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August 2025

French President Macron Rewards Terrorism, Whips Up Slaughter by Guy Millière *******

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21875/france-macron-rewards-terrorism

So, Macron actually regards these views — approving the October 7, 2023 massacre of Jews and continuing terrorism to displace Israel — as “legitimate aspirations”? Good to know.

Macron’s calls for an immediate ceasefire could save Hamas from destruction — exactly what Hamas and Qatar want.

France, the UK, Canada and Australia have to see that the terrorist state they are about to recognize has no borders, no internationally recognized territory, and meets no criteria of any kind as required in the Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States (1933) for a state to be recognized.

“Article 80 of the UN Charter… preserves intact all the rights granted to Jews under the Mandate for Palestine, even after the Mandate’s expiry on May 14-15, 1948…. As a direct result of Article 80, the UN cannot transfer these rights over any part of Palestine… to any non-Jewish entity.” — Howard Grief, Esq., Algemeiner, September 22, 2011.

France, the UK, Canada and Australia also realize that Israel cannot stop the war without the return of all the hostages. What would they do if their citizens were held hostage? Or are they already?

If France, the UK, Canada and Australia are so committed to the creation of a Palestinian State, surely they will be happy to donate some of their plentiful land for it.

[A]pproximately 1,000 trucks were blocked for days because the United Nations refused to distribute the aid, leaving it to rot in the sun, even after Israel offered the UN military protection.

In November 2024, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. The ICC accused them — not Hamas which stole most of the food — of crimes against humanity.

Hamas is an organization with straightforwardly unhidden genocidal goals:….

This continual demonization of Israel has sadly led to an increased hatred of Israel, a tiny country that, ironically, is fighting to protect the very countries defaming it. A thank you would be nice.

What is at stake now is not only Israel’s survival but the need for democracies to understand the central danger confronting them, and finally to start combatting it.

During the Second World War, all those grateful for the hard-won freedoms of the democratic world saw that the only way out was not compromise and submission, but the full destruction of the Third Reich — not giving it a “state.”

July 24,2025: French President Emmanuel Macron announces that he will officially recognize a “Palestinian State.” He publicizes a letter he sent to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, and praises his “courageous commitments”. In it, Macron emphasizes his desire to “fulfill the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinian people” and that “We must immediately implement a ceasefire, release all hostages and provide massive humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza,”⁠ Macron reportedly announced. He did not, however make recognizing a fictitious Palestinian state conditioned on any of that.

“Peace is possible,” he added, along with the notion that “Building a Palestinian state and ensuring its viability would ‘contribute to the security of all in the Middle East.”‘

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu replied that the decision “rewards terror” and would create ” a launch pad to annihilate Israel .”

Is Syria’s New Leader a Reformed Terrorist or Deceptive Strategist? Ambassador (Ret.) Yoram Ettinger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUpfwBY5gPI

Is the new Syrian leader, al-Jolani, truly transformed from a terrorist into a pragmatic statesman? Or, is he employing Taqiyya—disguise and deception—to lure Western nations into a trap? Explore the shifting tactics, underlying motives, and what it means for international relations.
US policy should condition the lifting of sanctions and the resumption of diplomatic ties on ending hate education, halting inciting sermons, stopping hateful official media, and publicly disavowing the vision of establishing a global Islamic society governed solely by Islam.

Macron’s Hidden Game: Turn Against Israel Animated by Rising Political Clout of French Muslims The French president can’t run again in 2027 and will have to wait until 2032 to try for his real goal — a third term. By Michel Gurfinkiel

https://www.nysun.com/article/macrons-hidden-game-turn-against-israel-animated-by-rising-political-clout-of-french-muslims

According to the latest Elabe/Les Echos polling, only 21 percent of the French — one citizen out of five — say they trust President Emmanuel Macron, writ large, and 73 percent say they don’t. More remarkably, only 41 percent of the French who voted for him in the 2022 presidential election say they still trust him, and 54 percent say they don’t any longer. 

Likewise, 62 percent of the French — according to an even more recent CSA poll — don’t trust the president either when it comes to stemming a rising tide of antisemitism, despite his protestations to the contrary. 

Monsieur Macron was indignant when both the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the American ambassador to France, Charles Kushner, publicly questioned his stand in this matter a few days ago.

It looks like more than six French citizens out of ten side with Israel’s premier and America’s envoy rather than with their own president on this issue. “Trust” is a key word here. The French are not so absurdly down to earth as to expect their president to succeed in all his endeavors. Yet the record of the present administration — now in its eighth year — keeps getting worse. 

In 2024, France ranks 24th globally in gross domestic product per capita, according to the International Monetary Fund. That is down from 11th place in the 1990s and 19th in 2017, the year Monsieur Macron was first elected. Public debt has soared to around 113 percent of the GDP in 2024, placing France third in the European Union behind Greece and Italy. Insecurity is rampant: Serious assaults rose to 628.3 per 100,000 in 2023 from 396.5 per 100,000 reported in 2017, according to United Nations statistics.

