RT @ariel__danino: תחשבו שמישהו היה מציע למתנקש: ירית מספיק. זה מספיק. עכשיו תחזור לשולחן הדיונים. אז טראמפ הערב.

Shucks. He was expected for dinner with the Mamdanis tonight.

We will get the hostages home when the US gets aggressive with these filthy Qataris who do the bidding of HAMAS because they think they can get away with it since they have bought off every single member of Congress. The Qataris have no moral standing. They are truly depraved.

Trump is in office 100 days and there’s already an American pope.

MUST WATCH: Germany's AfD Warns... Europe's Future Under Islam—'First Synagogues Will Burn, Then Churches, and Everyone Who Does Not Submit' "October 7 is a sign of what awaits us when Islam takes power in Western Europe." "Europe is burning, ladies and gentlemen. And you all have lit the fire here with your immigration policy." "If Israel lays down its arms tomorrow, there will be no peace, but no Israel any longer." "The Islamists don’t need a reason to murder infidels." "In dealing with infidels, Political Islam knows only submission, expulsion, or murder." "Samuel Huntington spoke of the bloody borders of Islam, and these borders now run right through our cities." Read: rairfoundation.com/afd-warns…

"#Rafah massacre": Once again #Hamas rockets kill dozens Hamas MOH reported 45 killed in Rafah. #IDF said it targeted Hamas leaders with precise munitions, surprised by amount of casualties Watch Gazan refugee claim Hamas Jeep with weapons hit, see secondary explosions (00:29)

Israel has done more to prevent civilian casualties in war than any military in history — above & beyond what international law requires & more than the US did in its wars in Iraq & Afghanistan -- setting a standard that will be both hard & potentially problematic to repeat. 🧵

Absolutely sucking at a war you started is not genocide.

Condolences to Francesca Albanese, Philippe Lazzarinni and Antonio Guterres .

Destruction of homes justified by military necessity is legal & protected under Geneva. With Hamas vowing to repeat 10/7 again, the necessity is clear. Geneva also says that the "occupying power" will "judge the importance of military requirements" -- NOT the UN or fake NGOs.

העדויות מהשבי על אונר״א נחשפות: לא רק חטופה: חטוף נוסף שהיה בשבי חמאס, הוחזק על ידי מורה של אונר״א במשך כ-50 יום החטופים שהוחזקו על ידי מורים של אונר״א הועברו ממקום מסתור למקום מסתור דרך מתקנים של אונר״א החטופים שהוחזקו על ידי מורים של אונר״א, קיבלו חטיפים עם אריזות של אונר״א, מחברות של אונר״א ואחד המורים לימד את החטוף ערבית. במילים אחרות: לא מדובר בסוכנות סיוע, אלא בארגון טרור. לא מדובר במורים, אלא במחבלים

Let's talk for a moment about the "non-involved." Not just words, but numbers and testimonies. 1500 tunnels and tunnel shafts: Mostly originating from schools, hospitals, mosques, and UN facilities. Minus 1 floor at Rantisi Hospital: Our kidnapped were held there in the hands of the "medical staff." Almost every Gaza home was equipped with RPG missiles, Kalashnikov rifles, and mortars. ‘Kamal Adwan’ Hospital in Jabalia - a Hamas military facility. The hospital director admits: "I joined Hamas in 2010 as a lieutenant colonel." Doctors, nurses, paramedics, and officials are terror operatives of Al-Qassam. The hospital's "director" held a captured soldier; the entire staff knew. Released captives testify: We were held in the homes of a UNRWA school teacher and a doctor. 55 meters below Shifa Hospital: Explosives in the physiotherapy department, an IDF soldier's helmet with bloodstains, terrorists' military gear from Kibbutz Be’eri, explosive materials, 5 Nukhba terrorists, 30 Nukhba terrorists' vehicles, some equipped with military gear, and communication devices. Tunnel shaft under a baby's crib in a private home. Hundreds of rockets in UNRWA boxes. Hamas's Minister of Economy, Jawad Abu Shamala, killed by the IDF at the beginning of the war, worked for UNRWA until 2017. Research by IMPACT-se: Over 100 Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists who carried out terror attacks and killed Israeli civilians were graduates of the UNRWA education system. In the car of one of the terrorists in the massacre, a graduation certificate from UNRWA was found. Terrorists in the massacre: Former workers with permits in Israel. Some of the Gazan workers with Israeli work permits provided extensive information to Hamas about the communities before the murderous attacks. On the day of the massacre: Thousands of "non-involved" Gazans entered Israeli territory, looting the resident’s houses. NBC's investigation: Noa Argamani was kidnapped by a group of Gazans. It's either them or us. @AmitHarari2

