- Ceasefire Talks Have Nothing to do with Hostages
- Polio Insanity
- Don’t Blame Egypt
For those who read through the entirety of the past two deep-dive newsletter editions, thank you (toda raba) for indulging my love of history and for allowing me to showcase why history is paramount in understanding current events especially regarding Israel.
Today’s edition will be far different in that several current events will be addressed and analyzed.
Many of us have lost count on how many ceasefire talks have been held. The most recent one has been an utter disaster with the Israelis offering up everything except control of the Philadelphi Corridor (a tiny strip of land that separates Egypt from Gaza), an area where weapons have been smuggled by Hamas and the location where just weeks ago, a 10 foot high tunnel was discovered that could easily fit vehicles.
Nor is Israel (rightfully) budging from operating across the Netzarim Corridor, an east – west military road that the IDF established at the start of the war to bisect Gaza, to separate northern Gaza from the southern sections, largely to prevent active terrorists from returning to northern Gaza.
This past November, during a one week period, and the last time a ceasefire was reached, 105 hostages were released in exchange for 240 terrorists. Sounds fair, right? Of those 240 terrorists, several have since killed Israelis in terrorist attacks.
And it was after the November deal that the Jihad Joe Administration ramped up its political pressure to set the building block for an official terrorist state within Israel. On June 10th, the U.S voted in favor of a United Nations Security Council ceasefire resolution for the first time since the Jewish Genocide. The U.S had previously vetoed three UN resolutions demanding a ceasefire, and abstained from a fourth. The June UN resolution mirrored an antisemitic plan put forth by the antisemites in the Hamas/Hamas Administration, explained in a May 31st speech by Jihad Joe, outlining three stages for achieving a ceasefire in the coming months.
The three proposed ceasefire points from June are still being negotiated today, but the details clearly outline that it has zero to do with the Israeli hostages:
- In the first step, Israel would need to cease military activity within six weeks, during which time, *some* hostages would be released in exchange for more terrorists – that means more Israelis will be murdered by some of those terrorists. That has been the reality for decades regarding releasing Arab terrorists from Israeli prisons. Remember that Sinwar was released from an Israeli prison in the Gilad Shalit exchange (he was one of 1,027 terrorists released back in 2011). It would also include Israel leaving ALL populated areas of Gaza – never mind the fact that Gaza IS part of Israel (Article 80 of the UN Charter still stands), and that some of the populated areas includes parts of the Philadelphi Corridor.
- The second phase would include complete withdrawal of Israeli troops from its land (Gaza). Only then would the remainder of the Israeli hostages be released, including soldiers held.
- In the third phase, full reconstruction of Gaza would begin, and murdered hostages released back to Israel.
With Netanyahu stating on the world stage that Israel will not be reclaiming Gaza (not under his ‘leadership’ that is), the above is not about hostages, but about legitimizing a terror enclave as a state. This is why Israel is not a state, by the way. States are created or are part of consortiums.
Israel was liberated by its indigenous population in 1948, after a nearly 20 year armed struggle against the British occupiers. Well, 22% of Israel was freed, as the 78% that was renamed Jordan was no longer able to be reclaimed. Gaza is part of that 22% and it was fully reclaimed from the British, but then Egypt took control of the enclave that was Jewish land since 145 BC and twice codified as Jewish land in both 1920 and 1922, under the San Remo Accords of the League of Nations.
How are the ceasefire talks not about hostages when hostages are mentioned in each of the three proposed parts? The Thai hostages were released without a ceasefire being brought up. If it was truly about hostages, so many hostages would not have been murdered. Experts assess that at best 30 – 40 hostages out of the 97* (updated to reflect the most recent findings – details below) remaining are alive. Israel knows that 20 hostages are with Sinwar and are being used as human shields; that is why Sinwar has not been killed yet. The IDF knew where he was on several occasions but it was too dangerous to act with that many hostages under his control.
Hamas’ main goal aside from killing as many Jews as possible, was also to gain as many of their terrorists back. Because Israel values human life above all, back in November, 240 terrorists released was an abomination but most of us excused that to gain 105 hostages. The hostages who remain alive in Gaza are just as worthy of release as those in November, but it is too dangerous for Israel to agree to those three demands highlighted above, even with control of the Philadelphi and Netzarim Corridors.
