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[Dan @DanZiv]

https://t.co/cSj3N1OOXV

[Geert Wilders @geertwilderspvv]

עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי 🇮🇱

[Dan @DanZiv]

It must be a day of reckoning for the #liberal left in the US and Europe, to wake up and discover you’re in #Iran’s side of geopolitics.

[Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian @manniefabian]

Beneath UNRWA’s Gaza Strip headquarters, the IDF has uncovered one of Hamas’s most significant and top secret assets: a subterranean data center used by the terror group for intelligence and communications.

The terror group built the server farm, complete with an electrical room and living quarters for the Hamas IT staff, directly below the UN agency’s complex in Gaza City’s Rimal neighborhood, to ensure Israel would never target it.

On Thursday, I joined the 401st Armored Brigade, Shaldag unit and Yahalom unit for a tour of the underground passages and data center, as well as the UNRWA headquarters above.

Full story on @TimesOfIsrael in one hour.

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

BREAKING: The “few bad apples” line pushed by the UN has just been obliterated. The Wall Street Journal front page is reporting that an estimated 1,200 Unrwa employees in Gaza are actual “operatives” of Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and about half have close relatives who belong to the Islamist terrorist organizations, according to Israeli intelligence estimates shared with the U.S. government.

The report said 23% of Unrwa’s male employees—the agency has a total staff of 12,000 in Gaza—took active part in the Hamas organization’s military or political framework, a higher percentage than the average of 15% for adult males in Gaza.

The information in the Israeli intelligence reports is based on sensitive signals intelligence as well as cellphone tracking data, interrogations of captured Hamas gunmen and documents recovered from dead terrorists.

Nearly half of all Unrwa employees—an estimated 49%—also had close relatives with official ties to Hamas and other terrorist groups.

The Oct. 7 intelligence reports seen by the Wall Street Journal identified an Unrwa Arabic teacher who was also a Hamas terrorist commander and took part in a terrorist attack on Kibbutz Be’eri, where 97 people were murdered, and about 26 people were kidnapped and taken as hostages to Gaza.

Another Unrwa employee, described in the dossier as an Unrwa social worker, played a role in absconding with the body of a dead Israeli soldier, which was taken to Gaza, the reports said. He also coordinated trucks and munitions distributions for Hamas before being killed.

📍Full story by @cjkeller8 & @davidluhnow @WSJ: https://t.co/O52PuArX0y

[Dan @DanZiv]

The termination of @UNRWA will do more for de-radicalisation and peace in the region than any peace talks.

[Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas]

Countries halting funding to @UNRWA:
Australia 🇦🇺
Canada 🇨🇦
Finland 🇫🇮
Germany 🇩🇪
Italy 🇮🇹
Netherlands 🇳🇱
Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
UK 🇬🇧
United States 🇺🇸

[Dan @DanZiv]

@devorah555

[Dan @DanZiv]

@pronounced_kyle @friedberg is this worth your time this time round?

[Dan @DanZiv]

זו הדרך קדימה

[Yoni @jbytej]

קראתי עכשיו את הדו"ח של מכון אימפקט על ספרי הלימוד באיחוד האמירויות, וזה פשוט לא יאמן השינוי המטורף.
בגרסא הנוכחית, האסלאם כולו מטיף לאחווה ושלום בין דתי, ישראל כבר לא פרוייקט קולוניאליסטי וכבר לא "הכיבוש הציוני".
ממש מדהים.

בחרתי כמה דוגמאות⬇️

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

Listen as @DouglasKMurray rips apart the “two-state solution” nonsense in 60 seconds:

[Dan @DanZiv]

״it’s not possible to simply put all the focus on Israel and keep calling for a ceasefire without fundamentally understanding what’s at play here.״

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Ceasefire now? It is evident that #Hamas, in its own callous & destructive way, isn't seeking a rapid end to the horrendous Israeli war on #Gaza that's destroying the Palestinian population there. In so doing, Hamas ironically has sinister common ground with Netanyahu & Company who want to prolong the conflict & don't seem particularly concerned about the hostages' return. Hamas is desperately trying to gain any "achievement" that it can sell its people because it knows that in a Gazan context, its rule and legitimacy are finished. It doesn't matter that its propaganda has fooled many in the Arab or Muslim worlds or folks in the West Bank who haven't endured life with the consequences that a Hamas rule would bring. The group can never recover its former standing in the coastal enclave. While Gazans are furious at Israel for inflicting unspoken death & destruction upon them, Hamas will forever be held in contempt for initiating yet another deadly war that was entirely avoidable.

