Iran Is Playing for Time in the U.S. Nuclear Talks

 For full article see https://www.meforum.org/mef-online/iran-is-playing-for-time-in-the-u-s-nuclear-talks

 The U.S. and Iran have kicked off nuclear talks in Oman, with Iran playing its usual game of strategic patience.

 Why it matters: Contrary to some of the more overheated commentary of recent months, the Iranian regional project has not been destroyed, or even conclusively defeated. Rather, it has been weakened, significantly.

• In light of this, Iran's strategy is clear: keep discussions tightly focused on nuclear issues, dodging any mention of its missile program or regional meddling. 

What's next: Iran's game plan is simple—either secure a deal similar to Obama’s Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) or drag out talks to dodge sanctions and military threats. 

• Iran’s strategy of proxy warfare, which had brought it unprecedented power and influence across the region, has suffered a number of very telling blows since October 2023. 

Some thoughts: The stakes couldn't be higher for U.S. foreign policy.

• Iran is banking on the U.S.'s eagerness for a deal, exploiting it to rebuild its strength while its adversaries watch warily. 

• Whether or not the regime manages to build them up again to their former capacity will be decided in Washington, and in Oman, in the coming months.

Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Ismail Baqaei said on Sunday that Iran would refuse to discuss anything other than the nuclear programme in the talks. Tehran, Baqaei said, ‘will not have any talks with the American side on any other issue.’

One of the major criticisms of the 2015 nuclear deal (known as the JCPOA) negotiated by Barack Obama’s administration was that it failed to address other aspects of Iran’s drive for regional hegemony. Specifically, the Iranian ballistic missile program and Tehran’s support for an array of proxy political-military organisations across the Middle East were left out of the discussion. The result was that the JCPOA removed sanctions on Iran, enabling it to ratchet up its campaign of subversion across the region, and to test-fire more than 30 nuclear-capable ballistic missiles over the past decade.

Trump pulled the US out of the agreement in 2018, declaring he could negotiate a ‘better’ deal. Iran, meanwhile, is determined to ensure that the current negotiations maintain a similar narrow focus to those a decade ago.

With this narrow focus ensured, the Iranian regime will then seek one of two outcomes. It wants either a renewed nuclear agreement which, in its essentials, resembles the JCPOA, or a drawn-out negotiating process which leads nowhere but enables Iran to avoid further sanctions and the possibility of US or Israeli military action against its nuclear programme.

If the Iranian regime constitutes the most powerful anti-Western and Islamist force in the Middle East, and if it has been damaged and now needs time to recover, why are its enemies granting it what it needs? Why – when the regime is vulnerable, its economy in tatters, its regional proxies on the ropes, its standing among its own people at an all time low – are its enemies giving it the time it needs to emerge from its current low point?

Iranians themselves are watching carefully, and with concern. The basic structures of the Iranian power arrangement in the region remains intact, if enfeebled. Whether or not the regime manages to build them up again to their former capacity will be decided in Washington, and in Oman, in the coming months.

 

The New Jewish Fear and Exile from Europe

 Europe’s Silent Surrender to Antisemitism, full report here

Orléans, the city of Joan of Arc, the girl who saved France from English conquest during the Hundred Years’ War. The rabbi of Orléans, Aryeh Engelberg, is walking with his nine-year-old son when he is kicked and punched, bitten on the shoulder and insulted. In Orleans today 37 percent of young people in Orleans are non-European, compared to 2 percent in 1968.

A few hours earlier, a Jewish girl was walking through Christiania, the famous hippie neighborhood of Copenhagen. She thought she was in the “Free City,” self-managed and bohemian. The woman has an Israeli flag in her backpack. A man asks her if she is Jewish and she says yes. “Are you proud of it?” When the woman says yes again, the man spits on her. The woman calls the police, but in the meantime another man appears and tells her to throw away her “damn” Israeli flag.

“There were at least 50 people watching and when I screamed for help, one of the men smiled mockingly and said: ‘No one will help you here.’ He then grabbed me by the throat and started strangling me with his hands. When I finally managed to speak to the police, they didn’t ask me if I was OK, but why I was carrying an Israeli flag in an area like Christiania.”

Meanwhile, Faiz Shah from Bradford, Mohammad Comrie from Leeds and Elinaj Ogunnubi-Sime from Croydon kidnapped an Israeli Jew in London. Their victim, Itay Kashti, a music producer and composer from London, was lured to a holiday cottage in West Wales under the guise of working with musicians, only to be kicked, punched and handcuffed to a radiator by the three Islamists.