Hi, I’m a lawyer. Do want to know what is really meant by a “#proportionate response” under international law? Then read on - and feel free to ask questions! Under International Humanitarian Law, #proportionality requires that any degree of damage (up to and including death) to #civilians not be “excessive” in relation to the “military advantage anticipated from a strike against a military target.” We are going to break that down, so everyone understands what exactly that means. However, first, you should be aware that it is a misnomer that anytime #Palestinian civilians die after an #Israeli strike, it is automatically evidence of an Israeli war crime. This is completely false - the law does not work that way. Simply, and unfortunately, the international rules of law recognize that civilians are often killed during war; and, most of the time, those deaths are actually not indicative of a war crime. Instead, the legal test for “proportionality” requires that each individual strike be looked at with a particular balancing analysis. First, here is a hard and fast rule: the strike must be intended to target a military objective; it is, therefore, an unlawful war crime to strike with the intent of targeting civilians without any military objective whatsoever. Now, let’s get a little technical while still keeping it simple. Under the First Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions of 1977 at both Article 51(5)(b) and Article 52(2), we know that when #Hamas uses its own population (or Israeli #hostages) as #humanshields - either by using them to shield themselves or to shield their weapons depots - Hamas has, under international law, turned civilians targets into military targets. That means that when Hamas places weapons caches in and under schools, hospitals, mosques, etc., Hamas has made each of those places legitimate military targets. So, it has been well-known for many years that Hamas purposefully placed its headquarters underground beneath the al-Shifa Hospital. In doing so, international law holds that the hospital is no longer just a civilian target, it is a legitimate military target. That does not necessarily give the IDF carte blanche to attack hospitals, schools, mosques, etc.; however, it does mean that an IDF attack on a civilian target that has been made into a military target by Hamas’ use of human shields is not per se illegal under international law. Instead, such a strike (as is the case with any strike conducted by a military like the IDF), must be analyzed through a balancing test. One part of this balancing test performed by Israel before each strike is to determine whether the human shields in question are being used voluntarily or involuntarily. If the human shields are being used voluntarily - meaning the human shields are there protecting Hamas and its weapons of their own volition - then the target remains a completely legitimate military target. If the human shields are being used involuntarily - meaning Hamas is forcing people to act as human shields to protect themselves and/or their weapons - then the IDF must go back to the balancing test to determine whether the anticipated military advantage of a successful strike would outweigh the reasonably anticipated loss of civilian life. Importantly, the IDF rules state that if it cannot determine whether a human shield is being used voluntarily or involuntarily, it must presume the civilian is being used against his or her own will and treat the civilians as an involuntary participant. Assuming that there is a military target & that there may be human shields that are there involuntarily, the next step in the proportionality analysis for each individual strike (remember, proportionality is determined on a strike-by-strike basis, and not as the accumulation of strikes over time) is to try to determine the likely amount of damage to civilian persons and/or property as a result of the strike. In other words, under international law, Israel must be able to give a sort of “value” to the anticipated impact on civilians (including potential civilian deaths). Simply, a smaller number of anticipated civilian casualties may make the strike proportionate if there is a significant military advantage to be gained by conducting the strike. However, if Israel determines that the anticipated impact of a strike may cause many civilian casualties, it must make the difficult determination of whether the anticipated military advantage is so significant that it warrants carrying out the strike anyway. So, if Hamas has a weapons depot underneath a house with two civilians inside, and that house has been used to fire 500 rockets at Israeli civilians, and it is reasonably expected that there are hundreds more rockets under that house, Israel can almost certainly carry out the strike within the confines of international law. If that same house, however, had 10 families living inside, including many children, it could - and likely would - tip the scales of the proportionality balancing test toward Israel not being permitted to carry out the strike, even though the house has been used to attack Israeli civilians and can be expected to continue to be used to carry out attacks against Israeli civilians. Now, that balancing test can always change. If that same house is being used to fire long-range, precision-guided missiles at Israel’s major population centers in places like #TelAviv (effectively putting millions of Israeli civilians in danger), the balancing test may tip back in favor of Israel being