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UNRWA to be Shut Down?

 

The newspaper Israel Hayom reported, citing Arab and Western diplomatic sources, that a plan for the gradual closure of UNRWA and the transfer of its powers and activities to the Peace Council will be presented.

According to the sources, the plan is led by the Acting UNRWA Commissioner, Christian Saunders, and involves the gradual transfer of the organization's tasks to other entities, such as the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and the Peace Council in the Gaza Strip.

During a meeting of UNRWA's Advisory Commission, Saunders presented the plan, linking it to the organization's difficult financial situation and the possibility of transferring a large part of its activities to relevant entities.

UNRWA's deficit for this year has reached between $70 million and $100 million, which is approximately equivalent to one-tenth of its annual operational budget.

The first steps to implement the plan have been approved, but this is drawing fierce opposition from the Palestinian leadership, which fears losing a key political tool in its conflict with Israel—namely, the "refugees" institution, according to the newspaper.

The Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) recently held a meeting in Ramallah and also invited representatives of the UNRWA Workers' Union to attend.

During the meeting, it was decided that the PLO and the Palestinian Authority would work to thwart the plan, as closing UNRWA requires the approval of the United Nations General Assembly, and criticisms were directed at Saunders on the grounds that he was acting with political motives.

At a meeting of the organization's international committee held a few days ago in Amman, the capital of Jordan, a number of Western country representatives opposed the plan, including Switzerland and Ireland. Egypt also joined the opposition, while other Gulf states did not.

The Irish representative announced that he would work to find alternative funding sources for the organization in order to cancel the closure and prevent the initial steps, which include the layoff of thousands of Palestinian workers.

The newspaper learned that talks between UNRWA and the Peace Council have laid the groundwork for mechanisms to transfer authority and activity in two main areas: education and health, two fields for which the Peace Council had been preparing for over a year as part of Trump's plan for the reconstruction of Gaza.

Why Trump Lost the Mid-Terms

 Ari Fleischer, White House Press Secretary during the Bush administration, in reply to a post published by U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance, in which he noted that the war in Iran and relations with Israel were at the heart of the Republicans' loss in the midterm elections. This post, which garnered 3.7 million views within ten hours:

a) "Mr. Vice President, Allow me to present a different perspective.

The problem was not the war in Iran. The problem was the ceasefire.

If you start a war, you must win it and bring it to a conclusion. Otherwise, don't start it in the first place.

This war should have ended six months ago, when the Strait of Hormuz was completely open and oil was flowing freely. The second- and third-tier leadership in Iran should have been eliminated, and support given to the pro-Western forces who could have seized power. We stood on the threshold of a new and more peaceful Middle East, but at the decisive moment, we hesitated. We had a chance not only to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, but also to get rid of the world's largest state sponsor of terror.

Instead, we reached a ceasefire, followed by months of uncertainty over whether we would finish the job or not. Every day, a different message was conveyed, and that's still the case today. Has the war ended? Is it about to start again? No one knows. Confusion and inconsistency prevail.

In June 2025, the United States was not involved. It was a confrontation between Israel and Iran.

No one forced the United States to strike Iran then, nor in February 2026. That was a decision made by President Trump. In my opinion, it was the right decision.

Once the decision was made, we should not have stopped until the regime was overthrown. But instead, you negotiated a ceasefire that did not hold, did not achieve its goal, and left us in a limbo, with no resolution, higher costs, and our forces still deployed in the field.

Our soldiers could already have returned home, the navy could have gone back to its bases, a peace-seeking regime could have risen in Iran, new alliances could have been forged, and the price of gasoline could have dropped below three dollars per gallon.

No, Mr. Vice President. The problem is not the war. The problem is what is called 'the ceasefire.'"

 

b) The Lebanese Shiite journalist, Nadim Koteish (CEO of Sky News), also writes in a similar vein – you lost the elections because you refused to defeat Iran.

“The Republican Party did not lose the midterm elections because it fought Iran. It lost because it refused to win the war.

J.D. Vance presented the memorandum of understanding signed in June as a victory: the Strait of Hormuz is open, fuel prices are dropping, and the nuclear program has been dismantled. But within weeks, everything collapsed. The war continued, prices remained high, and voters punished the Republicans for the tangible cost of the partial move.

