UAE To Seek Death Penalty For Flydubai Terrorist: REPORT

The terrorist co-pilot who tried to nose-dive a Dubai-to-Tel Aviv jetliner into the ground is now looking at the possibility of a date with the executioner, according to a report from the Israeli outlet Ynet that cites a top Emirati official.

Abu Dhabi authorities appear ready to throw the book at 29-year-old jihadi Hamam al-Hammami and demand the maximum sentence under the law after the mid-air nightmare aboard Flydubai Flight FZ1073.

Mossad operatives and Israeli aviation experts have already shown up in Abu Dhabi to interrogate al-Hammami. They are joining intelligence agents from Saudi Arabia, Oman, and the United States in a multi-nation probe, which is what you do when someone decides the cockpit is a good place to start a war.

Investigators suspect Hammami was not simply trying to dump the Boeing 737 MAX 8 into the sea. He was plotting a horrifying, 9/11-style kamikaze run aimed straight at Tel Aviv’s iconic Azrieli Towers in the style of 911.

The horror started when al-Hammami attacked Indian-born Captain Smit Machchhar with the cockpit’s own emergency crash axe. The scumcrumpet yanked the controls into a death spiral and dropped the jet 14,000 feet in thirty seconds. Bleeding and battered, Captain Machchhar fought back and got the reinforced cockpit door open just in time for Israeli passengers to storm in. 

An Israeli passenger, Yaniv Hion, grabbed the controls and pulled the plane out of its plunge before an off-duty pilot was rushed forward to guide it to a miraculous emergency landing in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.

Not Yaniv Hion

“When I got inside, I saw the attacker on the controls, between the two seats,” Hion recalled. “There were no pilots in the seats. One was down, and the attacker was on the controls. Another person came in with me. I grabbed the attacker, put him in a chokehold, and first of all pulled him out. … He was trying to destroy the controls in order to disable the plane. That’s what I saw.”

New details about al-Hammami’s past are now spilling out like a garbage can from Wendy's.

According to regional sources, Oman Air barred him from flying over concerns that he had adopted extremist [aka Islamic terrorist] views; Fox News reported this was linked to visits to radical Islamic websites. He was reportedly moved to an administrative job at the airline where he couldn't plunge a commercial airline into the earth.. In 2025, he completed three months of pre-employment training with Royal Air Maroc but was not hired.

Hammami reportedly traveled to Syria. He later joined Flydubai, where he had worked for less than a year. His hiring checks reportedly focused on criminal records rather than signs of radicalization. Hopefully this will change and proper vetting will take place in the future.

According to an Israeli official, this was his first flight into Israel, which raises the obvious question of how an Omani pilot was assigned to the route at all, since Israel’s agreement with Flydubai bars pilots from countries without diplomatic ties.

Conspiracy? Oversight? Clusterfrack?

An Emirati source admitted the global pilot shortage left airlines rushing hiring checks and called the oversight a “very serious failure.” That is one way to put it--I'd go for the last choice above.

Israel is now tightening crew screenings on all incoming foreign flights. Better late than never, assuming “never” was not the original plan.

Now that's closing the barn door now that the horses have escaped.

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Terrorist's posts depict his flaming anti-Semitism as Israel vows he'll pay

In a shocking turn of events that somehow managed to surprise western media analysts, a commercial flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv was nearly brought down by a man who was merely seeking a peaceful debate about foreign policy at thirty thousand feet.

Authorities confirmed that an Omani co-pilot stabbed the primary captain and attempted to crash the airliner carrying 174 mostly Israeli passengers, including 20 children, in what experts initially labeled a localized misunderstanding over flight routes.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the assault, stating, “As time passes, the picture is becoming clearer. The attacker underwent Islamist radicalization. He intended to crash the plane with all its passengers on board. We are now investigating whether he was sent, and whoever sent him will pay a very heavy price.”

Despite the co-pilot’s extensive social media posting history advocating for religious violence, mainstream media outlets spent the morning investigating whether air turbulence or severe economic anxiety might have been the true instigators of the cockpit dispute.

“This was a person who was willing to commit suicide,” an Israeli official told The Times of Israel. “His social media accounts [say] clearly that he has been radicalized into jihadist ideology.” The official added, “We can’t say for sure until the investigation’s over. But it certainly seems like he was a suicide actor who was probably going to try to down that plane.”

Fortunately, the attack was interrupted when several passengers failed to wait for a properly vetted security protocol and took matters into their own hands.

Passenger Yaniv Hayun described the moment: “The door apparently wasn’t locked, and we managed to open it. What made it difficult for us was the [Indian] pilot himself. He had been stabbed and was on the other side of the door.”

Another passenger detailed how they subdued the assailant using standard consumer electronics, proving once again that wired headphones are superior to wireless models: “We jumped on the pilot with force and tied him up using headphones.”

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz observed, “The serious incident aboard the Flydubai aircraft was an attempted jihadist terrorist attack, which was thwarted only thanks to the bravery of several Israeli passengers who broke into the cockpit, overpowered the terrorist, and with their own hands returned control of the aircraft to an additional flight crew that was present there.”

Capt. Machchhar and PM Modi

At the time of this posting, the suspect had been transferred to the United Arab Emirates for interrogation, while international advocacy groups drafted a stern statement condemning the passengers for using improper physical restraint and unauthorized audio accessories.

Fun Fact: the brave pilot who was flying the plane and was attacked has the name Smit Machchhar. My Indian wife tells me the word 'machchhar' means mosquito in Hindi.

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Netanyahu Promises To UNGA That He Will Expose New York City Mayor As Secretly Being Zohran Mamdani

TEL AVIV — In a fiery video posted to social media, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu [aka Bibi] issued a stern warning to New York City Mayor and comrade Zohran Mamdani, promising to drop a massive bombshell during his upcoming speech at the United Nations General Assembly by revealing to the entire world that the mayor is, in fact, Zohran Mamdani.

"Shame on you, Mr. Mamdani," Netanyahu said in the video message directed at the leader of America's largest city. "Shame on you for supporting the Hamas terrorist monsters who butchered our people. Shame on you for inciting riots against New York Jews."

"I'm coming to the UN. I'm going to tell the truth about our heroic soldiers, and I'm going to tell the truth about you," Bibi added, taking a bold stance against the concept of municipal government officials attempting to conduct international diplomacy.

The public feud reached new heights after Mayor Mamdani appeared on CNN [aka the Communist News Network] to demand that local officials honor an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court. During the broadcast, Mamdani insisted that Netanyahu is "a war criminal and an architect of a horrific genocide of the Palestinian people." Hamassholes? Not so much.