A 9-year-old video clip is making the rounds of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who sometimes has bursts of brilliance and reasonable commentary, even with all of his faults and weaknesses. In it, he describes the 2014 war between Israel and Hamas and how he asked Egypt's President el-Sisi to put forth a ceasefire initiative early in the conflagration. El-Sisi, who despises Hamas & its ideological mothership, the Muslim Brotherhood, nevertheless came back with a reasonable framework for a ceasefire that restores the previous arrangements between Israel & Hamas agreed upon in 2012. Instead of agreeing to the proposed ceasefire initiative & saving the maximum number of Gazans’ lives, Hamas refused and brought up unreasonable demands such as establishing an airport, a seaport, and the complete lifting of the blockade. These demands were entirely out of the question, especially because Hamas didn’t offer Israel much of anything in return: It didn’t want to renounce violence, agree to a long-term ceasefire, or unify Gaza politically with the West Bank – as in, what moron thinks that Israel would simply grant Hamas all of its wishes without anything in return. Abbas continued that despite efforts to convince Hamas otherwise, the group refused a ceasefire and needlessly kept the war going for 51 days, after which it agreed to an almost identical ceasefire framework that neither lifted the blockade nor allowed for an airport/seaport. This means that in 2014, over 2,200 Gazans died needlessly without any results or a meaningful outcome.

Similarly, Egypt is now proposing a vision to stop the current war. It entails Hamas (& the Palestinian Islamic Jihad) agreeing to relinquish control over Gaza, with guarantees to their members’ safety, and turn control over to a new government led by the Palestinian Authority with international monitoring & support while also releasing all Israeli hostages and beginning negotiations to achieve a two-state solution. The vision deliberately leaves the issue of disarmament somewhat vague. Still, it is understood that Hamas would ultimately need to abandon armed resistance in Gaza. Predictably, Hamas & the PIJ largely refused the vision. The groups keep demanding that Israel completely stop the war before any negotiations take place. While I want the war to end right this second, we know that’s not going to happen, especially with Netanyahu wanting to prolong the conflict to save his collapsing political career.

I share this because it’s not possible to simply put all the focus on Israel and keep calling for a ceasefire without fundamentally understanding what’s at play here. Of course, the priority is to put an immediate end to the horrendous bombardment and the horrific/at times criminal conduct of the IDF in Gaza. But Hamas’s role, actions, decisions, and priorities are inexorably linked to the current war & misery of Palestinians. The eventual cessation of the war will require pressure applied on Hamas to compromise, accept its responsibilities, and pay the necessary price to save what remains of Gaza & Gazans – and to prevent possible forced displacement into Sinai/Egypt (or "voluntary" ethnic cleansing) that’s being touted by Netanyahu & senior Israeli officials.

I urge those who support Palestinian lives/rights and want to see an end to the horror – please understand the terrible role of Hamas in the current disaster and don’t give the group the benefit of the doubt. They deserve to be ruthlessly condemned and strongly pressured to act quickly and stop the needless killing of their people in Gaza; start pairing calls for a ceasefire with demands for the hostages' release & a political change for the people of Gaza. Palestinian political factions and leaders have agency and can make decisions to end the slaughter of their own people. Hamas is not worthy of any direct or tacit support; we must understand their destructive/immoral calculus and unequivocally reject it.

[🇮🇱 איתי אלמוג-בר Itay Almog Bar @itay_almog_bar]

קטע הפתיחה של ארץ נהדרת על המילואימניק שחוזר מעזה לשגרת הפילוג במדינה מדהים, מרגש, מעלה דמעות
שאפו לצוות היוצרים
צפו 🇮🇱

[Campaign Against Antisemitism @antisemitism]

Today, in between sips of tea, @StephenFry delivered @Channel4’s #AlternativeChristmasMessage. 🫖

“I am Stephen Fry and I am a Jew…Knowing and loving this country as I do, I don’t believe that most Britons are okay living in a society that judges hatred of Jews to be the one acceptable form of racism. So, speak up, stand with us.”

Beautiful.
Brave.
Needed.
Thank you Stephen Fry.

And if you think that he is exaggerating in any way, search for “Stephen Fry” on 𝕏 right now and see the antisemitic pile-on for yourself.

[Dan @DanZiv]

@askdani__real @DavidSacks @theallinpod feels like research you should know about

[Aizenberg @Aizenberg55]

🧵@hrw piece claiming Israel intends to starve Gazans for war is propaganda masking as scholarship but covered by NY Times. Like all HRW "reports" on Israel it is filled with lies, errors, misrepresentations & omissions. Here is a detailed breakdown: 1/

https://t.co/ULDV6h9tYc

[Dan @DanZiv]

@shaunmmaguire @piersmorgan fyi

[Dan @DanZiv]

@shaunmmaguire @amanpour please watch this

[Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire]

This is a must watch video

The director of a hospital in Gaza breaks down how Hamas used it as a base

This is a Rorschach test

If you believe Hamas is 1) evil and 2) uses civilian infrastructure then Israel’s response is unfortunately the only way

[Tomer Persico @TomerPersico]

סקר שפורסם מטעם מכון באונ' הארוורד בשיתוף חברת סקרים מביא כמה ממצאים מעניינים ומטרידים מאוד.

ישראל נגד חמאס: רוב מוחלט של האמריקאים בעד ישראל אבל בקרב אמריקאים בגילאי 18-24 יש תיקו >>

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

Pro-Palestinian accounts are sharing this photo of Dr. Nasser Almadhon of Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza, to prove that Israel is arresting innocent doctors 👇

Now look at the first reply below