A basic rule in poker: when you have a strong hand and you don’t go all in, even a weaker hand might win the pot.

That’s exactly what happened. The choice not to go all the way, and not the war itself, is what cost the Republicans control of the Senate and the House of Representatives.”

Israel Is Just the Pretext, The Real Target is the West

 (With thanks to Bassam Tawil)

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/22941/israel-is-pretext-target-is-west

Why should anyone expect peace between the Palestinians and Israel while

a) Palestinian leaders glorify terrorism and armed groups continue to attack Israelis?

b) the Iranian regime is standing on its feet and supporting the jihad (holy war) to destroy Israel?

c) the continuing willingness of Palestinians to celebrate violence against Israelis while presenting terrorism as supposedly legitimate national resistance.

Israel is just the pretext. If you think that a Palestinian state, or an election defeat of the Israeli Prime Minister or even the disappearance of Israel itself — would solve anything, you would be wrong. What the West is up against is the desire of Muslim extremists, with a leg-up from Marxists, to overthrow the "corrupt" West and replace it with Islamic Sharia law and eventually global caliphate. Only after this transformation will the world have the "peace" part of the "Religion of Peace." Until then, as the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, vowed, "there will be struggle" (lit. jihad).

Reference the riots taking place in so many countries, a few clearly terrified leaders in the West  might think that if there were a Palestinian state, it might keep the mob quiet for a while. Yes, until breakfast. That is also why US President Donald Trump should not make a "deal" with the rulers of Iran.   

 1)     Hamas and other likeminded jihadists have no problem murdering civilians — whether in the US on 9/11, the London transit system, the Barcelona and Madrid attacks, Paris's Bataclan Theater, Nice on Bastille Day, German Christmas Markets, the Manchester concert or anywhere else.

2)        2)     Iran's regime has recently slaughtered more than 36,500 of its own citizens, and continues to kill — so why should they care if they inflict the same horrors on anyone else?

3)        3)     Palestinian factions such as Hamas and PIJ, like the protesters throughout the West, continue to regard violence as a source of pride and a means of advancing their primary objective — in Israel, the elimination of the "Zionist entity" (Israel), and in the rest of the world, overthrowing man-made (as opposed to Allah-made) infidel democracies.

4)        4)     The silence of the Palestinian Authority — and other Arab and Muslim leaders — is also significant.

Israel's countermeasures have indeed caused hardship for local residents. Where, though, is any denunciation of the attacks that caused Israel's security response?

The Palestinian people have been put — by their own leaders — in a horrible position of bearing the consequences of terrorist attacks while the Palestinian organizations that praise the attackers present themselves as champions of the people. They are not. Like the ruling butchers of Iran, they are holding the Palestinians and other Muslims hostage. If these captives hope to live, they cannot even protest.

The Palestinian Authority is frequently described by Western leaders and governments as a potential partner for peace. However, the Palestinian Authority is part of the problem; it is not the solution. Its long-standing policy of paying monthly stipends to Palestinian terrorists who murder or wound Jews ("Pay-for-Slay") makes it as rotten as Iran's Palestinian terrorist proxies – Hamas and PIJ, or all the other terrorist groups whether Al-Qaeda, ISIS or Antifa.

The international community might begin to understand that peace requires more than diplomatic declarations and initiatives, ceasefires, and promises of Palestinian statehood, especially for self-declared terrorists. Peace requires a total rejection of terrorism, of the people organizing it, of those who carry it out, and it requires a political leadership willing to put the lives and future of ordinary Palestinians — and innocent civilians whoever they are — ahead of the interests of terrorists and of their own incompetent political careers.

Help Refute the Claims of the Film NAZA.

On November 1st, the antisemitic propaganda film "NAZA" will begin its large-scale international distribution.

A massive worldwide release of this film is expected, which could turn it into a major propaganda attack against the Jewish people, Israel, and IDF soldiers.

This time, we want to get ahead of the lies before they spread all over the world! 

A group of exceptional Israeli filmmakers has produced "NAZA: The Real Story", a pro-Israel documentary that is already available. The work features DIRECT testimonies from IDF soldiers and battlefield footage, revealing a completely different reality that directly refutes the narrative presented in the antisemitic propaganda film.

