"Citizens of Israel, we are at war" 

After a week of near constant terror attacks (read here, here, and here) and the day after the 50th anniversary of  the 7-Day War, and on the Jewish holidays of Shemini Atzeret/Simchat Torah and Shabbat: Iran-backed Hamas has fired thousands of rockets at Israeli population centers, terrorists have breached the border, holding many hostages, and slaughtering people in their homes. Video shows soldiers fighting house to house.  #StandWithIsrael

Finally, some answers on the Rob Malley affair: High-Level Iranian Spy Ring Busted in Washington (Tablet) See also Inside Tehran’s Soft War (IranIntl) and Biden Pardons New York Times Writer Charged as Iran Agent as New ‘Influence Operation’ Exposed (The Algemeiner)

US Dept of Defense: Tehran can make nuclear bomb in less than two weeks (JNS)

Iranian Women Face 10 Years in Prison for Not Wearing Hijab  (Telegraph-UK)

Lebanese Hizbullah-Affiliated Website Releases Personally Identifying Information Of CIA Officers, Including Photos, Addresses, And Phone Numbers, As Part Of Doxing Campaign (MEMRI)

The Palestinian Authority admits there's no 'Israeli occupation'  (JerusalemPost)

Saudi Journalist: We Must Not Miss Another Historic Opportunity for Peace With Israel (MEMRI)

Saudi-Iran Asian Champions League Game Canceled in Row over Soleimani Statue  (Al Jazeera)

Rice University LGBTQ Group Cuts Ties With Hillel Over Support for Israel (Houston Chronicle)

New York State Funds Islamist Hatred of Jews, Christians, Promotes Enslaving Women and Children (Focus on Western Islamism)

While this report isn't new, it was recently highlighted in a CAMERA webinar. With Congress revisiting budgets, taxpayers may be startled to realize the degree to which government-funded centers engage in the types of activism and propagandization that would be expected of a center funded by a hostile foreign government.

Hijacked: The Capture of America's Middle East Studies Centers (National Association of Scholars)

Afghanistan: In a New Light (AP mini documentary)

Israel Intercepts 16 Tonnes Of Dangerous Rocket-Making Materials Destined For Gaza (Honest Reporting Canada)

From CAEF: Today's level of terrorism is the worst since the 2nd Intifada, and there is no sign of peace with either the PA or Hamas. Read more at Flame.

Why is Hamas Sending Palestinians to Die at the Border with Israel? (Gatestone)

Palestinian Arabs Are Fighting For All of Israel, Not A New State In West Bank and Gaza (First One Through)

Columns In Urdu Dailies Of Pakistan Discuss Saudi-Israel Normalization Of Relations And Whether Pakistan Should Recognize Israel: 'Do Not Forget That Palestine Itself Has Recognized Israel' (MEMRI)

Bahrain Says 2 Soldiers Dead in Attack Near Saudi-Yemen Border (VOA)

Saudis Want US Defense Pact, Prioritize US & Israel Alliances over Concessions to Palestinian Authority (JP) Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s (MbS) core and non-negotiable demand is a binding assurance of US protection, particularly in light of past attacks suspected to have been undertaken by Iran

US military captures key Islamic State militant during helicopter raid in Syria  (ABC News)Abu Halil al-Fad’ani's capture on Saturday increases the chance that U.S. counterterrorism operations in Syria will be able to target additional members of the group, command spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Troy Garlock said. 

U.S. Lawmakers Put Palestinian Authority on Notice for "Pay for Slay" Terrorist Payments  (Algemeiner)
The Palestinian Authority Continues to Reward Terrorists  (Council on Foreign Relations)

U.S. State Department Funding Supporters of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (NGO Monitor)

On this, I agree with Phyllis Chesler: For an Israeli Ambassador, with full diplomatic immunity, to be “brutally detained,” by the UN police/goon squad, merely because he held up a photo of Iranian martyr, Mahsah Amini, while the “butcher of Teheran,” Ebrahim Raisi, addressed the General Assembly—is beyond the pale. Erdan held up a photo which called for freedom for Iranian women now! He deserves a parade and a medal. Instead, as Erdan was walking out, he was taken hostage. This action, this photo-op, has crossed a dangerous line.... We know that the UN has never stopped a single genocide. Its’ only accomplishment has been the systematic legalization of Jew hatred via more than one hundred resolutions condemning Israel for alleged crimes that it has not committed—in fact, crimes of real gender and religious apartheid committed by Arab, Muslim leaders; human rights atrocities committed in totalitarian countries and in failed state everywhere—not in Israel—and yet Israel alone has been scapegoated. FYI Iran becomes chair of the U.N. Human Rights Council Social Forum on November 2, 2023. #MahsaAmini & #WomanLifeFreedom

Biden admin offers thousands of Afghan refugees temporary protections (Axios)

Academic freedom isn’t an excuse for antisemitism (JNS) 

As Noa Tishby says, wherever anti-Zionism goes, antisemitism follows. See Penn State. https://x.com/noatishby/status/1704989380383842351?s=20  

Apple News, Where Antisemites Are Always Welcome (CAMERA) The day before Abdel Bari Atwan’s Sept. 10 column appeared on Apple News (“Washington’s ‘Plan B’ in Syria“), he penned an editorial at Rai al-Youm supporting Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s hateful speech.

