“Oct 7 2023”

Sharp differences within Israel’s governing coalition have emerged into the open in recent days. On the face of it, the dispute centres on preferred post-war arrangements in Gaza. But the rival stances also reflect underlying, contrasting views concerning the conduct and aims of Israel’s now eight-month long military campaign in the Gaza Strip.

“Iran, you make us proud” and “Yemen, Yemen make us proud, turn another ship around,” were among the chants by the pro-Hamas college students and the paid activists who organized them on U.S. campuses. They declared a “student intifada,” conducted a Hamas-inspired “Day of Rage,” bowed down to Allah and called for “Death to Israel” and “Death to America.”

A man is sought for smashing windows at a North York synagogue – the second time the Jewish place of worship has been vandalized in four weeks.

Toronto Police say officers responded to a mischief call in the area of Bayview Ave. and Fifeshire Rd., north of York Mills Rd., around 3:30 a.m. on Friday.

The Biden team’s offer to trade Yahya Sinwar, the man believed to be the mastermind of the Oct. 7 attack, for guarantees that the Israeli military stay out of Rafah points to two disturbing truths about the current conflict in the Middle East. The first is that the U.S. knows plenty about what the Hamas terror group is doing and has done. The second is that Washington has been keeping key information—like the terror leader’s whereabouts—from the Israelis, thereby prolonging the war that it claims to decry.

Admitting Gazan refugees would be proof that Britain has a death wish

It was only a matter of time before the call came. Now Labour MPs, including Sam Tarry and Jess Phillips, are agitating for Britain to take in Palestinians fleeing Gaza.

Tarry, the MP for Ilford South, suggested that the Gazan people are “a highly skilled … and well-educated workforce” who could benefit the UK, while Phillips said “all of the Gazans that we resettled into Birmingham Yardley were actually doctors, and are bringing huge amounts of resources”. If that is the case, then surely Palestinians who can get out of Gaza can apply for skilled worker visas like any other immigrant trying to get into the UK?

Student radicals turning out in droves to protest for Palestine seem to expect that their organized mass demonstrations will foment revolutionary change. They are inspired by the example of the 1960s, and the civil rights marchers and Vietnam War protesters are their muses. These were the heroes who put their bodies on the line facing fire hoses and club-wielding cops to bend the arc of history toward good.

At least that’s the myth they’ve been taught, sometimes by aged protesters themselves, or by student activists who morphed into professors and never left campus for the real world.

Israel has recovered the bodies of three hostages who were killed at the Nova music festival, including Shani Louk.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that Hamas had taken the remains of the German-Israeli woman, as well as those of Amit Buskila and Itzhak Gelerenter, back into Gaza on Oct 7.

The bodies of the three were found by the IDF in Jabalia in northern Gaza, the army said.