Immigration has slipped out of control, leading 61 percent of the French to believe that a “great replacement” by non-European immigrants is underway. The political scene has been thrown into chaos after the reckless dissolution of 2024 and the election of a new, hung National Assembly. A centrist, François Bayrou, Macron’s fourth prime minister in less than two years, might not survive a vote of no-confidence next week.

France’s New Guillotine: Silent Dictatorship by Drieu Godefridi

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21877/france-silent-dictatorship

On March 31, 2025, the Paris Criminal Court sentenced Marine Le Pen to five years of electoral “ineligibility” with immediate effect…. This sentence, described by the defendant as a “witch hunt”, bars the frontrunner in the polls from standing in the 2027 French presidential election.

The aim of this maneuver is clear: to remove the opposition leader from competing for the highest office in the land.

These court rulings form an impenetrable wall: an elected majority can vote, but the “wise” guardians of the left ensure that nothing passes that offends egalitarianism, environmentalism or the dogma of open borders.

In France, sadly, democracy, has become nothing more than an illusion: the people vote, but the bureaucracy blocks the will of the voters.

The new dictatorship appears based on a single ideology and the gradual suppression of freedoms and subverting the constitutional order in favor of a supposedly superior caste, whose contours, methods and appetites are reminiscent of what our American friends call the “deep state” – self-appointed bureaucrats running your life behind the scenes, where there is no transparency, accountability or readily available means to remove them.

In a cruel twist of history, France, the self-proclaimed cradle of the Enlightenment and freedom, has turned into a regime where democracy is nothing more than a mask, concealing a dictatorship that is still in its infancy but nonetheless unflinching. It is not a dictatorship of boots and uniforms; it is a hushed tyranny, judicial and institutional, crushing any hint of real change under the weight of its legal trappings.

I. France, a formal dictatorship: the judicial elimination of opponents

In a democracy, elections are the inviolable sanctuary of the popular will. In the France of 2025, justice, like a partisan guillotine, falls on opposition figures with surgical precision, rendering them supposedly too disqualified to compete. Examples reveal a damning pattern: searches (National Rally party), convictions (François Fillon, Marine Le Pen, Nicolas Sarkozy), smear campaigns (Éric Zemmour).

On March 31, 2025, the Paris Criminal Court sentenced Marine Le Pen to five years of electoral “ineligibility” with immediate effect, in the so-called European parliamentary assistants case. This sentence, described by the defendant as a “witch hunt”, bars the frontrunner in the polls from standing in the 2027 French presidential election.

The aim of this maneuver is clear: to remove the opposition leader from competing for the highest office in the land. The judges justified their decision on the grounds of misappropriation of European funds for the party’s national activities. Money it seems, intended for the party’s operations at European level was instead used by the national party in France. That is the whole story. It is a far cry from a violent crime or personal enrichment. No personal enrichment on the part of Le Pen was ever found. The timing of this ruling and the provisional exorbitant enforcement, betray the manipulation of the justice system by her opponents.

This is not an isolated case. The legal persecution of Le Pen’s National Rally is far from over.

POSITIVE NEWS FROM ISRAEL FROM MICHAEL ORDMAN

 michael.goodnewsisrael@gmail.com

In a column “Jewish Origins of Everyday Phrases” Rabbi Dovid Campbell who lives in Israel, notes the biblical locus of the expression: “By the Sweat of Your Brow” (Genesis 3:19).

https://aish.com/the-jewish-origins-of-everyday-phrases/

“After Adam’s expulsion from the Garden of Eden, God declares: “By the sweat of your brow you shall eat bread.”

How apposite for Israel, where“ by the sweat of the brow” of tireless researchers and developers who are surrounded by enemies and victimized by war and terror on every front, contribute to every single beneficent endeavor to billions of citizens throughout the world.

Read Michael Ordman’s dazzling catalogue. rsk

POSITIVE NEWS IN A WAR
 
Daniella has bullet removed. (TY Yanky) Ex-hostage Daniella Gilboa has finally had a Hamas bullet removed from her ankle at Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson Campus. She had put off undergoing the surgery because the bullet was a daily reminder of how grateful she is to the Almighty for protecting her.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-860704 
 
A sanctuary for combat soldiers. (TY Yanky) NGO Nechama and Hatzala for Israel has dedicated Dekel House in Moshav Patish to the memory of brave Captain Dekel Swissa, who fell on Oct 7 2023. Dekel House gives combat soldiers from Gaza a place to relax, swim, eat, drink and wind down during short periods of leave.
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bkutc0w8xl   https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/culture/article-864016
https://hatzala4israel.org/
 
“Miracle” saves IDF soldiers. The recent night attack on an IDF camp by 18 Hamas terrorists near Khan Younis could have been catastrophic. But six of Hamas’ eight grenades failed to explode. They also blew up an empty building. The soldiers responded, quickly eliminating 10 terrorists and air support finished the job.
https://worldisraelnews.com/soldiers-attacked-by-hamas-last-week-call-survival-a-miracle/
https://unitedwithisrael.org/watch-soldiers-tefillin-remain-unscathed-after-hamas-attack/
 
