Will Europe Save Hamas in Gaza? I recently met with a high-ranking European official from a country deeply involved in the Israel and Palestine file to discuss Gaza’s future and immediate options for relieving civilians trapped under Hamas’s grip. I presented a simple proposal: create safe zones across the "Yellow Line" into the Israel‑controlled green zone and support new, organized, secure, Hamas‑free communities where Gazans could finally begin rebuilding their lives. Whether the issue is humane living conditions, deradicalization, education, healthcare, or shielding civilians from both Hamas or Israeli strikes, the green zone is the only place where meaningful action is possible. Instead of engaging, the official launched into a long monologue about their country’s contributions to the Palestinian Authority, UNRWA, and other institutions, all while insisting on their own “humility” as a faraway European nation. Then came the truly alarming part: a casual normalization of Hamas. The official proudly described how easy it had been to work with Hamas before October 7, praising the group for providing “excellent security” and being “easier to work with than others.” What they called pragmatism was, in reality, a twenty‑year pattern of enabling a violent terrorist organization responsible for immense civilian suffering. When I explained that any Hamas‑free zones would require vetting at the Yellow Line to prevent weapons or operatives from entering, the official reacted with shock. “This vetting would violate international law,” they repeated, insisting that their country could not fund projects with any checks on who enters. I noted the absurdity: I had undergone extensive vetting just to enter their country, and even this building, yet they believed Hamas fighters should be able to walk into new civilian safe zones unimpeded. Their only response was vague appeals to “international law,” which, in their interpretation, seems to require allowing terrorists to hide among civilians. The meeting ended on an even more surreal note. When the official asked what would happen to Hamas fighters left in the red zone, I said I didn’t care; they could fight the Israeli military on their own all they wanted once they no longer held two million civilians hostage. The official lamented that “this isn’t the old American West” and expressed concern for what would happen to Hamas without human shields. Disgust doesn’t begin to describe my feelings and reactions. I left convinced of something long suspected: Hamas’s twenty‑year rule was sustained not only by its own brutality but by an ecosystem of NGOs, donor nations, Western European governments, journalists, academics, activists, lawyers, and even self‑styled human‑rights defenders who normalized Hamas, treated it as a legitimate authority, or tolerated its abuses because their hostility toward Israel outweighed their concern for Gazans.

The United Nations and Hamas: A Toxic Relationship? A close friend of mine from Gaza City, tortured nearly to death by Hamas, a well‑known activist against the group, and someone I helped evacuate during the war, was featured in the UN Human Rights Council’s report documenting Hamas’s abuses against Palestinian civilians: executions, torture, beatings, the misuse of medical facilities, and the terrorizing of women and children. When he met with the UN investigation team, one investigator was openly sympathetic to Hamas and the “resistance” narrative, signaling from the start that she doubted his testimony. He then spent five hours convincing the rest of the team that Hamas had, in fact, tortured him, despite extensive evidence of his injuries circulating on social media and a medical examination confirming blunt‑force trauma consistent with organized abuse, not random violence or Israeli bombardment. He even had to walk the investigators, including Ms. pro‑Hamas, through how his case fits into hundreds of others across Gaza, and how Hamas itself has filmed and publicly released its own executions, beatings, and torture to terrorize the population. Imagine that: Hamas documenting its own crimes on video, and supposedly serious investigators refusing to believe what is right in front of them. Imagine a human rights inquiry that includes someone openly aligned with the very group under investigation. It forces a hard question: why are parts of the UN system so compromised when it comes to Hamas that they cannot think beyond Israel’s actions long enough to examine the crimes of Palestinian actors, crimes that are equally harmful, shameful, and deserving of condemnation? And why are some so eager to believe Palestinians when the accusation is against Israel, yet so reluctant when the accusation is against Hamas, even when the evidence is overwhelming?

Mustapha @Ezzarghani is a remarkable person. Moroccan. American. Arab. Muslim. Peace advocate. Promoter of Muslim-Jewish cooperation. Founder of Moroccan-Israeli Friendship Association. Brave. Visionary. Insightful. Please watch, courtesy of @JBS-TV. youtu.be/1UGWs3UXeRM

Chaos agent Mohsen Mahdawi, a 34 year old at Columbia University who spent 15 years as an undergrad student, is FINALLY being deported back to his native Jordan. Mahdawi was one of the leading antisemitic agitators at the Columbia riots post 10/7.