There has been severe criticism and backlash from Israeli sources. 

• IDF Denials: The film presents a distorted and factually erroneous view of target planning and denied a central claim in the film's trailer that a strike was ever approved or planned with an expectation of 500 civilian fatalities. 

• "Blood Libel" Allegations: Israeli military chief condemned the film as being based on "blood libels" and "deliberate distortions of reality," 

• Anonymity and Whistleblowers: The 80-minute film relies on interviews with 24 anonymous, digitally altered Israeli intelligence officers and soldiers. Critics—including domestic journalists and military analysts—question the verification, context, and credibility of these unverified accounts. 

• Omission of Context: Critics argue that the film strips away crucial context of Hamas's tactics of using civilian human shields, and the operational reality of military counter-offensives.

• Disputed Casualty Figures: Discussions and forum analyses have challenged the film's casualty and collateral damage figures, arguing that claims regarding massive single-strike death tolls lack corroborating evidence and utilize Hamas’s propaganda figures 

What can we do??

1.     Watch the documentary via the link below, give it a "like" and leave a comment to help boost engagement and most importantly: share it with as many friends, family members, and communities as possible! Watch it here at https://nazadocumentary.com/ 

    The goal is simple: by the time the antisemitic film reaches millions of people worldwide, the truth must already be within everyone's reach. The more views and engagement we generate now, the greater the chances that the Israeli documentary will reach a broader audience and be able to counter online antisemitic propaganda.

Shin Bet stops foreign interference campaign ahead of elections

 (With thanks to Israel National News)

The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) announced Thursday morning that numerous social media accounts identified as being used for foreign influence operations ahead of Israel's elections have been detected and removed in a joint operation with the State Prosecutor's Office Cyber Department and the Central Elections Committee.

The action against them was taken as part of efforts to prevent improper interference in Israel's electoral process.

As part of the joint operation, the three agencies worked to identify profiles that, according to their findings, were being used in attempts to influence the upcoming elections. Following their identification, measures were taken that resulted in the accounts being removed from social media platforms.

The Shin Bet emphasized that the operation was intended to protect the integrity of the elections and thwart attempts by foreign actors to influence Israel's democratic process.

The statement did not identify those responsible for the accounts, the countries from which the influence operations originated, the platforms on which the profiles operated, or the messages they disseminated.

The exact number of accounts removed was also not disclosed.

Efforts to counter foreign influence operations would continue the Shin Bet stressed.

Provocations Unlimited

 Once again, the media is having a field day in being able to blame Israel. Who is behind the constant provocations under the guise of the "olive harvest"? Why is there always a TV crew available for filming? Who are the overseas anarchists taking part? etc.,

Here we have yet another generously funded, carefully planned and well-organized campaign creating a false perception of a widespread phenomenon of violence by settlers in Judea and Samaria against Arab residents in the area.

Today, thanks to the proper actions of the IDF and the police, three provocation events were prevented in Judea and Samaria under the pretext of “olive harvest”:

1. The main event of the Palestinian Authority in the village of Deir Jarir – IDF forces thwarted the event, in which senior Palestinian Authority officials planned to participate, thanks to early intelligence on the organization.

2. Another event was prevented in Turmus Ayya near Ramallah – an event led by the anarchist Jonathan Pollak and dozens of Palestinians and journalists – and only two olive pickers.

3. An uncoordinated event, in an area that requires coordination near Beitar Illit, with dozens of participants including foreigners, among them a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Congress who wanted to make some headlines before the elections in the U.S. and ended up only partially satisfied. Dozens of participants were put on a bus back and the uncoordinated event was prevented.

Each of these events could have ended up as huge headlines in the mainstream media in Israel and abroad and caused cognitive damage to Israel.

Early intelligence for such events prevent terror attacks. The impact of “cognitive attacks” on Israel’s legitimacy in the world justifies allocating intelligence gathering resources to this issue.

Children's Education in Gaza

 

These books shown were seized from schools in Gaza during the war. 

