Palestinians Leave Israeli Aid A 3-Star Yelp Review - Babylon Bee

GAZA — Dissatisfied with the level of humanitarian assistance provided by Israel amid the ongoing conflict with Hamas, Palestinians collectively left the Israeli aid a lackluster 3-star Yelp review.
Despite efforts by the Israeli government to send food and other essential materials to Palestinians in Gaza, the recipients reportedly felt that the quality of the aid left a lot ot be desired and failed to meet their expectations.
"Not the dining experience I was hoping for," said one Palestinian review. "While there was a decent word-of-mouth buzz going around about the Israeli aid, it just didn't live up to the hype, I'm afraid. I mean, we were all literally starving and on the brink of death, but it still would've been nice to maybe get a little bread as an appetizer, or some chips and salsa or something. Three stars."
Other Palestinians agreed that the free food to help them avoid starvation was not up to par. "I'm normally not picky, but this doesn't cut it," said another review. "Granted, if we didn't receive this help, we would all just completely die, but that's still no excuse for not giving us the service we deserve. We want polite service, gourmet food, and for the Israeli people to vacate their land and wipe themselves off the face of the earth. These are not unreasonable expectations, but unfortunately, this was a disappointment. Can't recommend."
At publishing time, Palestinians said that if Israel promised to stop existing and cede all of its territory to people who hate them, they would consider providing a more favorable review.

Greta Thunberg Does Gaza

This attention whore has blown all her credibility on the ‘Climate Change’ Hoax/Cult bullshit and is searching for ways to stay relevant.
So now that Trump has solved the Humanitarian Aid clusterf*ck in Gaza by having American troops watching over the distribution of aid instead of the barbaric terrorist’s, Hamas, Thunberg is going to try and earn liberal cred by going over there and telling lies about what’s happening. There are articles and videos of the ‘palestinians’ praising America and Trump for making sure they get aid and all of it free instead of having to buy it from Hamas at exorbitant prices.

She's also been fed the liberal talking points about how Israel is waging a genocidal war and committing war crimes, blah, blah, blah.

https://x.com/Breaking911/status/1929242556870652383

‘There Can Be No Coexistence With Evil’

Rubio gives fiery defense of Israel and the Jewish people.
"...these regimes and empires have crumbled into dust, but Israel stands, and the Jewish people prosper.”
In a fiery defense of Israel and the Jewish people, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio noted the constant attempts by different empires and groups throughout history to wipe out Jews, then declared, “There can be no compromise with antisemitism. There can be no nuanced separation of hatred of Israel and hatred of the Jewish people.”
Rubio made the following remarks in a pre-recorded video shown on Wednesday at the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Minister’s Conference in Jerusalem.

https://x.com/IsraelMFA/status/1927697520924168419

“Golda Meir once said, ‘It took Moses 40 years to find the only place in the Middle East with no oil,’” Rubio began. “But Israel‘s wealth lay not under the ground, but in its people; the Jewish people: exiles, pilgrims and dreamers from around the world who made the desert bloom into a high-tech superpower.”
“Israel accomplished this miracle, not by abandoning it’s history and identity, but by embracing it,” he continued. “Sadly, some of Israel’s neighbors have failed to appreciate how following Israel’s example could have brought prosperity to the region. Instead, they chose war. They decided to impoverish their people in a futile effort to destroy Israel. They succeeded in the former while failing in the latter.”
Rubio turned to history: “Antisemitism is the world’s oldest bigotry, and given that we are all here today, it is also the world’s most futile. Egyptian pharaohs, Roman emperors. Persian shahs and Middle Eastern despots have sought to destroy the nation of Israel. Adolf Hitler dreamed of a world without Jews; an idea he shares with Hamas. Today, these regimes and empires have crumbled into dust, but Israel stands, and the Jewish people prosper.”
Then he segued to the future: “I pray for the day when the entire world will recognize the futility of antisemitism; when leaders will abandon self-destructive hatred and forge a new future and partnership with Israel by building on the Abraham Accords. Under President Trump‘s leadership, there are signs that the future may be closer than we dared dream, but only if we can overcome the futile persistent evil of antisemitism, can we reach that future.”
Rubio spoke of the young couple who worked at the Israeli Embassy who were murdered in cold blood at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington D.C. on May 21 by a Palestinian supporter:
“Earlier this year I stood beside Foreign Minister Sa’ar at the Yad Vashem memorial. I remembered the millions of Jews who were slaughtered, and reflected on the meaning of the words, “Never again.” The importance of those words were brought home to every American last week when Yaron Lischinski and Sarah Milgrim were murdered in cold blood outside of the Capital Jewish museum here in Washington D.C. Yaron was a Christian, born in Germany, who came to love the Jewish state. Sarah was from Kansas and loved Yaron. They dreamed of marrying in Jerusalem; instead they were cut down in cold blood by a monster who did not care about Yaron’s faith or Sarah‘s background. We should never forget that as he was being arrested after killing two innocents, who he believed were Jews, the murderer proudly screamed, “Free, free Palestine,” words that serve as a battle cry for the death of Jews, the destruction of Israel and the horrors we must never again allow.”
“There can be no compromise with antisemitism,” he said bluntly. “There can be no nuanced separation of hatred of Israel and hatred of the Jewish people. Those who called to boycott Israel are calling for the boycott of their Jewish neighbors and classmates. Those who call for violence against Israelis are calling for violence against Jews. Those who call for the destruction of Israel are calling for the destruction of the Jewish people. That is why as we extend our prayers to Yaron and Sarah‘s loved ones we must stand in solidarity with Israel. There can be no coexistence with evil. There can be no nuance to hatred.”
“Under President Trump the United States will stand with the Jewish people.” “We have implemented a vigorous new visa policy that will prevent foreign nationals from coming to the United States to foment hatred against our Jewish community. We are holding international organizations and nations accountable for rhetoric against Israel that resurfaces in the manifesto of monsters like Yaron and Sarah‘s killer.”
He concluded triumphantly: “But we do see an eventual light at the end of this long tunnel of suffering. One can imagine the Middle East in which the Abraham Accords eventually reign.”