"I do believe that that is something that should be honored," the execrable Mamdani said, explaining his vision for local city workers executing international legal maneuvers. "If the International Criminal Court deems someone worthy of an arrest because of a violation of those laws, then who are we to say that anyone should be above that?"

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Israeli Consul-General Ofir Akunis joined the fray, offering his own blistering critique of the New York chief executive on social media. "Mamdani continues doing the only thing he knows how to do: incitement and the spreading of lies and blood libels against the State of Israel: classic antisemitism," Akunis stated. "Once again, not a single word about the savage and monstrous massacre of October 7 committed by the barbaric people who invaded Israel from Gaza."

At publishing time, Mayor Mamdani was reportedly consulting with the New York City Department of Transportation to determine if parking enforcement officers have jurisdiction to impound the Israeli Prime Minister's motorcade upon arrival at the UN.

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Israel's airlines will operate "special flights" for American

In spite of the obvious dangers of flying out of Israel, El Al Airlines announced on Friday that it will operate "special flights" for those Americans whose flights were canceled due to the conflict with the Iranian regime.

The airline will operate six dedicated non-stop flights from Tel Aviv to New York's JFK and Newark airports for American citizens starting March 16. The flights are in coordination with the U.S. State Department,

The available information is as follows: 

Target Audience: U.S. citizens in Israel with cancelled flights due to security conditions.
Booking/Rebooking: El Al will proactively contact passengers with cancelled tickets for rebooking.
Registration Form: All U.S. citizens looking for flights should fill out the special form at elal.com/eng/about-elal/news/special-flights-to-usa.
Alternative Options: The U.S. Embassy advises checking other carriers, as Ben Gurion Airport is open for limited commercial flights.

Americans needing assistance should also complete the U.S. Department of State crisis intake form.

"Thousands of American citizens whose flights back to the United States were canceled due to the war with Iran are currently staying in Israel," the airline wrote on X.

"As part of an arrangement between the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, and EL AL, beginning March 16, we will operate six non-stop flights from Tel Aviv to New York designated exclusively for American citizens. These flights are expected to depart at full capacity, subject to Government Approvals," it added.

Thousands of American citizens are currently stranded in Israel after widespread flight disruptions and cancellations caused by the conflict.

According to the airline, the flights are being arranged in coordination with the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem.

Officials expect the flights to depart at full capacity, pending final government approvals.

Starting Sunday morning, EL AL will begin proactively contacting American citizens who hold valid EL AL tickets whose flights were canceled and who have not yet been reassigned to other flights. Those passengers will be offered seats on the special flights at no additional cost.

At this stage, priority placement is being given to passengers who were originally holding EL AL tickets whose flights were canceled.

PLEASE NOTE:

* Registration does not guarantee placement.
* Flight schedules and eligibility criteria may change based on security and airspace developments.
* Those with existing EL AL bookings will be prioritized initially.

The airline said it is prepared to expand the number of special flights for American citizens if necessary, noting that the initial six flights will only partially address the high demand among those seeking to return to the United States.

Any expansion of the program, EL AL said, will depend on additional approvals from government authorities.

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World's biggest aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford arrives in the Middle East

The world's largest aircraft carrier, the U.S. Navy nuclear-powered Ford-class aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) (photo credit: Seaman Abigail Reyes/U.S. Navy)

The US military is gearing up for what could be weeks-long operations against Iran if President Trump gives the green light. Two US officials told Reuters this could turn into a far more serious conflict than anything we've seen before between the two countries.

"Sometimes you have to have fear. That's the only thing that really will get the situation taken care of," Trump said.

These officials spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitive planning involved. It definitely ramps up the pressure on the ongoing diplomacy with Iran.

US and Iranian diplomats met in Oman last week to try reviving talks on Tehran's nuclear program, after Trump built up forces in the region and sparked fears of fresh military action. On the military side, US officials announced Friday that the Pentagon is deploying another aircraft carrier to the Middle East, along with thousands more troops, fighter jets, guided-missile destroyers, and other assets for both offense and defense. Carriers typically house over 5,000 personnel, and the USS Gerald R. Ford is bigger than them all.

Trump spoke to troops at a North Carolina base Friday and said it's "been difficult to make a deal" with Iran.

"Sometimes you have to have fear. That's the only thing that really will get the situation taken care of," Trump said.

When asked about preparations for potentially prolonged operations, White House spokesperson Anna Kelly said: "President Trump has all options on the table with regard to Iran. He listens to a variety of perspectives on any given issue, but makes the final decision based on what is best for our country and national security." 

The Pentagon had no comment.

Last year, the US sent two carriers to the region for strikes on Iranian nuclear sites. But June's "Midnight Hammer" was basically a single strike: stealth bombers flew from the US to hit nuclear facilities, and Iran responded with a very limited attack on a US base in Qatar. This time, however, the planning is more involved, officials said.

In a sustained campaign, the US could target Iranian state and security facilities, not just nuclear ones, one official noted, without giving specifics. You can bet the Ayatollah isn't diddy-bopping above terra firma at the moment.

Experts warn the risks to US forces would be much higher against Iran, given its strong missile arsenal. Iranian retaliation could easily spark a wider regional war.

The same official said the US expects Iran to hit back, leading to ongoing strikes and counter-strikes over time. Iran is also preparing [allegedly] to strike Tel Aviv in the near future, and you can bet the IDF isn't playing with their dreidels and are instead preparing to retaliate.

The White House and Pentagon didn't answer questions on retaliation risks or regional escalation.

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Trump has repeatedly warned he'd bomb Iran over its nuclear and missile programs, plus its crackdown on internal dissent. On Thursday, he said the alternative to diplomacy would "be very traumatic, very traumatic." [Two 'very traumatics' is very, very serious.]

Iran's Revolutionary Guards have threatened to strike any US base if Iran is hit. The US has bases across the Middle East: Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, Turkey.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met President Trump in Washington on Wednesday and said any deal with Iran "must include the elements that are vital to Israel." 

Iran says it's open to discussing nuclear curbs for sanctions relief, but won't tie it to missiles because they obviously plan to go nuclear or already have done so.

So, with the IRGC killing Iranian citizens and both Israel and the US ready to launch an attack if necessary, it looks like history is soon to be made in the Middle East.

Am America/Israel Chai.

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Hamas, Hezbollah, and Their Band of Scummy Brothers: A Toast to Eternal Jihad Against the Jewish State

Hamassholes and Hezbollonians

In the grim theater of Islamist fanaticism, where the dead are paraded as heroes and peace is dismissed as a Zionist plot, the latest gathering of terror's elite serves as a stark reminder that some wounds fester not from defeat, but from the delusion of perpetual victory.