The material raises a question every plan for Gaza’s future must 

confront: how do you undo years of indoctrination? Hamas has worked 

to embed its ideology far beyond its armed ranks, reaching children who should have been protected from it. That influence will survive the destruction of tunnels and the confiscation of weapons unless there is a sustained effort to 

challenge what children are taught. Gaza needs demilitarisation and deradicalisation. Rebuilding schools while leaving the teaching of hatred 

intact would help prepare the ground for another war. Palestinian children 

deserve the chance to grow up without being groomed to fight it.

Genocide - Really?

 

Durban Conference Shunned by 48 Countries

 The UN’s Durban Conference was set up in 2001 to advance the fight against racism, but it quickly turned into a platform for antisemitism and attacks on Israel.

The subsequent Goldstone report was relatively quickly dismissed by many as a distortion of the truth.

Following a diplomatic and advocacy campaign by the organisation  UN Watch, 48 countries chose not to take part in the UN’s 25th anniversary commemorative event. This is a significant achievement that shows how sustained advocacy can shape countries’ positions and reduce the legitimacy given to events promoting antisemitic and anti-Israel messages.

Credit: UN Watch LinkedIn

Pallywood preparations in Gaza

 Pallywood presentations to continue

Stealth Jihad of the West. Is Anyone Paying Attention ?

  

§  Stealth jihad is well advanced in the U.S., with the entire American left enabling and aiding the expansion of Muslim political power, without realizing or caring that they are supporting a radically intolerant and supremacist ideology.

§  We see in particular [in Europe] the increase of churches being bought and transformed into mosques. Muslims in general prefer this to building new buildings: the transformation of a church into a mosque is for them a visible manifestation of Islam's victory, superiority over Christianity, and coming hegemony.

§  Hundreds of years of jihad attacks weakened and ultimately destroyed the Roman Empire in Constantinople. The failure to get help from the West... played a large role in Constantinople's ultimate fall, as well as disunity among the leaders of the empire itself. Some were even short-sighted and self-serving enough to seek and obtain help from Muslim forces.

§  The U.S. faces a similar threat from short-sighted and self-serving leaders of our own. The Democrats are busy encouraging the growth of Muslim political power, while insisting on ignoring the political, supremacist, expansionist and violent aspects of Sharia. Few politicians are aware of the nature and magnitude of the threat, or are resolved to do anything about it. If this continues, we will eventually face our own May 29, 1453 -- the fall of Constantinople ....

§  [P]robably all religions are affected, even though there are some notable individuals who have not been afraid to speak out -- or prevented from doing so.

Robert Bruce Spencer is a Christian American scholar writing on topics including Islam, Orthodoxy, and the Byzantine Empire. The director of Jihad Watch, he is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He has led seminars on Islam and jihad for organizations like the FBI, the United States Central Command, and the U.S. intelligence community.

NAZA - The Real Story

The IDF have issued a documentary NAZA The Real Story https://nazadocumentary.com/  countering all the misinformation in the Guardian's film which is full of lies, misinformation and distortions

How did the film NAZA even got into the festival competition.  The lineup was declared final on July 23; NAZA’s entry only materialized on August 24.  A film that enters a month after the list was locked has not been selected normally.  It has been inserted, without even a Clinton-esque explanation that it depends what the meaning of “final” is.

Was it orchestrated?  Does it matter?  Everyone in that artsy audience understood what was happening, which is why the claps and cheers went on strong long after they could plausibly mean anything about artistic merit of any film.  They were clapping to make a point: to one another, to the cameras, to the media, and to us, as together they reveled in their genteel contempt for Israel.

In The Guardian’s anti-Zionist kangaroo court, both in their news content and their recent foray into filmmaking, Zionists are seen as their misfortune. Thus, the anti-Israel verdict is predetermined, and exculpatory evidence is never allowed to be presented.

Media Reporting Judea and Samaria

 What Actually Happened

The IDF responded to an arson and attempted stabbing attack at Hanania's farm near Geva Binyamin in Samaria. 

A Palestinian terrorist set fire to one of the farm vehicles and then threatened residents with a knife. The residents responded by driving another vehicle into the terrorist, removing the threat. No stabbing injuries were reported from the incident.

What Actually was Reported in the Media

The settlers drove a vehicle into a Palestinian, eliminating him.