Netanyahu Responds To Return Of Murdered Hostages

‘We Will Eliminate Hamas’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement following the return of the bodies of four Hamas hostages, vowing to eliminate the terror group.
“Our heart may be broken but our spirit is not,” Netanyahu said in a video message in Hebrew. “And with this spirit: We will return all of our hostages. We will destroy the murderers; we will eliminate Hamas. And together, with God’s help, we will ensure our future.”

https://x.com/koshercockney/status/1892582431695216854

Israel received the bodies of Shiri Bibas, her young children, Kfir and Ariel Bibas, and Oded Lifshitz, an elderly man, after the terror group paraded them on stage in front of large cheering crowds in a propaganda spectacle.
At Hamas’ ceremony in Khan Yunis, spectators wearing terrorist logos gathered as upbeat music played. The coffins each had a picture of the hostages with a sticker that said “date of arrest October 7 2023.”
On the stage was a picture of the four fallen hostages with an image of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu depicted as a vampire with the text “This War Criminal Netanyahu & His Nazi Army Killed Them with Missiles from Zionist Warplanes.” There was also a missile with a sign in English reading “They were killed by USA bombs.”
“My brothers and sisters, dear citizens of Israel, on this day we are all united, in grief that is too heavy to bear,” Netanyahu said. “Today, every home in Israel bows its head. We bow our heads over the heavy loss of four of our hostages. We all feel pain mixed with rage. We are all outraged at the Hamas monsters.”
“The four coffins of our dear ones require us, more than ever, to ensure, to swear, that what happened on October 7 never recurs,” Netanyahu added. “The voice of our dear ones’ blood cries out to us from the ground. It requires us to settle accounts with the depraved murderers – and we will settle accounts with them.”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/netanyahu-responds-to-return-of-murdered-hostages-we-will-eliminate-hamas?topStoryPosition=undefined

BREAKING: Ceasefire Deal Has Been Signed

The ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas has been signed by all parties, including the US and Qatar.
This means the first hostages to be released will be on Monday, Trump’s Inauguration day.

Here’s more from the Jerusalem Post:
Representatives of Israel, Hamas, the US, and Qatar have officially signed the hostage deal and Gaza ceasefire in Doha, the Prime Minister’s Office confirmed in a statement Friday morning.
According to the statement, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been informed of the agreement and instructed to convene the Political-security cabinet, followed by a government meeting to approve the plan.
Currently, the government plenum is set to vote on the measure on Saturday, which would delay the release of the first three hostages until Monday, rather than Sunday as initially planned.
The government cited last-minute disagreements with Hamas as the reason for the delay in voting on the matter.
The vote is expected to cause significant opposition in the government, with three ministers already promising to quit if the Israel-Hamas war does not continue.
Netanyahu released a statement expressing his appreciation to the negotiating team, as well as confirming that the families of the hostages were informed of the agreement.
Additionally, the Coordinator of Prisoners of War and Missing Persons has begun preparations to accept the returned hostages back into the country.
“The State of Israel is committed to achieving all the goals of the war, including the return of all our kidnapped people – both living and dead,” the statement concluded.

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-837944

Netanyahu Gives Fiery Speech to UN Declaring Israel Has Had Enough

(I watched the entire speech, I recommend you watch it too, if you love Israel.)

