Dear World We Need Your Answer
by Nadav Peretz
Dear World: Before you tell me to “Free Palestine”, I have some questions for you:
Spain – before lecturing Israel about colonialism, when are you giving up Ceuta and Melilla, your territories on the African continent?
Turkey – when are you freeing Northern Cyprus?
Morocco – when are you freeing Western Sahara?
China – when are we discussing Tibet?
Indonesia – when are you freeing West Papua?
Dear British activists – when are you decolonizing Gibraltar, Bermuda, the Falkland Islands, the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Montserrat, and the Turks and Caicos Islands?
Dear French activists – when are you freeing New Caledonia and French Polynesia?
Dear Americans – one more time, what about Guam, American Samoa, and the Virgin Islands?
Apparently, decolonization is incredibly simple, as long as the only country being dismantled is Israel.
History is complicated. Borders are complicated. Almost every country on Earth was shaped by migration, war, conquest, empire, and displacement.
For two thousand years, Jews prayed toward Jerusalem, mourned Jerusalem, dreamed of Jerusalem, and ended their prayers with the words, “Next year in Jerusalem.”
The Jewish people are not foreign tourists or colonizers in Judea. We did not name ourselves after this land. This land was named after us.
Food for Thought: by Steven Shamrak
Hamas members, Hezbollah and other Islamist terrorists must be full of joy when IDF kills them. They are fighting the holy war and being killed by infidels is what they really want and desire. It secures their seat at the table with Mohamed in Heaven, and awarded with 72 virgins! That is why they are ready to sacrifice their own lives. Therefore, they must be grateful that Israel helps them, according to the teaching they follow, to reach their highest aspirations.
Zionism is the Jewish
National Independence Movement.
Palestinian Authority police operated overnight in the heart of Area C, on the Beitunia bypass road in western Binyamin, despite being prohibited from operating there. The PA police detain IDF reservist in Area C, seize his weapon. Binyamin Regional Council head and Yesha Council chairman Israel Ganz responded: “The serious incident overnight proves once again that the Oslo Accords have long since become a meaningless piece of paper. The time has come to recognize reality, cancel the Oslo Accords.”
After nearly three years of war, there is no single story of how Israelis are coping with its psychological toll. A new review of 68 studies finds that mental-health outcomes vary sharply depending on what people experienced. Reservists repeatedly called up for duty, families burying loved ones, evacuees still displaced from their homes, and people experiencing financial strain – each group is carrying a different weight and carrying it differently.
Hamas Uses Hospital as Torture Center
The IDF revealed intelligence indicating that Hamas is exploiting Nasser Hospital, on the second floor of Nasser Hospital’s outpatient clinic complex, in Khan Yunis to interrogate and torture Gaza residents, as the terrorist organization intensifies efforts to maintain its control over the population. Nasser Hospital continues to serve as a central Hamas military infrastructure in the southern Gaza Strip.
Israel advances E1 construction plans with tenders for 1,400 homes. The area, covering about 12 square kilometers, is intended to expand the Israeli city of Ma’ale Adumim westward and establish a built-up connection with Jerusalem. Since the 1990s construction has repeatedly been delayed by diplomatic pressure, bureaucracy, and budgeting issues.
Israel confirmed that it was behind overnight airstrikes against a Syrian military airport, where it claimed Turkey was planning to deploy forces. The Prime Minister’s Office said Israel “repeatedly warned Syria that such a deployment would pose a threat to Israel’s security. Syria chose to ignore these warnings.” (Turkey intended to significantly expand its military presence in Syria, a move Jerusalem viewed as crossing a red line.)
Why does Israel Need US Permission?