Summary,

No context, just fitting the story to a pre conceived agenda

How Anti Israel Propaganda Works

 

Four lies that world leaders tell you about Israel - and the truth

 

a)     Emmanuel Macron: “Hamas has never operated in the West Bank.”

The Truth:

Hamas has operated in the West Bank since the 1980s and carried out hundreds of terrorist attacks from there, killing hundreds of civilians. Just this week, a Hamas terrorist killed Netanel Shukrun, a 30-year-old father.

b)     Zohran Mammdani: “I can’t support Israel’s existence because it’s a Jewish state that privileges one religion.”

The Truth:

Around 83 countries in the world officially have a state religion or give special privileges to a religion. The only one that Mamdani explicitly said shouldn’t exist is the one Jewish state, which also gives equal rights to all its non-Jewish citizens.

c)     Recep Tayyip Erdogan: “Israel's Hands are Stained with the Blood of 75,000 innocents in Gaza.”

The Truth:

Around 35, 000 of those killed in Gaza are combatants and not innocent civilians — a ratio of 1.2:1. A level never achieved in any other war. In comparison, the U.S. ratio in the war against ISIS was around 3:1. Even in total numbers, it is not the deadliest conflict in recent years, with Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen killing over 400,000 people.

d)     António Guterres “There has been no general commitment by UNRWA to provide any kind of support to Hamas.”

The Truth:

Even the UN has admitted that some UNRWA workers also worked as Hamas operatives and even took part in the October 7th massacre. Around 10% of UNRWA workers are estimated to have had ties with terror organizations. Hamas also used UNRWA facilities for electricity, shelter, and military bases.

 

Guardian Sponsored Film Full of Blood Libels

 Watch how the movie "Naza" manufactured a case against the world’s most moral army.

The End of Reliable Journalism

 The directors of the film  "Naza" did not have to work too hard to discover the real truth, says Sarit Zehavi, a reserve officer in the IDF and head of the Alma Center. 'They could have simply interviewed me. I was one of the founders of the field within the IDF that deals with warning populations on the other side of enemy lines and preserving the lives of their civilians.'*

The filmmakers preferred to tell a story from a very narrow angle, to interview anonymous sources whose level of involvement, rank, and understanding of the process is unclear, and to completely ignore the experts who built these systems with one goal: preserving human life,' Zehavi says. 'There are such experts. I was one of them.'*

"Naza" (which Israelis haven't yet seen) raises serious, urgent questions about the actions of the Israeli army. Financed by The Guardian ( a well known advocate of anti Semitism and distorter of facts) and presented as a documentary, it also raises serious, urgent questions about the practice of journalism.

A little less than 20 years ago, says Sarit, I was one of the founders of the field within the IDF that deals with warning populations on the other side of enemy lines and preserving the lives of their civilians.

We built the work processes that define how to call upon the population to evacuate, and how to track that evacuation. I was personally involved in formulating the target approval processes and operational discussions.

If they had spoken with me, I would have explained to them that the chart shown at the beginning of the film is not a chart for conducting killings, but rather a planning chart for a target identified as being used by Hamas.

Its purpose is to determine whether to strike a target at all, who in the command echelon is authorized to approve it, with what munitions, and under what conditions.

 In stark contrast to what is stated in the film, when the words "Naza 500 – collateral damage estimated at 500" appear in the approval process, the meaning is that action must be taken to reduce the collateral damage.

The filmmakers preferred to tell a story from a very narrow angle, to interview anonymous sources whose level of involvement, rank, and understanding of the process is unclear, and to completely ignore the experts who built these systems with one goal: preserving human life.

This film was produced by two Israelis who are so far to the radical left of the political spectrum that even the leftist parties in the upcoming elections have not associated themselves with them.

The boycott was meant to isolate Israeli settlements - it is not working

 Decades of boycotts have generated headlines but failed to change Israel, while inspiring Americans to strengthen economic ties with Judea and Samaria.

For more than two decades, various organizations have sought to change Israeli policy through boycotts targeting products, companies, academic institutions, and Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria. Now, government sanctions are also being added to the equation, such as those announced by the United Kingdom.

One basic point must be made: no boycott can change history or undermine the connection between the Jewish people and the Land of Israel.