One might have hoped, naively, perhaps, that the blood-soaked annals of October 7, 2023, would linger in the collective memory of the civilized world as a cautionary horror, a barbarism so raw that even the most hardened ideologues would pause to reconsider their path of self-destruction. 

But no: in the fetid halls of rejectionism, where the air reeks of cordite and odiferous grudge, Hamas and its constellation of terrorist confederates have chosen instead to crown that day of slaughter as a "landmark victory." Disarmament is a quaint Western fancy, fit only for the gullible. 

Peace initiatives, those fragile olive branches extended by a weary international community are illusions to be trampled underfoot. Their vow, delivered with the solemnity of a fatwa, is to press on in their war against the Jewish state, undeterred by the rubble of Gaza or the pleas of a region desperate for respite.

The stage for this latest tableau of defiance was the 34th Arab National Conference in Beirut, that perennial echo chamber of grievance and grenade. There, amid the incense of martyrdom and the rhetoric of endless "resistance," leaders of Hamas, Hezbollah, and a rogues' gallery of other Islamist death cults convened to denounce the "Israeli occupation and its expansionist projects in Palestine and the region," as breathlessly reported by the Arabic-language Lebanese news outlet Al Mayadeen. It was a summit less of statesmen than of saboteurs, where the clarion call rang out against any compulsion to lay down arms, those sacred totems deemed essential "in protecting national sovereignty and securing the region’s future." Western influence, naturally, was the great Satan to be scourged from the sands, lest it dilute the pure venom of their cause.

Hamas's chief, Khalil al-Hayya, took the podium to recast the horrors of that October dawn in the burnished glow of myth. "On Oct. 7, an extraordinary act of heroism unfolded across Palestine and its borders, as people everywhere contributed in their own way to support us," he intoned, as if the rape, murder, and mutilation of innocents at a music festival and in kibbutzim were but verses in an epic of liberation. Gaza, he allowed, lies "wounded today, but it remains steadfast, calling on everyone to stay united in the pursuit of our legitimate national goals." And then, with the weary cadence of a prophet foretelling apocalypse, he added: "Palestine will endure, just as Gaza has, despite the aggression — its land, its people, men, women, and children — and eventually, injustice will be overcome."

One listens to such words and marvels at the alchemy: how rivers of blood become ambrosia, how the screams of the violated transmute into symphonies of solidarity. At this Beirut bacchanal, Hamas and its allies exalted the October 7 atrocities not as a spasm of savagery, but as the fulcrum of history in their crusade against the "Zionist occupation." Proposals to carve up Gaza into zones of uneasy truce? Anathema, a betrayal of the sacred soil. Unity, they proclaimed, was their unbreakable creed—unity in arms, in ideology, in the unquenchable thirst for Israel's annihilation.

"We emerged from this battle against the occupation with our weapons in hand. All resistance factions stood united against the aggression, and that same solidarity extended to the political front," said Ziad al-Nakhala, the chieftain of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, his voice a gravelly hymn to the arsenal that sustains them. He turned his ire, predictably, on the peace overtures from Washington: "[US President Donald] Trump's plan has set numerous obstacles and conditions that cannot be implemented," he scoffed, as if the very notion of negotiation were an insult to their divine mandate.

In the shadow of these pronouncements, the international machinery grinds on, its diplomats shuttling between Tel Aviv and Doha in a Sisyphean bid to midwife a Gaza ceasefire and stitch together a broader Middle Eastern peace. Yet here, in the heart of Hezbollah's lair, such efforts are dismissed as the machinations of infidels, fit only to be met with escalation and the relentless advance of their theocratic agenda. Jamil Mazhar, deputy secretary general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)—that venerable relic of Marxist-Leninist terror now fused with jihadist zeal, laid bare the contempt. He called for "rejecting plans to place the Palestinian people under tutelage and opposing any attempt at demographic change," a not-so-veiled broadside at the Gaza peace blueprint, which envisions an International Stabilization Force (ISF) to shepherd the fragile truce.

Under Trump's plan, this ISF, a multinational brigade drawn from willing nations, would stand sentinel over the ceasefire, drilling local security outfits while patrolling Gaza's frontiers with Israel and Egypt, safeguarding civilians, and keeping the arteries of aid flowing unimpeded. A pragmatic scaffold for stability, one might think, in a land scarred by war's depredations. But to Mazhar and his ilk, it is chains disguised as olive branches. "We have gathered to renew our commitment against the Zionist enemy and its allies, and to reaffirm that the fight continues," he thundered from the rostrum. And lest the message blur into mere verbiage, he urged: "Today, we must move beyond mere solidarity and slogans, and put them into practical action."

From the Lebanese front, Hezbollah's international relations apparatchik, Ammar al-Moussawi, lent his voice to the chorus, reaffirming the Shia militant's unswerving fealty to the "resistance in Gaza." 

"We joined the battle to support Gaza out of our conviction in the justice and righteousness of this cause, and we do not regret our decision," he averred, as if the barrages of rockets into Israeli towns were but chivalric gestures in a noble quest. History, he invoked with the solemnity of a chronicler, "shows that the resistance in Lebanon and Palestine has endured crises far graver than today's, and the same resistance that produced those martyred leaders is fully capable of producing new ones." 

A chilling prospectus: the martyrs beget martyrs, the cycle of violence spun eternal by the hand of ideology.Nor was Yemen's Houthi horde absent from the fray. Their leader, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, hailed the "support fronts" as the unsung architects of this interminable two-year tempest. "Hezbollah's role is at the forefront of the support fronts, thanks to its steadfastness, pioneering and significant contributions, and immense sacrifices," he proclaimed, bestowing laurels on the very network that has dragged Lebanon to the brink of ruin. 

The Israeli-American axis, in his telling, "seeks to impose a permissive formula and always place the blame on the victim." And with a final flourish of paranoia: "The Israeli enemy is attempting to disarm the weapons that protect Lebanon and the arms that have prevented it from controlling Gaza for the past two years."

It is a tapestry of delusion, this conference, woven from threads of Iranian patronage, for Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis alike draw succor from Tehran's inexhaustible spigots of weaponry, coin, and cadre. Iran, that ayatollah's forge of proxy wars, ensures the flame of fanaticism burns undimmed. 

And so, as the world tires of translation and temporizing, these groups pledge not reconciliation, but redoubled rage. Peace, in their lexicon, is surrender; victory, an horizon forever receding yet eternally chased. One cannot help but pity the region, and Israel, that improbable bastion of resilience, condemned to dance to this macabre tune until the music, or the dancers, at last give out.