Honest Reporting Canada's video about the bogus cycle of violence (Rumble)

How NGOs Fabricate the Legal Definition of Apartheid to Attack Israel (Fathom)

LGBT+ community is a “culture of perversion,” say Palestinian UNRWA workers (PMW)

Forbes.com Won’t Face Facts About Palestinian Terrorists in Push For Punchy Headline (HonestReporting)

From Arafat To Abbas – Exposing Palestinian Extremism, Antisemitism, And Incitement To Violence For 25 Years – Support Our Efforts Fighting Extremism Today (MEMRI)

Attack on Turkish-Backed Opposition Fighters in Syria Kills 13 Militants (AP)

Syria’s Assad in China, seeks exit from diplomatic isolation (Reuters)

For those observing Yom Kippur, wishing you an easy fast.

On 9/11, the Biden Administration strikes deal with terrorist supporting Iran to release $6 billion in frozen Iranian money from South Korea to Qatar without fear of U.S. sanctions. In addition, as part of the deal, the administration has agreed to release five Iranian citizens held in the United States. Monday’s announcement comes as President Biden and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi each prepare to travel to New York for the annual UN General Assembly next week. Amid the prisoner release talks, the U.S. and Iran have been discussing a possible informal arrangement that would seek to place some limitations on Iran’s nuclear program and avoid an international crisis. U.S. officials have insisted, however, that those talks are unrelated to the prisoner-exchange negotiations.

Israel Will Act If Iran Enriches Uranium above 60 Percent (Jerusalem Post)

Mossad: 27 Iranian Terror Plots Foiled This Year (Ynet News)

As the Government Turns Up the Heat, Iranians Need the World’s Support (Just Security)

SWC: Human Rights Watch report publishes horrific lies against Israel (Israel National News)

Three Big Cases in Israel’s September to Remember (Lawfare/Israel Democracy Institute) 

U.S. sanctions Lebanon-South America network accused of financing Hezbollah (AP)  Yet, U.S. will redirect millions of funds for Egypt to Taiwan and Lebanon as reported by CNN, WSJ, and NYT.

Top Hamas leader in Beirut in a bid to stop clashes at Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp (AP)

Libya, Greece, Brazil: Climate-driven storms cause catastrophic flooding around the world (EuroNews) from the Middle East to the Americas: "200-year, event" Massachusetts City Gets More Than 9 Inches of Rain, Flooding Homes and Jeopardizing a Dam (Cheddar)

6 killed in Gaza border blast during rioting, apparently while planting bomb (Times of Israel)

The Arafat I Knew Was Undermining Oslo From the Very Start (The JC) 

The Oslo Deception – New Evidence (PMW)

Delegation from Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi rebels flies into Saudi Arabia for peace talks with the kingdom (AP)

Report: 840,000 Afghans Who Applied for US Resettlement Program Still in Afghanistan  (VOX)

France evacuates five Afghan women 'threatened by Taliban' to Paris (France24)

The bipartisan supported Afghan Adjustment Act has still not passed. Leaving all those evacuated allies in limbo. See  https://www.refugeesinternational.org/pass-the-afghan-adjustment-act  and https://www.cbsnews.com/news/afghan-adjustment-act-evacuees-parole-legal-status-deportation-protections/

Iranian drone proliferation is scaling up and turning more lethal (War on the Rocks)

Abbas’ Fatah brags about its PA security officer terrorists - funded by the West (PMW)

Palestinian Authority Terrorists Open Fire on Arab School Using Israeli Curriculum (Jewish Press)

Saudi Arabia Denies Entry Visas for Israeli Ministers to UNESCO Conference  (Albawaba-Jordan) How can you have a diplomatic meeting barring members?

Barcelona Resumes 'Sister City' Relationship With Tel Aviv (Haaretz)

Fighting between Rival U.S.-Backed Groups in Syria Could Undermine War against Islamic State - (AP)

Jordan Downs Drug-Laden Drone from Syria in 9th Incident This Year (Al Jazeera)

Lebanese premier warns Syrian refugees pose a danger to the small nation’s balance (AP) 

MSNBC Reaches a New Low With Shameless Anti-Israel Rants (Honest Reporting) see also MSNBC’S Velshi invents facts to bash Israel (CAMERA)

Biden Backdoors Israel in the U.N., Rescinding Trump’s Recognition of Sovereignty over the Golan (Tablet)

On this anniversary of 9/11, I'm asking you to imagine what your country would do if it experienced just some of what Israel experienced this past week:

