9 Jan 2024, Samaria: The Qatari PM says that Israel’s assassination of a top Hamas leader really complicates the hostage deal.

Manipulate much, Qatar?

So, what have we learned here from these Qatar statements?

Qatar/Hamas says: “We’re not very happy that Israel keeps retaliating against us for what we did. We would prefer them to just be quiet and let us kill them without any difficulty.”

USA: “I don’t think Israel is gonna go for that. Can you sweeten the deal a bit?”

Israel: “They’re basically offering to kill fewer of us now, and then more of us later, if we just quit right away.”

Qatar/Hamas says: “Exactly! Look, we didn’t kill every Israeli we could grab on Oct 7. We left a few alive with us so we could use them later to manipulate you. Just stop retaliating, or else we’ll have to kill the hostages.”

USA: “See, Israel? These guys are really trying to reach a compromise here.”

Israel: “They’re probably lying about whether the hostages are even still alive. We’ve still got more Hamas leaders’ names on this list here…”

Qatar/Hamas: “USA, make them stop!”

Israel: “…so while we work on that, we will just keep searching for our hostages without any of your ‘help,’ thanks.”

USA: “Well, this was a waste. Maybe we need to threaten Israel somehow, hmmm, let’s see about that.”

Qatar/Hamas: “Stop them from developing defensive systems.”

USA: “But, we need those too. That’s a part of the deal.”

Qatar/Hamas: “Just make them stop! It’s not fair that they can just retaliate like this.”

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8 Jan 2024, Samaria:  A sociologist has been studying the sudden increase of Jew hatred in France during the final 90 days of 2023:  

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Source: https://www.timesofisrael.com/im-afraid-every-day-for-my-children-as-antisemitism-soars-french-jews-flee-to-israel/

2024-01-03, Samaria: Antisemitism at Harvard University did not start with recently resigned President Claudine Gay, who was sharply criticized for antisemitic remarks in a Congressional hearing:  Back in Hitler’s day, Harvard helped Nazi Germany:

Clip from the article: “What today’s Harvard administration has in common with its predecessor in the 1930s is its reluctance to reject an evil regime and its supporters,” said Medoff, director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies.

Presidents from Penn, MIT, and Harvard universities each testified before Congress in December 2023.  They met beforehand, and their language and messages were exactly the same.  Penn president, Elizabeth Magill, and the chairman of the Penn board of trustees, Scott L. Bok were the first to resign after backlash for their antisemitic comments.  MIT president Sally Kornbluth is also under pressure to resign since she would not say whether it is a violation of the school’s policy for students to call for intifada or for genocide of Jews:

Israel requests moral support from the international community: All calls for intifada and genocide of Jews is wrong.

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Source1: A century before Claudine Gay, Harvard helped Nazi Germany improve its image in the West; Research into ‘active collaboration’ between Harvard and Nazi Germany gains relevance as Harvard continues to frame antisemitic rhetoric on campus as freedom of speech;  https://www.timesofisrael.com/a-century-before-claudine-gay-harvard-helped-nazi-germany-improve-its-image-in-the-west/

Source2: Antisemitism Exposed: MIT, Harvard face mounting pressure on ‘choice to defend terrorist sympathizers’ after UPenn president resigns;  https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mit-harvard-face-mounting-pressure-choice-defend-terrorist-sympathizers-upenn-president-resigns

Source3: Video: Israeli doctoral student Liyam Chitayat addressed MIT students on the issue: https://www.foxnews.com/video/6342737167112

1 Jan 2024, Samaria: Different ways of counting time.  While the world calls it Jan 1, Israel can’t truly celebrate:

Fireworks for NYE: So at the stroke of midnight, Gaza sent a wonderful gift – a barrage of rockets against Israeli civilians:

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https://Jpost.com

https://www.timesofisrael.com/at-stroke-of-midnight-hamas-attacks-israel-with-heavy-new-year-rocket-barrage/

Blogs like Times of Israel count today (Jan 1) as Day 87 because of up-to-the-hour reporting, while Jerusalem Post calls it the 86th day of war because they close for “press time” the day before the paper is delivered. To add to the complexity, the Jewish Calendar is loosely based upon the Biblical Calendar; and neither has any January 1 at all, as the new year is the First of Aviv in the springtime, and the harvest year is at the start of the 7th month, which is in the autumn (Leviticus 23, Deuteronomy 16).

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29 Dec 2023, Samaria:  But one thing Hamas wants to make clear: Iran and Hezbollah better not claim, ever, that they told Hamas what to do and when to do that massacre.  Hamas wants ALL the credit for its war crimes.  It also wants rulership over the unified “palestinian state” which is proposed by the USA.

Article excerpt:  “Why is Hamas worried about the October 7 narrative of Iran, Hezbollah?,” Jerusalem Post, 29 Dec 2023, pg 3.

Believers among the nations: Pray that no “two state solution” is devised. Despite all fantasies in the West, Arabs would never use it for humanitarian purposes.  It is a “divide and conquer” plan to erase the Jewish state.

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Regarding that paragraph in my red box; It’s important to remember that in open and democratic societies, our enemies have easy access to everything the society does in public. All of the discussions and protests are under the watchful eyes of the enemies.

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28 Dec 2023, Samaria: Taking a moment to debunk blatant lies about Israel:

1) “From the river to the sea” is a slogan repeated in the streets around the world; it does not mean liberation, nor a two-state solution; it is a rallying cry for genocide of Jewish Israel.

2) “Intifada” is an uprising against Jewish rule, not legitimate resistance nor peaceful resistance; it is somewhere between protest and revolution.  The lie here is that Israel has not occupied nor ruled Gaza since 2005.

3) Israel’s Jews are mostly people of color from the Middle East and North Africa, and not colonists by any definition.

4) If Israel were committing genocide, how then has the Palestinian population gone 5x since 1960? It is Hamas that is genocidal. 1

Article by Ted Deutch, American Jewish Committee CEO. Jerusalem Post, 28 Dec 2023, pg 9.

And to address one little lie regarding Arabs in Judea and Samaria:  No, actually, there are zero “lone wolf” Jews attacking Arabs unprovoked, in Judea and Samaria (west bank) or anywhere else:

Video provided by “Ezri ToBe,” who responded to President Biden for slander against the Israelis living in Judea and Samaria. Original:  https://t.co/77MSrMeymO

So that’s a brief summary of some of the responses to five often repeated lies about Israel regarding its conflict with Gaza as well as the Arabs living in Judea and Samaria.

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27 Dec 2023, Samaria:  Firing from Lebanon, Hezbollah forces fired at the St. Mary’s Greek Orthodox Church in Northern Israel, wounding an 80 year old man, who we would presume to be an Israeli Christian.

When Jewish soldiers from the Israel Defense Force showed up to rescue the man, Hezbollah fired again, moderately injuring 8 while seriously injuring 1 soldier.

Like Hamas, Hezbollah does not care about the international laws of war.

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Source:  https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-9-troops-hurt-including-1-seriously-while-evacuating-wounded-man-from-church-hit-by-hezbollah/