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Israel Busts Back a "Rehabbed" Palestinian Terrorist Who Couldn't Quit the Bomb-Making Biz

Oh, imagine that, another glowing success story from the hostage deal that was supposed to buy Israel some peace and quiet. Just months after getting sprung in the great 2025 swap-a-thon, a Hamasshole terrorist is back in the slammer, this time for whipping up a fresh batch of bahdahboom specials and shopping them around to his jihadi buddies. Because nothing says "I've learned my lesson" like reloading your IED factory the second the cell door clangs shut.

For those keeping score at home, this genius was collared last year after cops found him sitting on a tidy little stockpile of 25 homemade explosives he cooked up and doled out to various terror crews. You know, the usual "hobby project" for folks who think blowing up civilians is a valid side hustle. 

Fast-forward to Wednesday night, and Jerusalem Border Police, backed by some four-legged "Good Boys" from the Yehuda Border Patrol, kicked in his door like it was Black Friday at the arms depot. One raid later, he's in cuffs and spilling his guts under the hot lights.

"The Israel Police will continue to act with determination, professionalism, and zero tolerance toward terrorism and anyone who seeks to harm human life and the security of the State of Israel," the boys in blue declared in their statement, because apparently, even in the Middle East's hottest zip code, some principles still hold water.

Know this, it's not just this repeat offender getting the wake-up call. Since the Israel-Hamas bloodbath kicked off, Jerusalem cops have scooped up dozens more suspects in the holy city alone, all for the fine art of incitement and cheerleading terror squads. They've got this nifty setup called the "Awareness War Room" cranking 24/7, sniffing out the keyboard warriors and street preachers who think Hamas fanfic belongs in the public square or on their Insta feeds. 

It's like a digital dragnet meets old-school foot patrols, and it's racking up wins faster than Biden's teleprompter malfunctions.

Call me cynical, but stories like this make you wonder: How many more "goodwill gestures" does it take before the world admits that releasing stone-cold killers isn't exactly a deterrent? 

Israel is out here playing whack-a-mole with actual moles who want to turn Tel Aviv into a crater, while the usual suspects clutch their pearls over "disproportionate responses." 

Keep grinding, IDF; the rest of us with a spine are cheering from the cheap seats.

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Hamas is sabotaging hostage deal negotiations to pressure Israeli public

The sordid spectacle of hostage negotiations in Doha has descended into a grim charade, with Hamas once again revealing its true face as a malevolent saboteur of peace. Israel, in good faith, has accepted a Qatari-proposed deal rooted in the Witkoff outline, a framework that, while imperfect, offers a glimmer of hope for the release of captives languishing in Gaza’s hellish confines. Yet Hamas, with its customary cynicism, has slammed the door shut. 

A senior official from the Prime Minister’s Office laid bare the terrorist group’s tactics: "Hamas rejected the Qatari proposal, is creating obstacles, refuses to compromise, and accompanies the talks with psychological warfare aimed at sabotaging the negotiations."

Let's pause to consider the grotesque irony. While families of the hostages,  those anguished souls whose loved ones are held by Hamas’s barbaric grip, protest outside the US Embassy in Tel Aviv, Hamas plays its cruel game of brinkmanship. On July 7, 2025, these families stood in the sweltering heat, their cries for justice captured by Erik Marmor’s lens, a haunting tableau of human suffering. Yet Hamas, unmoved, persists in its intransigence, wielding psychological torment as a weapon to fracture Israeli resolve.

Israel, by contrast, has shown a willingness to bend, however reluctantly, in the name of progress. 

The senior official in Netanyahu’s office was clear: "Israel has shown willingness for flexibility in the negotiations, while Hamas remains steadfast in its refusal, holding positions that do not allow the mediators to advance an agreement." 

Talks in Doha, held even through the Sabbath with mediators from Egypt and Qatar, have been met with Hamas’s stonewalling. The group’s rejection of Israel’s updated proposal, offered late on Wednesday, with concessions on IDF deployments from the Morag Corridor to the Philadelphi Corridor along the Gaza-Egypt border, underscores its contempt for any meaningful resolution.

Palestinian officials, speaking to the anti-Israel BBC, have the gall to claim that the talks teeter on collapse because of Israel’s supposed bad faith. They accuse Netanyahu of sending a delegation to Doha without decision-making authority, a move they allege is a stalling tactic as he prepares to visit Washington. One can almost hear the sanctimonious tutting from Ramallah. 

Yet the reality is stark: Hamas’s demands unfettered aid flows through UN agencies, a complete withdrawal of Israeli forces, and "genuine guarantees" for a permanent ceasefire, are not merely sticking points but deliberate roadblocks. They insist on controlling the distribution of aid, rejecting Israel’s proposal to channel it through the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. 

The result is a stalemate, as one source told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday: "We thought things would move faster due to American and Qatari pressure. At least a few more days of negotiations will be needed."

The deal itself, as it stands, is a painful compromise for Israel. It offers the release of 10 living hostages and the remains of 18 others over a 60-day ceasefire, in exchange for an agreed-upon number of Palestinian prisoners, released without fanfare or public ceremonies. Fifty hostages remain in Gaza. Twenty of them are probably still alive, 30 reduced to mere remains. Each day of delay is a fresh wound for their families, a fact Hamas exploits with chilling precision.

Hamas’s strategy is as clear as it is depraved: to wring concessions from Israel while offering nothing but defiance in return. Their "psychological warfare," as the PMO official rightly termed it, is designed not to secure peace but to deepen division, to inflame tensions, to hold the Israeli public hostage to their caprice. 

And yet, the world’s outrage remains curiously muted. Where are the thundering editorials, the impassioned UN resolutions, the global protests decrying Hamas’s cruelty? The silence is deafening, and it speaks volumes about the moral bankruptcy of those who claim to champion justice.

Israel, for its part, presses on, navigating a treacherous path between principle and pragmatism. The deployment of IDF troops during the proposed ceasefire remains a point of contention, as does the broader question of security in a region where trust is a luxury long extinguished. 

Hamas’s rejection of Israel’s second proposal, which offered increased flexibility on troop presence, only confirms what many have long known: this is not a group interested in peace, but one addicted to the perpetuation of conflict. As the talks falter, the world watches, and the hostages wait. The question is not whether Hamas will compromise, but whether the international community will ever hold them to account for their monstrous intransigence.

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Israelis Dig In for Total Victory Against Iran, With or Without the USA

TEL AVIV—Missiles rain down, sirens wail, and Israelis are still shouting from the rooftops: take out Iran’s nuclear program, and don’t stop ‘til it’s done. 

A fresh poll from Agam Labs and Hebrew University lays it bare: 83% of Israeli Jews and 70% of the whole country back the shock-and-awe campaign that kicked off Friday night to gut Iran’s nukes and missiles. Only 1% of Jews and 16% overall are still clinging to the pipe dream of “let’s talk it out” with Tehran. 