The main purpose of the IDF bombing Gaza was not to secure the release of the hostages, as difficult and heartless as that may sound. Though of course the hostages were, and continue to be, on the forefront of the IDF as they were making their way throughout Gaza – in fact, it is due to the hostages that there are boots on the ground. Sans hostages, only the IAF could have been used to raze Gaza completely. The full incursion into Gaza was launched to deter another Jewish genocide from ever happening again, at least on Jewish soil. At the start of the war, before Bibi allowed traitorous concessions to aid relief (which Hamas of course took control of by stealing food and charging high prices for the free aid), the goal was to secure Gaza under Israeli control, to destroy Gaza to the point of mercy. But no, Bibi kowtowed to the antisemitic liberals in the West. And so if Israel cedes control of Gaza, all those soldiers who fell during battle, would have given their lives for nothing.
Reports have been revealed that in the days following the Jewish genocide, Hamas offered the release of all hostages in exchange for Israel to promise not to attack Gaza. Israel back then knew that horrific as the hostage situation was, 1200 people were murdered and far more would be, in the next genocide if Gaza were not destroyed and Hamas weakened – in reality, as mentioned in previous articles, Hamas can never be defeated fully as Hamas in not an actual army. There are fighters of course, but the entire Gazan population is Hamas. The PA is Hamas. Hamas and Islamic Jihad both use children to help attack the Israeli soldiers – whether as distractions or in handling actual weapons of war (both are war crimes). Women and children cheered loudly in Gaza on Oct. 7th. Hamas also hides among the population and has stated that it is not their job to protect the residents of Gaza (there is a reason why bomb shelters were not built in Gaza – Hamas needs casualties to gain sympathy from gullible antisemitic liberals).
When a society brainwashes their children that becoming shahids is of the highest order, it is not surprising that so many young Arab occupiers in Gaza ended up in Israeli prisons, throughout the decades, on terrorism charges.
I used to think that Bibi was not for the antisemitic two state solution, but an astute friend of mine (I cannot take credit), recently mentioned that he very much is, otherwise he would not announce that Israel has no intention of reclaiming Gaza.
Hamas left the ceasefire talks anyway, yet again, so it is Israel remaining with antisemitic parties in Cairo hammering out details of defeat in Gaza. Islamic Jihad is not part of the talks nor are the numerous smaller terrorist groups in Gaza who are also in charge of both the living and murdered hostages.
** In heartbreaking news, as of this writing, the IDF announced yesterday that six hostage bodies have been found in a tunnel in Rafi’ach, Gaza. Per YNet News reporting, the hostages were found with bullet wounds to their heads and other body parts. Autopsy reports indicate that they were brutally murdered 48 hours prior to the IDF reaching them. Israeli troops were operating in the area and were even more careful as the location of the 65 foot tunnel complex was a short distance from where the Israeli Bedouin hostage was found alive earlier in the week.
Including in this latest retrieval, was the body of U.S. citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin (23). The Israeli hostages who were recovered include: Eden Yerushalmi (24), Carmel Gat (40), Ori Danino (25), Alexander Lobanov (33), and Almog Sarusi (27). May all the murdered hostages’ blood be avenged.
We mourn for them deeply because they are part of our Judean family. All the hostages have been on our minds for the past 330 days.
Especially the Americans who were killed during the genocide and during captivity, Hamas Harris and Jihad Joe are to blame, along with all the liberals who voted for Obama and for Jihad Joe, and who are now shilling for Hamas Harris.**
Yesterday’s finding adds to the 11 previous hostages who were recently found murdered. Per a Times of Israel article, “On July 25, the IDF announced the return of five dead captives: Ravid Katz, 51, Oren Goldin, 33, Maya Goren, 56, Sgt. Kiril Brodski, 19, and Staff Sgt. Tomer Yaakov Ahimas, 20.
On August 20, the military recovered the remains of six others: Alex Dancyg, 75, Yagev Buchshtav, 35, Chaim Peri, 79, Yoram Metzger, 80, Nadav Popplewell, 51, and Avraham Munder, 78.”
The IDF also knows of 33 other murdered Israeli hostages, whose bodies are being held in Gaza.
Instead of engaging in detrimental talks, Israel is far better off attempting heroic rescue attempts as we have seen – the rescue of the four alive Jewish hostages back in June (Noa Argamani, Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov, Shlomi Ziv), and the rescue of the Bedouin man, Farhan al-Qadi, this past week (who, technically, could be a genetic Jew too – most Bedouins in Jordan, Israel, and in the Sinai are genetic Jews, descendants of Jews who moved to the Hejaz after 586 BC and later joined by Bar Kokhba rebels after 136 AD. Out of the 12 Jewish clans in the Hejaz, one was killed, two expelled, and the remaining nine stayed and assimilated. Eventually some made their way back home. There is a reason Bedouins helped Israel in both the 1948 and 1967 wars, and were offended when Gen. Moshe Dayan rebuked their Sheikhs’ confessions of Judean roots and wanting to be part of the Jewish fold in Israel).