The US special envoy Jared Kushner delivered a stark ultimatum to Hamas, warning that the terrorist group must honour its commitments to disarm in Gaza or face an Israeli military operation to “finish the job.” The US-led “Board of Peace” proposal centers on a phased ceasefire, demilitarization of Gaza, Israeli troop withdrawal, Palestinian technocratic governance and international reconstruction efforts. (But not the complete elimination of terrorist organizations, Hamas and Islamic Jihad! Israel was attacked by Hamas and Hezbollah. Any sovereign country has the right to defeat its enemies. No permission needed! Did Americans ask Israel for permission to wage war against ISIS and Taliban in Afghanistan after 911 attack?)
Syria Refuses to Hand Over Nuclear Material
Syria said Tuesday that nuclear material found at a secret site would remain in the country for “peaceful purposes,” reversing an announcement made only a week earlier that the material was expected to be removed under arrangements with the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA. The nuclear material is believed to be connected to the secret program developed under former Syrian President Bashar Assad, which Israel destroyed the reactor in a 2007 airstrike.
Enemies within – planned Car Bomb Attack
Israeli Arab charged with plotting Islamic State-inspired car bomb attack. Abdullah Gargawi contacted ISIS supporters, sought routes to join the group in Syria and planned to remotely detonate a car bomb outside a crowded Be’er Sheva club.
Hamas Reviving Gaza Border Fears
Hamas uses children to fly kites into Israel. Four kites discovered near Gaza border communities since Friday have shaken residents and revived painful memories of October 7. Initial IDF assessments indicate they were launched by children and teenagers acting on instructions from Hamas commanders. The kites carried messages in Arabic. One bore the phrase “We will never calm down,” apparently intended as a psychological message.
Quotes of the Week:
“We are operating in a multi-front reality, in which the challenges are constantly changing and developing – the Syrian arena is one of them. We will not allow hostile forces to establish themselves on our borders, and we will know how to use our operational capabilities precisely where and when needed.” – IDF Chief of Staff, LTG Eyal Zamir.
Turkey is Threat to Israel and the West
by Fern Sidman
Turkey under Erdogan is not a democratic bridge between East and West, nor is it a reliable pillar of transatlantic security. It is an expansionist, authoritarian power fundamentally hostile to democratic governance, Western values, and the existence of Israel in the Middle East.
For nearly half a century, the political capitals of the Western world have indulged in an unpardonable strategic delusion. They have meticulously maintained the comfortable fiction that Turkey is an indispensable to NATO.
Decades of unheeded warnings have given way to an undeniable, overwhelming body of evidence. Turkey is no longer merely a “difficult NATO ally”. It is actively running a coordinated, multi-front campaign with Islamist education networks to undermine United States policy, military positioning in Syria, and new alliances designed to encircle Israel.
The fifty-two-year illegal occupation of Cyprus stands as the first solid, unmistakable proof of Ankara’s revanchist ambitions. Yet, Western policymakers repeatedly looked the other way. (But ‘THEY’ are quite vocal about Israel ‘occupation’ of the land which belongs to Jewish people.)
Under the autocratic, dictatorial rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey has been systematically transformed from a secular republic into a centralized engine for ideological subversion and state-sponsored (Islamic) extremism.
Erdogan’s state apparatus has deployed its vast financial resources to conduct aggressive, covert influence operations explicitly aimed at dismantling American foreign policy in the Middle East.
Turkey remains the largest financier of the Muslim Brotherhood. By channelling vast sums through non-transparency conduits, front organizations, and compliant media figures, Ankara seeks to shape public discourse, erode Western support for traditional regional allies.
Most dangerously, Turkey has established itself as the primary state sponsor and safe haven for Hamas terrorists, openly hosting its operational leaders, providing financial pipelines, issuing citizenships, providing diplomatic passports, and endorsing their ultimate objective: the total destruction of the State of Israel. (Erdogan considers himself a new Caliph. Turkey has to be needs to be removed from NATO.)
Turkey Planned Threatening Israel Move
Defense Minister Israel Katz said IDF intelligence showed Ankara planned activity at Abu al-Duhur that could threaten Israel. Syria ignored a warning before the strike. Katz also rejected claims that the strike was intended to inflame tensions ahead of Israel’s elections.