Welcome to Eurabia!

In France, there is an anti-Jewish attack every three days. In London, a Jew risks losing an eye. In Berlin, a foiled attack on the Israeli embassy (the one at the Shoah Memorial was successful). In Sweden, Jews under escort. In Rome, a boy wearing a kippah attacked on Via Nazionale. And all between January and February 2025

Norwegian Jews are increasingly concerned about being treated in public health facilities.

Who would want to stay in this Europe?

“In England, there are Islamic courts and police who apply Sharia law,” Pierre Martinet, a former French intelligence officer, just said. “Some neighborhoods are governed by Islam. In Europe, we have seen huge demonstrations with Al Qaeda or Islamic State flags. Doing nothing would be suicidal.”

And “57 percent of European Jews are thinking of leaving.” This is the other data just out of the Combat Antisemitism Movement conference in Vienna, which brought together leaders of European communities. The number of anti-Semitic incidents has increased by 400 percent in parts of Europe. “We are losing the battle,” Ariel Muzicant, president of the European Jewish Congress, said in Vienna. “In a few years, 50 percent of communities may no longer exist.”

“I would like to stick a sharp knife directly into the throat of every Jew I meet.” So wrote Herman Brusselmans, a well-known Flemish writer, in the magazine Humo. The European Jewish Association has filed a lawsuit against both the Belgian magazine and the writer, accusing them of “incitement to murder.” Now a judge has ruled: “It falls within freedom of expression.”

If he had written “I would like to stick a sharp knife directly into the throat of every black man I meet,” would he have been acquitted?

“Goodbye Europe, Welcome Israel.” This is the title of the Arte documentary about the Dutch Jew Shirli and the Italian Massimo who chose to leave Europe to make aliyah. Who can blame Shirli? Last week, another threat was made to a Jewish school in Amsterdam: “We will kill three of your students.” Only a madman would not take them seriously. Further, the University of Amsterdam is kicking out Israeli students.

Joel Kotkin talks about the “Jewish flight from the West”: “The Jewish population in Europe was 3.5 million in 1950, after the Holocaust. Today it has fallen well below 1.5 million. France is home to the third largest Jewish community in the world, but it is shrinking. Since 2000, 50,000 Jews have left France, mostly for Israel. Even more shocking has been the virtual annihilation of Jews in Islamic countries: one million until the 1960s, today there are less than 15,000 Jews living there.”

“The European Jewish population today is comparable to that of the Middle Ages,” warns Guillaume Erner. “With the Holocaust, anti-Semitism achieved its goal in Europe. While in 1939 Poland was populated by 3,500,000 Jews, in the European Union there remain 750,000, of whom 450,000 are in France. The other dizzying element, which no one talks about, is the disappearance of Jews in the Arab world. A million Jews lived there.” Today, no one.

And while Norway has only 1,300 Jews left; the country of Quisling has never seen such a wave of anti-Semitism. A Jewish boy was just kicked out of a shop in Bergen. “Because of the rising anti-Semitism in Norway and the Norwegian government, Norwegian Jews have started making aliyah to Israel,” writes Hanne Ramberg from Oslo. “I feel horrible that the Norwegian government does not protect its own minority, who have to emigrate to have a life of security.”

Meanwhile, Meir Villegas Henriquez, an Orthodox rabbi at the Beit Midrash (Jewish Studies Center) in Rotterdam, said in a video message recorded in his synagogue:

The chief rabbi of the Great Synagogue of Paris, Moshe Sebbag, also calls for departure: “There is no future for Jews in France. I tell all young people to go to Israel or to a safer country.”

Over the past fifteen years, 60,000 of 350,000 Jews have left Ile-de-France. Since 1972, 106,000 French Jews have left for Israel. “In a few decades, there will be no Jews in France,” said Richard Abitbol, president of the Confederation of French Jews.

After the liberation from the Theresienstadt concentration camp, the great rabbi and philosopher Leo Baeck wrote: “An era in history has ended for us Jews... We believed that the German and Jewish spirits could meet on German soil and, through their marriage, could become a blessing. That was an illusion: the era of the Jews in Germany is over once and for all.”