RT @DavidHarrisNY: Simple questions: Why was no Palestinian state created when Jordan ruled W. Bank & Egypt ruled Gaza until 1967? Why ha…

Update: New Haven police have identified and arrested Paul Smith, 36 of East Haven, after he harassed a group of Jewish men, knocking a kippah from one of their head’s. He’s charged with intimidation due to bias and disorderly conduct; bond was set at $10,000.

RT @DavidHarrisNY: Simple questions: What do you call attacking a Jewish woman on a NY subway, yelling “Jews are eating kids”? What do yo…

Letter from Christian residents found by IDF forces in southern Lebanon. @amitsegal

To the supporters of @AOC, @ZohranKMamdani, @Ilhan Omar, and those men from the Middle East who suddenly became concerned about Islamophobia: Just listen carefully and STOP helping the Islamic Republic silencing our voices.

When 100% Accuracy Becomes a Risk: The Hidden Danger of AI’s “Perfect” Promise linkedin.com/pulse/when-100-…

Perspective matters Islam has conquered more territory than any empire.  Even though Judaism is nearly 4,000 years old and Christianity is over 2,000 years old, both birthed in the Holy Land, Islam is roughly 1,400 years old.  Yet, Islamists claim that the Holy Land is occupied by the Jewish people.  Before the 7th century Islamic conquests, nearly the rest of the Middle East was majority Christian, including Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, etc.  Prior to WWII, 20-25% of Turkey (Asia Minor) was Christian.  Other than about 10% of Egypt's population today, which is made up of Coptic Christians, the Christian population in the Middle East is negligible -- that is, it is nearly nonexistent.   The only growing Christian community is in the state of Israel. Now, Europe is being devoured.  There's plenty of data available to show this, and you can easily research it, but it is factually demonstrated by large Muslim migration movements and population/demographic changes in Europe, huge growth of Muslim enclaves and concentrations in European towns and regions muscling up their political clout, and their growing cultural influence and impact.  On top of this, countries like Qatar are investing tens of billions of dollars in the West to hasten the collapse of these majority Christian societies, including ours, as it and other such regimes also fund efforts to destroy the state of Israel.  The weakness of Western governments not only refusing to confront this societal tsunami but, in many cases, ushering it into their countries, it is hard to see how they survive unless this trajectory is reversed and soon. Of course, there is much more to say about this, but this is just one post to get you thinking and, perhaps, to encourage others to dig further into the topic as well.

🚨🇺🇸 La mujer musulmana que hizo el saludo nazi y acosó a una mujer judía mientras gritaba "Heil Hitler" y le deseaba cáncer ha sido detenida por el Departamento de Policía de Beverly Hills. ¿Debería ser deportada?

This won't get any attention because it's not the IDF

Lessons from Those Who Served: Why Veterans Raise the Standard for Leadership and Execution linkedin.com/pulse/lessons-f…

Mamdani’s twisted Nakba narrative fits the record of New York’s first anti-Israel mayor, writes @DavidHarrisNY. Setting the historical record straight, David's must-read column asks a hard question: why do some Jews prefer to live in la-la land and continue to stand by the mayor's side.

Bill Maher just dedicated the end of his show to throwing his own party under the bus for defending every minority group except Jews. “There is a frothing anxiousness for the literal extermination of this one group. And Democrats, where are you?” “If any other minority group was being talked about this way, you’d break out the Kente cloth and have 10 benefit concerts.” “But because you see that so many of your brainwashed-by-TikTok constituents now have an unfavorable view of Israel, you indulge them when you should be correcting them.” “All the people likely running for president now on the Democratic side want it known they don’t take money from AIPAC, the Israeli lobby… You take money from crypto and factory farmers and big tech, from Diddy and Weinstein and Epstein, but AIPAC is too far?” “Let me just say this to all who ask me, ‘Why are you harder on the Democrats than you used to be?’ Until you fix this whole issue, stop asking me.”

The Power of Non-Linear Careers: Why Diverse Paths Create Exceptional Leaders in the AI Era linkedin.com/pulse/power-non…

My latest for @TheFP: Mamdani claims his wife is a private citizen. So who answers for her Spotify account full of Jew and Israel-hating lyrics? thefp.com/p/rama-duwaji-new-…

What Is The Holocaust? The Holocaust was the largest systematic killing of Jews in history, in which the Nazis murdered six million Jews, two-thirds of Europe’s Jewish population, between 1941 and 1945. It didn’t begin with gas chambers; it began with words, propaganda, and laws designed to dehumanize. A human tragedy we must keep telling so that “Never Again” truly means never again. New episodes coming every Monday and Thursday at 11am ET throughout May. Visit @eighteenorg to watch more.