"Last weekend was one of the rare moments of elation, the few that Israel has known since the October 7 massacre. The only other times we felt a similar surge of joy were when other hostages returned safely from captivity in Gaza." Read today's "View From Jerusalem" written by Leah Garber, senior vice president of JCC Association of North America and director of our Center for Israel Engagement.
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Dr Einat Wilf: The messages are finally starting to become (a little) clearer, so here's another push and help: In my dreams, the members of the War Cabinet will appear every day once a day on all media in Israel and in the world and say the following: War is hell. We don't want her. We want to end the war. We want a ceasefire and agree to it. (Pause) These are our terms: 1) Immediate release of all the abductees 2) Demilitarization of all of Gaza and exposure and destruction of all tunnels 3) Delivering the planners and perpetrators of the October 7th massacre to justice 4) Initiating an overall move to ideologically uproot "from the river to the sea", "return" and "emissions" from the Palestinian ethos These are basic conditions that every nation seeking justice and peace should support. These conditions will not bring back to us the people that Hamas brutally massacred, but the fulfillment of these conditions will lead to a ceasefire and the end of the war. Thanks. (and then repeat all these messages with quiet determination over and over and over and over again)
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Fascinating short history lesson. Must listen!!!
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We need informed everyone We are as ARAB CULTURAL CENTER already signed at the form to support Ceasefire Call From Congresswoman Cori Bush Cori Bush All the Support to Ceasefire in Gaza now All the Respect for your humanity. -⭐️-⭐️-⭐️-⭐️-⭐️-⭐️-⭐️-⭐️- Please Support Cori Bush in Calling for a Ceasefire! Cori Bush is right: Ceasefire now is the only moral choice! A broad coalition of St. Louis organizations, clergy and voters support Rep. Bush’s leadership in calling for an end to the killing in Gaza. A ceasefire is necessary to save lives and address the humanitarian catastrophe that is underway in Gaza. Israel’s pursuit of aerial bombardment, siege, and forced population movement policies that many experts say constitute war crimes and the intent of genocide is leading to an apocalyptic loss of life. We refuse to allow grief to be used as a weapon of war or a justification for the murder of children and innocent people. https://lnkd.in/gqMFagNT
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Can we just pause and ask ourselves why we are seeing so much anger directed at Israel for rescuing the hostages? The volume of stories painting Israel as the aggressor when undertaking a successful rescue op, is frankly insane. Hamas are angry. Israel used their tactics against them (masquerading as civilians), successfully rescued hostages without having to release any Palestinian terrorists from Israel prisons and have significantly decreased Hamas’s bargaining power. It’s interesting to note that pro Hamas commentary always concentrates on the consequences brought to Gaza by Hamas’s actions, be it the barbaric massacre on Oct 7, the kidnapping and brutalisation post Oct 7, or the infiltration of weapons and terrorists within civilian populations. The commentary almost never mentions Oct 7, or if it does, devotes one sentence way down the page. Hamas becomes invisible leaving Israel looking like the aggressor. And the world laps it up.
James MacPherson is a Sky News Australia presenter and writes a no holds barred blog on various topics. He has a genius ability to cut through the utter nonsense that is directed at Israel and the Jewish people. Regarding the miraculous rescue of 4 Israeli hostages from civilian homes in Gaza he writes: ‘I know it’s a rough day for mainstream media when innocent Jewish hostages are rescued, but they could at least try to contain their disappointment. It's insane that people are mad at Israel for rescuing the hostages, rather than being mad at Hamas for taking hostages in the first place.’ The piece is well worth a read. https://lnkd.in/gmgXRaea
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THIS IS LAST HOPE FOR GAZA In the name of humanity to whosoever this post reaches should sent this post to P.M. and President of his country and also to news papers and TV's. After thorough analysis I realised that there are two basic and fundamental structural defects in the constitution of UN which are 1. Veto Power System for the permanent members of the security council of UN. Since there is a body of all stakeholders in the form of General Assembly wherein all member- countries of the UN are represented there is absolutely no need of Security Council to accept or reject the resolutions passed by General Assembly. As such Security Council should be dissolved forthwith. 2. All member countries of UN are not signatory to the Rome statute consequently some countries are not under the International Criminal Court (ICC) whereas all the member countries have to be under the jurisdiction of ICC so that peace prevails in the world. . Due to these defects America has made a mockery of the UN as it is reduced to a puppet in the hands of the America. Consequently America with some allies have invaded several Muslim countries like Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya and looted these countries then leaving these countries after the loot is complete. Presently America with the help of Israel (both countries are not under the jurisdiction of ICC) is demolishing, cold blooded mass murders, devastation, destruction , displacement, ethenic cleansing, murder especially of children and women and genocide and the whole world including the UN have to be mute spectators of all this and nobody has the powers to question them because of these defects in the constitution of UN. More than seven decades have passed by but the above-mentioned defects in the constitution of UN were not rectified. Non-rectification of these defects has created a very grave situation as instead of peace maintaining organisation UN became a weapon of blackmailing and means of invading and looting the rich countries by some countries which were having the veto power also besides these countries were not signatory to the Rome statute consequently these countries were not under the jurisdiction of ICC. As the result these countries became law per se and virtually became terrorist countries of the world because they were not answerable to any forum for whatever they do. They invaded and looted several countries so much so they created terrorist groups also. Now the climax of lawlessness has reached in Palestine where total devastation, destruction, cold blooded mass murders, genocide, ethenic cleansing, kidnapping and rape of innocent and unarmed civilians is being done and the whole world including UN have to be mute spectators because of the basic and fundamental defects in the constitution of UN have not been rectified. This is the highest time these defects are rectified by the General Assembly. Let General Assembly wake up after decades of slumber and rectify the defects as proposed above..
When we think of the Nakba we should remember it was made up of thousands of personal stories of 750,000 people who were ethnically cleansed from their lands across Palestine. However, the Nakba did not end in 1948. It has continued every year since and there is no period more catastrophic than the genocide on Gaza since 7/10. On the 76th anniversary of the Nakba I want to recognise the brave and outspoken people across the world who are standing in solidarity with the oppressed. Prominent Italian chef Gabriele Rubini (known as Chef Rubio) posted on his account on X that a group of zionists ambushed and attacked him outside his home over his support for Palestine. "They waited for me outside my house, six of them, and cut the gate wires to massacre me", he said. We salute you and we hope to see you in a liberated Palestine under a just system, where all people lived in peace and security.
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Israel is winning one war in Gaza. Hamas is winning another. Israel is, slowly but surely, dismantling a vast and intricate terror network. But Hamas is succeeding in its mission to spread lies and hatred, to portray itself as an oppressed underdog and to demonise Israel. Hamas knew the world would shed a tear, briefly, on 7 October. But it also knew that the longer it could drag out the subsequent and inevitable war, and the more it could ensure its own people suffered and died in large numbers, the more damage it would inflict on Israel. Two things to remember: Hamas does not value human life - of its own people or its enemy. Hamas lies. Always.
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Israel is winning one war in Gaza. Hamas is winning another. Israel is, slowly but surely, dismantling a vast and intricate terror network. But Hamas is succeeding in its mission to spread lies and hatred, to portray itself as an oppressed underdog and to demonise Israel. Hamas knew the world would shed a tear, briefly, on 7 October. But it also knew that the longer it could drag out the subsequent and inevitable war, and the more it could ensure its own people suffered and died in large numbers, the more damage it would inflict on Israel. Two things to remember: Hamas does not value human life - of its own people or its enemy. Hamas lies. Always.
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