The previous is something to keep in mind when you see people on this site tell you that "Every US citizen is complicit...threatening aid and putting cease-fire talks on edge..."

Because it's bullshit.

But all things being considered I'd much rather be complicit with Israel, than complicit with Hamas, who are making Gaza citizens pay for for "free" aid. As the UNRWA openly admitted...

https://unwatch.org/unrwa-staff-stealing-and-selling-humanitarian-aid-gazans-report/

If NYPD tells you to clear the road, you clear the fucking road.

Doesn't matter if you're press or any other citizen, you clear the road.

The press are not above the law, especially when they aren't wearing any "press" identifying clothing while ignoring lawful police commands.

Note from previous map above...

I was wrong. The IDF Armored brigade did go to Rafah Crossing and the IDF Mech brigade did roll north through the abandoned airport.

Should have listened to my own internal doubts when I saw the brand new Merkava 4M Barak at the Rafah crossing.

There is still another IDF Mech brigade in reserve and another IDF division behind that.

#israel

1: Hamas is firing rockets and mortars at the Keram Shalom aid crossing, again. Israel just re-opened it 24hrs ago

If the White House stays true to form, they'll complain that Israel closed that crossing, again. And they'll do so about 8hrs after Israel re-opens it, again.

2: Hamas is demanding a 12hr cease fire.

3: Probably because the IDF now controls the main north/south street in eastern Rafah and several side streets off of that route.

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No question now that the Hamas Rafah East Battalion is severally degraded or no longer existent.

The 3 surviving Rafah battalions seem to be retreating northwards toward the coast.

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A reminder that "brigades" and "battalions" in reference to Hamas is something of a euphemism. They aren't really military formations, just gangs of thugs and gunmen, formed into larger gangs of thugs and gunmen. They tend to operate in individual small cells of around 4-6 members that don't coordinate with other cells.

This image isn't fake...

105,000 Jewish students in US colleges.

"Organizers" found 750 token anti-Israel Jews on 140 campuses.

That's 5.3 Jews per 140 schools.

My guess is they stopped the polling there because the average was dropping rapidly.

How do we know that they're tokens (beyond the obvious math)?

Because they keep getting put forward as spokespeople for those school protests (UCLA and Columbia in particular).

A casual historical reminder...

Over the last 48hrs the UN reports that 10,158 of the supposed 34,844 dead in Gaza are no longer identified.

The number of children including teenagers reduced from 14,500 to 7987. While the number of women dropped from 9500 to 4959.

Still not mentioned...

How many died of natural causes unrelated to the war?

How many were Hamas or other terror groups fighters, including among the teens?

How many were killed by Hamas itself, either intentionally or by accident?

Not many people will remember the 2006 Lebanon Red Cross Ambulance incident.

That's probably because the media really doesn't want anybody to know it even happened, much less what really happened.

I was a regular on both the blogs Little Green Footballs and The Jawa Report at the time. As was the author of the following report. Despite my nic not appearing in the post my info is all over it.

It's a bit of a long read, so if you choose to do so set aside a bit of time.

http://www.zombietime.com/fraud/ambulance/

@WomanVoter

He's not part of any negotiations, but he very much wants (just) Israel to cease fire.

They claim to be a non-profit, under the umbrella of yet another organization.

https://canarymission.org/organization/American_Muslims_For_Palestine

Now.

*except for the 5 US citizen hostages still held by Hamas

Maher Bitar is President Biden's special counsel. He also serves as the director of intelligence and defense programs in the US National Security Council.

He previously worked in the Obama administration, where he managed the "Israeli-Palestinian case".

As a student, he was the president of the Islamist extremist and antisemitic organization SJP (Students for Justice in Palestine) at Georgetown University.

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SJP is the most violent student organization in the United States against Jews today.

This is also the organization leading many of the protests going on now against Israel on campuses.

In 2007 Maher was working at UNRWA.

This is the guy who advises President Biden.

Is this the Islamophobia?

"You cannot negotiate peace with someone who has come to kill you."
-Golda Meir

"To forget the dead, would be akin to killing them a second time." -Elie Wiesel

Moshe Ridler, a 91-year-old Holocaust survivor was murdered on October 7.

Am Yisrael Chai

Day Before Biden Announced Freeze on Arms Sales to Israel, Admin Issued Sanctions Waiver Allowing Arms Sales to Hamas-ally Qatar, Lebanon, Iraq -- Waiver bypasses sanctions on weapon sales to countries that boycott Israel.