In an impassioned speech before the UN General Assembly on September 27, 2024, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spelled out to the world that Israel is done with international efforts to placate or excuse Hamas and Hezbollah. He declared there would be no peace until the terrorist organizations dedicated to the mass murder of Jews and the eradication of Israel are themselves eradicated.
Netanyahu started his speech by stating he originally had zero interest in attending the UN meeting this year, but felt compelled to do so in order to combat the lies of those claiming Israel was unjustifiably aggressive in combating terror.
Mr. President, Ladies and gentlemen, I didn’t intend to come here this year. My country is at war, fighting for its life.
But after I heard the lies and slanders leveled at my country by many of the speakers at this podium, I decided to come here and set the record straight. I decided to come here to speak for my people.
To speak for my country, to speak for the truth. And here’s the truth: Israel seeks peace. Israel yearns for peace. Israel has made peace and will make peace again. Yet we face savage enemies who seek our annihilation, and we must defend ourselves against them.
Netanyahu stated to those gathered that Iran was and is a threat to not only Israel but the civilized world as a whole.
And that is the choice we face today: the curse of Iran’s unremitting aggression or the blessing of a historic reconciliation between Arab and Jew. In the days that followed that speech, the blessing I spoke of came into sharper focus.
Netanyahu reminded the UN that before the Hamas-committed obscene atrocities of October 7, 2023, the Middle East was close to enjoying genuine peace as it has ever been since Israel’s formation in 1948.
A normalization deal between Saudi Arabia and Israel seemed closer than ever. But then came the curse of October 7th. Thousands of Iranian-backed Hamas terrorists from Gaza burst into Israel in pickup trucks and on motorcycles, and they committed unimaginable atrocities. They savagely murdered 1,200 people. They raped and mutilated women. They beheaded men. They burned babies alive. They burned entire families alive—babies, children, parents, grandparents, in scenes reminiscent of the Nazi Holocaust.
Netanyahu continued, noting how Iran was behind Israel being forced into war for self-preservation on multiple fronts.
Ladies and gentlemen, the curse of October 7th began when Hamas invaded Israel from Gaza, but it didn’t end there. Israel was soon forced to defend itself on six more war fronts organized by Iran.
On October 8th, Hezbollah attacked us from Lebanon. Since then, they have fired over 8,000 rockets at our towns and cities, at our civilians, at our children. Two weeks later, the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen launched drones and missiles at Israel, the first of 250 such attacks, including one yesterday aimed at Tel Aviv. Iran’s Shiite militias in Syria and Iraq have targeted Israel dozens of times over the past year as well.
Netanyahu put Iran on notice that Israel will not be attacked without consequence.
Fueled by Iran, Palestinian terrorists in Judea and Samaria perpetrated scores of attacks there and throughout Israel. And last April, for the first time ever, Iran directly attacked Israel from its own territory.
I have a message for the tyrants of Tehran: If you strike us, we will strike you. There is no place—there is no place in Iran—that the long arm of Israel cannot reach. And that’s true of the entire Middle East.
Netanyahu rubbed the faces of those who claim Israel is the holdback to Middle Eastern peace in a map of economic reality.
This is the map I presented here last year. It’s a map of a blessing.
It shows Israel and its Arab partners forming a land bridge connecting Asia and Europe. Between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, across this bridge, we will lay rail lines, energy pipelines, and fiber optic cables, and this will serve the betterment of 2 billion people.
He next displayed a map of the present reality.
It’s a map of a curse. It’s a map of an arc of terror that Iran has created and imposed from the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean. Iran’s malignant arc has shut down international waterways.
It cuts off trade, it destroys nations from within, and inflicts misery on millions. On the one hand, a bright blessing—a future of hope. On the other hand, a dark future of despair. And if you think this dark map is only a curse for Israel, then you should think again.
Because Iran’s aggression, if it’s not checked, will endanger every single country in the Middle East, and many, many countries in the rest of the world, because Iran seeks to impose its radicalism well beyond the Middle East.
That’s why it funds terror networks on five continents. That’s why it builds ballistic missiles for nuclear warheads to threaten the entire world. For too long, the world has appeased Iran. It turned a blind eye to its internal repression. It turned a blind eye to its external aggression. Well, that appeasement must end. And that appeasement must end now.
Netanyahu chided those in attendance for failing to support the underground Iranian resistance.
Nations of the world should support the brave people of Iran who want to rid themselves of this evil regime. Responsible governments should not only support Israel in rolling back Iran’s aggression, but they should join Israel. They should join Israel in stopping Iran’s nuclear weapons program.
Netanyahu highlighted Hezbollah’s crimes against Israel and its appropriate response.
Israel must also defeat Hezbollah in Lebanon. Hezbollah is the quintessential terror organization in the world today.
It has tentacles that span all continents. It has murdered more Americans and more Frenchmen than any group except Bin Laden. It’s murdered the citizens of many countries represented in this room. And it has attacked Israel viciously over the last 20 years.
In the last year, completely unprovoked, a day after the Hamas massacre on October 7th, Hezbollah began attacks against Israel, which forced more than 60,000 Israelis on our northern border to leave their homes, becoming refugees in their own land.
Netanyahu then drew the line.
Israel has been tolerating this intolerable situation for nearly a year. Well, I’ve come here today to say enough is enough.
I said to the people of Lebanon this week: Get out of the death trap that Hezbollah has put you in. Don’t let Nasrallah drag Lebanon into the abyss. We’re not at war with you. We’re at war with Hezbollah, which has hijacked your country and threatens to destroy ours.
As long as Hezbollah chooses the path of war, Israel has no choice. And Israel has every right to remove this threat and return our citizens to their homes safely, and that’s exactly what we’re doing.
After again reminding those assembled of what Middle East peace could accomplish in economic growth for all, Netanyahu asked:
And now I have a question, and I pose that question to you: What choice will you make? Will your nation stand with Israel? Will you stand with democracy and peace? Or will you stand with Iran, a brutal dictatorship that subjugates its own people and exports terrorism across the globe?
Netanyahu dropped withering sarcasm on progressives who harp on Israel yet ignore the human rights violations of Islamist fundamentalists.
We see yet another profound moral confusion when self-described progressives march against the democracy of Israel. Don’t they realize they support the Iranian-backed goons in Tehran and in Gaza, the goons who shot down protesters, murder women for not covering their hair, and hang gays in public squares? Some progressives.
Following a further reaming of the UN for its actions against Israel, Netanyahu concluded with:
I have a message for you: Israel will win this battle. We will win this battle because we don’t have a choice.
After generations in which our people were slaughtered, remorselessly butchered, and no one raised a finger in our defense, we now have a state. We now have a brave army, an army of incomparable courage, and we are defending ourselves.

As the book of Samuel says in the Bible:

“נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר”

“The eternity of Israel will not falter”.

