Israel

Tasha Kheiriddin: Carney Liberals give Hamas a pass

On Monday, Canada issued a joint communique with France and the United Kingdom on Israel’s latest military operation in Gaza. “We will not stand by while the Netanyahu Government pursues these egregious actions,” it read. “If Israel does not cease the renewed military offensive and lift its restrictions on humanitarian aid, we will take further concrete actions.” In response, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu clapped back that “the leaders in London, Ottawa and Paris are offering a huge prize for the genocidal attack on Israel on October 7 while inviting more such atrocities.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Israel

Israel ‘taken aback’ by Canada’s threat of action over war, wants Carney to visit: ambassador

OTTAWA — Israel’s ambassador in Ottawa says his country is “quite taken aback” by Canada’s decision to threaten action alongside the United Kingdom and France, over its war against Hamas and believes Prime Minister Mark Carney ought to pay the Israel a visit.

“This is unprecedented,” Iddo Moed, Israel’s ambassador to Canada, told National Post in an interview Tuesday.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Israel

Jeremy Bowen: Goodwill running out as UK, France and Canada demand Israel end Gaza offensive

Israel went to war after the Hamas attacks of 7 October 2023 armed with an arsenal of weapons mostly paid for, supplied and then resupplied by the United States.

Its other allies gave Israel something just as potent in its own way: a deep credit of goodwill and solidarity, based on revulsion at the killings of 1,200 people, mostly Israeli civilians, and the sight of 251 people being dragged into captivity in Gaza as hostages.

Now it seems that Israel’s credit has gone, at least as far as France, the United Kingdom and Canada are concerned. They have issued their strongest condemnation yet of the way Israel is fighting the war in Gaza.

Joint statement from the leaders of Canada, the United Kingdom and France on the situation in Gaza and the West Bank

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Israel

IDF claps back against Anita Anand’s criticism of the Gaza war

TEL AVIV — The international spokesman for the Israeli Defence Forces has clapped back against Foreign Minister Anita Anand’s criticism of the Gaza war, even as the Liberal government broadened its messaging to call for Hamas to disarm and cede power.

In a scrum with reporters after being sworn in last week, Anand described Israel’s post-October 7 war on Hamas as “aggression,” accusing the Jewish state of using food as a political toll. She cited a death toll of 50,000 in the war, a figure released by the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Israel

The gold-plated peacenik in the White House

(JNS) When Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election last year, many in Israel thought they’d dodged a bullet. The Democratic Party was viscerally hostile to Israel, while Trump was considered the greatest friend the Jewish state had ever had in the White House.

Now the Israelis are wondering whether they have escaped one nightmare to find themselves in another.

They were blindsided by the Trump administration’s decision to stop attacking the Houthis after the Islamist group promised to end its attacks on shipping in the Red Sea while continuing to fire missiles at Israel.

Another view point …

Is Trump Close to Abandoning Israel? A Conversation with Jim Hanson

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIsrael, President Trump

Trump’s secret hostage deal exposes rift with Netanyahu

Benjamin Netanyahu’s announcement last week of a massive military escalation in Gaza dominated all attention in Israel.

But while politicians and the media picked over his plan to wreak final destruction on Hamas, he had only the vaguest notion that his closest ally, Donald Trump, was in the final stages of a deal with the terrorist group.

Mr Trump’s envoys had gone behind Mr Netanyahu’s back to negotiate the release of Edan Alexander, the 21-year-old hostage.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIsrael, USA

Is Trump Breaking With Israel?

Or is the far-left media trying to provoke such a break?

Is Donald Trump really preparing to recognize a Palestinian state? The news hit like a thunderbolt on Saturday, amid an avalanche of stories claiming that Trump is angry with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and is changing course from his previous wholehearted support of Israel’s defense against Hamas and the other jihadist entities that are determined to destroy it. As is so often the case in such matters, however, there was decidedly less to the story than there initially appeared to be.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIsrael, USA

Americans used to be steadfast in their support for Israel. Those days are gone

I ran from the White House briefing room, past the portico entrance of the West Wing to our camera position on the lawn, and flung on an ear piece connecting me to the studio.

A moment later the presenter asked me about the comments we had just heard live from US President Donald Trump.

I said we were seeing a fundamental shift in a United States’ policy position after decades of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

It was February this year, and Trump had just held talks with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – the first foreign leader since Trump’s inauguration to be invited to the White House. The US president vowed that his country would take control of the Gaza Strip, having earlier pledged the territory would also be “cleaned out” and emptied of its Palestinian population.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIsrael, USA

Trump and Netanyahu meet

Off topic President Trump announces plan to obliterate Iran in the event of his assassination.

h/t XC

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Netanyahu and Trump meeting to focus on Gaza ceasefire deal

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected on Tuesday to become the first foreign leader to visit the White House since Donald Trump’s return to office.

The two leaders are set to discuss the state of the current ceasefire between Israel and Hamas Islamists in Gaza and explore paths toward ending the conflict altogether.

Prior to his arrival, Netanyahu’s office announced that he would dispatch a delegation to participate in a new round of negotiations in Doha, Qatar, later this week.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIsrael, USA

Germany’s Cultural Elite’s Perverted “Debate” on Israel

On November 22, 2024, at the National Gallery of Berlin, the American photographer and political activist Nan Goldin asked, “Why can’t I speak, Germany?” With apparently no sense of irony, she spoke at a lectern in front of a large audience, with numerous phones pointing at her, at the opening of her retrospective, titled “This will not end well.” The subject of her talk was not her artistic portfolio but rather her political agenda on Israel.

An enthusiastic audience applauded her outrage and indignation over the “genocide” in Gaza and Lebanon, and her immoral equivalence between the Palestinian population after the October 7 atrocities with pogroms against Jews under the Russian Empire. Goldin’s false claim that “antizionism has nothing to do with antisemitism” was followed by loud chants of appreciation and applause.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGermany, Israel

‘Historic day,’ says Netanyahu at Syrian border

Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu, visiting the Syrian border on Sunday, hailed the collapse of the Assad regime, “a central link in Iran’s axis of evil,” describing it as a “historic day in the history of the Middle East.”

Netanyahu said the fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad, who fled the country after a coalition of rebel groups stormed Damascus on Sunday, was the direct result of blows Israel inflicted on Iran and Hezbollah, “the main supporters of the Assad regime.”

 

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inIsrael, Netanyahu, Syria

Why the media keep underestimating Israel

Most recently, Israel has confounded expectations in its war against Hamas. The IDF has ground Hamas into the rubble of Gaza, killing most of its leaders. It has wreaked sufficient devastation on Hezbollah to produce a ceasefire agreement, albeit a shaky one. Commentators warned solemnly of ‘escalation ladders’ and a ‘wider regional war’, predicting that Iran would not stand idly by as its proxies were degraded. Yet apart from a few token missile strikes, that is precisely what has happened.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inIsrael

The Biased Media: What They Make It Their Business Not to See

Earlier this month, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Israel of committing “genocide” in the Gaza Strip in its counterterrorism operation against the Iran-backed Hamas terrorist group. Hamas had launched the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, murdering 1,200 Israelis, wounding thousands, and kidnapping more than 240 hostages. Erdogan, whose country has been hosting and supporting some of the leaders of Hamas, threatened that Israel will “eventually pay the price for this genocide.” He added: “There will be no peace in the world without accountability for the genocide in Gaza.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIsrael