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POSITIVE NEWS FROM ISRAEL FROM MICHAEL ORDMAN

Posted By on February 2nd, 2025

www.verygoodnewsisrael.blogspot.com 

The horrors of war, kidnapping, and confinement by barbarians is told by hostages returning to the warm embrace of Israel.  It evokes Psalm 71: “Deliver me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of evil and cruel men.”rsk

 

In contrast there have been many recent heartening and enheartening events and activities in Israel which are strengthening the nation and benefiting the world. Michael Ordman

 

POSITIVE NEWS IN A WAR
 
On a clear day you can see Damascus. Israel’s internal risks may have deteriorated by the release of hundreds of terrorists, but at least its external geographic security situation has improved substantially.
https://www.jns.org/on-a-clear-day-you-see-damascus-a-rare-visit-to-mount-hermon/
 
Up close with the Arrow defense system. (TY Yanky) Serving 24-hour shifts in vault-like rooms across the country, 136th Battalion soldiers face the ballistic missile threat against Israel at all times. Ultimately, one person decides when to press the button to intercept a ballistic missile launched thousands of kilometers away.
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sy3beemvjx
 
Full scholarships to former hostages. (TY Yanky & ToI) The Hebrew University of Jerusalem is offering full scholarships for a three-year academic degree (both Bachelor’s and Master’s programs) to all released hostages. It will also establish a fund to pay the fees, when they reach adulthood, of children held hostage by Hamas.
https://www.afhu.org/2025/01/27/hebrew-university-announces-scholarship-fund-for-released-hostages/
 
An ice bath works wonders. Biokineticist Nikia Blumenthal offers IDF combat soldiers a cold plunge to promote physical and emotional healing. She packs her car with a portable bath and 100kg (220 pounds) of ice and drives to IDF bases or army refreshment stations. (Disclosure – I attend Nikia’s Netanya stretch classes)
https://www.israel21c.org/an-icy-bath-can-work-wonders-for-soldiers-bodies-and-minds/
https://www.stretchchill.com/
 
 
ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
 
Natural antibiotic is safe. (TY OurCrowd) Israel’s Omnix Medical (see here previously) has completed Phase 1 trials of its lead antimicrobial, nature-derived, peptide OMN6 on 80 patients to show its safety. It is now starting Phase 2 FDA-approved clinical trials to establish its efficacy, especially on superbugs.
https://www.clinicaltrialsarena.com/news/omnix-medical-approval-anti-infective-trial/
 
Life-support for US hospitals. (TY Atid-EDI) ART 100 cardiopulmonary bypass systems from Israel’s Inspira Technologies (see here previously) are to be deployed in hospitals on the US East Coast. The system takes over the functionality of the heart and/or lungs in critical care patients.
https://www.prnewswire.com/il/news-releases/inspira-technologies-prepares-its-first-life-support-systems-for-deployment-at-a-leading-us-hospital-302357407.html
 
Clowns relieve the ultimate pain. (TY Irene) This article features medical clowns alleviating both physical and mental suffering – for children and adults. (Aside, I went to see a friend in hospital recently who was visited by clowns while he was on a video call to his work office. “You’re at the circus!” his colleagues exclaimed.)
https://momentmag.com/israeli-medical-clowns/
 
Restoring the lives of wounded IDF soldiers. This article describes the life-saving work of the charity Belev Echad (see here previously).  It facilitates the recovery of wounded men and women of the IDF through physical, medical, legal, emotional and financial support. And sometimes it requires a miracle.
https://www.jns.org/wire/wounded-idf-soldiers-witness-miracles-thanks-to-us-israel-medical-partnership/
https://belevechad.nyc/   https://belev-echad.org/en/home/
 
Predicting the next accident. The AI accident prediction system (see here previously) built by the IDF for Israel’s United Hatzalah, really works. It sent a team to the Azrieli Mall in Ramat Gan just as someone began suffering a heart attack. With 14% of UH’s volunteers on IDF reserve duty, the system is literally a life-saver.
https://www.jns.org/how-life-saving-ai-tech-used-by-united-hatzalah-was-born-out-of-oct-7/
 
Does your DNA define you? Israel’s OMGene is developing an AI decision-support system based on personal genetic information. It links the genome to a database of health, psychological, and social characteristics, from thousands of individuals and generates recommendations e.g., on sleeping, relationships, hobbies, health etc.
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-omgeneai-using-dna-and-ai-to-identify-our-strengths-1001499609
 
Are your proteins good? Researchers from Israel’s Weizmann Institute have developed IPHOMED – a method for mapping all the proteins in a person’s microbiome. Some act as natural antibiotics, killing good bacteria and possibly causing inflammatory bowel disease. Problem proteins in food can also be mapped.
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/we-know-what-you-ate-detailed-protein-maps-assess-intestinal-health   https://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(24)01429-6
 
Targeting genetic diseases. Israel’s Averna Therapeutics (formerly Exsilio Therapeutics) is using gene editing to develop medicines to cure rare genetic diseases. Averna’s leadership includes Tal Zaks who was Chief Medical Officer at Covid-19 vaccine developer Moderna. Averna has already raised $82 million in funds.
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-tal-zaks-israeli-startup-targets-rare-genetic-diseases-1001500636
 
Get a good night’s sleep. Prof. Giora Pillar, head of Sleep Clinics at Clalit Health Services in Haifa and the Western Galilee, gives plenty of advice to those who are losing sleep during these difficult times.
https://www.ynetnews.com/health_science/article/bjttx00ilkl
 
Hospital director saves heart patient on El Al flight. Prof. Yoram Weiss, director general of the Hadassah Medical Organization, saved a man having a heart attack during an El Al flight to Miami. Weiss administered oxygen, provided medication, and had the flight diverted to Athens. The passengers applauded in appreciation.
https://www.ynetnews.com/travel/article/rkh3yhydkg
 
Surgeon returns to reconstruct faces. Dr Alan Billig performs facial reconstructive surgery at Hadassah in Jerusalem. He won the 2024 Best paper award for the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery journal. The ex-IDF medic graduated in New York, qualified in Israel, and practiced in Toronto. Now he’s back.
https://www.jpost.com/aliyah/article-834140 
 
9 startups to improve UK healthcare. The Dangoor Health-Tech Academy has selected nine Israeli health-tech startups for its program to advance the UK healthcare ecosystem. They are Impilio, Kai.AI, Shela Health, Predose, Thrive Together, Sensomedical Labs, Treat Me, Anydish, and Seegnal.
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/ry2dgxniye  https://sensomedical.com/home/
https://www.israel21c.org/9-israeli-startups-to-help-uk-improve-its-healthcare/
https://impilo.health/  https://www.shela.health/  https://www.predose-tech.com/
https://www.thrivetogether.health/  https://www.treatme.ltd/entreatme 

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You’re Lucky To Survive Being Freed By Hamas by Seth Mandel

Posted By on February 2nd, 2025

https://www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/youre-lucky-to-survive-being-freed-by-hamas/?utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-

The full range of emotions one experiences on hostage-release days can blindside a person. One expects to be flooded with relief, then perhaps joy, at the sight of a young Jewish woman reunited with her family and friends after over a year in the dark dungeons of one of the most evil forces on earth.

But when Israeli hostages are released by Hamas, Gazans first film themselves hungrily getting in their last war crimes before the coming drought. It is dangerous business, this getting freed by Hamas.

So the emotions begin not at relief but at horror: The price of freedom is one last, live torture session. “Holding hostages is illegal under international law, and it amounts to a form of torture,” said the UN’s own torture expert upon the announcement of the cease-fire deal. Now it can be told.

No one really wants to watch the videos of well-dressed, well-fed, well-made-up Gazan “civilians” boasting of holding Israeli hostages in their homes—talk about now it can be told—but we do, because after the horror comes the relief.

Not before a bit of anger, though. Young Israeli women and old Israeli men are paraded not in front of baying mobs but through them. This part introduces another emotion: disgust. One expects that now that Hamas fighters are wearing their uniforms for the first time in over a year it would be easier to tell them apart from those around them. But somehow everyone in these scenes blends in with one another. When it comes to crowds of people gleefully mobbing an abused woman, what they are wearing isn’t terribly relevant or noticeable.

Arbel Yehud, 29, and Gadi Mozes, 80, looked like they were reenacting the Egyptian pursuit of the Israelites into the wilderness, the captors possessed by regret that these Jews might yet live. Agam Berger, 20, was forced to perform a choreographed stage scene for the leering Hamas men and wild-eyed crowds beyond them.

Once through this last trial, they were handed over to the Red Cross, who also transported five freed Thai nationals: Bannawat Seathao, Pongsak Thenna, Sathian Suwannakham, Surasak Lamnao, and Watchara Sriaoun.

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Pete Hegseth makes an example of Mark Milley for his arrogant defiance of the president By Susan Quinn

Posted By on February 2nd, 2025

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/02/pete_hegseth_makes_an_example_of_mark_milley_for_his_arrogant_defiance_of_the_president.html

If President Trump had known in 2016 how arrogant a man Mark Milley was, he might never have appointed him to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Milley’s treasonous behavior, spectacular incompetence, and rebelliousness against the president justify the punishment he is being ordered.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Pentagon’s inspector general to investigate the ‘conduct’ of retired Joint Chiefs Chairman General Mark Milley — who at times clashed with President Trump during his first term — and determine whether it’s appropriate he should be reduced in rank from his current four stars.

Hegseth also revoked Milley’s security detail and suspended his security clearance.

Even though Milley is retired, he had an ongoing security detail through the Army as a result of Iranian threats in the wake of the 2020 U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian [Revolutionary Guard Corps Gen. Qasem] Soleimani. Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and then-National Security Adviser John Bolton recently lost their security details on orders from Trump, who clashed with them as well.

When Trump first appointed Milley, he seemed like a reasonable choice; however, Milley seemed to have an exaggerated understanding of the power he wielded, and when Trump “defied,” him, he was apparently insulted.

He frequently disagreed with Trump’s decisions, and proceeded to undermine him.

Milley opposed Trump’s interest in using military force to suppress protests following George Floyd’s death and later found himself at the center of controversy in 2021 for independently contacting his Chinese counterpart. Trump denounced the calls as treason, while Milley defended them as routine and within his duties as Joint Chiefs Chairman.

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Amit Soussana, Israeli citizen, gave a testimony in which she recounts the terrifying moments of her time in Hamas’s captivity in Gaza. Nurit Greenger

Posted By on February 2nd, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R60deV8N-Pw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75anxnRPSKY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKaYuw9QsCA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-A21Y3oJ-M

Israeli citizen Amit Soussana, 40, an attorney, after hiding in a closet in her bedroom, was kidnapped by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, from her home in Kibbutz Kfar Azza, located very close to the Israeli border with Gaza.

Amit, released from Hamas captivity in November 2023,  after 55 days in Hamas’s captivity, in a one-time testimony: “I gave everything I had, I thought I was going to die; I was sexually assaulted in Hamas captivity.”

Amit, who fought for almost an hour against the terrorists who kidnapped her from her home and also survived the terrorist who hurt her, tells of one harrowing moment, from which she thought she would not make it out alive, and of a young soldier – Liri Elbag – who stood up to the terrorist and saved her life.

In a difficult-to hear/read testimony, Amit tells that she was sexually assaulted by one of her captors – in a children’s room where she was chained, less than 3 weeks after she was kidnapped from Kfar Azza. In an interview with the “New York Times” she also spoke about the courageous struggle that was documented against the kidnappers on October 7: “I didn’t want them to take me like an object.” She was injured, held in 6 different places, including a tunnel, 40 meters deep, and was also tortured: “They thought I was hiding information.”

She made the decision to speak out of fear for the safety of the kidnapped people who were left behind in Gaza.

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WHAT BIBI SHOULD SAY TO TRUMP BY JANET LEVY ROSS

Posted By on February 2nd, 2025

What Bibi Should Say to Trump:  “Get rid of Steve Witcoff, Michael DiMino and Massad Boulos as a start.  Then, we’ll be able to have a sensible chat about our neighborhood in the Middle East.”  

“Also, get American troops out of Israel.  We’ve proven that we can handle the situation quite well.  Former CIA officials should not be at checkpoints into Israel and we don’t want to see American lives sacrificed for the Jewish State.  Not only would it be a terrible tragedy for the U.S. but the negative press could kill our defensive war and make Israelis sitting ducks for another genocide. 

“Have you looked at the massacres in the Sudan, the organ harvesting in Communist China, the beheadings in Nigeria and the new law in South Africa to expropriate farms owned by Whites after decades of mass killings? Why are people in your administration singling out Israel for special treatment?”

“When U.S. officials talk about so-called “aid” to Israel, Americans need to understand that it is an investment with an unmatched ROI.  Israelis build, test, modify and improve American weapons systems and supply some of the best intel in the world.  We are NOT a drain on the U.S. budget as our value-added is nonpareil.  There is NO comparison between the situation vis a vis Israel and the corruption and drain on American resources in Ukraine.  THAT situation is NOT a win-win.  

Remember:  Former Secretary of State and U.S. Army General Alexander Haig  observed 35 years ago and it still resonates today: “Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security.”

Janet Levy,
NYC

P.S. Note:  The Haig quote that I mentioned at the end is no longer available on Google or Brave. When I entered, “Who said Israel is an aircraft carrier for the U.S.,” nothing registered.  I had forgotten the origin of the quote – Haig.  I finally tried Firefox and voilå.  Therefore, it may be useful to keep this quote handy or memorize it for future use.  

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‘Woke’ Education—Then and Now György Lukács’ Marxist education agenda failed in Hungary but thrives in the West, shaping elite institutions through ideological conformity and cultural deconstruction. By Stephen Soukup

Posted By on February 2nd, 2025

https://amgreatness.com/2025/02/01/woke-education-then-and-now/

Of all the Communist thinkers and advocates to have played a role in the reworking of Marx’s crackpot theories in the aftermath of World War I, perhaps none played a greater role yet has received less popular attention than György Lukács.

By all rights, World War I should have been the end of Marx and his utopian fantasy. The workers of the world refused to unite. They decided that they had a great deal more to lose than their chains. And contra Marx and Engels’ expectations, the workers went to war—happily, joyfully, willingly, for country, for family, and for GOD.

The working classes’ willing participation in the Great War essentially disproved Marx and thoroughly undermined his entire worldview. His conception of class consciousness and his belief in the inevitable Hegelian rise of the working class were shattered. But that was merely the prelude to the greater indignity, that which should have ended the Marxist fantasy forever.

The war itself was a deep and practically fatal wound to the Marxist weltanschauung, but the aftermath was perhaps even uglier and more painful for true believers. It was the salt that the Fates rubbed into that wound. For starters, only the backward and largely unindustrialized misfit nation on the continent’s eastern frontier could sustain a people’s “revolution.” And if that wasn’t humiliating enough, the heart of industrial Europe emerged from the war shattered and broken, not just physically but psychologically, emotionally, and most especially, spiritually. The new Europe was exhausted and scarred, increasingly frustrated with the old gods but far from enamored with the new ones. It rejected Marx openly, just as it rejected every theological ethos.

Unfortunately, Marx’s few remaining fans in Europe did not give up so easily, and they spent the next several years rehabilitating his image by revising his predictions and explaining away his failures. In Italy, Antonio Gramsci outlined the need for a “cultural revolution,” one in which anti-Christian Marxists would make what the German Marxist student leader Rudi Dutschke would later call “the long march through the institutions.” In Hungary, Lukács re-interpreted Marx’s notions of reification (a special case of alienation) and commodity fetishism (a special case of reification) and, in so doing, developed, in much greater detail, the idea that man’s consciousness is dissociated at a fundamental level from society. In Germany, Felix Weil funded the think tank that would become the Frankfurt School (the Institute for Research at Goethe University Frankfurt), which would, under the leadership of Max Horkheimer, become the spark for Cultural Marxism.

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Schumer Under Investigation While Trump Reshapes Washington Schumer faces scrutiny over past threats to justices, while Trump dismantles DEI, deports migrants, and strikes ISIS, signaling a shift in Washington’s priorities. By Roger Kimball

Posted By on February 2nd, 2025

https://amgreatness.com/2025/02/02/schumer-under-investigation-while-trump-reshapes-washington/

Senator Chuck Schumer is a lawyer, so presumably he is familiar with the provisions of 18 U.S. Code § 115. In case he has forgotten—after all, there are a lot of statutes to keep track of—Edward R. Martin, Jr., the Interim D.C. U.S. Attorney, is in the process of reminding him.

Among other things, that statute holds that anyone who threatens a federal government official or their family with the “intent to impede, intimidate, or interfere with such official, judge, or law enforcement officer while engaged in the performance of official duties, or with intent to retaliate against such official, judge, or law enforcement officer on account of the performance of official duties,” shall be punished with a term in the slammer, the length of the sentence being dependent on the actual harm caused.

When the Supreme Court was hearing an abortion case in March 2020, Schumer showed up at a protest rally in front of the Court and shouted, “I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh: You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price.”

Perhaps Nicholas John Roske had that speech in mind in June 2022. It was then that he traveled from California to Maryland to pay the Kavanaughs a visit. It was not intended to be a friendly visit. In the dead of night, he took a taxi to their home. According to the court filing, he carried a suitcase in which was a “black tactical chest rig and tactical knife, a Glock 17 pistol with two magazines and ammunition, pepper spray, zip ties, a hammer, screwdriver, nail punch, crowbar, pistol light, duct tape, hiking boots with padding on the outside of the soles, and other items.”

When apprehended, Roske admitted that he had come to kill Brett Kavanaugh. I wonder what Chuck Schumer thought of that. It looks like Edward Martin is going to find out. On Friday, Martin announced not only that he was firing more than two dozen federal prosecutors; he also announced that he was opening an investigation into Schumer for his threats against two U.S. Supreme Court justices. For most mortals, issuing such threats would earn one a visit from the authorities. As a paid-up member of the Washington elite, Senator Schumer doubtless thought he was exempt from all such rules. Until January 20, he probably was.

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Trump’s assault on DEI will bring us closer to a post-racial America The biggest winners from an end to racial identity politics will be ethnic minorities themselves Joel Kotkin

Posted By on February 2nd, 2025

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/01/30/trumps-assault-on-dei-will-bring-us-closer-to-a-post-racial-america/

It’s hard to picture Donald Trump as a civil-rights hero in the mould of Abraham Lincoln or even Lyndon Johnson. Yet through his orders to dismantle the ubiquitous regime of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), he may have accelerated America’s evolution into a post-racial society.

DEI ideology has been around for years, but it was given a significant boost after the police killing of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020. In response, many government and business leaders chose to embrace DEI as means to placate those calling for a new American regime in which people would be divided and advantaged according to race.

But DEI initiatives have been flailing recently – even before Trump’s election. Indeed, think-tank research from last year showed that over half of company executives were already anticipating pushback against DEI initiatives. Among the firms to have recently stepped back from DEI are Boeing, John Deere, Harley-Davidson, Black + Decker, Target and, the biggest of all, Walmart. Over the past two years, corporate DEI departments have been slashed, with one third of DEI professionals losing their jobs in 2022 alone.

Trump’s dismantling of DEI in the federal government no doubt thrills the various factions who support him, from the libertarians to the traditionalist conservatives to the white-nationalist fringe. Yet over time, perhaps the biggest winner from the dethroning DEI may be ethnic minorities themselves.

Drawing in part on critical race theory, DEI advocates maintain that racial characteristics largely determine people’s lives in America. These new racialists claim that any shortfalls in income, status or professional credentials stem from racial discrimination. In response, they call for ‘people of colour’ to work together to relentlessly undermine so-called white privilege.

Rather than seek greater integration, as was the cause of the old civil-rights movement, these racialist radicals embrace a kind of re-segregation. This can be seen from their involvement in schools. There they advocate indoctrinating young children in DEI ideology. On occasions, they have been known to get third-graders (eight- to nine-year-olds) to separate themselves by race and ask them to rank their ‘privilege’.

In attacking DEI, Trump is taking a widely popular position. The idea that, say, President Obama’s children should be given an edge against someone from a poor Appalachian hollow seems unjust to the vast majority of Americans of all races.

In thrall to the racial identitarianism of the DEI crowd, Democrats hoped that working-class voters would turn their way as more became increasingly non-white. After all, minorities currently make up over 40 per cent of America’s working class and will likely constitute the majority by the next decade.

But many minorities, including the young, seem more concerned with their immediate economic prospects than gaining unearned advantages through DEI programmes. Indeed, minority and poor white Americans are mainly concerned about inflation, rising crime, poor schools and the threats to their livelihoods posed by draconian green policies. Little wonder nearly half of all Latinos voted for Trump, as did growing numbers of Muslims and black males. Asian voters’ support for Trump rose from 27 per cent in 2016 to roughly 40 per cent this year.

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Any Deal with Iran’s Regime Is a Grave Mistake by Majid Rafizadeh

Posted By on February 2nd, 2025

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21367/iran-deal-grave-mistake

The Iranian regime’s motivations are rooted in its desperation to ensure its survival and to advance its expansionist agenda, not in any willingness to abide by international norms or foster peace.

By re-entering the global financial system and emerging from international isolation, Iran would gain the political and economic breathing room it needs to consolidate power and suppress dissent in the full knowledge that it had bought itself time and reduced the likelihood of coordinated international action against it.

A deal would also provide Iran with political legitimacy and be seen as a victory for the regime, allowing it to portray itself as a credible and lawful actor on the global stage when in truth it is anything but that.

The Iranian regime has recently demonstrated an unusual eagerness to negotiate with the Trump administration to reach a deal with the West. This sudden shift should not deceive the West, particularly the United States, into believing that Tehran’s intentions are either genuine or benign. The Iranian regime’s motivations are rooted in its desperation to ensure its survival and to advance its expansionist agenda, not in any willingness to abide by international norms or foster peace. Recognizing this is critical to preventing what could become a fatal mistake.

The Iranian regime’s eagerness for a deal is driven by several factors, starting with its current unprecedented vulnerability. Since the Islamic Republic was established in 1979, it has never been as fragile as now. Thanks to Israel’s actions, Hezbollah and Hamas, Iran’s key proxies, have been severely weakened, and in December, Iran was forced out of Syria. Hezbollah’s inability to defend Bashar al-Assad’s regime ultimately contributed to its collapse, depriving Iran of its most critical ally in the region and representing a monumental blow to Iran. Assad’s Syria had long served as a crucial conduit for supplying Hezbollah in Lebanon and maintaining Iran’s foothold in the Levant.

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Hamas Deal Puts U.S. Boots on the Ground by Daniel Greenfield

Posted By on January 31st, 2025

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21366/gaza-boots-on-the-ground

Reprinted by kind permission of  Front Page Magazine.

The Biden administration rolled Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s envoy, into signing off on their deal to save Hamas…

Witkoff admitted to Fox News that he had done nothing but agree to the Biden administration’s May 27 protocol… and all he had done was to “speed up the process” by pressuring Israel into making every possible concession to Hamas. By getting Trump to accept the Biden deal, Witkoff and his allies in the Trump transition team, some of whom are associated with the pro-Iran Koch network, had also bound President Trump to a comprehensive nation-building project…

Trump is right to be skeptical. And he was right when he said: “You certainly can’t have the people that were there. Most of them are dead. But they didn’t exactly run it well. They run viciously and badly. You can’t have that.”

But the deal foisted on him by Biden, Qatar, Witkoff and his Koch network allies does just that. It saves Hamas and puts the terrorists back in power.

The Trump administration can exit the Biden deal and the sooner we do it, the easier it will be.

Any rebuilding will be to the benefit of Hamas. And will put billions into the pockets of Islamic terrorists, just the way that our reconstruction projects in Afghanistan financed the Taliban.

And having US veterans risking their lives to inspect terrorists moving around Gaza is senseless.

American soldiers are headed to Gaza.

They’re not there to fight Islamic terrorists, but to secure the disastrous Biden deal that saved Hamas by monitoring and inspecting the Gazans traveling across the “Netzarim corridor.”

One of the companies is UG Solutions, founded by a former Special Forces veteran, which hires US military vets to provide security. Hiring veterans as contractors became a common practice during the War on Terror because it allowed politicians to avoid accountability for US casualties.

Hundreds of Americans were killed working as contractors in Iraq, including, in one of the most infamous incidents in the war, when four ex-Special Forces contractors working for Blackwater had their bodies dragged through the streets, were beaten, hacked and hanged from a bridge while the Arab Muslim mobs of men, women and children cheered. The scene played out again in Benghazi, when two former Navy SEALS working as CIA contractors were murdered.

How soon until it plays out in Gaza?

Bringing in veterans as contractors has been a longtime way to disguise “boots on the ground.” But the men in those boots are still veterans who believe they’re serving their country. And when they die, it’s Americans dying to carry out the policies of their Commander in Chief.