• Two Hurt in Palestinian Stabbing Attack in Jerusalem  (Ynet News)
• Palestinians Detonate Large Explosive on Gaza Border in Latest Rioting  (Times of Israel)
• Palestinian Gunman Killed in Jordan Valley (Times of Israel)
• Palestinian Woman Attempts to Stab Israeli Police Officer in Jerusalem's Old City (Times of Israel)
• Israel Foils Attempt to Smuggle Explosives from Gaza to West Bank (Times of Israel)
• Two Arab Israelis Caught Smuggling Explosives for Islamic Jihad (Jerusalem Post)
• Palestinian Authority Media Present Slain Terrorists as Innocent Children  (MEMRI)

Generation Jihad Ep. 99 — The Kabul Fiasco (FDD's Long War Journal)

2 years later, a look back at the US withdrawal from Afghanistan (Scripps News)

An act of Congress could grant legal status to thousands of Afghan allies. What’s the holdup? (VOX)

Rob Malley's Legacy of Failure: Undermining American Interests in the Middle East (RealClear Defense)

Iranian Regime's Mullahs Pocketing Billions Thanks to the Biden Administration (Gatestone)

Israel Arrests Four Arab Israelis for Smuggling Iran-Made Explosives via Hizbullah  (i24News)

Libyan Foreign Minister Suspended, Flees Country after Meeting with Israeli Counterpart  (AP-Washington Post) also Iran Bans Weightlifter for Life over Handshake with Israeli (AFP-Barron's)

Weapons Found next to Teddy Bears in Palestinian Nursery School  (Ynet News)

Fatah takes credit and celebrates murder of Israeli this morning (PMW)

Headlines Hazy on Details in Coverage of Palestinian Terror Attacks (Honest Reporting)

Hamas Blames Arabs Killing Arabs on… Not Arabs (Israelly Cool)

U.S. Marines to Buy Three Israeli Iron Dome Batteries and 1,840 Interceptors  (The Drive) With thousands of rockets launched at Israel by Palestinian terrorists this year, it's been the Iron Dome that has protected civilian populations centers from these deadly weapons. The Marines will be using this Israeli system to help protect American troops around the world.

Anti-Israel Curricula in American Schools (CAMERA)

A father and son became the latest Israeli victims of Palestinian terrorism when a gunman (terrorist) opened fire on them at a carwash close to the West Bank town of Huwara on Saturday afternoon. Both the BBC and AFP failed to include the fact that Shai and Aviad Nigreker were both residents of the southern Israeli city of Ashdod and were not — as both news reports suggest — settlers living in a West Bank settlement. Note: all the reports I've read seem to excuse the Palestinian murder of these two men because they might have been "settlers." The LA Times and Reuters take it further with their headline implying that there's doubt that the shooter was Palestinian! 

Related: Reuters Improves Coverage on Refugee Camps in Lebanon, Israeli Victims of Palestinian Terror (CAMERA)

Islamists in France and UK Call for Murder of FWI Contributor (Focus on Western Islamism) Noor is an advocate for freedom of expression and LGBT rights, who has criticised religious fundamentalism in Bangladesh

EU Builds "Resistance Schools" to Help PA Grab Land in Israeli-Administered Territories  (JNS) "We tracked and mapped out 100 such schools....They're placed in strategic spots in Area C."     If the schools are left standing, the PA builds villages around them. "There are schools that are built at archaeological sites, inside firing zones, even on property belonging to Jewish communities," she said.

Iran Bought Spy Tech From German, Chinese And Other Firms (Iran International)

The Iran-Saudi deal is a nightmare for Israel, the US, and the world - opinion (Jerusalem Post)

Biden should rethink the Saudi Arabia-Israel normalization deal (The Hill)

Iron Dome downs Gaza drone for 2nd consecutive day (i24News)

Israel Helping Palestinians Develop Fish Farming Industry (ANI News-India)

Israelophobia and the West: The Hijacking of Civil Discourse on Israel and How to Rescue It - New Book

Poll: In Gaza, Half Are Open to Normalizing Ties with Israel Were Saudi Arabia to Do So  (Washington Institute for Near East Policy)

Media Fail in West Bank Terror Coverage (Honest Reporting)

Hamas Begins to Establish a Rocket Production Infrastructure in Jenin  (Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs)

Russian Air Strike Blew Apart Syrian Market  (Telegraph-UK) killing nine farmers and wounding dozens...(this attack was) one of several launched by the Russian army in Syria as it continues to back Bashar al-Assad in his ongoing civil war.  Samer Al-Ali, a local humanitarian activist, said it seemed that Russia "possesses an international license to kill Syrian civilians."  

Report: Israel Launches Missile Attack on Weapons Depots in Syria  (Xinhua-China) The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said three military sites, including weapons depots that belong to Iran-backed Hizbullah, were targeted.

Killing Christians Takes Us to Paradise': The Persecution of Christians, July 2023 (Gatestone Institute)

Crocodile Tears from Jailed Muslim Brotherhood Cleric Earns Sympathy from Congress (Middle East Forum)

Please sign UN Watch's petition, and urge all member states to demand that the UN put a stop to censoring UN Watch: http:// https://www.change.org/p/investigate-unhrc-chief-eric-tistounet-for-targeting-un-watch

See also https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1676655767468777485