Arab boy reunited with medic who saved him on 7 Oct. 7-year-old Atala Osma Abu Madian was shot in the stomach and his father was murdered by Hamas on 7 Oct 2023. Atala was saved by MDA paramedic Zvi. They had a very emotional reunion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpKayVLjdgg
 
Floyd is back. (TY Yanky & JNS) ) At the BAYZ restaurant on Tel Aviv’s Hilton Beach, World boxing champion Floyd Mayweather met soldiers who have fought in Gaza’s alleyways or battles against Hezbollah in Lebanon. The soldiers showered him with love. “Know that you are winners,” he told them.
https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/07/25/floyd-mayweather-to-idf-soldiers-you-are-winners-im-proud-of-you/
 
Quietly helping since 2024. You will have read here about IsraAid and its relief work in global catastrophes. But it kept quiet about its work in Gaza since early 2024, coordinating international aid organizations with the Israeli government and military. It is now publicizing its work and directly creating a logistics hub for partners.
https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/after-quietly-supporting-gaza-relief-work-since-early-2024-israaid-ceo-opens-up-and-warns-we-are-reaching-an-extreme-humanitarian-situation/?utm_source=cio
 
Famine?  Where? COGAT: “1,300 aid trucks entered Gaza during past week.” Meanwhile, almost 1,900 trucks waiting inside the Strip were collected and their supplies distributed by the U.N. and other international organizations. And more than 1,000 aid packages have been airdropped into the Strip since late last month.
https://www.jns.org/cogat-1300-aid-trucks-entered-gaza-during-past-week/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVPf-6wtDyI  https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/413974
https://www.jns.org/huckabee-slams-cbs-for-selectively-editing-interview-on-israel/
 
Hope and renewal. (TY Yanky) Hadas Loewenstern is widow of Rabbi Elisha Loewenstern, who heroically fell in Gaza. Elisha told Hadas that if anything happened to him, she was to “quickly find a new partner.” Hadas is now engaged to Hod Reichert whose wife during childbirth and they will raise their 10 children together.
https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/widow-idf-soldier-engagement
 
 
ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
 
Valve repair for heart transplant patient. Doctors at Israel’s Rabin Medical Center successfully performed an emergency mitral valve repair on a heart transplant patient. The procedure has been performed only twice in patients after heart transplantation worldwide – and never before attempted on a patient in cardiogenic shock.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-doctors-perform-1st-ever-emergency-mitral-valve-repair-on-heart-transplant-patient/
 
Promising treatment for cancer. Israel’s Silexion reported here in April that its SIL-204 reduced pancreatic tumors. Latest studies show it also works on lung cancer. Its silencing of KRAS protein mutations achieved unprecedented inhibition rates of up to 97% in pancreatic cancer cells and nearly 90% in colorectal cancer cells.
https://www.investing.com/news/company-news/silexion-reports-97-cancer-cell-inhibition-with-kras-therapy-93CH-4163541
 
The first fingerstick infection blood test. Israel’s MeMed (see here previously) has completed a multi-year development of MeMed BV Flex. The test enables accurate differentiation between bacterial and viral infections in just 15 minutes using only a few drops of capillary blood from a finger prick.
https://www.ourcrowd.com/startup-news/memed-completes-development-of-first-ever-fingerstick-host-response-test-for-rapid-differentiation-of-bacterial-and-viral-infections
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.21.25331877v1
 
BGU scientists return to their work. The direct missile hit on Soroka hospital in Be’er Sheva during the war with Iran also froze groundbreaking research on curing diabetes at Ben-Gurion University. Now, after two months, the scientists have returned to alternate laboratories to continue their work on life-saving medications.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFsZencAT5E
 
US FDA helps clear the airways. (TY Atid-EDI) Israel’s Synchrony Medical (see here previously) has received FDA clearance for its LibAirty™ Airway Clearance System for At-Home Respiratory Relief. It can now bring relief to millions of patients in the USA, living with chronic lung diseases.
https://sheba-global.com/synchrony-medicals-libairtytm-cleared-by-fda/
 
1,600+ more Ethiopians can now see. Dr Morris Hartstein (see here previously) led an annual delegation from Israel’s Shamir Medical Center under the auspices of his Operation Ethiopia, where they treated 1,653 patients suffering from cataracts, infections, and preventable diseases.  They also distributed 440+ pairs of eyeglasses.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/413822
 
Massive donation for “Hope Tower”. Israelis Shmuel and Anat Harlap have donated $180 million to Israel’s Rabin Medical Center for the construction of the largest cardiological and neurological center in the Middle East. It is the largest-ever single gift to an Israeli hospital and the new center is to be named “Hope Tower”.
https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/shmuel-and-anat-harlap-donate-180-million-to-rabin-medical-center-the-largest-gift-ever-made-to-an-israeli-hospital/