“Oct 7 2023”

Israeli forces and Hamas are fighting house-to-house battles along the length of the Gaza Strip, with devastating consequences for the civilian population amid a complete collapse in humanitarian relief.

As the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have been fighting their way through badly bomb-damaged urban areas in northern and southern Gaza, Hamas has increasingly relied on improvised bombs to inflict casualties and slow down the assault.

Gaza’s hospitals have reported a flood of civilian dead and injured, many of them women and children, as medical supplies dwindle, while the spread of ground combat to the south has stopped any delivery of humanitarian aid much further than the Rafah crossing point with Egypt.

Images have emerged appearing to show Israeli forces preparing to flood the labyrinth of tunnels used by Hamas under the Gaza Strip with sea water.

Israel is said to have completed installing at least five pumps about a mile north of the Al-Shati refugee camp that could move thousands of cubic metres of water per hour – meaning they could flood the 300-mile network of tunnels within weeks.

Their plan would be to drive out the terrorists from the tunnels and make them inoperable by flooding the system with seawater from the Mediterranean Sea.

On Saturday, the day after the week-long ceasefire in Gaza came to an end, protesters were back on Parliament Hill demanding that Israel cease all hostilities against Hamas. Yet this is not what Hamas’s own leadership wants.

Last week’s truce did last longer than many expected, with both sides agreeing to extend the initial four-day ceasefire an additional three days, but it could have continued if Hamas had wanted it to.

As readers have pointed out calls for a ceasefire are simply a ruse to save the murdering rapists of Hamas from destruction.

Israeli spies and military commanders held late-night meetings just hours before the October 7 attacks to discuss an imminent Hamas assault and knew of the threat to the Supernova music festival, according to an investigation.

The first meeting took place close to midnight and the second one at 3am but attendees concluded that Hamas was holding a training exercise on the Gaza border rather than preparing for a terror attack, according to Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper.

Can you think of a better time to tell Jews to keep their symbols out of our public spaces than while Hamas supporters roam Canada chanting “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free?” Moncton City Council apparently couldn’t.

For the first time in 20 years, no Hanukkah menorah in front of city hall for you. Council has now commendably backed down, and will install the menorah (and the nativity scene they had also nixed). But here it’s important to understand that, as Queen’s history professor Don Akenson once said, people may have small ideas, but “big ideas have people.” Including that sophisticated, inclusive respect for “religion” requires forbidding any actual religious practices.

Israel’s army has killed half of Hamas’ battalion commanders since the war in Gaza began — including one caught on eerie video roaming the terror group’s tunnel network before his death, Israel said Tuesday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamim Netanyahu reaffirmed his nation’s goal to eradicate Hamas when speaking to reporters — and claimed that the terrorist group has already lost about a dozen leaders of its estimated 24 battalions fighting in Gaza, the Times of Israel reported.

“We are settling accounts with all those who kidnapped, participated, murdered, slaughtered, raped and burned the daughters of our people,” Netanyahu said. “We will not forget, and we will not forgive.”

Conservatives must learn the lessons of 2020—and prepare.

The resurgence of public protests in support of Hamas has revealed a disturbing truth: the left-wing rioting following George Floyd’s death in 2020 was not an anomaly, but a tactic that activists can repurpose for any cause. Whether by coincidence or design, these recent outbursts could be a dress rehearsal for possible violence during next year’s election campaign.

Conservative leaders must prepare for that prospect. To prevent 2020 from repeating itself in 2024, conservatives need to consider what might spark a riot, how it can be prevented, and how to understand and manage the politics of rioting.

On October 7, Yoni Saadon, a man at the Israeli rave festival near the Gaza border, hid from the Hamas berserkers swarming the concertgoers and engaging in a murder orgy. He pretended to be dead, pulling over him like a shield the body of a woman shot in the head, and smearing her blood on him to fool the killers. He told the Sunday Times of London that after an hour, he peeked out.

“If you (Americans) were OK with us killing 5,000 children, you are OK with killing 10,000 children,” said Daniel Levy, a former Israeli diplomat who helped negotiate the Oslo peace accords in the 1990s. That’s what Israeli diplomats really think of U.S. policy, he says.

This implies that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) both dismiss U.S. secretary of state Antony Blinken’s strenuous warnings about the need to avoid high Palestinian casualties in the renewed bombing as mere hot air.

Oh I don’t think they’ll miss by much if at all.

In the wake of Hamas ’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel, most people, especially those on the Right, quickly recognized that Israel ’s battle to destroy Hamas was and is completely justified. Unfortunately, fewer seem to grasp that the destruction of Hamas, while necessary, is not sufficient for Israel’s security.

The fact is Hamas is just one part of a much larger threat that Israel has faced for years. Israel has had to also ward off attacks from the Palestine Liberation Army operating in Judea and Samaria, and other Palestinian terrorist groups such as Islamic Jihad, which recently announced it executed an innocent Israeli woman who had been held hostage for more than a month.