Sunday, September 28, 2025

For those who observe: May you have an easy and meaningful fast this Yom Kippur.

Hostage Update:  723 Days
Hamas has released a video of hostage Alon Ohel.  The terror group is once again using the Jewish High Holidays as fuel to Israeli trauma. Hamas says it lost contact with two Israeli hostages while hinting at their location 48 Hostages remain in Hamas captivity.

This should outrage everyone: The Fight Inside Amnesty International over Its Hamas Report https://www.thefp.com/p/the-fight-inside-amnesty-international Section directors argued that even a belated acknowledgment of Hamas’s crimes might help Israel in the court of public opinion.

On Recognizing Palestinian Statehood and the “Two-state solution”
>Australia, Canada, Portugal, UK and others recognize Palestinian statehood.   
Rather than focusing all attention on pressuring Hamas to free the 48 hostages and surrender power, these countries instead rewarded Hamas and the PA. The PA continues to deny Israel's right to exist in any borders https://palwatch.org/page/41540 Holdouts include Germany, Italy and Japan. Several EU governments remain in the “not now/conditional” camp — notably the Netherlands, Denmark, Finland and Greece. In Asia, Japan, South Korea and Singapore, as well as many Pacific allies remain non-recognisers, though positions are shifting quickly.  Note: The Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest site, is inside the UK/Canada/Australia/Europe’s planned state of Palestine. 
>Italy to recognise Palestine only if Hamas excluded, all hostages freed 
>Singapore's Foreign Minister has stated that his country will only recognize a Palestinian state once it has a government open to coexistence and against terrorism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDb7j7yP1H4

>13 members of the Arab League and 9 members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation still don't recognise Israel

CHINA
The Covert Rise of China-Iran Military Ties and Israel's Dilemma - Oded Ailam (Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs)

CANADA
>The Canadian Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel has added "Palestine" to its postal address.
>Université de Sherbrooke keeps medical student despite alleged antisemitic, homophobic posts https://www.montrealgazette.com/news/provincial-news/article1182921.html He explicitly stated he supports killing Jews, where he threatened to carry out an attack on campus, and where he made countless appalling posts about the Black community, the LGBTQ community, and other minority groups 
@DrCaseyBabb

EGYPT 
Egypt has extended runways at its air force bases in the Sinai Peninsula so they can be used by fighter jets, built underground facilities that could be used to store missiles, and built up its military forces in the area in violation of the 1979 Camp David Accords that established peace between Israel and Egypt.

FRANCE
Official EU site now lists France's Consulate as in Jerusalem, “Palestine”

ISRAEL 
>IDF continues to increase pressure on Hamas in Gaza while surging aid 
 >AIPAC and Israel: Myths and Facts https://www.aipac.org/resources/aipac-israel-myths-facts
>Netanyahu announced Israeli Intelligence streamed his UN speech live to every Gazan and Hamas phone demanding release of the 48 hostages.  However, AP journalists inside Gaza saw no immediate evidence of this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv-c0tOWfGU Jordan and Egypt did not take their seats, but did not join the staged protest. Pakistan's delegation walked out but then stood on the sidelines to listen. Envoys from Bahrain and the UAE - both signatories to the 2020 Abraham Accords - remained in their seats.

PA/Hamas
>In Gaza City, a Hamas Sahm unit executed by close-range shooting, three Gazans accused of being associates of Yasser Abu Shabab and collaborators with Israel. The Palestinian civilian crowd has gathered around them and is cheering for Hamas. https://x.com/jonsac/status/1969817523324322272
>After recognition of Palestinian statehood, Mahmoud Abbas is demanding £2 TRILLION in reparations from the UK. 
>Head of the Palestinian Mission to the UK Husam Zomlot: "Hamas is part of the Palestinian struggle; I refuse to label it as a terrorist organization." https://x.com/GnasherJew/status/1969746120911028521
>Hamas representative in Iran, Khaled Qaddoumi, said that the October 7 massacre was “definitely a victory,” pointing to college students on campuses worldwide marching not only for Palestinians but explicitly for Hamas https://x.com/MEMRIReports/status/1972203341938855941

Gaza Flotilla
>Spain and Italy have just gone to war against Israel: Italy and Spain Send Navy Ships to Defend Greta Thunberg's Gaza Flotilla  (The Times-UK)
>There is more to this recognition of Palestine than meets the eye. It is all coordinated by a pro-Qatar NGO. https://mrandrewfox.substack.com/p/breaking-uk-canada-and-australia
>Qatar Is a Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Haven  (Foundation for Defense of Democracies)
>Editor of Qatari state paper shares video glorifying Hamas, depicting Trump and Netanyahu as devils

SYRIA

UK
>The UK has already changed the address of their consulate offices in Jerusalem to East Jerusalem, Palestine.
> The UK's Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service refused to suspend Dr Rahmeh Aladwan after she praised  the massacre on October 7.
>Dua Lipa Fired Her Jewish Manager, David Levy, after he signed a petition calling for anti-Israel band Kneecap to not be allowed to perform at the Glastonbury Festival. (Meanwhile, Niki Minaj wished her followers a happy Rosh Hashanah)

UN
>'It's a Farce': UN Security Council, Under Pressure From Islamic States, Schedules Meeting on Gaza During Rosh Hashanah https://freebeacon.com/israel/its-a-farce-un-security-council-under-pressure-from-islamic-states-schedules-meeting-on-gaza-during-rosh-hashanah/ - remember when the UN called on Israel for a ceasefire for Ramadan. Yet for Rosh Hashanah, while there is an unconditional recognition of Palestine, the hostages are once again left unacknowledged.
>The U.N. Genocide Report Against Israel Is an Assault on Critical Thinking

US
>Anti-Israel activist groups are organizing mass student walkouts across Seattle-area public schools and colleges on October 7 in support of Hamas https://thepostmillennial.com/exclusive-seattle-area-students-plan-walkout-to-celebrate-october-7-hamas-massacre#google_vignette
>Jewish mayor of Florida’s Miami-Dade County faces off against own son over Israel Jewish mayor of Florida's Miami-Dade County faces off against own son over Israel | The Times of Israel
>Trump's Gaza peace plan gets support from regional leaders https://www.axios.com/2025/09/24/trump-israel-gaza-peace-plan-un
>Macalimbon Hamed, a Hunter College grad and intern in Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani’s office as of April 2025, seen days after the October 7 Hamas massacre tearing down posters of Israeli hostages. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPJ5jLPj_Zf/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

YEMEN
>A drone launched from Yemen struck Eilat on Wednesday. Israeli authorities and multiple outlets say ~22 people were wounded. Footage from Jordan shows residents cheering the strike.

Media Fails
>CNN only doubts Hamas data when it undercuts famine lies
>New York Times Casts Antisemitic Palestinian Author as Cancel Culture Victim of New Jersey Jews https://honestreporting.com/new-york-times-casts-antisemitic-palestinian-author-as-cancel-culture-victim-of-new-jersey-jews/
> Exposing The Media's Own Hypocrisy
Posted by at