by Amine Ayoub
In Sinai, forty thousand Egyptian troops. Tanks. Armoured vehicles. Expanded airfields at Refidim and El-Arish. Underground bunkers. Anti-tank obstacles. Advanced radar systems angled, at least partially, toward Israeli territory. This is not a border garrison. It is a forward deployment.
The bitter irony is that Israel helped build it. When ISIS affiliates began destabilizing the Sinai in the mid-2010s, Jerusalem quietly agreed to waive certain restrictions of the 1979 peace treaty, allowing Cairo to move heavier forces into zones the Camp David framework explicitly demilitarized.
What Egypt brought into Sinai to fight ISIS, Egypt has largely kept there. The temporary became permanent. The exceptional became structural. Israel now faces a military reality on its southern border that the 1979 treaty existed precisely to prevent.
The timing could not be worse. America just declared the Iranian chapter closed. Washington needs Cairo right now, for Gaza reconstruction optics, for Red Sea coordination.
Iran is weakened. American forces remain regionally positioned. Egypt still values the relationship with Israel enough to respond to serious pressure if that pressure is actually applied.
This is the moment to draw a hard line on Sinai, not through military confrontation but through the kind of public insistence on compliance with peace treaty with Egypt that makes the current trajectory unacceptable to sustain.
If not, a different approach is required.
Food for Thought: by Steven Shamrak
When Israel and the Jewish people are finally able to shake off the slave-mentality developed during the last two millennia, the world will see a shining country, free of terrorising neighbours. This Jewish state will then be the world’s spiritual and technological leader.
Zionism is the Jewish
National Independence Movement.
Relocate Embassies in Jerusalem
The government unanimously approved a proposal to encourage countries around the world to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and to display the recognition by moving foreign embassies to Jerusalem. Incentives include participation in funding the establishment or relocation of embassies, as well as housing and planning solutions.
Israeli Arab suspect – Ahmed Fuad Abdelaziz Da’es from Tira, in central Israel – indicted for contacting Iranian intelligence officials and sending them images and information about sensitive security sites in Israel.
While the general trend in the European left these days is hatred and delegitimization of Israel at best, and blatant antisemitism at worst, at least one left-wing group appears to be taking a stand. Ahead of the Eurovision Song Contest, Austria’s Grüne Jugend, or Young Greens, group launched a campaign titled “Zero points for antisemitism.” The group pointed out a double standard in the Eurovision competition, which claims to be against discrimination, but is fine with it if it is against Jews or Israel.
Iron Dome Nearly 99% Effective
Israel’s Iron Dome has been nearly 99% effective against missiles from Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists and has knocked out most missiles from Iran. Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon have between them fired some 40,000 rockets at Israel. Iran has fired about 1,500 ballistic missiles at Israel in two rounds of fighting since 2024 and “only several dozen” were not intercepted.
The US Ambassador to the United Nations, Mike Waltz, confirmed that Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system was used to shoot down Iranian missiles targeting the United Arab Emirates. It is the first government official publicly verify that the Israeli equipment was deployed and used in the UAE during the recent fighting.
Sovereignty on the Temple Mount Restored
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir declared that Israel had “restored sovereignty” on the Temple Mount during a Jerusalem Day visit to the holy site. Ben-Gvir has repeatedly challenged the longstanding status quo arrangement governing the Temple Mount, established after Israel captured the Old City in 1967. Under the arrangement, Israel maintains overall security control while the Jordanian-administered Islamic Waqf oversees daily administration of the compound. (Full sovereignty over ALL Jewish land must be established!)
Iran-US war latest: Rubio warns President Trump won’t be pressured into a ‘bad deal’. The US President Trump said he had “looked at” Tehran’s response to a peace plan drawn up by Washington but “if I don’t like the first sentence I just throw it away”. (The same must be said about Israel’s wars against its enemies.)
Special Tribunal for Hamas October 7 Terrorists
The law, backed by the coalition and most of the opposition – passed 93-0 in the 120-seat Knesset, will establish what effectively a military court for more than 250 Hamas elite Nukhba force terrorists held in Israel since the massacre. The bill empowers a panel of judges to hand down the death penalty by a majority vote. It has drawn comparisons to the 1962 trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, who was executed by hanging, the last time the death penalty was carried out in Israel. Although, technically capital punishment remains on the books for acts of genocide, espionage during wartime, and certain terror offenses.
Quote of the Week:
“The naïve are mistaken in thinking the Holocaust is a thing of the past. The calls for destruction cannot exist, and that hatred threatening a people’s existence cannot arise. The Iranian threat has steadily intensified before our eyes, and before the eyes of the world, almost unchecked. The Mossad once again operated in the heart of Tehran. We provided precise intelligence to the Air Force and struck missiles threatening Israeli civilians. Our commitment will be fulfilled only when this extremist regime is replaced. This is our mission. We will not stand idly by in the face of another existential threat. With a clear command-never again.” – David Barnea, Mossad head.
Who are the Fake Palestinians?
Extracts from: Bosnia – Motherland of “Palestinians” – by Manfred R. Lehmann and
“Palestinians ‘Peoplehood’ Based on a Big Lie” by Eli E. Hertz.
The Arab Palestinian nationality (which was officially invented in 1964) is an entity defined by its opposition to Zionism (the Jewish national liberation movement) and not by its national aspirations.
Like a mantra, Arabs repeatedly claim that the Palestinians are a native people of Israel. The concept of a ‘Stateless Palestinian people’ is not based on fact. It is a fabrication! The following is a chronology of an ethnic makeup of so-called Palestinians and their origin.
During the Ottoman Empire.
Until the Jews began returning to the Land of Israel in increasing numbers from the late 19th century, the area called Palestine was a God-forsaken backwash that was controlled by the Ottoman Empire.
From 1880-1884, the Turkish government settled Muslim Circassians refugees in the Golan to ward off Bedouin robbers. Other settlers in the area included Sudanese, Algerians, and Kurds.
In 1878, an Ottoman law granted lands in Palestine to the Moslem refugees from Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Carmel region, in the Galilee, in the Plain of Sharon, and in Caesarea. The refugees were further attracted by 12-year tax exemptions and exemption from military service.
The same colonization policy was also directed toward Moslem refugees from Russia – particularly from the Crimea and the Caucasus. They were Circassians and Turkmenians – leading to their settling in Abu Gosh, near Jerusalem, and in the Golan Heights. Refugees from Algeria and Egypt were also settled in Jaffa, Gaza, Jericho and the Golan.
British Mandate: 1917-1947
In 1923, having discovered that the Golan lacks oil, but that the Mosul area in northern Syria is rich in oil, the British ceded the Golan to France in exchange for Mosul. At the same time, Trans-Jordan was ceded from the Palestinian Mandate, Egypt was given control of the Sinai, British and France gained control of the Suez Canal. (82% of Jewish land was sacrificed in the process!)
In 1934 alone, 30,000 Syrian Arabs from the Hauran moved across the northern frontier into the Palestine Mandate, attracted by work in and around the newly built British port and the construction of other infrastructure projects. They even dubbed Haifa as Um el-Amal (‘the city of work’).
The Ottoman Turk’ census (1882) recorded only 141,000 Muslims in Palestine. The British census in 1922 reported 650,000 Muslims. (Isn’t that a peculiarly sharp increase of population?)
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