by Melanie Phillips
A film called “NAZA” won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival. It was directed by journalist-filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, radical anti-Israel activists with a long history of delegitimizing Israel through defamatory falsehoods.
“NAZA” is a Hebrew acronym for collateral damage or unintended civilian casualties. In war, such casualties are sadly inevitable. In the Gaza war, Israel reportedly achieved the lowest ratio of civilians to combatant deaths anywhere in the world because of the unprecedented measures it took to save civilian life wherever possible.
Israel has been profoundly changed by the enduring trauma of the Hamas-led atrocities on Oct. 7, 2023 and the war that followed. Israelis are painfully aware of the heroism of the IDF troops, so many of whom have lost their lives, limbs or mental stability in the desperate fight against a fanatical genocidal enemy.
The West is in the grip of a pathology created by the alliance between left-wingers and Islamists. And some Israelis are themselves contaminated by this deadly sickness. British Jews are too frightened to go to the doctor or hospital because they fear they may be attacked or even killed under the surgeon’s knife or general anaesthetic.
Supporting Palestine has become the issue that powers progressive politics.
The overwhelming majority of Israelis have no time for the left. But the left-wing minority that’s disproportionately represented in Israel’s universities, the media, the arts and the legal profession packs a cultural punch that has done Israel untold damage abroad.
Today’s leftism is a sign of a malignancy in the body politic. That is why it’s joined with that other malignancy, radical Islam, which intends to murder Jews, destroy Israel and bring down America. (And all Western democracies.)
Food for Thought: by Steven Shamrak
It is not surprising that the Jew-hating and Antisemitic international press, in attempt to discredit the Jewish independence movement – Zionism, use terms like “Extreme Right” or “Right-wing”, when they are describing Israeli politicians or Jewish activists, who are fighting for the rights of Jewish people to live in peace on the Jewish ancestral land. It is quite disturbing and disappointing to see that the same descriptions are used in Jewish press and website publications. Jewish journalists and bloggers, progressive or on the Left side of politics, should be ashamed for equating Zionism with Fascist ideology!
Zionism is the Jewish
National Independence Movement.
Israel will Resettle Gazans Abroad
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz pledged that the IDF will resume the war in Gaza until it achieves a decisive victory over Hamas, while reiterating his support for the voluntary emigration of Gazan civilians who wish to leave the war-torn enclave and settle abroad. Katz claimed that approximately 80% of Gazans want to leave the Strip but are being prevented from doing so by Hamas. Katz has emphasized that the proposal would involve “voluntary emigration.”
Six hundred trucks loaded with humanitarian supplies, are directed into the Gaza Strip every day. Ownership of those 600 trucks enables Hamas to extend the imprisonment of the vast majority of Gazans who wish to escape from the Hell that Hamas created. (How many trucks do Sudanese refugees get?)
The UN chief Guterres said he “deeply regrets” the US decision to deny Mahmoud Abbas a visa, preventing him from attending the UN General Assembly in person. The administration cited US laws prohibiting the PA from using international organizations to target Israel, seeking unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state, paying stipends to terrorists and glorifying violence. (But visas were approved for Iran’s president and foreign minister. Why?)
Qatar-based Al Jazeera has dismissed 24 journalists and other staff members who worked for the network in the Gaza Strip, including reporters, photographers and producers. Several of those dismissed are named in a US civil lawsuit accusing the network of providing support to Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. (How many journalists does Al Jazeera have in Sudan, Yemen, Niger or Afghanistan?)
Israel is assisting Saudi Arabia in its ongoing efforts against the Houthis, including by providing strategic intelligence to the Gulf kingdom. Saudi officials have repeatedly stressed that Riyadh will not formally recognize Israel until an independent Palestinian state is established. Nevertheless, the countries are believed to maintain significant behind-the-scenes ties.
Arab Enemies Within
– The Shin Bet arrested a 32-year-old Israeli man, a resident of Majd al-Krum, an Arab town in northern Israel, suspected of maintaining contact with a foreign agent from Lebanon.
– A 31-year-old, Sultan Abu al-Hija, resident of the northern Arab city of Tamra charged after an investigation found that he had repeatedly sought contact with Hamas’ military wing in the Gaza Strip and later established contact with Iranian intelligence operatives.
The US Vice President JD Vance said Tuesday that Washington can’t let its policies in the Middle East be “subservient” to those of Israel, and must place its own interests first. Vance said of US-Israel ties: “Obviously Israel has been an important partner when it comes to military technology, when it comes to intelligence sharing, but also sometimes the United States doesn’t… agree with Israel.” (“Sometimes”? The US consistently sabotages Israel’s rights to defeat its enemies most of the times. For sake of the future of the Jewish people, Israel must put its interests first, and finish the job!)
Quotes of the Week:
“In Judea and Samaria, there were a thousand thwarted attacks. That means a thousand attempts to murder our people. We are also settling accounts with those murderers who murdered our people, our daughters, our women and our children on October 7. And we are settling accounts with those who still remain. The desire of Iran and its proxies to destroy the State of Israel, that desire has not disappeared, it has simply weakened. We have done most of the work, but there is still work left to complete – and we will complete it.” – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, declared that Israel would continue its campaign against Iran and its terrorist proxies.
by Amir Bohbot
In January 2025, the IDF launched Operation Iron Wall in Judea and Samaria, aiming to restore operational freedom inside (so-called) Palestinian refugee camps. Military officials now say the operation has yielded significant results.
“There are no longer armed parades in the camps. There are no more safe havens,” one senior defense official said. “A year ago, we couldn’t enter the heart of the Jenin refugee camp. Today, there’s no more daily gunfire at nearby Israeli communities.”
According to the IDF, more than 1,000 terrorists have been killed in air and ground strikes since the start of the operation. Over 2,000 weapons have also been seized.
Many armed operatives have fled to nearby villages and cities, forcing the IDF to adjust its deployments across the region. To support the expanded mission, the IDF increased its forces from 13 to at least 22 battalions. Troops are now tasked with protecting the Seam Line, securing roadways, and operating deep in Palestinian-controlled areas.
Despite Israel’s continued ban on most Palestinian labourers working in Israel, there has been no widespread unrest. Before Hamas’s October 7 massacre, over 200,000 Palestinians worked in Israel or in West Bank industrial zones. Today, that figure has dropped significantly. According to estimates, about 40,000 Palestinians are staying in Israel illegally, alongside 10,000 legally employed workers and another 20,000 in West Bank factories.
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