It would be one of the greatest successes in history to prove this great man wrong. But we should do as Hungary does, where today there is an ever larger and ever more secure Jewish community and we know why: they have very little Islamic immigration.

Natan Sharanksy asked French intellectual Alain Finkielkraut whether “European Jewry has a future in Europe,” the philosopher responded with a question: “Does Europe have a future in Europe?”

It will be a post-Christian, semi-Islamized, and Jüdenrein Europe. Many are working on this terrible scenario.

History has taught us that anti-Semites always start with the Jews, but never stop there. In other words, the Jews are the appetizer, the others are the main course. They could at least read the fable of the Scorpion and the Frog to realize that those for whom they demonstrate today will turn against them tomorrow. This is the relentless mechanics of History.”

And Europeans are like the frog that, slow-cooked, fails to jump out of the pot in time and is boiled.

 

Israel's Border Security and Visa Policy

 Border security and a visa policy. There isn’t a single sovereign state in the world that doesn’t have both. For full report of Honest Reporting see here.

The United Kingdom certainly does — a robust one, no less. For Palestinians, a visa is mandatory to enter the UK, whether for tourism, family visits, business, or study — short stay or long.

In addition to a visa, Palestinians must present a valid passport, proof of accommodation (hotel booking or invitation from a local host), evidence of financial means (bank statements, employer letter, etc.), and a return or onward travel ticket. Processing is time-consuming, often expensive, and far from guaranteed.

The irony of this, however, has been lost on British Labour MPs Abtisam Mohamed and Yuan Yang, who apparently believed their parliamentary status placed them above the entry requirements enforced on ordinary visitors when they arrived in Israel last week.

Upon landing at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport and telling border authorities they were on a “parliamentary delegation to visit humanitarian aid projects in the West Bank,” they were found to have misrepresented the nature of their visit, denied entry, and promptly deported — just like anyone else who flouts standard entry procedures.

The two MPs were, in fact, on a trip arranged by Caabu — the Council for Arab-British Understanding — a lobby group that specialises in escorting British parliamentarians on carefully choreographed “fact-finding” tours of the West Bank. According to NGO Monitor, Caabu’s stated aim is to “counter the Israel lobby” in British politics — a mission it advances by promoting inflammatory, evidence-free accusations of “ethnic cleansing” and “apartheid,” under the guise of educational outreach.

For Mohamed, though, this wasn’t a matter of border policy, as she told the House of Commons, but an act of “control and censorship” — part of a broader effort, she claimed, to suppress those trying to “expose” Israel. She went further still, casting her routine deportation as political repression and invoking the familiar antisemitic dog whistle: “No state, however powerful, should be beyond criticism.”

One must assume, then, that Mohamed also views the UK’s visa system — which requires Palestinians to navigate layers of bureaucracy and reserves the right to deny them entry — as an example of a state’s unrestrained power.

Mohamed and Yang landed in Israel at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 5, on a flight from Luton, accompanied by two aides. During questioning, the two MPs — both vocal supporters of BDS — claimed they were part of an official parliamentary delegation. That claim was reportedly untrue: no Israeli authority had received notification of such a delegation, nor had any approval been granted, according to Israel’s Interior Ministry.

Interior Minister Moshe Arbel denied entry to all four individuals “in accordance with the law,” noting their intent to cause harm to the state.

The UK’s own Foreign Office, it’s worth noting, explicitly states that foreign nationals can legally be denied entry to Israel if they’ve publicly called for a boycott or belong to an organization that has. It’s right there on the government’s website — advice Mohamed and Yang might have reviewed before confirming their airline tickets.

But their apparent disbelief that Israel would actually enforce its own laws has been matched, headline for headline, by the British media’s hyperventilation over the supposed diplomatic scandal.

Sky News has breathlessly tracked every twist of the saga, with headlines about the “furious row” over the Labour MPs’ denied entry and helpful explainers outlining “what the MPs said about the war in Gaza” — just in case anyone was still wondering why they might not be welcomed with open arms.

The Guardian is doing its best to amplify the manufactured indignation, leading its coverage with Foreign Secretary David Lammy’s condemnation of Israel’s decision as “unacceptable, counterproductive, and deeply concerning.”

Curiously, it failed to mention Lammy’s own support, back in 2008, for banning Israeli MPs from entering the UK — a rather pertinent omission.