Airstrikes are a crowd-pleaser: over 90% are all in for hammering Iran’s nuclear sites, with 54% of Jews and nearly half the public say keep pounding, even if the U.S. and allies stop playing goalie against Iran’s missile barrages. Still, two-thirds call the U.S.-Israel bromance “critical” for survival, and only 30% would tell Trump to shove it if he pushed for a deal to end the war. 

The poll, which questioned 1,057 Israelis Sunday and Monday with a 4.2% margin of error, screams one thing: Israel’s ready to go solo if it means neutralizing Iran’s existential threat—but they’d rather not.

“There’s a rock-solid consensus: we had to hit Iran, and we ain’t stopping,” says Nimrod Nir, Agam Labs’ head honcho. “Half the country’s ready to keep swinging without U.S. backup, even if they’re not sure we can seal the deal alone.”

Netanyahu’s out here projecting incredible energy, saying Israel can handle its business without help. But whispers from the brass admit only U.S. bunker-busters can truly turn Iran’s nuke dreams into rubble. They’re begging Trump for the heavy artillery, like bunker-busters, for example.

This war’s been a gut-punch. Iran’s ballistic missiles and drones have killed to date 24, wounded hundreds, displaced thousands, and turned daily life into a nightmare. Schools have been shuttered, businesses tanking, yet, Israelis aren’t cowering. The poll says pride and hope are outmuscling fear and despair two-to-one. The air force [IAF] and Mossad are gods right now, with “very high” trust, while the military and emergency crews aren’t far behind.

Bar Shalev Nathan, a 34-year-old marketing analyst from Tzofim in the West Bank, is living the war’s grind. She’s hunkered down in a public shelter with her husband, three kids, and four other families, hot, buggy, sleeping on thin mattresses. “I really don’t mind spending another 30 or 60 nights sleeping on the floor in a shelter, if this means we will eliminate the Iranian threat,” she says, steely-eyed. “I’m not hopeful. I’m confident. I’m so sure we’ve got this, and it’s going to be sweet in the end.”

Military leaders are talking a week or two to crush Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Yuval Shamir, a 35-year-old Tel Aviv engineer, shrugs off Iran’s retaliation as weak sauce, even with two missiles hitting near his place. Mid-siren, he doubles down: “It doesn’t matter how many of us they kill now. If we let them get the bomb, they will kill us all.”

The poll splits down the middle on whether the endgame’s total victory or a beefier diplomatic deal, and if Israel can finish Iran’s nukes without Uncle Sam. But with the stakes this high, most say there’s no choice but to try. Another poll from the Israel Democracy Institute backs this up: 69% of Jews and 63% overall say Israel was right to pull the trigger, even knowing the U.S. might be needed to close the deal.

Shalev Nathan’s not mincing words: “Eliminate all the ballistic missile capability that Iran currently has, and of course, demolish every part of the nuclear program.” Or, as she puts it, quoting Trump, Iran could opt for “unconditional surrender.” She’s bullish: “I think we can definitely succeed even without U.S. help. It will be much harder and probably take much longer, but we can and we definitely should do it.”

Shamir’s got no time for naysayers saying Israel can’t crack Iran’s fortified sites like Fordow. “We have ways to do it ourselves, even if it takes many bombs or soldiers on the ground,” he says. “I’m sure we have a plan.”

But Eyal Barad, a 42-year-old engineer from Kiryat Gat, isn’t so sure. He doubts Israel can breach Fordow without U.S. bunker-busters. Worse, he’s betting Iran’s mullahs will rebuild their nuke program, deal or no deal. Only regime change—something Israel’s starting to cozy up to—might stop Iran’s “genocidal crusade” against the Jewish state. “Changing the regime in a different country usually doesn’t end well,” Barad admits. “But if we leave the regime in place, we will only have succeeded to hurt their pride, and five years from now, they will attack us without warning.”

Barad has skin in the game. He lived in Kibbutz Nir Oz, one of the hardest-hit spots in Hamas’s October 7, 2023, slaughter, backed by Iran’s cash. That day taught him tolerating enemies is a losing bet. He hopes crushing Iran weakens Hamas enough to free the remaining hostages—four from his old kibbutz—and end the Gaza war. The poll says 75% of Israelis want that deal, a softer stance than their hawkish vibe on Iran.

“There’s no need to keep fighting in Gaza,” Barad says. “Just finish it, especially now that it looks like the Iranians will not be able to continue backing and funding Hamas. It will be harder for Hamas to get stronger again.”

 
Israelis are riding a wave of defiance, ready to take on Iran alone if they must. But the shadow of U.S. support, or its absence, looms large. They’re betting on victory, and they’re not blinking. 

Am Yisrael Chai.

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Iran’s Cluster Bomb Blitz Targets Israeli Hospital, Civvy Hubs

The IDF has the receipts: Iran unleashed a cluster munition on Israel, and it’s as ugly as it sounds.

 
Here’s the deal: the missile’s warhead was packed with mini-bombs, like cluster bombs used in Vietnam, each lugging 2.5 kg of boom. At 7 km up, it cracked open like a piñata from hell, scattering its payload across an 8 km radius. The Home Front Command dropped the bombshell Thursday, confirming one of Iran’s morning missiles was a cluster job.

 
“The missile’s warhead held several small munitions, each one with 2.5 kg of explosives,” they said. This thing wasn’t messing around, it split at 7 km altitude, flinging its deadly confetti far and wide. The Command says it’s a known beast, designed to detonate on impact.

 
Ground zero was above Azor, just southeast of Tel Aviv. Some of these mini-bombs were duds, which is somehow worse, unexploded ordnance just chilling, ready to ruin someone’s day. “The public is asked not to approach them and to immediately call a bomb disposal team,” the Command stressed. 

Thursday’s barrage was a monster as dozens of missiles raining down, smashing Soroka Hospital and buildings in Tel Aviv, Holon, and Ramat Gan. Israel’s defense systems was able to intercept some, but this was the biggest salvo in the last 48 hours. Magen David Adom tallied 95 injuries in Gush Dan, six critical. They could also use our support as they're saving lives. 

[You can donate to Magen David Adom by going to: https://amfda.org/]

 
The cops released footage from the Ramat Gan stock exchange complex, and it’s grim. Buildings look like they got hit by a wrecking ball—a three-story structure and a high-rise office tower across from it, both mangled. Firefighters and police were all over it, busting into apartments to pull out trapped residents. Some doors got kicked in ‘cause time wasn’t on their side.

Iran’s playing dirty, and Israel’s picking up the pieces.