In the Jewish people’s epic journey from antiquity, in our odyssey through the tempest and upheavals of modern times, that ancient promise has always been kept and it will hold true for all time.
To borrow a great poet’s phrase: Israel will not go gently into that good night. We will never need to rage against the dying of the light because the torch of Israel will forever shine bright.

To the people of Israel and to the soldiers of Israel, I say: Be strong and of good courage.

“חִזְק֣וּ וְאִמְצ֔וּ אַל־תִּֽירְא֥וּ וְאַל־תַּעַרְצ֖וּ מִפְּנֵיהֶ֑ם כִּ֣י ה’ אֱלֹקיךָ ה֚וּא הַהֹלֵ֣ךְ עִמָּ֔ךְ לֹ֥א יַרְפְּךָ֖ וְלֹ֥א יַעַזְבֶֽךּ”

עם ישראל חי

The people of Israel live now, tomorrow, forever”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkZREiWcrpQ&t=31s

https://redstate.com/jerrywilson/2024/09/27/netanyahu-gives-fiery-speech-to-un-declaring-israel-has-had-enough-n2179864

 Iron Dome Activated In Northern Israel As Hezbollah Launches Numerous Drones, Rockets.

(Multiple videos at the link.)
Israel engaged a large number of incoming rockets and drones on Sunday morning that were fired by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon following a preemptive series of airstrikes against Hezbollah positions that were preparing to fire on Israel.
Alerts were issued for numerous areas in northern Israel, including Shlomy, Arab al-Aramshe, Betzet, Avdon, Neveh Ziv, Manot, Metzuba, Eilon, Hanita, Idmit, Yaara, Goren, and more.
“Hezbollah has just launched over 150 projectiles from Lebanon toward Israeli territory,” said the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in a statement. “We target terrorist infrastructure, they target civilians.”
The attack from Hezbollah, an Islamic terrorist group, came in response to Israel killing Fuad Shukr late last month, the Iranian-backed group said.
Shukr was Hezbollah’s “most senior military commander and the head of its Strategic Unit” and Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah’s “right-hand man”.
Footage of the Iron Dome being activated quickly circulated on social media.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/iron-dome-activated-in-northern-israel-as-hezbollah-launches-numerous-drones-rockets?topStoryPosition=1

 From The River To The Sea

The solution.

 

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) renounced his association with Harvard University over its "inability to stand up for the Jewish community" during his Yeshiva University commencement address last Wednesday, removing the crimson hood representing his alma mater while on stage*.

(If I were called out on some of the comments I made about Sen. Fetterman when he was first rolled out by the Democrats, I would have to say that the “brain damage” he was suffering from at the time justified the comments and memes I made at the time, but now, after seeing him as his brain ‘heals’ or whatever is happening is good and I feel bad about being so harsh with my comments.)

*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxk2cPk3Cvc

Fetterman made the gesture early in his address, which culminated in him receiving the Presidential Medallion, the private Orthodox university's highest honor, for his advocacy on behalf of Israel and the Jewish people. He joked that he didn't deserve to be in the same company as previous recipients of the award, describing himself as "just a senator with a big mouth that happens to be committed to standing with Israel."
The Pennsylvania senator, who has emerged since Oct. 7 as one of Israel's strongest allies in his party, said he had been "reflecting" on his "last graduation, and that was literally a quarter century ago. I was graduating from Harvard University."
"Today, I have been profoundly disappointed with Harvard's inability to stand up for the Jewish community after Oct. 7. Personally, I do not fundamentally believe that it is right for me to wear this today," Fetterman said while pointing to his hood, which he then removed from around his neck.
The move sparked audible gasps and subsequent cheers from the crowd ...
The Democratic senator has bucked his party's shift away from Israel in recent months, refusing to waver in his support for continued offensive military aid despite the objections of some far left colleagues. He has also led on legislation combating antisemitism on college campuses alongside Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA).
(And now Fetterman's Monster roars, "I am a human! I have my own thoughts and my own will! And I reject my creator's Progressive dogma!"
He then yeeted a little girl into a moat.
But really, he says he didn't leave the progressive movement, the progressive movement left him.)
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., responded to progressive critics suggesting he wasn't exactly who people thought he would be while he was campaigning. He added that the progressive "label" left him.
"I'm not a progressive, I just identified myself as a regular Democrat," Fetterman said, talking to CNN's Dana Bash. "Now, eight years ago, I was a progressive, but the situation's changed and I've been very clear that I didn't leave that label. That label leaved [left] me and I think it's much more important to be focusing on Donald Trump instead of those kinds of purity tests and those kinds of issues."
...
Bash also asked Fetterman to respond to Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., who told CNN on Tuesday that President Biden was using the "same tools as Donald Trump" to address border security.
"She's entitled to her own opinion, but it does also seem like some of the harshest words for the president in this situation seems to be more coming from very safe, and blue, very kinds of places. Now in Pennsylvania, border security is an important issue and we do all believe that we should have a secure border, and I never thought it was unreasonable for any Democrat to want to make our border more secure," he said.
Fetterman has said that the progressives in his party, in addition to the right, are hoping he "dies" over his stance on Israel and border security.

Instapundit says second look at Fetterman's Monster?
Fetterman's health has improved more and faster than expected, and in what may not be a coincidence, the more his brain damage recedes, the less he agrees with lefty activists and the Democratic Party's functionaries.

Well, Fetterman's Monster was the real hero of the book. The creator was the villain.

