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Will the Conflict Expand?

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Salem Alketbi Israel Hayom, Dec. 26, 2023 “Iran realizes that the intervention of its terrorist militia arms in the region under the pretext of defending the people of Gaza contributes to attracting the sympathy of the Arab and Islamic peoples and prevents the governments of these countries from uttering the facts and confronting the Iranian […]

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USS Nitze launches a strike against three coastal radar sites in Houthi-controlled territory on Yemen's Red Sea coast.- Flickr

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Biden Needs to Strike Back Hard Against Houthis to Protect Red Sea — and US Influence

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Mark Dubowitz NY Post, Dec. 27, 2023 “These attacks are not just harassment but a well-planned campaign of economic warfare the IRGC has designed to put pressure on Israel and US-aligned Arab states.” Iran is on the offensive. On the day after Christmas, in the space of just 10 hours, US forces in the Red […]

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Iran No Longer Hides Behind Proxies in War Against Israel

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Ron Ben Yishai Ynet News, Dec. 26, 2023 “If indeed Israel was behind his killing, as Arab media reports claimed, this was in response to Iran’s direct involvement in aggression toward maritime trade routes, since the start of the Israeli ground offensive in Gaza.” Sayyed Reza Mousavi was the third brigadier general in the Iranian Revolutionary […]

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Campaign of Hamas in Ramallah with the killed role models Yasin and Rantisi on a poster (Source:Wikipedia)

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Daily Briefing: KEEPING HAMAS ALIVE

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EMPOWERING HAMAS Why Hamas Won’t Release Hostages:  Editorial Board, WSJ, Dec. 27, 2023 — Deal or no deal? In the early days of Israel’s counteroffensive against Hamas, the terrorist group begged for a breather.   Hamas – Palestinians: Disjointed or Interwoven?:  Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, The Ettinger Report, Dec. 27, 2023 — The Western attempt to distinguish between Hamas terrorists […]

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New Yorkers protest G4S office to support Palestinian prisoners… | Flickr

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The Global Empire of Palestine

Lee Smith Tablet, Dec. 19, 2023 “By continually ‘revitalizing’ the Palestinians, the stewards of global affairs have engendered something that by definition cannot survive in nature on its own: a society that celebrates death as its highest value.”   Polls showing that Palestinians in the West Bank as well as Gaza continue to celebrate and support […]

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Islamic Jihad Child Abuse | As Hamas pursues its violent aim… | Flickr

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Hamas’ Philosophy: All Civilians, All Children are Tools of War

Douglas Murray NY Post, Dec. 28, 2023 “Major Y and other people on the ground I have spoken with say that they estimate about one in every two or three homes in Gaza they go into has military weaponry, including AK47s, grenades and rocket launchers. And they routinely find entrances to Hamas’s terror tunnels inside civilian […]

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Symbol of the Israel Defense Forces (Wikipedia)

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IDF Faces a Harsh Reality in Southern Gaza

Yonah Jeremy Bob Jerusalem Post, Dec. 29, 2023 “Classified briefings by Brig. Gen. Dan Goldfus, who commands the invasion of Khan Younis, revealed that full control could take months, lasting beyond the deadline Israel has set for large-scale military operations.” What is happening in southern Gaza—and as important, what isn’t happening—threatens to leave the Middle East […]

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The Design of Hate:  Examining the Hamas Network in North America

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“The U.S. has been exposing itself to grave danger by allowing a terrorist organization, Hamas, to build an extensive and expanding network of proxy organizations throughout North America.” Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), whose bullying activities on U.S. campuses have attracted people’s attention lately, are just the tip of the iceberg of what has […]

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Daily Briefing: AND WHAT’S WITH M.I.T?

SHABBAT READING   Where Was Jacob Buried?:  Dr. David Ben-Gad HaCohen, The Torah.com.  Dec. 26, 2023 —   The Machpelah Cave near Hebron is known to be the burial place of the patriarchs and matriarchs, including Jacob. Indeed, after Jacob blesses his twelve sons (Gen 49:1–28), he instructs them to bury him in the cave: בראשית מט:כט וַיְצַ֣ו […]

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Part of the anti-war movement and reactions to the 2023 Israel–Hamas war- wikipedia

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The ASA Should De-Recognize Groups that Deliberately Violate MIT’s Content-Neutral Policies

Chad Qian The Tech, Dec. 14, 2023   “… to the extent that any students have been intimidated by rhetoric on campus to a sufficient degree such that, e.g., they are legitimately fearful to venture to classes, and this rhetoric has been “severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive,” then clearly this line would have been crossed.” […]

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Calls for ‘Intifada’ Are Traumatizing MIT’s Jewish Community

Avi Balsam The Tech, Nov. 1, 2023 “… in the words of MIT’s 18th president, there exists a “clear distinction between what we can say … and what we should say.” When students on campus call for attacks against Jews, MIT’s administration has a moral responsibility to state unequivocally that it does not support, and in fact […]

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Campus Anti-Semitism Becomes Mainstream Issue- FLICKR

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Antisemitism on Campus

MIT Israel Alliance MIT Faculty Newspaper, November/December 2023vol. Xxxvi No. 2   “It is not just students who are bullying and ostracizing Jews and Israelis on campus. At a public campus event, the MIT Interfaith Chaplain reportedly diverted the group discussion four times to assert that Palestinians are “wrongfully subjugated and oppressed by racist white […]

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