So while the BBC blares about how “astounded” these MPs are, and The Independent frets about the “escalating diplomatic row,” let’s take a moment to remind the media — and our stunned British lawmakers — of a basic principle:

It’s called the law, and it applies to everyone. And as the Brits themselves might put it, this is nothing more than a storm in a teacup.

 In trying to look at an overall picture, Israel was shocked on October 7th in the most tragic of all circumstances. Even if much of the fault lies with many of the leaders of the military and intelligence, Netanyahu still is the commander in chief of the Military, and therefore bears ultimate responsibility for what transpired. 

Nevertheless, there has never been a war that one country fought on seven fronts simultaneously as effectively as Israel had to after October 7^th. The conventional wisdom was that Israel would do everything it could to contain it’s battles with Hamas to the southern front. It did not want to have to split it’s Army into two – south and north. This was especially the case as the Hezbollah to Israel’s North posed a massive threat with more than 100,000 missiles aimed at Israel.

In the end, Israel had to face attacks from Hamas in the South, Hezbollah in the North, Syria on its northeast border, Iraq to the east, Yemen to its southeast, and of course – Iran. Israel, due to much of the Army and Intelligence, effectively repelled the attacks from Iran and dismantled most of Iran’s missile defenses in a follow-up attack. This crippling combo will probably be studied for decades.

But the beeper operation in Lebanon against the Hezbollah, an operation that has been in the works for around a decade, is the jewel in the crown of Israel’s recent clandestine operations. In one fell swoop, Israel decapitated nearly the entire Hezbollah leadership. This placed Hassan Nasrallah in an impossibly secluded position without any support from his senior leadership. Then Israel simply needed to decide if it would be best to rid the world of this terrorist or wait a bit. Once the die was cast, and Nasrallah as eliminated, the entire northern border of Israel was changed. Israel took over another critical part of the Hermon mountain range, but it dominates much of Lebanon and Syria, thereby greatly enhancing Israel’s control over its enemies. 

One day, i believe everyone will see that this was one of Israel’s most successful wars in its history of fending off its enemies despite October 7th.  

Azerbaijan’s Entry into Israeli Waters May Open New Export Routes with Turkey

The decision by SOCAR, Azerbaijan’s state oil company, to press ahead with a gas exploration license in Israeli waters marks another significant step in the ever-deepening partnership between Israel and Azerbaijan.

 In addition to the economic opportunity, it provides to discover new gas, the involvement of SOCAR carries significant strategic weight in a region where energy projects can forge new ties or rekindle old rivalries. SOCAR’s role as the project’s operator may facilitate a more stable multilateral energy framework in the Eastern Mediterranean due to Azerbaijan’s close relations with Turkey, which enable it to serve as a mediator.

 Azerbaijan’s involvement may also offer Israel a viable route for future gas exports to Turkey that buffers the volatile relations between Jerusalem and Ankara, mirroring the current oil trade arrangements between the sides. For a full report go to https://besacenter.org/azerbaijans-entry-into-israeli-waters-may-open-new-export-routes-with-turkey/

Thinking of the Hostages

 The war against the Jewish nation by those who would annihilate us continues. Iran's proxies in Gaza, Lebanon and Yemen continue to fire missiles and rockets at Israel's civilian population.  IDF soldiers continue to battle Israel's enemies in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Yehuda and Shomron. And 59 hostages remain prisoners of barbaric Hamas, the PIJ and Iran.

While we can joyously celebrate our liberation from slavery in Egypt, there are many who cannot, for whom this Pesach will be a time of longing, sorrow and loss.  The above-mentioned hostages, the families whose sons, husbands, fathers and brothers fell in battle defending Am Yisrael.  Please remember all of them and in their memory and honor, please consider the following:  

• Set an extra place at your Seder table(s) for the 59 who cannot celebrate our Festival of Liberation because they remain prisoners of barbaric Hamas, PIJ and Iran.

• Donate whatever you can to the following organizations, which provide a variety of assistance to serving IDF soldiers, those wounded in combat and the widows and orphans of IDF heroes fallen in battle:

• IDF Widows and Orphans Organization https://www.idfwo.org/en/

• The Association for Israel's Soldiers (אגודה למען החייל) https://www.usafis.org.il/en/

• Association of Friends of the IDF Disabled Organization Ltd. https://www.jgive.com/new/en/ils/charity-organizations/9834 (this site is in Hebrew only https://yedidim-inz.org.il/about/  )

Impact Nation - Regrow Israel

 ReGrow Israel is the Agriculture Development Fund

securing the future of Israel’s southern farmlands

and communities, revolutionizing farming practices

with innovation, and creating higher profitability, climate

resilience, and sustainability.