But after decades of boycotts, it is worth asking: Has the boycott achieved its goal?

The answer is no.

The policies of successive Israeli governments have not changed as a result of boycotts. And over the past 25 years, hundreds of companies and businesses have been established in Judea and Samaria, alongside new industrial zones and factories.

a)     In 2018, Airbnb announced that it would remove approximately 200 properties in Judea and Samaria from its platform. Ironically, however, the decision exposed tens of millions of tourists around the world to a simple fact: there are Airbnb properties in the biblical heartland, and people can visit.

Less than six months later, Airbnb reversed its decision. The boycott generated headlines, but it did not change reality.

b)     The story of Ben & Jerry’s is also well known. In 2021, the company announced that it would not renew the sale of its products in what it called the “Occupied Palestinian Territory,” while emphasizing that it was not leaving Israel.

Following a prolonged campaign, Unilever, sold its Israeli business to its Israeli licensee. As a result, Ben & Jerry’s products continued to be sold in Israel, including in Judea and Samaria.

c)     The pressure created against Sodastream resulted in the company relocating to the Negev and hundreds of Palestinians lost their jobs but the company continues to grow

In each case the boycott created a media storm, but it did not change Israeli policy.

But here is where things get interesting: the boycott does have an impact. For better, too.

In the United States, it has generated a backlash. Thirty-seven states have already adopted laws or other measures against BDS, including restrictions on public contracts or investments involving companies that participate in boycotts against Israel.

And last week, on September 3, the US House of Representatives passed the Protect Economic and Academic Freedom Act by a vote of 237-169. The bill seeks to restrict certain federal funding to academic institutions participating in boycotts against Israel. The legislation still requires Senate approval.

And this impact is reaching Judea and Samaria as well. For example, American businesspeople have approached American Friends of Judea and Samaria seeking investment opportunities in Judea and Samaria, both as a response to British boycott efforts and because they believe that investing in the biblical heartland can bring prosperity to their businesses in America.

This is how we can turn the boycott into something that has an impact, for better. And this impact is reaching Judea and Samaria as well. For example, American businesspeople have approached American Friends of Judea and Samaria seeking investment opportunities in Judea and Samaria, both as a response to British boycott efforts and because they believe that investing in the biblical heartland can bring prosperity to their businesses in America.

This is how we can turn the boycott into something that has an impact, for the better.

Genocide - Really?

 

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.

 

Follow the Money not the Narrative

 

“The “Gaza genocide” is the Greatest Hoax of all Time

 (Based on published article by Andrew Fox)

“The “Gaza genocide” is the greatest hoax of all time, enabled by social media, antisemitism, and gullibility.

Remember: genocide means a deliberate attempt to exterminate a group, simply for being members of that group. That’s what “genocide in Gaza” alleges: that Israel is unsuccessfully attempting to exterminate every last Palestinian.

But what about the overall population of Gaza? If Israel had wanted to wipe out every Palestinian, you’d expect that overall total to fall, right?

At some point, the word genocide has to survive contact with arithmetic. Gaza’s own records now sit in open contradiction with the claim that Israel attempted to destroy its population: approximately 121,000 live births since 7 October 2023, against a reported direct war death toll, including natural deaths, of just over 73,000. 

The extermination narrative looks increasingly absurd. More babies have been born in Gaza during the war than Gazans have been recorded as killed, including both civilians and combatants. 

The usual escape route is to say that genocide need not succeed. That is legally correct and intellectually evasive when deployed to make every contrary fact disappear. Genocidal intent still has to be proved, and the ICJ has held that, where it is inferred from conduct, the destruction of the group must be the only reasonable inference available.

