Americans do not Care about Gaza
by Dr. Rafael Medoff
While Gaza has fractured the party’s elite and the small core of its most passionate activists, most Americans don’t count it among their priorities.
Most voters don’t care about Gaza, and – despite all the alarmist predictions – the Gaza conflict had no impact on the 2024 presidential election.
Alarmist polls in recent months have asserted that significant numbers of Americans, especially younger Democrats, are turning against Israel. But that doesn’t mean it has any real impact on their voting.
In March, a Gallup Poll ranked the 16 issues Americans are most concerned about. Once again, Gaza did not even make the list.
The anti-Israel movement on America’s college campuses was a flash in the pan. A core of extremists were briefly joined by students who wanted to mimic “what the cool kids are doing.”
At the end of the day – as Pew, Gallup and Harvard have discovered – most American voters just don’t care that much about Gaza. They didn’t care about it during the 19 years when Egypt occupied it, they didn’t care about it during the 12 years of totalitarian rule by the Palestinian Authority or the 17 years of Hamas rule and they don’t really care about it today. (And most people of the world, including in Muslim countries, don’t care that much about Gaza!)
Food for Thought: by Steven Shamrak
The ceasefires with Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran do not work. The “f****** crazy” President, does not have a plan how to defeat enemies, who continuously attacks the Jewish state. Israel must be free, as any sovereign country, to defeat Islamic terrorist networks, and help the Iranian people to free themselves from titanic the Islamic regime. It looks like President Trump is unwilling to help them, and even ‘negotiated’ with Hezbollah terrorists!
Trump Makes Fake Deal with Iran
Rips Netanyahu for Defending Israel
“Trump’s agreement does not bind us. Israel is not subject to the United States, and we are an independent and sovereign nation. We are not partners to this agreement that does not ensure our security, and it does not bind us in any way. We must not compromise on anything less than the dismantling of Hezbollah. And certainly we must not remain silent for a moment in the face of fire directed at the State of Israel.” – Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel Minister of National Security.
Trump Blocked Mission to Seize Iran’s Uranium
The US military recently prepared an urgent ground mission to seize Iran’s enriched uranium, but President Donald Trump blocked the plan. Iran’s uranium is spread across several nuclear sites, mainly the Isfahan, Natanz and Fordow complexes, and is buried deep inside tunnels. Recent reports indicate Washington and Tehran are now moving closer to signing an agreement that would also address the issue of Iran’s enriched uranium.
Zionism is the Jewish
National Independence Movement.
Benjamin Netanyahu said that the Jewish state would not be part of the emerging “memorandum of understanding” between the United States and Iran but that he had received assurances from US President Donald Trump “that the final agreement at the conclusion of negotiations will include the removal of enriched material, the dismantling of enrichment infrastructure, limits on missile production and the cessation of Iran’s support for its terrorist proxies in the region.” (They are both either delusional or Israel will have to finish the job!)
Israel is not Allowed to Normalize Terrorists?
US strike killed leader of Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. The US President Donald Trump said a “swift and lethal kinetic” US strike has killed Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, whom he called “the infamous leader” of the Tren de Aragua gang. Guerrero Flores was charged in a New York federal court with racketeering conspiracy and other crimes.
Israel to Build 61 New Towns in Judea, Samaria
The Israeli cabinet is expected to vote Thursday on a major funding plan that would advance the de facto establishment of 61 new Israeli towns in Judea and Samaria. The new proposal would move the project from planning toward implementation. The settlements included in the proposal are located in areas considered strategically significant.
UNRWA Fired Employees with Hamas Ties
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) terminated the employment of 70 personnel in the Gaza Strip. The mass firings occurred after the USAID oversight body flagged more than 100 past and present UNRWA workers for potential suspension or blacklisting. The individuals are accused of participating in the October 7, 2023 massacre or maintaining active ties to the military wing of the Hamas terrorist organization. (But UNRWA still claims that it only employs a few terrorists.)
Over the past week, the IDF has conducted operations on three separate fronts, aiming to handle terrorism threats from Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, to the Gaza Strip, and Judea and Samaria. In southern Lebanon, the Israeli Air Force struck approximately 310 Hezbollah sites, killing around 80 terrorists. IDF forces continue dismantling terror tunnels in the Gaza, with a focus on Khan Yunis. Over 20 terrorists were killed. In Judea and Samaria counterterrorism operations captured over 50 suspects, who were wanted for inciting terrorism, advancing terror activities, and possessing and trading weaponry.