Christians in Africa Subject to Jihad - The West Averts its Eyes

 Full report available at https://tinyurl.com/y66cbp24

• Jihadists are murdering, raping, torturing, kidnapping, enslaving, and, in some instances, burning people alive — across Africa, and now in Syria.
• Local jihadist organizations go by different names, but the ideology that drives them is the same: Every one of them deeply believes that Allah wants him to wipe the world clean of the kuffar (infidels).
• More than 16.2 million Christians in Sub-Saharan Africa have been driven from their homes by jihadi violence and conflict, reports the human rights organization Open Doors.
• Women and girls are abducted, forced into "marriage," forced to convert to Islam, raped, and subjected to forced labor. Several girls have been forced to act as suicide bombers or human shields at the hands of jihadis.
• In Sudan, a current genocide includes race-based slaughter of indigenous Africans by Arab jihadists... with the RSF forces targeting ethnic African minorities for extermination... According to the organization "Operation Broken Silence," more than 150,000 civilians are estimated to have already perished from violence and hunger.
• In Libya, slavery, forced labor and human trafficking are still widespread, as seen in video evidence of an auction of sub-Saharan Africans in the country.
• In Somalia, no area is safe for Christians... [al-Shabaab] maintains a commitment to eradicating Christianity from Somalia and often murders Christians on the spot.
• Nigeria has seen a dramatic increase in the abduction of Catholic priests, seminarians and religious women — for ransom, as Vatican News noted.
• All decent people.... need urgently to address this question: Why does the liberal West turn a blind eye when Islamic jihadists abduct, abuse, rape, enslave, forcibly convert or murder millions of darker-skinned people in Africa and the Middle East? A refusal to address such lethal moral blindness signifies that the West has chosen a path to its own demise, and will be abandoning countless innocents as it goes.

European Aggression against Israel

 by Jake Wallis Simons

-  The EU has built more than 1,000 buildings on the West Bank without planning permission, as well as roads and other infrastructure

- They are at 40 locations in Area C, which were placed under Israeli jurisdiction by international law

- The buildings are given to Palestinians and paid for using aid money from European countries, including Britain

- But the EU is claiming diplomatic immunity to avoid being taken to court, MailOnline has learnt

-  An EU spokesperson said its actions were not illegal because they were ‘humanitarian’

The EU is claiming diplomatic immunity after using taxpayers' money to build unauthorised settlements and roads on Israeli parts of Judea and Samaria (aka the West Bank), MailOnline can reveal.

An Israeli NGO launched legal action after photographing EU flags flying above buildings on land placed under Israeli jurisdiction by the Oslo Accords, to which the EU is a signatory. EU bureaucrats are avoiding court by citing diplomatic rules.

The buildings, which are given to Palestinians, are intended to 'pave the way' for more land to be brought under Palestinian control, according to EU official papers. Many are bulldozed by Israel only for the EU to repeatedly rebuild them, generating more costs for their taxpayers.

Leaked documents obtained by MailOnline show that the EU – which receives £350 million per week from Britain – is using diplomatic rules to place officials above the law, foiling attempts to hold bureaucrats accountable.

“It is deeply concerning that the EU falls back on diplomatic immunity after breaking planning regulations,” Jacob Rees-Mogg MP told MailOnline. “The UK Government would take a very dim view of a friendly state doing that to us.”

“Diplomatic immunity is there to protect envoys from unjust treatment, not to protect the high-handed behaviour of arrogant (anti-Semitic) bureaucracies.”

Professor Eugene Kontorovich, an international lawyer from the North-western University School of Law in Chicago, said: ‘There’s no question, the EU is openly in violation of international law.'

The Oslo Accords are a series of agreements between Israel and the Palestinians, made in the 1990’s, which divided Judea and Samaria (aka the West Bank) into Areas A, B and C.

Area C was placed under Israeli control, while Areas A and B were Palestinian. The agreements were ratified by the international community, including the EU, and intended as a step toward a two-state solution.

More than 1,000 EU-funded Palestinian homes, as well as roads and other infrastructure, have been erected in the Israeli Area C, without permits from Israel...

England – Its Educational Future

 For full article, see https://www.meforum.org/mef-online/england-could-become-an-islamist-state-with-nuclear-weapons

The English government has just appointed the new head of Ofsted, the body that inspects public schools. His name is Hamid Patel and he is a mufti. And then they say that “Islamization does not exist”.

Patel was the headmaster of a school in Blackpool, the first in the country to ask pupils to wear the hijab outside of school, to “recite the Koran at least once a week” and to “not carry stationery containing non-Islamic images”. And while he was at it, Patel also invited a Saudi imam to speak badly of Jews, which never hurts. A sort of emirate in Lancashire.

The Oftsed thus gets its “first religious leader in history” and since there will soon be more practicing Muslims than Christians in England why not get ahead of the curve a little?

“England and Europe are sinking into decline, naivety and fear” writes imam Hassen Chalghoumi, who knows what he’s talking about since in France he has to wear a bulletproof vest and go around with an armed escort like a head of state. “An Islamist to head Ofsted, the UK’s leading education body… This is the result of the appeasement of political Islam and the Muslim Brotherhood. We would never see such an appointment in the Arab and Muslim world, except in Afghanistan and Iran. The Islamist grip is no longer just on our doorstep, it is now within the system.”

I looked at Patel’s photo several times and then pinched myself, thinking it was a joke. A mufti with a Salafi beard and in Islamic robes appointed to head the UK’s most important education body? “The UK could fall into the hands of Islamic fundamentalists” and become “an Islamist state with nuclear weapons.” It is not the usual alarmist Meotti who says this, but Suella Braverman, former British Home Secretary.

Demographic change is the defining megatrend with the most important implications for Europe’s societies, culture and governance structures. Just look at the percentage of Muslims in the country’s major cities:

London, 15 percent Muslim

Birmingham, 1,149,000 inhabitants: (29.9 percent)

Bradford: 536,000 inhabitants (30.5 percent)

Manchester: 553,000 inhabitants (22.3 percent)

Leicester: 357,000 inhabitants (23.5 percent)

Nottingham: 331,000 inhabitants (12.2 percent)

Blackburn: 148,000 inhabitants (35 percent)

Luton: 218,000 inhabitants (32.9 percent)

Slough: 164,000 inhabitants (29.4 percent)

Pendle: 91,000 inhabitants (26 percent) hundred)

Oldham: 237,000 (24.4 percent)

Rochdale: 211,000 (18.8 percent)

Kirklees: 438,000 (19 percent)

Sheffield: 556,000 (10.3 percent)

It’s not hard to imagine what they’ll look like in, say, 20-30 years: the judge, the police chief and the TV presenter will be wearing shalwar kameez.

In the post-war period, British elites launched an experiment. They wanted to prove that multiculturalism was compatible with Britain’s great liberal tradition. They created modern British exceptionalism: the mixture of liberalism and multiculturalism would solve the problems of a multi-ethnic nation. But multiculturalism and liberalism are only compatible as long as minority groups are committed to liberal values, and in Britain, minority groups clearly are not. So multiculturalism and liberalism have proven incompatible. And now multiculturalism, not liberalism, rules Britain.

Mufti Patel is from Blackburn.

Among the areas Ed Husain visited to chronicle the Islamisation of England in his magnificent book “Among the Mosques” is Blackburn. “It has the largest Muslim population outside London and is the global hub of the Deobandis, the movement that created the Taliban in Afghanistan,” he explains in the book. White people told him they were afraid to enter “no-go areas” of the city. “The main street is full of Hajj shops, gender-segregated restaurants, Islamic bookshops and a number of mosques.”

There are more than 40 mosques in Blackburn and a quarter of the population is already Muslim, reports Daily Mail reporter Neil Tweedie. The whites are leaving. The first church in Blackburn that was used as a mosque was in 1978.

Anyone in their right mind reading about Patel’s appointment doesn’t see a respected educator but a harbinger of a future in which more and more of the people who matter will be dressed like this while they’re chairman of the BBC or governor of the Bank of England or headmaster of Oxford.

The number of Muslims in the UK has risen to 6.5 per cent of the total population, up from 4.9 in 2011, according to the 2021 census. What makes this shift even more striking is the age demographic: an overwhelming 84.5 per cent of Muslims are under 50, compared to just 62 per cent of the overall population. In other words, Islam isn’t just growing, it’s shaping Britain’s future.

