Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Medical Evacuations - Gaza

 COGAT: 117 Gazan patients and their escorts left the Strip yesterday, via the Kerem Shalom crossing and Ramon Airport, on their way to receive medical treatment in Romania, Italy, Norway, and Belgium.

COGAT issues a call for additional countries to expand support for overseas medical evacuations.

Thursday, December 4, 2025

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. Click on photo for video

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

Friday, November 28, 2025

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.


Wednesday, November 26, 2025

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.