Shani Louk’s body recovered, along with 2 other dead Israeli hostages, after Hamas paraded her half-naked body through Gaza on Oct. 7.

The Israel Defense Forces has recovered the bodies of three Israeli hostages in Gaza, including that of Shani Louk, who became an international symbol of Hamas’ savagery after images showed her being paraded around half-naked in the back of a pickup truck during the Oct. 7 attacks.
Spokesman Daniel Hagari announced Friday that the IDF recovered Louk, 22, and two additional victims of the music festival massacre, Amit Buskila, 28, and Itzik Gelernter, 58, during the Rafah operation.
“Shani Louk, Amit Buskila and Yitzhak Gelernter were kidnapped and murdered by Hamas terrorists on October 7 from the Nova Music Festival,” the IDF said in a statement.
“Overnight, our troops recovered their bodies and brought them back home to Israel. We will continue operating to bring all of our hostages home.”
Shani’s family reportedly learned she had been found Friday morning. Her father, Nissim Louk, told Israel’s Channel 13 TV that her body was discovered in a cool, deep tunnel and was in good condition when she was brought home.
He said it was a “gift” that they were able to give their daughter a peaceful burial in Israel.
“There will be a place to lay a wreath, maybe build something in her memory,” he said. “Shani radiated light in her life,”
More than 360 Israeli revelers were murdered by militants at the Nova festival, which became a key target in the terror group’s unprovoked surprise attack on the Jewish state.
Louk was one of around 40 Israeli hostages seized during the bloody assault on the music festival. Her family announced in late October that she had died at the hands of Hamas, with Israel’s President Isaac Herzog later revealing to a German newspaper that she had been beheaded.
“My heart goes out in sympathy to the grieving and tormented families of the hostages Itzhak Gelerenter, Amit Buskila and Shani Louk, whose bodies were rescued from Gaza and will be brought for eternal rest in Israel,” Herzog wrote in an X post shortly after IDF announced the news.

 

https://nypost.com/2024/05/17/world-news/idf-recovers-three-dead-hostages-in-gaza-including-shani-louk-whose-half-naked-body-was-paraded-by-hamas-on-oct-7/

 GOD bless the IDF.

https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1789705258505326627

Republican Senators Warn ICC Chief Prosecutor Regarding Netanyahu Arrest Warrant: “Target Israel and We Will Target You … You Have Been Warned.”

A group of Republican senators has issued a stern warning to Karim Khan, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), over potential arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior Israeli officials.
The proposed warrants are reportedly connected to allegations of war crimes during the recent Israeli-Hamas conflict.
The ICC, headquartered in The Hague, is said to be nearing the decision despite Israel’s non-membership and non-recognition of the court. Since the Palestinian territories were admitted as a member state in 2015, the ICC has asserted jurisdiction over alleged war crimes committed by both Hamas and Israeli forces in Gaza.
Karim Khan, the ICC Chief Prosecutor, previously claimed that the court has the “authority” to investigate any such crimes and aims to hold those accountable who are found in violation of international law.

Prime Minister Netanyahu responded fiercely to the ICC’s potential move, condemning it as a grave misjudgment and a significant threat to Israel’s national security.
In a video statement released on Tuesday, Netanyahu accused the court of betraying its foundational principles:
“The International Criminal Court in The Hague is contemplating issuing arrest warrants against senior Israeli government and military officials as war criminals,” Netanyahu stated.
“This would be an outrage of historic proportions. International bodies like the ICC arose in the wake of the Holocaust committed against the Jewish people. They were set up to prevent such horrors, to prevent future genocides. Yet now, the international court is trying to put Israel in the dark.”
“It’s trying to put us in the dark as we defend ourselves against genocidal terrorists and regimes like Iran, of course, that openly works to destroy the one and only Jewish state.”

https://twitter.com/netanyahu/status/1785362914519519597?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1785362914519519597%7Ctwgr%5Eee9bb9b3926e21ebf0961c0d269f1cea6839ab53%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegatewaypundit.com%2F2024%2F04%2Fisraels-prime-minister-netanyahu-responds-potential-war-crimes%2F

Netanyahu praised the ethical conduct of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and highlighted their efforts to minimize civilian casualties, despite Hamas’s alleged use of human shields. He warned that labeling Israeli leaders and soldiers as war criminals would further stoke global anti-Semitism.
“Branding Israel’s leaders and soldiers as war criminals will pour jet fuel on the fires of anti-Semitism, those fires that are already raging on the campuses of America and across capitals around the world. It will also be the first time that a democratic country, fighting for its life according to the rules of war, is itself accused of war crimes.”