Sharia courts are growing in the country. People pray to Allah even inside Westminster.

Today’s churches will be tomorrow’s mosques: Christians, even nominally, are no longer the majority. In ten years, Islam has doubled, and for the first time in 1,300 years, Christianity is no longer the majority.

Demographics have started to shift rapidly. Muhammad has become the most popular name among newborns in the United Kingdom for the first time. London has become the world capital of Islamic investment.

Before the end of this decade, we will be in a completely new phase, the Anglican church will be a Pakistani mosque, the pub a halal butcher’s shop, the clothes shop a hijab warehouse and the bookshop a travel agency to Mecca.

Judge for yourself whether the liberal multiculturalism experiment has been a success.

Is Gaza exodus happening? 1,000 left the Strip in March

 From  World Israel News

The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories  (COGAT) reports that 1,000 Palestinians left Gaza in March, with 600 in the process of leaving this week.

Every week, there between 200 and 300 requests are filed by Gazans to leave the Strip.

The trend is consistent with a plan unveiled by President Donald Trump calling for a voluntary exodus of Palestinians from Gaza so it can be rebuilt.

On Saturday night, the government voted to formally establish a new authority within the Defense Ministry to help facilitate mass migration by Gazans out of the Strip to third-party countries by coordinating travel through Israeli territory to the Port of Ashdod and Ramon Airport.

The 1,000 recent emigrants are in addition to 35,000 others who are estimated to have permanently left the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, according to Israel’s Channel 12, which did not provide a source for this figure.

According to current regulations, Gazans requiring medical treatment along with their family members and those with dual citizenship or destination visas are allowed to leave Gaza.

Israel has expanded permission to allow more than one family member to leave with those seeking medical attention.

According to Defense Minister Israel Katz’s directives, the military will accompany those leaving the Strip for their safety.

When Gazans plan to emigrate, they leave their homes and go to an assembly point, where they are inspected before heading to the Kerem Shalom crossing and then to either Rafah or Ramon airport.

Although those leaving Gaza may not be allowed to return, given the dire security situation, many nevertheless are still willing to go and establish a new life for themselves and their families in another country.

A British Telegraph survey shows that 52% of Gaza residents would leave the Gaza Strip either temporarily or permanently if given the opportunity.

The Gallup survey, which includes 532 Gaza residents aged 18 and older in March, found a divided population. Residents under the age of 34 and those living in the most heavily damaged areas of Gaza City and Khan Younis expressed the keenest desire to leave.

Ambassador Reveals Truth About Media Coverage of Israel

 Former Israeli Ambassador Yoram Ettinger talks about

a) how the international media cover the war in Gaza

and the limitations put on them by Hamas and other

terrorist entities. He discusses the impact that

this reporting has on the conflict in the Middle East.

b) Ambassador Ettinger then reviews recent

demographic studies that impact the perceptions

of the threats to democracy in Israel.

Beware - UK Culture under Threat

The facts speak for themselves!

-  80 Shariah Courts

-  Rampant Muslim Child Sex Slavery (since 1987)

-  Jail for Islamic Blasphemy

-  Over 1,500 Mosques

-  Almost 1,300 Acid Attacks in 2023

-  Islam is the second largest religion 

-  Mohammed was the top boy’s name

-    Muslim population in 2021 - 3.9%

-    Expected Muslim population in 2030  - 8,2%

 

Syrian activist to UN: “I testify before God: Israel is not the problem!”

 

Why Arabs don’t want to receive Palestinian ex-prisoners

 By Khaled Abu Toameh, the full report at https://tinyurl.com/3t5u3a7a  

Most of the Arab countries are refusing to receive Palestinians released from Israeli prison as part of the US-brokered Israel-Hamas ceasefire-hostage deal.

In the past few weeks, Israel released hundreds of Palestinian prisoners — many of whom were imprisoned for acts of terrorism — in return for Israeli hostages who kidnapped to the Gaza Strip during the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, invasion of southern Israel.

Many were released to Egypt, with the hope that other Arab countries would host them.

According to Palestinian sources, the Egyptians have agreed to allow only a handful of ex-prisoners to remain in Egypt, while dozens of others are searching for countries that will agree to receive them.

With the exception of Qatar and Turkey (a non-Arab Muslim country), most of the Arab countries have reportedly refused to allow the released prisoners into their borders, the sources revealed.