Thank goodness that the Israeli Bedouins retained their adopted Arab identity and language. Mr. Al-Qadi listened intently to the Arabic spoken by Hamas and is now sharing intelligence with the IDF.
A murdered soldier, (whose family wishes their loved one not to be named in the media) was also recovered from Gaza this past week. Prior to these recent rescues and retrievals, there were two Argentinean-Israeli Jews (Fernando Marman and Louis Norbeto Har) who had been rescued alive from Rafi’ach.
As painstakingly slow as the rescues and retrievals have been, the fact that any have been accomplished is kudos to the IDF while they are also fighting sub-humans all over Jewish Gaza. Not to mention the fight against sub-humans in Areas A and B of Judea & Samaria, and up north against the Hezbollah rats.
Each time Hamas leaves ceasefire talks, it is a good sign for Israel. Just as it was great that the Arabs rejected the antisemitic UN Resolution 181 in 1947 (Partition Plan). The ploy at the UN, led by the British, was not to divvy up all of Palestine (the Jewish homeland), but to divide the 22% that was left after stealing what was renamed Jordan.
As elaborated above – any ceasefire deal handcuffs the IDF and endangers Israelis. And because Israel is foolishly at the table at the talks, surrounded by antisemitic parties, the prospect of more Jewish genocides from an Arab controlled Gaza post-war is shaping up to be reality, unless, an actual leader is elected in Israel who will reverse Bibi’s weak actions regarding Gaza.
*Let me say this strongly, anyone voting for Democrats, is voting for terrorism. Jihad Joe released $100 billion to Iran. Under Trump, Iran was absolutely broke. Who refunded Hamas and UNRWA and the equally terrorist PA? Jihad Joe and Hamas Harris.
And time to end the charade that the Arab occupiers in Gaza are ‘victims’ of Hamas. They supported Hamas for nearly two decades, supported Fatah before Hamas, and were engaging and cheering on the initial intifada against Israel back in 1987. Arabs who left Gaza and Judea & Samaria, throughout the decades (and there are many) have not been speaking out against the sub-humans. There are two only: Mosab Yousef (a true hero who saved numerous Israeli lives while working for Israel), whose father was one of the co-founders of Hamas, and a man who escaped Gaza to Israel years ago. Where are the rest? Contrast with how many Iranians are standing up to their equally heinous regime.
We also need to stop saying ‘people’ when referring to Hamas, the PA, and Hezbollah. It is an affront to actual humans. Those are sub-humans. Nor are there any Palestinians in Gaza. Not one, unless we count the remaining Jewish hostages. Jews in Israel from 136 AD – 1948 were called Palestinians; literally a colonizer term for the Judean people for 1,812 years while the homeland was occupied. The only ‘Palestine’ reverted back to the derivative of its indigenous name, Eretz Israel, becoming Israel in 1948. Why not Judea, the ancestral heartland of Israel, where Jews literally emerged, from the Semitic tribes in the Hill Country of Canaan? Before occupation, Jews expanded their territory in ancient times, from Gaza to what antisemitically was renamed Jordan, up north to the Golan and south to the Negev.*
As if feeding one’s enemy is not insane enough, Bibi agreed last week to pause fighting (three separate three-day pauses) so that the UN can administer polio vaccines to children under the age of 10. There was one confirmed case in all of Gaza. An epidemic it is not. Prior to the war, the vaccination rate for polio in Gaza was 90%, above the standard 80% set by the WHO.
Egypt under El-Sisi is not the monster many Jews assume. Both Egypt and Israel had a legal blockade of Gaza due to… terrorism. Hamas not only hates Israel but also despised Egypt under Mubarak, and is no fan of El-Sisi. The Arab Spring in 2010 ushered in a Muslim Brotherhood terrorist (championed by Obama) who let Hamas run amok in the Sinai. In 2012, Hamas killed 16 Egyptian soldiers without nary an outcry from Morsi, much less retribution. General El-Sisi (with the help of Mossad) overthrew Morsi in 2013, and restored order to Egypt.