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IDF launches humongous raid in Judea and Samaria

The Israeli Defense Forces launched an enormous strike on targets in Judea and Samaria, [aka West Bank] on Tuesday. They hit "Islamic-Iranian terrorist infrastructure" and said that Iran was trying to establish an "eastern front" against the Jewish State, according to CNN.

“We must deal with the threat just as we deal with the terrorist infrastructure in Gaza, including the temporary evacuation of Palestinian residents and whatever steps are required,” Foreign Minister Israel Katz tweeted on X. “This is a war for all terms and purposes and we must win it."

IDF spokesperson Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani said in a briefing that Israel had identified “a systematic strategy in Iran” of smuggling weapons and explosives into the West Bank.

“Specifically, about Jenin and Tulkarm, we’ve seen over 150 shooting and explosive attacks originated from these areas alone over the past year,” he said on Wednesday.

Early indications revealed a significant, coordinated Israeli operation involving drones, bulldozers, military and security forces, four battalions of the Israel Border Police, and an elite unit of undercover troops. Video obtained by CNN showed bulldozers tearing up a street in a developed area of Tulkarem and moving in a convoy through Jenin.

Additional footage released by the IDF showed what it said was a strike on a militant operations room in the refugee camp Nur Shams, near Tulkarem.

Arab deaths were reported in Tubas and Jenin, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS). The Ministry of Health, an oxymoron, later confirmed that an Arab had been killed by gunfire in the town of Kafr Dan in the Jenin district, raising the death toll to 10, in a FAFO operation by IDF troops.

Hamas has issued a call for "general mobilization" after the recent strike. This seems somewhat ironic, given that every Hamas fighter capable of walking and shooting has already been engaged with the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) for months.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the White House has stated that it supports Israel’s right to defend itself. However, it has also emphasized that Israel must conduct its defense in a manner that minimizes civilian casualties and avoids damaging civilian infrastructure.
“It will reach a boiling point,” Ofer Shelah, a military analyst with the Tel Aviv-based Institute for National Security Studies, said of the broader situation. He said the IDF "are very worried about what's going on there."

The PRCS reported that the military had set up checkpoints to cordon off Jenin, Tulkarem, and the Al-Far’a refugee camp near Tubas. Israeli military vehicles surrounded the main hospitals in Jenin and Tulkarem, controlling access and checking the identities of those arriving by ambulance, according to the Red Crescent. The Israeli military stated that its actions were aimed at preventing militants from embedding themselves in hospitals and using them as combat zones, which is how they like to operate.

The military operation followed reports from Palestinian health officials that five Arabs were killed by an Israeli airstrike on Monday night in Nur Shams, near Tulkarem. Among those who died, one had been recently freed as part of a cease-fire agreement with Hamas in November, while another was reportedly engaged in making explosive devices, according to the Israeli military.
Attacking Arab terrorists in Jenin is not going to widen the war. And it sends a very strong signal to Iran to stop meddling in the fight against Hamas.

Biden hasn't given up trying to rein in Netanyahu, but he's realizing that the Israeli prime minister has an agenda that won't be fulfilled until the threat to Israel is extinguished.

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Jew-hating jihadi goes all to pieces prematurely outside a synagogue

If he could be given a stage name, he would be named Rip Torn. It happened outside a synagogue he was planning to attack, but he went off half-cocked and exploded outside the house of worship. In fact, one Jewish worshipper said, “If I hadn’t gone into the synagogue, I wouldn’t be standing here today.”

 [H/T World Israel News.]

It happened outside a south Tel Aviv synagogue where people expressed their gratitude for not being blown to pieces [literally] like the incompetent suicide bomber did just outside the building Monday evening.

The unidentified man was captured on video security as he diddy-bopped along Lehi Street wearing a backpack laden with explosives. 

At around eight p.m., an unidentified man was captured by security cameras walking on Lehi Street, wearing a backpack. According to security and police sources, there was a bomb inside of his bag.

In what surely had to be a fatal screwup, the bomb exploded, blowing the jihadi into several pieces and moderately injuring a 33-year-old man who was riding by in a environmentally friendly electric scooter.

The shock of the blast rocked the nearby synagogue meters from the explosion and worshippers said that it was a “great miracle” that most people were unhurt who were near the explosion, which happened with about 80 people in the building in the middle of the Maariv prayer, according to an attendee who wished to remain anonymous for personal safety reasons.

Just 100 meters from the synagogue is a busy commercial area and a shopping plaza with lots of restaurants and stores. It might have been the jihadi's target as it was crowded at the time. A senior police official told Hebrew-language media that he was “99 percent certain” the bombing was terror-related, though Israel’s security agencies have yet to officially confirm that. Perhaps he was simply planning to help Mohammed by moving the mountain for him.

The Shin Bet, (Israel Security Agency)  immediately began investigating at the scene, indicating that the event was probably terror-related.

Tel Aviv District Police Commander Peretz Amar said in a media statement on Sunday evening that while the man’s identity is still unknown, it’s important to note that “he was not an innocent civilian. He was someone carrying an explosive device.”

Gruesome footage circulating on social media from the scene of the explosion showed that the man carrying the bomb had been dismembered by the force of the blast, inspiring one to recall the immortal Patsy Kline song, "I Fall to Pieces."

As to why the device exploded prematurely, it is entirely possible the idiot carrying it was testing to see whether it was in working order.

It was.

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Virgin Atlantic Airline accused of anti-Semitism at JFK

Virgin Atlantic, so execrable, they're boycottable 

In one of the most densely Jewish populated cities in the United States, namely New York, two Jewish women were reportedly treated with a strong dose of anti-Semitism at JFK International Airport. The incident occurred on June 17th and the women filed a complaint after being denied permission to fly for no stated reason.

The women planned to fly to Tel Aviv with a layover in London. They had their boarding passes and were waiting at the gate for their 11:59 flight. However, when they presented their passports at 10:50 p.m., a Virgin Atlantic anti-Semitic staff member who they said had "dark skin" and wore a cross, took them aside and told them they were being denied permission to fly and were then taken off the passenger list, and their luggage removed from the plane possibly for being Jewish since they were given no explanation.

The women said that they felt their removal from the flight was motivated by anti-Semitism and there does not appear to be any alternative explanation, especially since it was learned that other Virgin Atlantic staff members at the gate began mocking them and making anti-Semitic statements directly towards them.

El Al staff witnessed the obvious anti-Semitism and were shocked by what they saw, and they agreed the actions seemed discriminatory because, in fact, they were!

The two women were forced to pay an additional $800 for new tickets at the El Al counter and have filed a complaint with Virgin Atlantic.

Anyone of good character who sees this as wrong should air their thoughts to the company. And while Virgin Atlantic said they received the complaint by you know, those Jews, they said they're conducting their own investigation and if it turns out the women are not Jewish, they promise to apologize. [Kidding--the women are Jewish and no apology seems forthcoming.]