Reacting to the ICC’s actions, a group of Republican senators, including Tom Cotton (R-AR), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Ted Budd (R-NC), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Pete Ricketts (R-NE), Rick Scott (R-FL), Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Katie Boyd Britt (R-AL), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Marco Rubio (R-FL), and Tim Scott (R-SC), have penned a threatening letter to the ICC’s Chief Prosecutor.
They argue that the ICC’s actions would illegitimately punish Israel for defending itself against Iranian-backed aggressions and inaccurately portray Israel’s military responses as equivalent to Hamas’s terrorism.
The letter explicitly threatens severe sanctions against Khan and the ICC, including ending all American support, should the warrants be issued.
Read the letter below:
“We write regarding the reports that the International Criminal Court (ICC) may be considering issuing international arrest warrants against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials. Such actions are illegitimate and lack legal basis, and if carried out will result in severe sanctions against you and your institution.
The ICC is attempting to punish Israel for taking legitimate actions of self-defense against their Iranian-backed aggressors. In fact, in your own words, you witnessed “scenes of calculated cruelty” conducted by Hamas in Israel following the October 7 attacks. These arrest warrants would align the ICC with the largest state sponsor of terrorism and its proxy. To be clear, there is no moral equivalence between Hamas’s terrorism and Israel’s justified response.
The ICC is also prohibited by its charter from proceeding in any case unless the relevant government is unwilling or unable to police themselves. You yourself have said that “Israel has trained lawyers who advise commanders and a robust system intended to ensure compliance with international humanitarian law.” By issuing warrants, you would be calling into question the legitimacy of Israel’s laws, legal system, and democratic form of government.
Issuing arrest warrants for the leaders of Israel would not only be unjustified, it would expose your organization’s hypocrisy and double standards. Your office has not issued arrest warrants for Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei or any other Iranian official, Syrian President Bashar al Assad or any other Syrian official, or Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh or any other Hamas official. Nor have you issued an arrest warrant for the genocidal General Secretary of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping, or any other Chinese official.
Finally, neither Israel nor the United States are members of the ICC and are therefore outside of your organization’s supposed jurisdiction. If you issue a warrant for the arrest of the Israeli leadership, we will interpret this not only as a threat to Israel’s sovereignty but to the sovereignty of the United States. Our country demonstrated in the American Service-Members’ Protection Act the lengths to which we will go to protect that sovereignty.
The United States will not tolerate politicized attacks by the ICC on our allies. Target Israel and we will target you. If you move forward with the measures indicated in the report, we will move to end all American support for the ICC, sanction your employees and associates, and bar you and your families from the United States. You have been warned.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/republican-senators-warn-icc-chief-prosecutor-regarding-netanyahu/

Holocaust Remembrance Day - Yom Hashoah

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Get Thee Behind ME, Brandon !

(Yeah, I know a white European Jesus holding an Israeli flag is historically inaccurate ... to all the haters out there ... it's meant to trigger all the weak ass anti-Semites)

 Israel Launches Attack On Iran; Explosions Heard Near Military Base.

Israel launched an attack against the Islamic Republic of Iran during the early morning hours on Friday in response to Iran launching an unprecedented attack on Israel.
U.S. officials confirmed to multiple American publications that Israeli missiles struck sites inside Iran.
Initial reports said that explosions happened in the Iranian cities of Isfahan and Natanz. Although the targets of the attack have not been confirmed, both cities have significant facilities in the country’s nuclear program. Iranian state media later reported that none of the nuclear facilities in the area were hit.
Subsequent reports said that the explosions happened near a military base where Iranian fighter jets were located.
People in Isfahan said that they heard multiple explosions that “led to the houses shaking violently from the intensity of the explosions,” according to local reports.
Flight trackers showed multiple commercial passenger planes immediately rerouting and leaving the country, including flights that were about to land. Iran suspended flights in Tehran, Isfahan and Shiraz.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), who is the vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said just moments after the news of the strikes became public: “Israel has the ability to conduct strikes against targets inside Iran without entering Iranian air space from aircraft over Syrian and Iraqi airspace.”
Fox News later reported that a U.S. military source confirmed that the strikes were carried out by manned aircraft.
The strikes, which were limited in scale, came after President Joe Biden did everything he could to prevent the Israelis from retaliating on Iranian soil after the Islamic regime launched combined more than 300 missiles and drones at Israel last weekend.
Shortly before the attack happened, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian threatened the U.S. and Israel while conducting an interview on U.S. soil.
“In case the Israeli regime embarks on adventurism again and takes action against the interests of Iran, the next response from us will be immediate and at a maximum level,” he said. “It will be decisive. Our response will be decisive through the Swiss embassy in Tehran.”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/israel-launches-attack-on-iran-explosions-heard-in-areas-with-nuclear-sites?topStoryPosition=1

Mark Levin posted an ominous message this morning about the implications of Joe Biden’s refusal to support an Israeli response to Iran’s attack this weekend, along with Biden’s appeasement policy toward Iran.
In short, Levin predicts a nuclear Iran that can threaten the world without fear and any effort to stop them in the future will be a “devastating confrontation with frightening risks.”

Levin explains below:

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the lunacy of Biden’s Iran policy.

Biden’s position in refusing to support Israel from taking offensive military action against Iran means that BIDEN WILL NOT SUPPORT ANY MILITARY STRIKES AGAINST IRAN’S NUCLEAR FACILITIES AND THAT IRAN WILL HAVE A FUNCTIONING NUCLEAR ARSENAL WITH WHICH TO THREATEN THE UNITED STATES, ISRAEL, THE ARAB WORLD, AND THE REST OF THE WORLD WITHOUT FEAR OF MILITARY ATTACK. The best time for Israel to hit Iran’s nuclear sites, with critical U.S. support, would’ve been now.

Biden’s appeasement of Iran and intentional funding of Iran, lack of deterrence against Iran and efforts at crippling Israel’s efforts to neutralize Iran’s military and terrorist operations, ensures that Islamist-fundamentalist Iran will become a nuclear power. And once that occurs there will be few options to limit Iran’s ambitions short of a devastating confrontation with frightening risks. What will we do if Iran closes the Red Sea and other navigable waters used to transport oil? And It will also contribute even further to the firepower of the China-Russia-NK-Iran axis and cause other Middle East countries to acquire nuclear weapons. THIS is the world Biden and Blinken are creating while sanctimoniously lecturing about their efforts to de-escalate military confrontations.