In Croatia v Serbia, it examined whether civilians had been spared, evacuated or allowed to survive when their supposed destroyers had the opportunity to kill them. Conduct preserving members of the protected population counted against genocide. Now apply that reasoning to Gaza.

a a) Start with polio. In September 2024, while Israeli troops were still fighting across the Strip, Israel agreed daily, area-specific pauses so Palestinian and international medical teams could vaccinate Gaza’s children. The first round reached 559,161 children under ten, around 95 per cent of the eligible population.

b)b) Israel then agreed to do it again. The second round reached 556,774 children, with 448,425 children between two and ten also receiving vitamin A. The campaign required the delivery of 1.6 million vaccine doses, refrigerators, freezers, ice boxes and hundreds of vaccine carriers. WHO and UNICEF planned for the vaccines and cold-chain equipment to transit through Ben Gurion Airport before entering Gaza.

c) c)  A third campaign followed in February 2025. It vaccinated 602,795 children under ten, reaching 102 per cent of the estimated target because medical teams found children missed during earlier rounds. 

d) d)  The combined figure is 1,718,730 administered polio doses. (That represents repeated protection of roughly 600,000 individual children, rather than 1.7 million different children.) Almost the entire under-10 population was reached again and again.

These vaccines were administered by Palestinian health workers, WHO, UNICEF, UNRWA and their partners. Without Israeli cooperation, the campaigns could not have happened.

UNICEF’s end-of-year report says the outbreak had been interrupted by July 2025. It also records 49,000 children under two receiving catch-up vaccinations, with coverage exceeding 80 per cent. BCG vaccinations rose from 37,471 in 2024 to 47,556 in 2025. 

It was an enormous public health enterprise, run over several months, involving thousands of workers and protecting nearly every child in Gaza from paralysis. 

That is the physical reality of what Israel enabled: the children it was supposedly trying to destroy were repeatedly protected against a disease that could disable or kill them. 

A coherent programme of genocide cannot be inferred by treating every Israeli action that preserved Palestinian life as irrelevant.

BIRTH FIGURES The birth figures deepen the problem for the accusation. A reconstruction using Gaza Ministry of Health and civil registration records suggests approximately 12,000 babies were born during the final quarter of 2023, around 38,000 during 2024, 49,267 live births during 2025, and roughly 21,000 so far in 2026. The latest portion is necessarily estimated because complete July and August registrations have not yet been published. 

Many babies born during the first months had been conceived before 7 October. That explanation expired nine months into the war. Tens of thousands of children were subsequently conceived and delivered while Israel supposedly pursued the biological destruction of Gaza. 

Births fell below their pre-war level, hardly surprising amid displacement and combat. Miscarriages, premature births and maternal complications also rose. Nothing about those conditions was humane or desirable. 

However, the comparison remains devastating. Approximately 121,000 live births against just over 73,000 reported direct war deaths leaves a difference approaching 48,000. The number killed includes combatants as well as civilians, of course.

Gaza’s overall resident population fell because the calculation includes outward migration, the missing and other demographic changes. The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics estimates that around 100,000 people left Gaza during the war. A decline driven substantially by people leaving a war zone cannot simply be relabelled as physical destruction.

No Israeli advocate needs to pretend that civilian life in Gaza was tolerable. It was an urban war fought against an enemy dug into hundreds of miles of tunnels beneath neighbourhoods, hospitals, schools and camps. Hamas designed that battlefield to make civilian deaths unavoidable and politically useful. 

Israel issued evacuation warnings, created corridors and humanitarian zones, admitted food and medicine, coordinated medical evacuations, paused military operations and enabled almost 600,000 Palestinian children to receive repeated protection against polio. Around 121,000 babies were born during the war, far exceeding the reported direct death toll. 

The genocide allegation survives only by declaring every piece of exculpatory evidence meaningless. Births supposedly tell us nothing. Vaccinations tell us nothing. Food deliveries tell us nothing. Humanitarian pauses tell us nothing. Failed famine predictions tell us nothing. The absence of measured famine mortality tells us nothing.

Such reasoning insulates the genocide accusation from reality for the Palestinians. Every death becomes proof of genocide, while every Palestinian life preserved through Israeli cooperation is dismissed as public relations.

The simpler explanation: Israel fought a devastating war against Hamas, accepting extraordinary military and political costs while repeatedly undertaking measures to preserve Palestinian civilian life. Those measures were imperfect and sometimes failed, as measures do in war. 

Gaza’s own birth records, vaccination figures and famine evidence have negated the allegations. A country attempting to destroy a people does not enable more than 120,000 births, facilitate 1.7 million childhood vaccine doses and support humanitarian operations feeding virtually the entire population. 

That is war, with all its brutality and tragedy. It is not genocide.