Dawn was flaring over Gaza as two men in Hamas garb rode south along Sofa Street on a motorbike.
The sky was clear. The road was empty. It was 6:40 a.m. They were on their way to kill Israelis.
They didn’t have far to go.
It was less than three kilometres to Sufa, the Israeli town they were attacking — one of 30 targeted that day.
Bad news, America—Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and Hezbollah terrorists aren’t just waging war on Israel, they are potentially crossing over the southern U.S. border too. World Jihad, here we come.
One Liberal MP said the antisemitism Canada is experiencing is “frustrating and shocking.” His comments were primarily directed at the street protests against Jewish businesses — but they were not limited to them. He was also speaking about his own caucus.
It is a grim irony that Justin Trudeau, who was once privately referred to as “Canada’s first NDP prime minister” by one of his own MPs, is watching the hijacking of policy by a group of MPs who are more left-wing than he is.
A handsome man in his 20s in a military uniform zips past me on a motorised scooter. A woman with a tattoo and piercings calmly sips a cortado in a coffee shop across from me. A young family bustles past. This is Israel in 2023.
I am on my way to a screening of “raw” footage of the 7 October massacres that Hamas committed against Israeli civilians. Atrocities that are being denied and dismissed across social media and in parts of legacy media internationally. “In 2023 we are still dealing with holocaust denial,” says my contact in the IDF media unit. “This event is an attempt to put that right.” This is also Israel in 2023.
Israel’s Shin Bet security service and Police force jointly interrogated six detainees from Gaza who participated in the destruction and mass murder of October 7, 2023.
The footage from the interrogation was released on Monday and showed selected clips from six separate interrogations.
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Investigation Reveals Hamas Terrorists Offered $10,000 and an Apartment to Those Who Brought Hostages Back to Gaza
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A downtown Moxies restaurant has taken some heat after employees were filmed celebrating a national march for Gaza over the weekend.
A group of employees on the front steps of the Moxies, at 70 University Ave., are seen cheering on the marchers in video posted to X.
Someone evilly decided to scrawl “Palestine” on the 48th Highlanders Regimental Memorial, which has been standing at the north end of Queen’s Park for 100 years,
Yocheved Lifshitz, one of the women freed from Hamas captivity on Monday night, spoke for the first time with media.
Lifshitz, whose husband is still held captive in Gaza, remains hospitalized at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv.
“My name is Yocheved Lifshitz, and I was born in 1983, in Israel,” she began. “I thank you for coming to hear my tragedy and that of my friends.”
The large influential accounts who shared Hamas giving tea to the 85 years old hostages yesterday were only helping the murderous Hamas terrorists spread their propaganda.
Yochaved Lifshitz, who escaped captivity by the murderers and Nazis Hamas-ISIS: “They beat me, laid me on… pic.twitter.com/K3tiFlSwXw
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After Hamas’ horrific attack on Israeli civilians on Oct. 7, Israel has declared total war. Israel’s stated goal is to eliminate the terrorist organization’s military capabilities. The crisis faced by Gazans caught in the midst of the conflict is heartbreaking and likely to get worse, but Hamas has left Israel with no other choice.
Those who believe Israel has other alternatives tend to hold two assumptions that are patently false. First is the belief that Hamas is not thoroughly committed to the violent destruction of Israel as a non-negotiable article of faith.
A senior writer for New York Magazine has come under fire for a series of tweets he made in which he claimed that Zionists worked with Nazis during World War II and allowed some of the horrors of the Holocaust.
“Wait til they find out Zionists could’ve saved hundreds of thousands of Jews from the gas chambers and decided not to,” wrote Tirhakah Love, author of New York Magazine’s Dinner Party newsletter who previously publicly celebrated the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
Mayor Olivia Chow has condemned a protest outside a downtown Toronto location of an Israeli coffee chain.
Hundreds of protesters with Palestinian flags gathered at University Avenue and Adelaide Street on Saturday. In videos posted to social media, protesters can be heard yelling “Zionist cafe” and chanting “boycott” outside Café Landwer’s University Avenue location.
She had to condemn “Islamophobia” of course.
One thing in urban combat in Gaza is not like it is in the films: you do not kick in doors. You blow them up instead.
“You put rockets in through the sides of houses or the walls or you blow up the door,” said Benzi Sanders, a former soldier, speaking from his experience of the last war in the enclave. “You go in, weapons firing. Everyone is supposed to have left.” All that is supposed to wait for you, supposedly, is booby-traps and militants.
For Sanders, 32, there was no time to be afraid, as you blasted your way into the unknown. “You are trying to stay alert,” he said. “You are in confident survival mode but you don’t have fear because you don’t have time to reflect. If you feel fear coming you say ‘not now’ to yourself.”
The first casualty of reporting on Israel is the truth.
On October 17, as Israel waged a counter-offensive against Hamas in the wake of the Palestinian terror organization’s grotesque terror spree against Israeli innocents earlier in the month, a rocket struck the Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City. Initial reports were that hundreds had been killed. Before any investigation or conclusive evidence had been presented, Hamas and Palestinian supporters in the media seized the propaganda opportunity to blame Israel for a shocking war crime.
The Hamas apologism of Black Lives Matter activists has exposed the twisted, hateful logic of identity politics.
Following Hamas’s pogrom of Jewish people in Israel on 7 October, numerous Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists made clear where their sympathies lie. Within days, BLM’s chapter in Chicago posted a graphic that celebrated the slaughter. It showed a paraglider of the kind used by Hamas terrorists to enter Israel from Gaza and murder over 200 young people at a music festival. Below the picture, the caption read: ‘I stand with Palestine.’