legally permitted to carry out the strike. This all suggests the third and final step in the proportionality balancing test: the #IDF must determine and place a “value” on the anticipated military advantage that would be gained if it were to carry out a particular strike. An attack on Hamas leadership and/or its weapons manufacturers would be considered a high value target. An attack on a single Hamas member who has no special skill, would be a much lower value military target. Similarly, an attack on a small cache of mortars would have less military value that an attack on a large cache of advanced rockets that can reach large Israeli civilian population centers. Once the @IDF determines the anticipated “value” of the likely effect on civilian persons and property and the anticipated “value” of the likely military advantage to be gained if the strike is carried out, the balancing test can be performed, and a certain amount of judgment must go into the determination of whether that strike would or would not be “proportionate.” Importantly, this decision is so vital that the IDF does not simply permit a single solder on the ground with his or her hand on the proverbial (or actual) “trigger” to make that determination. In fact, the decision of whether a strike is proportionate is not even left up to IDF officers. It’s not even left up to IDF Generals. Instead, before any IDF strike can take place, IDF Guidelines provide that the proportionality balancing test must be presented to and analyzed by IDF military lawyers who then determine whether the strike is legally permissible as “proportionate” under international law and the rules of war. And these IDF military lawyers are not mere patsies or people who simply “rubber stamp” what the IDF requests. In fact, the IDF’s military lawyers work entirely independently of the IDF. They are outside of the chain of command and do not answer to anyone in the IDF, including a General (for example). Plus, every IDF military lawyer knows he or she may very well be held to account if he or she makes a wrong decision based on the evidence available at the time. Furthermore, sometimes the decisions to be made while balancing the likely military advantage against the likely civilian casualties can be so difficult that the legality of the strike is first brought to the Israeli Supreme Court for instant review. Another important concept: the comparison of civilian body counts of #Israelis versus #Palestinians (to the extent those numbers can be trusted since they come directly from Hamas-only) is not relevant to a proportionality analysis. Each strike must be viewed individually to determine proportionality. It is not a test of the cumulative nature of the strikes. Also, by simply comparing body counts, it does not factor in how many people killed were actually #HamasTerrorists, how many were Hamas collaborators there voluntarily, and it does not consider what military advantage was gained by Israel carrying out any individual strike. As Israel is now in the process of seeking to secure the military advantage of preventing Hamas from having the capacity to carry out repeated attacks of the kind and nature seen on October 7th, Israel is permitted to act proportionately insofar as necessary to achieve that military objective (the elimination of Hamas and/or its ability to make war). One more important fact people do not know, but that they should know: according to UN statistics of global conflict, the average civilian to combatant killed ratio is a rather appalling nine civilians killed for every one combatant killed. That’s why civilian body counts in and of themselves are never indicative of a war crime. Each individual strike has to be analyzed, and unfortunately civilians always suffer disproportionately in wars. In fact, while Israel is routinely criticized for any of its strikes that kill civilians, you may be surprised to know that Israel’s civilian to combatant ratio is routinely much lower than the nine to one average. In the very last operation carried out by the IDF prior to October 7 (in Jenin), 0.6 civilians were killed for every one combatant killed. In that conflict, not only were the IDF’s ratio numbers nowhere near the nine to one international average, but the IDF actually managed to kill more combatants than civilians - something that is extremely rare. In truth, Israel is targeted by accusations of war crimes almost immediately by the media, by politicians, and by the UN General Assembly despite the fact that those accusations are near 100% of the time based neither in fact nor in law. Since a proportionality balancing test must be used to determine whether a single specific Israeli strike falls within the confines of international law, someone providing an analysis must have all of the facts Israel considered before carrying out that strike as to the anticipated impact on civilians and the anticipated military advantage. Obviously, anyone who is making a snap judgment critical of Israel could not possibly have that information. Understand then, that when you see talking heads accusing Israel of “war crimes” immediately after and/or during Israeli strikes, that is not an actual legal analysis under international law of what constitutes a war crime. Much more likely, what you are witnessing is part of Hamas’ ongoing psychological and propaganda warfare campaign of demonizing and delegitimizing the State of Israel in the eyes of public opinion. #Hamas_is_ISIS #HamasisISIS #HamasISIS #HamasMonsters #October7massacre