Again, the crucial point is that Biden has not only signaled to Iran that no effective action will be taken to stop its nuclear program but Biden has actually acted to ensure that Iran’s final path to building nuclear weapons is open and clear. That’s what is meant by no support for offensive military action against Iran.

The idea that missile defenses are the answer to preventing offensive strikes against Israel or any country is lunacy. On its face it’s illogical. It’s a deterrent under certain circumstances. Maybe in many circumstances. But ultimately you don’t stop missile attacks by chasing another country’s. You stop missile attacks with certainty by destroying that country’s capacity for launching missiles and/or deterring such attacks by subjecting that country to punishing offensive military attacks. Despite Biden’s massive and current propaganda operation to the contrary, facts are facts.

Furthermore, it’s beyond debate that the duplicitous Biden actually colluded with Iran through intermediaries to create the events that took place in the skies over Israel a few nights ago. And, of course, Israel was in the dark about it. (This is the same Biden regime that outrageously demands tactical approval over Israel’s battlefield decisions.) Why? Because it wouldn’t have gone along with such treachery and put its people through such a heinous subterfuge. Think about how morally corrupt, among other things, the Biden regime’s actions truly are.

Biden and the Iranian regime sympathizer, Blinken, coordinated with Iran over the timing, types of missiles, and even Iranian propaganda. The purpose was to prevent Israel from pulverizing Iran’s military capabilities. Indeed, the Biden regime began leaking immediately to their favorite reporters and media outlets (many of the same press sympathizes they relied on during the Obama regime to promote the Iran nuclear deal) that Israel had provoked Iran and hadn’t told the U.S. in advance about the planned attack on Iran’s terrorist compound in Damascus. Obviously, Israel didn’t forewarn Blinken because he would’ve leaked it to the media! Moreover, Israel is not obliged to get permission from Biden on how and whether to defend its people. Biden and Blinken are hostile to Israel and seek to overthrow its democratic government. They’ve repeatedly told this openly to the entire world, including the Iranians.

Every one of these shocking and appalling Biden regime mobster tactics, and there are more, with the attendant scheming, plotting, leaking, usurping, and back-stabbing against a longtime essential and loyal ally, which is in a daunting and bloody war literally triggered by the insane policies of the Biden regime, is beneath contempt and a stain on America’s character and reputation as the world’s moral beacon.

It is Biden and Blinken who are impulsive, ignorant, reckless, incompetent, and dangerous. It is they who’ve abandoned a rational and prudent foreign policy in pursuit of incoherent and ideologically-driven utopian ambitions. And it is they who’ve escalated military conflict on multiple continents. For them, there is no good or evil, right or wrong. Hence, they fund Iran and threaten Israel. They seek Netanyahu’s ouster and the ayatollah’s approval.
Be worried. Very worried.

https://therightscoop.com/mark-levin-posts-ominous-message-about-the-future-of-the-middle-east/

Former Israeli Prime Minister Bennett Fires Back At Biden, Hints What Israel Will Do With Iran.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett slammed President Joe Biden on Sunday for trying to pressure Israel into not responding to Iran’s unprecedented attack this weekend.
Bennett’s remarks on social media comes after Iran fired hundreds of projectiles — ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and drones — at Israel.

https://twitter.com/naftalibennett/status/1779601465662648467?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1779601465662648467%7Ctwgr%5Eee3d57766b93d291fb8c69745e118f9e160bfced%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fformer-israeli-prime-minister-bennett-fires-back-at-biden-hints-what-israel-will-do-with-iran

Bennett said that claims that Iran launched its attack as a show for its own people were false.
“When you shoot 350 flying objects timed to hit Israel at the same moment, when you use three fundamentally different weapon types — cruise missiles, ballistic missiles and UAVs, you’re looking to penetrate Israel’s defenses and kill Israelis,” he said.
Bennett directly pushed back against the Biden administration for telling Israel that it got a “win” and that they should take the win. The “win,” according to the Biden administration, was the fact that 99% of the projectiles were shot down by Israel and its allies in the region.
“No, it’s NOT a victory,” Bennett wrote. “When a bully tries to hit you 350 times and only succeeds seven time, you’ve NOT won. You don’t win wars just by intercepting your enemy’s hits, nor do you deter it. Your enemy will just try harder with more and better weapons and methods next time.”
He said that the only way to deter further aggression was by “exacting a deeply painful price.”
Bennett said that the attack was a “big mistake” by Iran — which he referred to as “a terror-octopus whose head is Tehran, and its tentacles are in Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, Syria and Gaza.”
“Israel’s strategic mistake for the past 30 years was to play along this strategy,” he said. “We always fought the Octopus’ arms, but hardly exacted a price from its Iranian head.”
“This should change now: Hezbollah or Hamas shoots a rocket at Israel? Tehran pays a price,” he added.
Bennett said that Israel’s enemy was the Iran’s oppressive government, not the citizens of the country, and that the country would eventually collapse in a similar manner as the Soviet Union did.
“I’ll be clear: if these crazy fanatic Islamic terrorists get away with murder by hiding among civilians, this method will be adopted by terrorists worldwide,” he concluded. “We’re not asking anyone to fight for us. We’ll do the job. But we do expect our allies to have our back, especially when it’s tough — and now it’s tough. Be on the right side and help us defeat these horrible and savage regimes.”