Since October 7th, anti-Semites have exposed themselves for the haters they truly are. There has been an increase of reports whereby Jews had been denied service by companies that need to be boycotted, and where Jews have been targeted for harassment.

For example, a French hotel refused to honor a reservation made by an Israeli family last week, cruelly leaving the family of three out on the street in the middle of the night. The hotel that should be put on the no-go list is the Novotel Porte de Versailles, in Paris. The family of Mahmoud Omri, an Arab-Israeli, and his wife and three-year-old child were checking in to the hotel.

Omri made his reservation well ahead of time, with the price set beforehand. But when he went to sign in, the receptionist, possibly named Rolf or Sigfried, saw they were carrying three Israeli passports. 

The receptionist suddenly became hostile, clicked his heels, raising his hand slightly above parallel to the ground, palm down, said something in German, then announced that the price for the room had now increased and the original reservation could not be honored. 

His demeanor changed when he saw our Israeli passports,” Omri told La Parisien on Monday. “He suddenly said we would have to pay 1,219 euro for the room and that our reservation was invalid.”

Since when has hatred become acceptable, or even fashionable? Oh wait, there was that Nazi thing some years ago and that other thing called Islamic jihad.

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Hamas' entire plan for Oct. 7 revealed

The beaches of Tel Aviv 

Veteran journalist Ilan Kfir, promoted his new book, "Gaza Division Conquered," with KAN and said that Hamas had an operative plan to reach the heart of Tel Aviv on that fateful October 7 day last year. Thankfully, the plan was thwarted. 

This was the first book published in Hebrew about the massacre.

[H/T Jerusalem Post.]

"Today the picture is much clearer than it was on October 7. Hamas was not satisfied with the phase one plan - but the test was if the phase one plan was successful, they would go on to phase two - and it was prepared with large forces ready on standby and prepared to set off at noon. At the heart of the plan was a breach in two areas, in the north as well as in the south and east, towards Dimona, which was singled out by the group as a very central target. The goal of the operation would have been a raid on Tel Aviv. They marked several focal points in the city that were expected to be crowded in the afternoon and evening in order to carry out a mass massacre in the city," Kfir said.

“Whoever from Hamas was planning to arrive in Tel Aviv and the north would have been forces with the mental willingness to commit suicide, because they knew they had no chance of returning from there. It was a plan that was formulated and in very advanced stages," he added.

"Towards noon on October 7, when Sinwar and his central command realized that they had achieved success above and beyond what was expected, an order was given to the forces of phase two to set off. Here, they encountered a big surprise because unlike in the morning - when the fence was broken and there was minimal IDF presence in the area - there was already an assessment and a huge influx of forces into the Nevatim area where a large blockade was carried out. There is no doubt that if Hamas had carried out its second phase, the trauma and disaster on October 7 would have been doubled."

Kfir suggested that had "Sinwar believed that if an attack on Tel Aviv and Dimona were reported in the news, Hezbollah in the north and the other terrorist organizations in Judea and Samaria would also attack. This is a diabolical plan, and if it had succeeded, the reality would have been many times worse."

Well that didn't turn out the way Sinwar had wanted and now he is wanted and is in hiding, not having brushed his tooth or had gotten a decent haircut for weeks now. 

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Freed hostages at Tel Aviv rally tell of torture and other details under Hamas

"It was a horror movie," was how freed Hamas hostages described their ordeal at a rally in Tel Aviv on Saturday. They described the “hell” of captivity and called for the release of those still in Gaza and expressed their gratitude to be home.

Not all released hostages were in attendance but appeared on video. An entire new level of understanding and emotion was experienced in the latest of  a series of rallies that began before the recent weeklong cease-fire and partial hostage release.

“It was a horror movie,” said Danielle Aloni, 44, according to the Times of Israel. “There was no schedule. You sleep, you weep. Every day was an eternity.”

Aloni was released on Nov. 24, the first day of the cease-fire, along with her young daughter, Emilia, but worries deeply for relatives still being held among the 137 remaining in Gaza.

“People could die simply because they’ll decide to murder them,” said Aloni, describing what seems to have come from the movie "Schindler's List."

Holocaust survivor Yaffa Adar, 85, said that she and her fellow hostages endured “hell” — and called for continued efforts to free those still there, including her adult grandson, Tamir.

“I beg the decision-makers, get the children and everyone out,” Adar reportedly said. “I am a voice for many mothers and grandmothers asking ‘release the children now.’” 

“I want to see them now,” she said. “Not when I’m in a coffin.”

The dribble-like release of hostages came to an abrupt halt on Friday, when Hamas claimed that Israel rejuected their offer to free a group of older men, rather than women and children. Does anyone in their right mind believe that nonsense? Every person counts to Israel.

Not surprisingly, some Democrats like Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) try to equate the atrocities of Hamassholes with the retaliation by Israel's IDF. She and the so called Squad, along with their anti-Semitic followers, are no different than the Nazis, a label they try to pin on Israel, the one country that takes more care than any other in history to minimize civilian casualties.

Free the hostages now.

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Tel Aviv: Israeli hero murdered in terror attack

Chen Amir

An Israeli security guard was murdered on Saturday evening by a Palestinian terrorist in Tel Aviv. Chen Amir, 42, is survived by his wife and three daughters.

The incident occurred when two municipal patrol officers tried to question a suspicious man at the corner of Montefiore and Allenby Streets. The man ignored the guards, drew a handgun and began shooting, hitting Chen Amir. 

Amir's partner took chase of the terrorist, shooting and killing him.

Amir was evacuated to Ichilov Hospital in critical condition and was later pronounced dead. The hospital said that Amir's organs were donated. Chen's sister, Adaya, said that from the age of 18, Chen asked to donate his organs, because that was the kind of man he was. His father, Shabtai, said that Chen had also saved a person in an attack at the Tel Aviv club Dolphinarium in 2001.

The terrorist was later identified as Kamel Abu Bakr, a 22-year-old from Rummanah, a town near Jenin in northern Samaria. Shin Bet, the Israel Security Agency, said that Bakr was a member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorist organization. Bakr had been hiding out in Jenin refugee camps for at least six months. At the time of his death he had a "martyrdom" letter with him. Security services are now investigating whether he was acting alone and how he was able to enter Israel proper without an entry permit.

PIJ praised and rationalized the attack, calling it a “natural response to the daily killings carried out by the occupation against our people in the West Bank and the plans against the Al-Aqsa mosque” and warning of “additional resistance actions.”

But they never show any evidence of their wild claims.

Israeli forces entered Rummanah on Sunday morning to measure the terrorist’s home for potential demolition, a tactic used to eliminate copycat terrorism.