How did he achieve that? He ordered the Muslim Brotherhood members to be killed. Those who were not mass killed, are rotting away in real prisons in Egypt (where they torture prisoners). For those who have visited Egypt recently, like I did in 2022, have seen how safe Egypt is – checkpoints galore, military visible, and the border with Gaza was and remains sealed shut. Egypt does not have a fence with Gaza but a series of walls, one of them steel.
This expanse of no-mans land and buffer stemmed from 2014 when El-Sisi bombed Rafi’ach (in 1982, Israel and Egypt signed a treaty to split Rafi’ach into two – one side in Gaza and one side in Egypt). The Egyptian army in 2014 destroyed 1200 tunnels, bombed over 3,000 buildings, and expanded the buffer zone with Gaza. No one peeped a word against those actions.
Further, El-Sisi over the years flooded tunnels with sewage.
The last thing Egypt, a very poor nation that finally defeated internal and external terrorism, needed was the Jewish genocide of October. 7th. We are talking about a country that kept its border with Gaza closed for 11 months out of the year, opening it only for Ramadan. I’m sure they were incredulous at Israel’s keeping their border with Gaza open year-round for no reason whatsoever.
Once the war began, post-genocide, Egypt was suddenly facing its worst nightmare – 2 million radicalized former Egyptian nationals (most Arab occupiers in Jewish Gaza are Egyptian – In 1948, Egypt settled in over 250,000 nationals and radicalized them; some former Israeli Arabs fled to Gaza only to help Arab armies kill Jews faster) who wanted an escape into Egypt. El-Sisi cannot afford one radicalized Gazan back home. Sisi worked too hard for too long to achieve safety for his country.
I will even venture to say that the dispute Egypt is having with Israel over the Philadelphi Corridor control is because Sisi does not trust Israel under Bibi; he cannot trust that Bibi will not kowtow to pressure from the antisemitic liberals in the West, as he has done time again.
It was not Egypt’s job to keep checking for tunnels. Egypt did enough to destroy those it needed to in order to avenge for the killed Egyptian soldiers and for the terrorism against its country to cease. It was on Israel to step up its operations against Hamas years before October 7th, and not to just bomb empty buildings every few years after Hamas launched thousands of rockets, terrorizing the citizens of southern Israel.
Does Sisi love Israel? No. Egypt has a cold peace with Israel, not a normalization like Israel enjoys with the UAE, Bahrain, and Morocco (Sudan was a mercy add to the Abraham Accords, so I don’t count it as part of the core). But, Egypt did close its air space when Iran launched missiles so that Israel could use their space if needed. And Egypt clamped down on pro-Hamas protests, which is far more than can be said about Europe and the U.S currently.
Sisi is also an Arab leader of a majority Arab and Muslim nation, and does what it needs to protect itself, but it cannot send an army against fellow Arabs, outside of Egypt. Israel could learn from Egypt in terms of doing what is needed to protect its citizens. If Israel were to raze Gaza completely, as it should have done by now, sure Egypt would publicly condemn those actions but in private, would celebrate. Gaza under Arab occupation is a cancer to both Egypt and Israel.
As for the Sinai debacle, PM Begin gave back the Sinai in 1979 to Egypt in exchange for peace. Though the Sinai historically was never Jewish land, it was won in a defensive war (1967 Six Day War), and Israel as we see, badly needs land buffers. Israel held on the Sinai from 1967 – 1982, and built 18 Jewish communities. Many erroneously blame PM Begin to this day for the Sinai give-away, but back then, it made (somewhat) strategic sense.
Israel first took control of the Sinai in 1956 during the Suez Canal War, but buckled under international pressure (sound familiar?) to give it back in 1957. That was a weak and dangerous move.
However, by the time of the Camp David Accords, the Egyptian military being on Israel’s doorstep was the greatest fear. Israel was assured that the Sinai could be used as a pawn at the first sign of Egyptian aggression towards Israel. And, the UN promised the demilitarization of the Sinai.
In 1981, Mubarak assumed the Egyptian Presidency, which would go on to last nearly 30 years. He was not popular with terrorists and over time, those terrorists built up support in the Sinai. Add in the Bedouins in the Sinai who were making money off of weapons smuggling, and a disaster for Israel was created.
In 2014, Sisi briefly mentioned selling the Sinai to Israel but Netanyahu did not pay much attention to the offer, and the topic quickly faded. The Sinai is a headache for Egypt, but could have been a major land defense asset for Israel.
Below is the recently discovered tunnel system under the Philadelphi Corridor.