Jenin: "Combat medic" Here is a video that was taken today during the clashes and the whole world needs to see. An armed terrorist was wounded by IDF fire. A Palestinian man dressed as a medic runs to him... Did you think he would take care of him? No! (1/2)

How Hamas frames the civilian casualties of war in Gaza

hard to reason with anyone that prioritizes rockets over hospitals

One of the biggest reasons Muslim extremists hate Israel is because Mizrahi and Sephardic Jews were able to escape Muslim oppression and now have a safe home. They will often erase Mizrahi and Sephardic Jews and call the entire population of Israel Ashkenazi ‘settlers’ (even tho Ashkenazi Jews have been proved to be genetically Middle Eastern), in order to try to gain sympathy from Western leftists by pretending the Palestinian cause is a decolonization issue and not actually an Islamist cause. They will pretend they forgot Mizrahi and Sephardic Jews used to live all over the Middle East. But make no mistake, they remember them very well. They hate them. And they hate the fact that these once persecuted communities are stronger than them now.

"We're just asking for a ceasefire. We're not taking sides. Why is Israel objecting?" So many people just don't understand Israel's position. They think that they're being fair. They think they're on the side of "humanity". Their intentions are genuinely well-intended. Others think that the two sides are as bad as each other. Some even openly say as much. But the fact is that there's just no symmetry between Israel and Hamas. There was a ceasefire in place until the morning October 7. Hamas didn't so much break it as rip it down, film itself ripping it down, and dance brazenly on its grave. Hamas has for years been attempting to provoke Israel on the Gazan border, planting bombs along it, flying incendiary kites over it, digging tunnels under it leading all the way to Israeli kibbutzim, all with the aim of murdering and abducting as many innocents as possible. Three weeks ago, those murderous dreams were partly realised. These were the most heinous acts in recent memory; not just targeting civilians for murder but butchering them alive, and subjecting people to emotional torture by murdering and mutilating relatives in front of them. Pure, malicious and unparalleled thuggery. Israel is in a war not against just Hamas the organisation, but also against Hamas the mentality. The mentality that Israelis are subhumans worthy of death. The mentality shared by too many across the Middle East, with no small measure of ardent support from sympathisers in the West, that whatever Israel does, attacks on it are always justifiable. The mentality that when Israel defends itself, it must play by the rules, even if those provoking Israel trample all over them without hesitation. Against an enemy like that, there must be the strongest of responses. It seems clear to me that many in the West are not actively against Israel, but rather just don't have the stomach for the fight. They want to see some poorly-defined concept of "fairness". That can't happen in the real world. And Israel can't entertain the fantasies of armchair observers who do not live with savage barbarians on their doorstep, no matter how noble their intentions may be. Allowing Hamas to live to fight another day only perpetuates the fighting. Israelis are well aware of the horrendous human cost of this war, but are also conscious of the far greater cost of not deterring genocidal maniacs from realising their aspirations. That is why Israel must continue till Hamas is wiped out. Nothing less will do.

OMG I can't believe I'm saying this, but....go John Kirby? TV Globo’s @RKrahenbuhl: “So, besides saying that he doesn't have confidence in these numbers, the President went further to say that innocents will die and that this is the price of the war. You also said that.” Kirby: “I have indeed.” Krähenbühl: “Don't you think this is insensitive? There’s being very harsh criticism in about it. For example, the Council of American-Islamic Relations said it was deeply disturbed and call on the President to apologize. Would the President apologize?” Kirby: “No.” Krähenbühl: “And does he regret saying something like that?” Kirby: “What’s harsh — what’s harsh is the way Hamas is using people as human shields. What’s harsh is taking a couple of hundred hostages and leaving families and anxious, waiting and worrying to figure out where their loved ones are. What's harsh, is dropping in on a music festival and slaughtering a bunch of young people just trying to enjoy an afternoon. I could go on and on. That's what's harsh. That is what's harsh and being honest about the fact that there have been civilian casualties and that there likely will be more is being honest, because that's what war is. It's brutal. It's ugly. It's messy. I've said that before. President also said that yesterday. Doesn't mean we have to like it. And it doesn't mean that we're dismissing anyone of those casualties each and every one is a tragedy in its own right...It would be helpful if Hamas would let [Gazans] leave....We know that there are thousands waiting to leave Gaza writ large and Hamas is preventing them from doing it. That is what is harsh.”

Sounds about right. Hey @UNRWA?