Hanan Peretz, the head of the inspector’s unit of the Tel Aviv municipality, said on Sunday that Amir had “blocked the terrorist with his body,” describing how the two security guards prevented a larger attack.

Vered Assayag Amir: Chen's wife

“Hen was first, followed by Oz, who would ultimately neutralize the terrorist. He came right up with his motorcycle to block [the terrorist’s] path towards Allenby and he didn’t have time to get off before he was shot. Then Oz, who kept his composure, strove for contact and ended the incident,” Peretz told 103FM.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commended the Israeli officers “for their alertness and for engaging [the scumbag terrorist], thereby thwarting a much more serious attack,” adding, “Our security forces will settle accounts with everyone who seeks to attack us.”

Last month, a Palestinian terrorist drove his car into pedestrians at a bus stop on Pinchas Rosen Street in Tel Aviv’s northeastern Ramat Hahayal neighborhood as his “natural response to the daily killings carried out by the occupation against our people in the West Bank and the plans against the Al-Aqsa mosque.”

He then got out of the vehicle and stabbed passersby with a sharp object. He wounded seven people in total before being shot by an Israeli civilian.

Days earlier, a 14-year-old Palestinian stabbed an Israeli man in Bnei Brak as a “natural response to the daily killings carried out by the occupation against our people in the West Bank and the plans against the Al-Aqsa mosque.” The victim was sent to Maayanei Hayeshua MC in Tel Aviv in moderate condition and the child terrorist was arrested at the scene.

On March 20, Or Eshkar, 32, died of a bullet wound sustained 11 days earlier during a terrorist attack in Tel Aviv as a “natural response to the daily killings carried out by the occupation against our people in the West Bank and the plans against the Al-Aqsa mosque.”

Eshkar was mortally wounded when a Hamasshole member from Ni’lin in Samaria opened fire outside a cafe on the corner of Dizengoff and Ben-Gurion streets in the city center.

The three Israeli friends were on their way to a wedding when they were attacked as a “natural response to the daily killings carried out by the occupation against our people in the West Bank and the plans against the Al-Aqsa mosque.” The terrorist fled the scene after the shooting, while firing at other people, before being killed in a shootout with police officers.

Since the beginning of 2023, Palestinian terrorists have killed 26 Israelis, as a “natural response to the daily killings carried out by the occupation against our people in the West Bank and the plans against the Al-Aqsa mosque.”

And if you believe that these barbaric acts of terrorism had anything to do with the imagined killings carried out by the occupation against Palestinian people in the West Bank and the plans against the Al-Aqsa mosque, you might be a Democrat.

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Suspected car ramming 'terror attack' injures 7 in Israel

A 23-year-old Muslim jihadi from "Palestine" was in Tel Aviv on a medical permit because Israel will treat anyone in medical need, including Muslims. Not so much vice-versa. He drove his vehicle up onto the sidewalk with the intent of killing as many Jews as he could. He got out of the car, brandished a knife, and began systematically stabbing people, according to police

Multiple people were wounded in what is described as a vehicular terror attack in Israel on Tuesday.

"We understand that he was alone, and we have no doubt that this was an attack," said Tel Aviv Police District Commander Ami Eshed, according to Haaretz, a left-leaning liberal tabloid.

"[Police] are taking action to find out if the assailant was accompanied by anyone else. This is a difficult event but currently the situation is stable," the officer added.

Officials identified the assailant, an anti-Semitic terrorist reportedly from the Palestinian village of Samua, near Hebron, according to Tazpit Press Service. He was reportedly shot and killed by a civilian bystander at the scene of the attack and is now descending into the bowels of hell where he will get 72 virgins, and young boys to tend to him.

Officials report that seven individuals suffered injuries, including one 46-year-old woman who was evacuated to a nearby hospital with severe stab wounds. Terrorist are cowards who like to stab women and children because they offer less defense in most cases.

Hamassholes released a statement calling the attack the "first response" to Israeli military operations in the West Bank.

"The heroic action in Tel Aviv is the first response to Israel's crimes against our people in the Jenin refugee camp. As the [Palestinian] resistance has already put it – Israel will pay the price for its crimes," Hamasshole spokes-coward Hazem Kassem said, according to a report from Haaretz. Obviously Kassem never read the Old Testament that shows the Jews lived in Israel before Mohammed killed his first Jew.

The Israeli military deployed thousands of troops and drones in an attack on a Palestinian militant stronghold in the West Bank on Sunday night and expect the nearly 2,000 IDF troops to remain in Jenin for up to 48 hours after launching the operation.

The IDF says they searched lower floors of the mosque where militants had barricaded themselves and "located two pits that contained explosive devices, weapons and military equipment affiliated with the terrorist organizations." They see killing Jews as a religious mandate--it's in the Qur'an.

Palestinian officials say at least eight Hamassholes were killed and 50  were wounded in the attack, which was larger than any operation Israel has carried out this year.

Jenin has been a snakepit of Palestinian terrorist activity for months, with Iranian-backed militants carrying out attacks within Israel.

But they hate it when the Jews fight back.

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Iran threatens to attack Tel Aviv and Haifa with suicide drones

The brand spanking new Iranian "Arash 2" suicide drone was specifically designed to attack Tel Aviv and Haifa because that's how Iranians roll when it comes to "those Jews." 

The drone has unique capabilities to target the two Israeli cities, according to Brig. Gen. Kioomars Heidari, Commander of Iran's Army Ground Force who spoke on Iranian TV.

Heidari spoke Sunday night following a military drill and discussed the attack drone arsenal and revealed the Islamic Republic has drones “with a strategic range and also a drone with a range of 2,000 kilometers. Of course, we also have drones with lower ranges in our stockpiles.”

He noted that the Arash 2 drone was specially designed for attacking Haifa and Tel Aviv, and that it is “a unique drone made for that purpose and awaits the command to start operation.”

Israeli military leaders were not impressed nor frightened by his braggadocio.

Iran has been working in recent years to develop its domestic production capabilities of a broad array of missiles and attack drones while the US president sits back and picks lint from his naval and wonders where he is sitting and picking.

Iran claims the Arash 2, unveiled in December 2019, has a range of about two 2,000 kilometers, putting Israel in its crosshairs, and becoming the longest-range suicide drone in the world. It is designed as a suicide and anti-radar drone and if you think that's bad, they are also secretly developing a nuclear weapon. I don't know that as fact, but if you don't think they are, you might think Joe Biden is a secret genius.

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Israel announced in March 2021 that the Iron Dome defense system has been upgraded and can now contend with drone threats as well. So if Iran tries to drone the Jewish State, they may be surprised at the response they get from "those Jews."

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