The ex-prisoners, many of whom belong to the Iran-backed Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist groups, are stuck in Cairo, where they are staying in hotels and hospitals.

It seems the Arab states are not eager to provide shelter to Islamist jihadists who could join forces with other terror groups and pose a threat to the regimes that have taken them in.

The Jordanians and Lebanese, for their part, have not forgotten how Palestinians sparked civil wars in their countries in the 70s and 80s.

After the Palestinians tried to overthrow their host, King Hussein of Jordan, in 1970; then started a civil war in Lebanon right after that; then, when welcomed into Kuwait, took the side of Iraq’s President Saddam Hussein when he invaded Kuwait in 1990, it is hard to blame any regime.

Tunisia and Jordan refuse to receive any of the released deported prisoners stuck in Egypt, and Algeria has not responded yet, while Turkey, Malaysia and Pakistan will each receive 45 prisoners.

Algeria gave initial approval to receive a number of prisoners from a specific faction [belonging to the ruling Fatah faction headed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas], while Tunisia refused to receive any of the released prisoners.

“The prisoners who were released and deported from Palestine and now stuck in hotels in Cairo. They are still wearing their prison clothes and have not changed them.

There is no Arab country willing to accept them, not even those countries that were crying over the Gaza Strip, the Gazans and Palestine [during the Israel-Hamas war], and even keyboard heroes are unable to pressure their governments to accept the prisoners.

Most of the Arab states did almost nothing to help the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip during the war, which was triggered by the October 7 massacre of Israelis.

Their refusal came about partly because those countries despise Hamas and, unsurprisingly, consider it a threat to their national security.

The refusal to take in Palestinian prisoners probably arises from the fact that these countries actually do not care about the Palestinians and even consider them an ungrateful people and troublemakers.

Many Arabs also seem to have lost faith in the Palestinians’ ability to implement reform and end rampant financial and administrative corruption in their governing bodies in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

In the past few decades, many Arab states, despite repeated pledges of hundreds of millions of dollars, have significantly reduced financial aid to the Palestinians.

According to the Palestinian Authority (PA) Finance Ministry, the PA’s funding from Arab countries dropped from $265.5 million in 2019 to $40 million in 2020.

The biggest cut was from Saudi Arabia, which reduced its $174.7 million aid to the PA in 2019 to only $32 million in 2020 — a decrease of 81.4%.

Many of these Arabs understand that Hamas and many other Palestinians have no intention of abandoning the fight against Israel, a move that will result in more violence, bloodshed and destruction.

That is also probably why no Arab country is going to invest one dollar in the Gaza Strip as long as Hamas remains in power and as long as Palestinian children are indoctrinated to murder Jews.

 

Is it Time to Declare the Failure of the Oslo Accords?

 

Lt.-Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch March 3^rd 2025

For full report see https://jcpa.org/article/is-it-time-to-declare-the-failure-of-the-oslo-accords/

•             The Oslo Accords were designed to achieve lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians. The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) used the Palestinian Authority (PA), created as part of the Accords, to cultivate ever-deepening Palestinian hatred of Israel and promote terrorism. As a result, the Oslo path has been disastrous for Israel and the Palestinians alike.

•             The Oslo Accords, that provided self-governance for Palestinians in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza, were predicated on the assumption that the PLO recognized Israel’s right to exist and abandoned violence and terror as a means to achieve Palestinian aspirations. Yet the PLO-PA have consistently perpetuated a narrative, both within Palestinian society and in international organizations and fora, of Israeli delegitimization.

•             These policies include the constant radicalization of the Palestinian education curriculum, thereby brainwashing and poisoning the minds of generations of Palestinians, and adopting and implementing a multi-billion-dollar “Pay-for-Slay” program that promotes, incentivizes, and rewards terror.

•             As a result of the Oslo Accords, the PLO-PA was given autonomous rule of extensive areas in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza. Instead of building a functioning, democratic, and prosperous society, these areas were turned into safe havens for terror and an incubator for Palestinian terror groups.

•             Despite being given the funding, the opportunities, and the capabilities to establish a functioning and prosperous Palestinian economy, the PLO, the PA, and the Palestinian leadership abused international aid, including substantial U.S. and EU aid, to promote Palestinian national aspirations to destroy Israel.

•             Recognizing and accepting the Oslo Accords’ failure would allow all the relevant actors to re-evaluate and develop alternative solutions.