AI Absorbing Antisemitism from Humans
Artificial intelligence models have absorbed historical anti-Semitic tropes from the human texts the models are trained on. While AI programmers have sought to eliminate harmful stereotypes, some biases come through in subtle ways. (AI “learns” from what it is fed, and if it is fed Jew-hatred, it learns it. This happened a few years ago when Microsoft created a Chatbot that quickly turned into a Jew-hater.)
Lebanese People ‘Join Israel’ in Peace
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday urged the Lebanese people to “join Israel” in peace and reject Iran and Hezbollah, declaring that “Israel is not at war with you,” but is only looking to oust the Iran-backed terror group, Hezbollah, and its “sick aims”. “We’re at war with Hezbollah, that has taken your country hostage, that does Iran’s bidding, that uses your territory to launch terrorist attacks against Israel,” he said. Netanyahu continued, saying the IDF has eliminated nearly 10,000 Hezbollah terrorists and is “systematically clearing out South Lebanon of these fanatics.” (Most Lebanese would be glad to get rid of Hezbollah. They hope that Israel will do it.)
Couple of days after President Trump called Netanyahu “f*king crazy” and accused him of ingratitude, he told a reporter that it is not clear whether Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans to run in the country’s upcoming elections and whether he wants to remain in politics at all.
Quotes of the Week:
“These are the madmen of Tehran. They’ve been calling for and working towards Israel’s destruction now for 47 years. And they have not been successful. And there’s no self-respecting country in the world that would absorb so many ballistic missiles into their territory without responding. We had to respond. We did respond. And they got a taste of how we can respond. We believe that in order for Israel to have security and for Lebanon to have freedom, it is absolutely imperative that Iran is delinked from the Lebanon issue. And a bad deal would be allowing that linkage to take place. The same people trying to link Iran to Lebanon are the same people trying to de-link the United States and Israel. Iran won’t be linked to Lebanon and we will not be de-linked from the United States.” – Yechiel Leiter, Israeli Ambassador to the United States – About the relationship with the US and anti-Israel media.
Israel is the US Mega-Billion-Dollar Laboratory
by Yoram Ettinger, Amb. (ret.)
The annual $3.8bn extended by the US to Israel (to purchase only US military systems) does not constitute “foreign aid.” It is an annual US investment.
In June 2016, Israel became the first country to use the highly-computerized F-35 operationally. Israel soon became successful in solving initial glitches that caused concern among prospective buyers.
The scores of Israeli solutions to the F-35 glitches – in the areas of data gathering and processing, electronic warfare and firing control accuracy – have been shared with the US manufacturer and the US Air Force, sustaining the F-35 superiority over its global competition.
Similar mega-billion-dollar benefits to the US economy and defense have been generated by the hundreds of Israeli solutions and add-ons, which have upgraded the performance of the technologically less-challenging F-16 (Lockheed-Martin) and F-15 (Boeing).
Israel is the largest US aircraft carrier, one which does not require a US military personnel on board, cannot be sunk, or deployed in a most critical area of the world. It pares the US the need to manufacture, deploy and maintain a few more real aircraft carriers along with a few ground divisions, which would cost the US $15bn-$20bn annually.
Moreover, some 250 commercial US high-tech giants (e.g., John Deere, General Electric, Johnson & Johnson, Texas Instruments, Intel, Nvidia, General Motors, Microsoft, AT&T, IBM, Dell, Google, Facebook, Intuit, etc.) have established research and development centers in Israel, leveraging Israel’s brain power and innovative spirit. It will sustain their global lead, yielding a consequential increase in global sales.
Israel’s battle experience has been shared with the US, saving American lives by serving as a basis for the formulation of US air force and ground force battle tactics. Israel is enhancing military medicine, as well as training US soldiers in urban warfare and facing car bombs, suicide bombers and improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
Israel shares with the US more intelligence than is shared with the US by all NATO countries combined. The scope of Israeli intelligence gained by the US is equal to the output of five CIAs (the annual budget of one CIA is almost $15bn).
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