“Oct 7 2023”

Former President Donald Trump says Israel is “losing the PR war” in its war in Gaza because of Israel’s posts to social media showing images of the war.

“And the other thing is I hate, they put out tapes all the time. Every night, they’re releasing tapes of a building falling down,” Trump said in an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Thursday. “They shouldn’t be releasing tapes like that. They’re doing, that’s why they’re losing the PR war. They, Israel is absolutely losing the PR war.”

Just in time for Easter, another resurrection was recently proposed by Martin Indyk, twice US ambassador to Israel, in the journal Foreign Affairs:

“[The] allegedly dead two-state solution…resurrected by U.S. President Joe Biden and his top national security officials…is the only way to create lasting peace among the Israelis, the Palestinians, and the Arab countries of the Middle East”.

“And how an unimaginable war could bring about the only imaginable peace”.

Curiously, like President Joe Biden and his top national security officials, the ambassador ignores a crucial element: radical Islam does not tolerate the existence of a sovereign non-Islamic entity (such as Israel) on land that once was conquered by Muslims (dar al-Islam, “abode of Islam”). As most Palestinians have been creditably straightforward about, there is no place for an Israeli state.

Three former Supreme Court justices have joined more than 600 legal experts in calling for the UK government to end weapons sales to Israel.

In a letter to the prime minister, they said exports must end because the UK risks breaking international law over a “plausible risk of genocide” in Gaza.

Rishi Sunak is already facing growing cross-party pressure after seven aid workers were killed in an air strike.

On Tuesday, he said the UK has a “very careful” arms licensing regime.

A top Israeli official shouted at American officials in frustration after the Biden administration pushed back on Israel’s plans to invade Rafah, according to reports.

A source familiar with the meeting told The Telegraph that “it wasn’t an easy conversation” and that the US asked Israel to provide a more detailed plan for the evacuation of civilians from the southern city, where up to 1.5 million people are now living.

Ron Dermer, Israel’s minister of strategic affairs, “began yelling and waving his arms” while defending plans to launch a ground invasion of the city, according to NBC, which cited US officials.

‘Let Hamas use hospitals to plot its murderous assaults on the Jewish State.’ Few people outside of Hamas’s own inner circle would say something like this out loud. Few people would give voice to such a pro-war-crime position. No one who wants to be thought of as a moral person, a halfway decent person, would so cavalierly engage in Hamas apologism. And yet this, in essence, is what the West’s activist class is saying when it rages against Israel over its incursions into al-Shifa Hospital. They’re saying Israel should back off and let the people who are already in the hospital – Hamas – do their thing. It’s a pro-terror stance masquerading as peace activism.

Leftists are the same everywhere. They are absolutely that and nothing else, whether American or Israeli.

I don’t remember a time quite like this. Seems like the asylums have been let loose and taken to the streets.

True enough, the 60s. Those protests, here in the USA, were for equality/civil rights, but mostly against the Establishment and the Vietnam war.

The youth culture had arrived and if you were 30 and over, you were deemed, and doomed, Establishment.

After the success the Gulf state of Qatar achieved in helping restore the Taliban to power in Afghanistan, Doha is now investing all its energy in seeking to keep Hamas in power in Gaza.

For more than a decade, the tiny Gulf emirate has been using the massive profits it derives from its vast energy resources to sponsor radical Islamist ideology that underpins terrorist organisations such as Hamas.

Every Israeli woman who is being held captive by Hamas in Gaza is being sexually abused, freed hostage Mia Regev said during an emergency debate in the Knesset’s Committee on the Status of Women and Gender Equality on the situation of the women hostages.

Regev, who was freed during the hostage deal between Israel and Hamas in November, said that it was “unbelievable” that the Knesset was planning on going on recess on April 8 for over five weeks.

When Israel flattened Iran’s consulate in Damascus on Monday, killing Tehran’s top generals in the country, it also levelled the assumption that anything is off limits in its growing conflict with Tehran.

Iran will now be forced to respond. In recent months Israel had assassinated a number of its generals and senior commanders in Damascus, but this was the first time it had targeted an Iranian diplomatic mission. Iran’s ambassador in Syria, who was unharmed in the attack, promised a response of “the same magnitude and harshness”.