Weaponizing Law against Israel
by Melanie Phillips
The UN Human Rights Office has issued a report detailing what it calls Israel’s “systemic discrimination" against Palestinians in the disputed territories of Judea and Samaria, claiming racial discrimination and segregation that resembles a kind of apartheid system.
This is the lie constantly deployed by Israel’s enemies to demonize and destroy it.
It ignores the fact that every restriction on the Arabs living in the “West Bank" is imposed by Israel only to prevent the murderous terrorist attacks that the Arabs living there perpetrate against Israeli civilians almost every day.
International law didn’t stop Syria’s former president, Bashar Assad, from butchering half a million of his fellow citizens, nor Iran’s Islamic regime from waging a terrorist war on the West for the past half-century.
Instead, international law is used against Israel in a manner that perverts law and corrupts justice in transnational courts, such as the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the UN’s International Court of Justice (ICJ).
A key reason why so many well-meaning people hate Israel is that they believe every word uttered by the humanitarian nexus of the United Nations, international courts and NGOs. (And, because deep inside most of them are anti-Semites.)
International law isn’t the pathway to a fairer and more civilized world. In its ferocious weaponization against Israel, it has been turned into the negation of justice and the legal instrument of evil.
Food for Thought: by Steven Shamrak
Our enemies enjoy watching secular Jews fighting religious ones. They love our divisiveness - the Jewish Left opposing Zionists and protecting the rights of fake Palestinians to occupy Jewish land. They know that our disunity is preventing Israel from achieving two thousand years of the goals of Jewish people – to establish the Jewish homeland on our ancestral land, Eretz-Israel.
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The US Strikes Islamic State across Syria
The US military said that it had carried out multiple strikes in Syria targeting the Islamic State terror group as part of an operation that Washington launched in December after an attack on American personnel. Saturday’s attacks were part of an operation launched last month after Islamic State fighters killed US military personnel in Syria. About 1,000 US troops remain in Syria. (Why is Israel not allowed to do the same to Hamas and Hezbollah terror groups?)
Rifles to Civilian Security Squads
To bolster security capabilities in communities nationwide in the wake of the war the Defense Ministry and the Israel Defense Forces have completed the distribution of thousands of advanced Arad rifles to rapid response teams across the country as part of the community defense strategy. (Israel has millions of internal enemies to worry about in case of a war. Europeans might need to do the same soon.)
Egypt said that its new $30B natural gas deal with Israel is a purely commercial agreement driven by economic interests and does not include any political understandings between the two countries. Cairo continues to support what it calls the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people. (By keeping civilians in war-torned Gaza, Egypt violates two international refugee conventions it has signed.)
Even Anti-Israel AOC is Disgusted with Hamas Supporters
Lefty “Squad” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – a strident anti-Israel critic – ripped a mob of pro-Palestine protestors who were caught on video chanting in support of Hamas terrorists while marching in Queens. “Hey so marching into a predominantly Jewish neighbourhood and leading with a chant saying, ‘we support Hamas’ is a disgusting and anti-Semitic thing to do,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar met with the president of Somaliland, just ten days after Israel became the first nation to formally recognise the breakaway Horn of Africa region as an independent and sovereign state. Somaliland, which declared independence from Somalia in 1991, boasts a crucial strategic location at the confluence of the Indian Ocean and Red Sea. Analysts suggested that countering threats from Yemen's Houthi militia, who have targeted vessels in these routes, is a key driver behind Israel's recognition and could pave the way for military cooperation.
The key details of the proposed Gaza stabilization force (ISF) remain unresolved, including its mandate, deployment zones and rules of engagement. The structure of the ISF remains unclear, and Washington is still gauging countries’ willingness to commit. No roles have been finalized. The US Central Command (CENTCOM) led a summit in Doha on Wednesday. Israel was not represented at the closed-door meeting.
Israel’s government will launch a national project to “return the Negev to the State of Israel.” The plan aims to rein in rampant criminal activity, violence, and weapons smuggling that have plagued parts of the Negev for years, as well as large-scale settlement expansion. The plan envisions significant demographic growth, distribution of settlements along the eastern and western borders, development of employment zones, and upgrades to civilian infrastructure.
Hamas Fired Rocket - Nearly Hit Hospital
Terrorists in Gaza attempted to launch a rocket at Israel on Thursday, but the projectile fell short and nearly hit a hospital. “The shaft was used by Hamas to conceal a rocket launcher that was ready to fire toward southern Israel and posed an immediate threat to Israeli civilians,” the IDF stated. (This was a clear violation of the ceasefire by Hamas. No wonder that it was not reported by 'Israel-friendly' international press. Hamas said 13 were killed by the Israeli strikes.)
Violence in the Israeli-Arab Sector
Seven Arab Israelis have been murdered in incidents of violent crime since the start of 2026, as violence continues to plague the Israeli-Arab sector. The year 2025 has concluded as the deadliest on record for Israel's Arab society - 252 Arab-Israelis were murdered in 218 incidents in 2025. (And it has nothing to do with Jews!)
Judea and Samaria is Part of Israel
Congressional candidate Brian Cole, a Republican member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, said that if he is elected to push for Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank, or Judea and Samaria, and for the United States to stop referring to the territory as the West Bank. Cole said his Catholic faith does influence his support for Israel, but emphasized that his motivation is rooted more broadly in a defense of Western civilization. “Israel is the only stable country over there in the Middle East. And I saw the atrocities that happened with the Hamas attack and the Nova music festival, and Hezbollah."
E1 Housing Plan Finally Approves
Following decades of delays amid international pressure to scrap the plan, Israel grants final approval for 3,401 housing units in the E1 area between Jerusalem and Ma’ale Adumim – part of a project which could block Palestinian continuity between Judea and Samaria.
Quote of the Week:
“Our Palestinian land is from the (Jordan) River to the (Mediterranean) sea. I dare any Palestinian, any senior Palestinian official, or any Palestinian leader to reduce the Palestinian map to the West Bank and Gaza!” - Tawfiq Tirawi, a senior Fatah member – The same was said many times by Yasser Arafat and many other leaders of fake Palestinians! They did not and will not accept any peace plan.
Dr. Robert Marc Schwartz
The war the West won’t name - or fight -- is coming to everyone's doorstep. Iran's regime, the major sponsor of terror, may fall, but there are others waiting to take over.
The West is not losing the war against terror because it lacks intelligence, technology, or power. It is losing because it lacks clear recognition of the magnitude of the enemy and the will to fight.
We are already in a global war. What we lack is the doctrine, legal framework, and strategic resolve to fight it as such.
The massacre of Jews at Bondi Beach may have been a tipping point. Like the attacks from Pittsburgh to Paris. It was not an isolated eruption of violence but a battlefield action in a coordinated campaign.
The problem today is less denial than inertia. Western governments recognize the pattern, yet continue to respond with structures designed for a different era.
Wars are not won by recognition alone. They are won by adapting strategy to the reality of the battlefield.
In a global conflict against non-state actors, sovereignty must become conditional. States must be required to confront rather than tolerate or quietly collude with terrorist groups operating within their borders.
- First, intelligence must be fully integrated.
- Second, the war must dismantle the enemy’s financial and logistical backbone.
- Third, states that tolerate terror infrastructure must face escalating consequences.
- Fourth, ideology must be confronted directly.
- Fifth, moral clarity must be restored.
Globalizing the war on terror is not a call for endless conflict, but for restoring security, freedom, and decency.