategically withholding the remains as a bargaining chip.

Returning all the bodies is a precondition for advancing to the next stage of the ceasefire deal.

Issacharoff said Hamas is using the time it claims to be searching for the bodies to strengthen its control over Gaza.

“I think the prime minister would want to see clear indications from America that she’s intending to pressure all the parties involved — including not just Hamas, but also Turkey and Qatar — in order to pressure Hamas more to complete the first phase of the withdrawal,” Issacharoff told ILTV.

Channel 14 reported that Israeli defense officials estimate Hamas still commands about 20,000 fighters and possesses hundreds of rockets. Despite two years of warfare, more than half of Hamas’ underground tunnel network is believed to remain intact.

Once again it appears that Israel is never allowed to win a war against Hamas. Any ceasefire is seen by Hamas as a "Hudna", a respite in order to rebuild and fight again in the future.

Military intelligence officials warned that Hamas has taken advantage of the truce to rebuild its capabilities in the Strip, reopening tunnel networks, restoring damaged weapons, recruiting new terrorists and reorganizing its leadership. The officials said these developments demonstrate that Hamas has no intention of disarming or relinquishing power.

Westerners help Hamas win the propaganda war

Tom Gross  25 October 2025.  For full article see https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-westerners-helping-hamas-win-the-propaganda-war/

After two years of war, and despite Israel’s many successes on the battlefield, Hamas can also claim a kind of victory – at least for now. The terror group has survived and is once again exerting control in the areas of Gaza under its authority. Public executions, whippings, stonings and kneecappings have returned. In the first five days of the ceasefire, Hamas executed at least 100 Gazans.

Hamas’s survival was achieved not only through its remaining fighters and its holding of hostages, but also thanks to a chorus of western apologists. A coalition of so-called progressives and professional activists has excused, rationalised and defended the group’s actions across universities and in newspaper editorials. The BBC, Sky, the Guardian, the FT and the New York Times have all parroted Hamas talking points.

Tales of impending famine in Gaza, for instance, were broadcast as fact, sourced from UN bureaucrats and ‘aid agencies’ with long records of anti-Israel bias and, in some cases, open sympathy for Hamas. This isn’t journalism: it’s agenda-driven activism disguised as news. What the BBC and others failed to grasp is that, for Hamas, the western media is the battlefields.

From the outset, even before Israeli troops had entered Gaza, Hamas’s operatives and sympathisers in the West were shouting about ‘genocide’ and ‘famine’. It was a propaganda trap – and the western media walked right into it.

Consider, for example, these headlines from the early weeks of the conflict in 2023:

11,15,30 October, 6 November: “Fuel in Gaza will run out in 48 hours”

The pattern speaks for itself. It’s been the same story with Gaza being ‘on the brink of famine’ for the past two years. This is how it works:

Step one: The Hamas ‘health ministry’ makes up a casualty number which could be debunked by the most cursory statistical analysis.

Step two: Aid organisations repeat the number without independent confirmation.

Step three: UN agencies in Gaza (some staffed by Hamas members) cite the aid organisations.

Step four: Media outlets quote the UN agencies.

Step five: Hamas’s supporters in the West claim the numbers are ‘UN verified’.

UN officials have also contributed to the fiction directly. In May, Tom Fletcher, a humanitarian coordinator for the organisation, told BBC Radio 4: ‘There are 14,000 babies that will die in the next 48 hours unless we can reach them.’ Almost no babies died as a result of the war in the following days. But that didn’t stop the BBC running the claim in bulletins and news outlets around the world repeating it, citing the BBC as a reliable source.

The Hamas narrative has been amplified, too, by disinformation campaigns driven by Iranian, Russian and Chinese state-linked bots on social media, which have exploited Gaza as a means of destabilising western societies. These regimes understood how easily such narratives could tap into a pre-existing willingness among many in the West to believe anti-Semitic libels.

Today, falsehoods are disseminated by journalists, academics and UN officials – cloaked in the language of human rights but echoing ancient prejudices.

Why were Hamas’s inflated casualty figures reported as facts? Why were incorrect claims of Israel bombing hospitals repeated without scrutiny – while confirmed cases of Hamas rockets hitting Israeli hospitals in Ashkelon and Beersheba were ignored? In part, this was down to journalistic complacency. The facts were accessible.

Independent researchers discovered that some of the most widely shared images of ‘starvation in Gaza’ were from Yemen. One prominent photo showing a skeletal child was highlighted by the media as evidence of famine. In reality, the child wasn’t malnourished due to famine. He had cerebral palsy, hypoxemia and other genetic conditions. That didn’t prevent the Guardian, Times and New York Times running it on their front pages, inflaming the emotions of millions of readers. Despite its resources, the much-touted BBC Verify unit missed these falsehoods.

The good news? Large swaths of the British public aren’t buying it. Scroll through the reader comments under articles about Israel, and you’ll find thousands of ordinary people who haven’t lost their critical faculties. They know casualty figures from terrorist regimes aren’t a sacred truth. They can spot propaganda when they see it.

Unlike some intellectuals, they don’t lose all logic the moment the word ‘Israel’ is uttered. As George Orwell once quipped: ‘You must be an intellectual. Only an intellectual could believe something quite so stupid.’ Today, he might have aimed that line at Guardian readers or BBC news staff.

In this war, it is not Israel or even Hamas that has lost its purpose, but the media.