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-israeli-prime-minister-bennett-fires-back-at-biden-hints-what-israel-will-do-with-iran

 The ENEMY is already here.

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1779569761032266018

Israel Vows ‘Unprecedented Response’ To Iranian Missile, Drone Attack.
Israel is vowing that they will deliver an “unprecedented response” to the Islamic Republic of Iran after Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles at Israel on Saturday night.

Israel’s multi-layered air defense system — combined with air force assets from some of its top allies, including the U.S. and U.K. — shot down 99% of the suicide drones, ballistic missiles, and cruise missiles that Iran fired.
The Times of Israel highlighted a report from Israel’s Channel 12:
Channel 12 quotes a “senior Israeli official” pledging an ‘unprecedented response’ to Iran’s attack and urging Israelis not to go to bed due to what is coming Tehran’s way.
Israel’s Ynet News reported that Israeli officials said, “The fact that Iran for the first time attacks Israel from its territory requires a decisive response and one will come soon.”
Multiple Israeli officials told the London-based Iran International: “Iran’s attacks on Israel tonight will not go unanswered.”
The attack was the first time Iran has ever directly attacked the Jewish state from its own soil using its own assets.
“This will be the first direct attack from Iranian soil by Khamenei’s regime after years of murdering Israelis through his terror proxies,” said Mark Dubowitz, CEO of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), a non-partisan institution focusing on national security and foreign policy.
“He has crossed a red line,” Dubowitz added. “Israel now has full legitimacy to take out his nuclear sites, refineries and leadership and military sites.”
Senior FDD adviser Richard Goldberg, who served as the Director for Countering Iranian Weapons of Mass Destruction for the White House National Security Council under former President Donald Trump, said that “major consequences” were required for Iran.
“It doesn’t matter if Israel intercepts 25, 50, 75 or 100% of the threat,” Goldberg said. “You can’t accept as new normal the Islamic Republic of Iran firing ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and drones at Israel. Period. This is a regime that wants nuclear weapons. Major consequences required.”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/israel-vows-unprecedented-response-to-iranian-missile-drone-attack?topStoryPosition=1

[UPDATE: VIDEO SHOWING EXPLOSIONS OVER ISRAEL] – Iran launches DIRECT attack on Israel – drones and missiles inbound.

(Updates kept on coming so I am just now posting this.)
Iran has launched an airborne attack on Israel, the first ever direct attack on the Jewish nation by Iran. On Saturday night a massive battery of over 100 “suicide” drones were launched, and a short time later, Iranian state TV and Al-Jazeera announced that a second wave strike was also launched featuring cruise and ballistic missiles.
The attack is expected to last several hours, with drones reaching Israel by somewhere around 2-3am Israel time.
IDF spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari gave a statement shortly after the attack was confirmed by Israeli and American intelligence.

Rumble video at bottom link.

Hagari also warned Israeli civilians of the drone attack, indicating they are well prepared for different scenarios, and giving some instructions on what to do to remain safe.

 

https://twitter.com/kylenabecker/status/1779247149215101299?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1779247149215101299%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftherightscoop.com%2Fbreaking-iran-launches-dozens-of-drones-against-israel%2F

Below is Newsmax live for more…

https://twitter.com/NEWSMAX/status/1779250558588932264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1779250558588932264%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftherightscoop.com%2Fbreaking-iran-launches-dozens-of-drones-against-israel%2F


It’s being reported now that the US has shot done one of the many drones headed for Israel:

https://twitter.com/Liz_Friden/status/1779278461325934719?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1779278461325934719%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftherightscoop.com%2Fbreaking-iran-launches-dozens-of-drones-against-israel%2F


Below is video of Israel’s air defense system taking out something, either drones or missiles:
“Significant missile defense activity over southern Israel and the Jordan Valley.”

https://twitter.com/JoeTruzman/status/1779283277381271889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1779281548753424413%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftherightscoop.com%2Fbreaking-iran-launches-dozens-of-drones-against-israel%2F

It’s being reported that Jordanian fighter jets have intercepted dozens of Iranian drones:

https://twitter.com/DavidADaoud/status/1779284254372889004?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1779284254372889004%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftherightscoop.com%2Fbreaking-iran-launches-dozens-of-drones-against-israel%2F


This is said to be video of this happening over Jordan:

https://twitter.com/CatchUpFeed/status/1779289415761977587?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1779288545154548153%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftherightscoop.com%2Fbreaking-iran-launches-dozens-of-drones-against-israel%2F


Jennifer Griffin is reporting that Al Arabiya is reporting that air defense systems are reportedly intercepting missiles over Amman, Jordan:

 

 

https://twitter.com/JenGriffinFNC/status/1779284729767788903?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1779284729767788903%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftherightscoop.com%2Fbreaking-iran-launches-dozens-of-drones-against-israel%2F


The AP is reporting that US forces have downed more Iranian drones:

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1779286760792502443?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1779286760792502443%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftherightscoop.com%2Fbreaking-iran-launches-dozens-of-drones-against-israel%2F


It’s being reported that US forces are under attack in Iraq:

https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1779284075187966398?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1779284075187966398%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftherightscoop.com%2Fbreaking-iran-launches-dozens-of-drones-against-israel%2F

https://therightscoop.com/breaking-iran-launches-dozens-of-drones-against-israel/