Time to Stop Feeding Crocodile
by BATAWEEN
The left-wing kibbutzniks on the Gaza border who were kind to their Arab neighbours had their generosity repaid with death. The 7th of October attack was a rude awakening for many Israelis, who had projected their liberal values on Gazans. Left leaning, peace oriented, humanitarians, who drove Gazans to Israeli hospitals, raised money for them, and gave them work, they believed they were building ‘bridges’.
After October 7, IDF found the maps, the lists of names, the layouts of homes, the notes saying where the children slept, where the dogs were, who to kill first. This was not rage, this was intelligence gathered patiently over years by Gazans who Jews had been helping.
An old folktale called “The Crocodile and the Old Woman” portrays a story about a woman who kept feeding the crocodile. It became stronger, bolder, and less afraid. One day it ate her.
Many Jews of diaspora in the West – New York, London, Sydney, and Paris – assume everyone plays by the same moral rules. They assume radical Islam is just another political opinion. They assume tolerance will be returned with tolerance.
Meanwhile, we see it in the street, intimidation, the open calls for violence, the mobs, the targeting of Jewish neighbourhoods and institutions. We see politicians who appease Muslim voters, from Presidents and PMs of countries to Mamdani in New York or Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London. Jew-haters despise even Jews who believe they are being virtuous while helping empower them.
I am not claiming the absolute truth. I am sharing what a Mizrahi child raised among Ashkenazim learned, by standing in both worlds, about the mentality of the enemies of Israel – appeasement does not work! October 7 was not just an attack. It was a revelation of what happens when you mistake a crocodile for a neighbour.
Maybe it is time, in Israel and in the diaspora, to stop feeding it. (To achieve a political advantage the international Jew-haters, politicians and members of the press have no problem letting the Islamic terrorists kill their own people. Israel will prevail. As Golda Meir said: “We prefer your condemnations over their condolences.”)
Shana Tova!
Wishing you a happy New Year.
May this year bring defeat of our enemies
and reunite the Jewish land!
Food for Thought: by Steven Shamrak
Unfortunately, too many Jews are ready to fight anti-Semitism only, but when it comes to discuss and plan the future of the Jewish people and re-unification of Eretz-Israel they do not have much interest to get involved. Other important Jewish issues, like assimilation due to lack of national identity and intermarriage, are ignored completely. At the same time, many Jews – due to a ‘Ghetto Mentality’ – appeasement of the enemies, and/or pathological self-hate, are quite vocal and even aggressive anti-Zionists and anti-Israel!
Zionism is the Jewish
National Independence Movement.
‘Symbolic’ anti-Semitic Boycott
British and 11 other countries’ restrictions on Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria are unlikely to significantly affect Israel’s overall exports. Israeli exports of goods and services totalled about $159 billion, of which about $250 million comes from Judea, Samaria, eastern Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights. “An English importer might conclude, ‘I don’t know what the Green Line is and which side the product is from, and I should not bother with it at all,” explained Roey Fisher, head of the Foreign Trade Administration at the Economy and Industry Ministry. The Green Line refers to the demarcation line from the Israel-Jordanian armistice agreement of 1949.
PA Elections May be Delayed Again
Doubts are raised over whether Palestinian Authority (PA) legislative elections will take place. PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas set November 28 as the date for legislative elections in a decree issued in July. Elections for the PA chairmanship are scheduled for the first quarter of 2027. The planned vote would be the first PA legislative election in two decades. Abbas, 90, was elected PA chairman in 2005 for a four-year term that officially expired in 2009.
Trump did not Oppose Sanctions
During a call between US President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Andy Burnham ahead of the announcement of the sanctions, Trump did not object to the planned sanctions and did not ask Burnham to pursue a different course of action. The White House also distanced itself from statements made by US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee after the sanctions were announced, who called the UK sanctions ‘irrational action”. (So much for being a good friend of Israel! Anti-Semites do not care about fake Palestinians. ‘THEY’ just hate Jews!)
Israel is ‘Overwhelming’ Democracy
Israel’s October 27 election is officially taking shape, with a remarkable 38 parties submitting candidate lists before the deadline. Around a dozen expected to reach the Knesset. There are four Arab parties – Hadash, Ta’al and Balad have united under the Joint List, while Mansour Abbas’s Ra’am is running separately. (How many Jewish parties in any Arab/Muslim country? How many Jews left there after ethnic cleansing, which no country in the world has condemned?)
Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband addresses the House of Commons, announcing a ban on all dealings with settlements. He stressed his own Jewish heritage as he expresses “shame” over what has unfolded in Palestine, denouncing Israel’s occupation, accusing “settler terrorists” of government-indulged “ethnic cleansing,” and announcing sweeping UK sanctions on Israeli settlements and the expansion of an arms embargo.
For decades, the Golan’s Druze had maintained loyalty to Syria and resisted integration into Israel. But over the last two years, a fundamental transformation had taken place for the 29,000 residents of Majdal Shams and three neighbouring Druze towns. After a rocket attack by Iran’s proxy terror group, Hezbollah – a close ally of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad – on a local soccer field in July 2024 that killed 12 Druze children and the July 2025 massacre of over 2,000 Druze in Sweida, Syria, by forces loyal to Syria’s current president, Golan Druze increasingly embrace Israel, reject Syria in seismic shift triggered by tragedy.
Sanctions will Harm the PA Arabs
President Isaac Herzog warned the United Kingdom against imposing trade sanctions on Israeli products from Judea and Samaria, saying such a move would constitute interference in Israel’s democratic elections and harm both Israelis and ‘Palestinians’. Herzog said. “If this happens – and other nations may join – I believe it will prove to be a grave miscalculation, a decision that will fall on the wrong side of history.” (British diplomats reportedly tell Washington planned Judea and Samaria sanctions are largely symbolic = anti-Semitic!)
Quotes of the Week:
“Our enemies have built a network of lies and hate and incitement and today they try to weaponize everything. They know that they cannot defeat the IDF in conventional war so what they try to do is to delegitimize the whole notion of the Jewish State, our existence, they try to portray us as human rights violators.” – Gilad Erdan, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations.
Israel-Haters Ignore Intelligence Warnings
by Giulio Meotti
The left in power in London has now decided to sanction and dump Israel, once again to pander to the Muslim population that is decisive at the ballot box.
Former British Security Minister, Tom Tugendhat, wrote: “Israel is one of our most important intelligence partners and has been for many, many years. Many attacks have been thwarted thanks to cooperation with Israel, which has helped us protect British citizens from terrorist attacks.”
In 2012, Israel was decisive in the security of the London Olympic Games.
In 2016 it emerged that Israeli technology for tracking terrorists could have prevented the Islamic State attacks in Paris and Belgium but was boycotted. An Israeli security company had offered tracking software. It was software capable of flagging the ISIS terrorist cell responsible for the attacks in Paris and Belgium. The offer was rejected, apparently after an official made clear that Israeli technology could not be purchased.
The Israeli Mossad has helped thwart some 50 attacks in twenty countries.
Australia stopped in time a plan to blow up a flight from Sydney to Abu Dhabi. A bomb, hidden in a meat grinder, was to be carried on board. “Israeli intelligence thwarted the downing of an Australian airliner, an unimaginable massacre,” Benjamin Netanyahu declared.
Donald Trump revealed Israel’s alert about an ISIS plan to blow up aircraft bound for Europe using explosives inside laptops.
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