“Oct 7 2023”

Amit Yerushalmi, who served in the IDF as a lookout at the Nahal Oz base near the Gaza border, spoke Tuesday to the civilian committee investigating the October 7 failures.

Yerushalmi completed her IDF service one month before the October 7 massacre.

“I saw training exercises,” she recounted. “It used to be an exercise once a month, twice a month. It turned into once a week and slowly, slowly, became several times a week, and even several times a day. I also saw a change in where the exercises were held. There were times that the training exercises were not held in the training area, which was also suspicious. I saw an increase in disruptions of order on the border.”

It seems people got complacent and stopped talking.

The appeasement lobby only has one big idea when it comes to Islamic terrorists and any other enemies:

1. Give them land.
2. When the terrorists attack anyway, explain that it’s because they didn’t get enough land last time.
3. Give them more land.
4. When the terrorists attack anyway, explain that it’s because they didn’t get enough land last time.

Israel has been living through this particular “peace process” nightmare for a generation.

The Houthi missile attack on Israel on Sunday was an important move for the Iranian regime.

The attack was part of Iran’s overall war against Israel in the region, using its proxies, and not simply in a Houthi-centric context. The group claimed to use a “hypersonic” missile, a claim that dovetails with Iran’s claims of developing a hypersonic missile last year. This is very much part of the Iranian multi-front war plan against Israel, a war launched by Hamas on October 7, 2023.

The Iran-backed Palestinian terrorist group Hamas has repeated its demand that Israel withdraw completely from the Gaza Strip in order to reach a ceasefire-hostage agreement with Israel. Hamas, in other words, is demanding that Israel lose the war so that the terrorist group can regroup, rearm and prepare for more attacks on Israel like the one it launched on October 7, 2023. In that assault, 1,200 Israelis were murdered, with many raped, tortured and burned alive. Another 240 Israelis were kidnapped to the Gaza Strip, where 101 are still being held as hostages, many of them already murdered (see here and here).

In a statement issued on September 12, Hamas said that its representatives informed Egyptian and Qatari mediators of their “positivity and flexibility to reach a ceasefire in Gaza, according to which the Israeli occupation army would withdraw from the entire territory of the Gaza Strip in a way that achieves the interests of the Palestinians and paves the way for a prisoner exchange deal.”

Toronto Police are trying to identify three suspects after officers were assaulted and spat on during a recent demonstration.

According to police, officers were at a demonstration early Wednesday evening in the Yonge St. and Front St. E. area where a group of protesters were gathered at an event outside Meridian Hall.

Police say the group tried to gain entry into the event and were removed by police.

It is almost unimaginable that in the 21^st century, such horrors would still take place. The brutal acts of Hamas remind us of the darkest periods in history, such as the atrocities committed by Hitler’s Germany. Yet, the Iranian regime and its proxies — particularly terrorist groups like Hamas — continue to bring new levels of barbarity into the modern world.

The recent recovery of six executed Israeli hostages, including Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin, from a tunnel in Rafah highlights the extent of this cruelty. These hostages, four of whom were scheduled to be released in a draft ceasefire deal, were murdered by Hamas before Israeli Defense Forces could reach them — a reminder of the inhumanity and savagery of Hamas, emboldened by their Iranian backers.

Large donors are abandoning the University of Windsor following its controversial deal with pro-Palestinian protesters — including business magnate and philanthropist Barry Zekelman, who withdrew a $1-million gift and future support.

The Star has learned that once-faithful donors have withdrawn pledges to help, or stopped donating to, various initiatives, ranging from addressing the housing crisis to renovating the university’s law school.

A group of Israeli hostages were huddled in a tunnel in Gaza a few days after they had been dragged from their homes on 7 October, when the man who had plotted their abduction appeared out of the subterranean gloom.

His hair and beard were grey and his dark-ringed eyes stared out from under thick black brows. It was a face familiar to them from a thousand broadcasts and newspaper stories: Yahya Sinwar. The Hamas leader in Gaza was the most feared man in Israel, even before he ordered the October raid in which 1,200 people – two-thirds of them civilians – were killed and 250 taken hostage.

A former Greenwood College School teacher is taking legal action against the private school, claiming she was wrongfully terminated after sharing content about the Israel-Hamas war in her math class and on social media.

Cassandra Della Mora, 33, worked as an educator at the coed middle and high school in midtown Toronto for nine years before being fired in June, according to a lawsuit recently filed in Superior Court.