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Two giants of political conservatism, Douglas Murray and Ben Shapiro, starred at Jerusalem’s International Convention Center on Tuesday night before a sold-out crowd of more than 3,000 in what might best be described as a mutual admiration society, with the crowd applauding its pro-Israel champions as they in turn voiced esteem for Israelis’ grit and fighting spirit.

“Thank you on behalf of Western civilization for fighting the fight the rest of the West should be fighting,” Shapiro told the audience at the “Freedom of Zion” conference.

He asked those with loved ones who had served in the Israel Defense Forces in the past year to stand up. Nearly all did. “That’s unique. It’s something that doesn’t exist in the West anymore,” Shapiro said, describing it as a “civic militarism” once common in Western societies.

Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro speaks at the Freedom of Zion Conference at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem, Nov. 19, 2024. Photo by Yaakov Nachumi/Herut Center.

“There are people here … who … put their bodies on the line defending civilization. I am merely a writer,” said Murray. “If I give you any encouragement, you should know that the encouragement you give me is 1,000-fold.”

Early reports pointed to an enormously successful event. The Jerusalem Post on Monday said that Shapiro-Murray was the hottest ticket in town, with fans “scrambling for scalped seats,” likening it to a Taylor Swift concert.

“Trying one more time. Looking for one ticket to the Ben Shapiro/Douglas Murray event in Jerusalem Tuesday evening. Willing to pay well over face value. Please DM [direct message] me,” posted a member of Secret Jerusalem, an online community of Jerusalemites.

Several Knesset members also attended the event, including Amichai Chikli, Amihai Eliyahu, Dan Illouz, Ohad Tal, Ariel Kellner and Simcha Rothman.

Murray and Shapiro are renowned in conservative circles. Shapiro, an American Jew, is host of a daily political podcast, and founder of media company The Daily Wire. He frequently speaks on college campuses and is the author of numerous books, including, “Bullies: How the Left’s Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans” and “The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great.”

https://www.renewamerica.com/columns/sharpe

Here in the United States, journalism ruined itself and by extension harmed the nation. The leftwing legacy media, filled as it is with anti-Trump, anti-Republican, and increasingly anti-Israel hacks, exposed its relentless malignancy during this last election with its inexorable bias. However, vast numbers of U.S voters finally saw the malign legacy media for what it is and has become. They voted in favor of Trump and against the dangerous Democrat Biden-Harris policies that were pushed by the media.

The number of votes in favor of President Trump may have even exceeded that of the votes cast for Barack Hussein Obama in 2008. America may yet become great again.

There is little the Trump Administration may be able to do about the current malevolence which erodes ABC and CBS News, as long as those two media outlets don’t violate their license. But NPR and PBS violated the public trust with extreme and biased coverage during the election. For so many years they have been subsidized by the American taxpayers through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and it is now high time to end those subsidies. After all, that will help defeat their wokeism.

With support for the new President and his Administration, the hope is that the appalling measures that Biden, Harris and Blinken enacted since coming to power – and especially during these last two months of their term of office – will be toppled by President Trump. Biden immorally is ramping up yet more sanctions on Israeli farmers but is dropping those on Palestinian terrorists.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/unfulfilled-promise-pope-francis-israel

Pope Francis has called for an investigation to determine if Israel’s operation in Gaza constitutes genocide, according to a new book published for the Catholic Church’s jubilee year. “According to some experts, what is happening in Gaza has the characteristics of a genocide,” the pope said in excerpts published Sunday by the Italian daily La Stampa.

What makes the inflammatory statements in the pope’s book especially disturbing is that they follow on remarks by the pope that appear to demonize Jews even more broadly and which are contrary to teachings of the Church. Pope Francis’ prior Letter to Catholics of the Middle East on the first anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel from Gaza provoked widespread confusion and consternation among Jews and Catholics. While he has spoken regularly about the attack and the fighting that erupted in its wake, his inclusion in the letter of a citation of John 8:44 to denounce the evils of war was to many inexplicable.

The verse chosen by the pontiff, a vitriolic accusation that the Jews “are from [their] father, the devil,” has for centuries provoked and been used to justify Church hostility to Jews. Yet such terrible imagery of Jewish malfeasance is thoroughly out of place in a modern Catholic document. Regrettably, the pope nonetheless chose to use this notorious verse at a time when global antisemitism has reached disturbingly high levels. Such a statement threatens the intellectual work of his Catholic predecessors going back to the 1960s.

https://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/2024/11/19/the-gaza-pier-scam-is-another-biden-disaster-that-turned-deadly/

U.S. Army Sgt. Quandarius Davon Stanley died earlier this month of injuries sustained last spring in the building of the Gaza pier. Rest in peace, soldier.

He died for a useless exercise in American arrogance. Disturbed by reports of “famine” in Gaza — the United Nations never said there was and admitted there never was such a famine — the Biden administration authorized the U.S. Army to build a floating pier in the Mediterranean Sea at the cost of either $320 million or $230 million U.S. taxpayer dollars, depending on which Department of Defense report you read.

The U.S. was going to swagger in and do what the administration said Israel was unable to do. But the pier was swamped and towed to Israel’s Ashdod port and repaired at a cost of $20 million. It was canceled in July.

Fast forward to October, when Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, demanded that Israel ramp up food aid to Gaza, and blamed Israel for the ongoing lawlessness in the northern area. If Israel didn’t meet U.S. conditions, they threatened, there could be delays or cancellations in U.S. military assistance. Israel had one month to comply. The State Department designated staff to audit Israel’s delivery of aid.

https://www.spiked-online.com/video/debunking-the-lies-about-israel/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nv-g1cE7Mk

Israel is easily the most demonised nation on Earth. Despite the Jewish State being a liberal democracy, Western activists spend vastly more time raging against it than they do genuinely despotic regimes. We’re told Israel is committing ‘genocide’ in Gaza, that it is going out of its way to kill civilians in its war against Hamas, that it is an ‘apartheid state’. But none of this bears any resemblance to reality. Here, barrister Natasha Hausdorff debunks the anti-Israel myths, which she says have become a kind of new blood libel. Watch, share and be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel.

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Was Iran behind Hamas’s massacre-and-mass-kidnapping attack in Israel on October 7, 2023? How much of a role did the Islamic Republic play in it?

The day after the attack, October 8, 2023, the Wall Street Journal published a report claiming that “Iranian security officials helped plan” the attack and “gave the green light for [it] at a meeting in Beirut” on October 2. Although the report gives further details, few have accepted it as authoritative because it relies mainly on the word of “senior members of Hamas and Hezbollah” and cites contradictory accounts by others.

A report by MEMRI (the Israel-based Middle East Media Research Institute) from July 24, 2024, cites several Iranian statements about its role in October 7.

The most notable ones include: On October 10, 2023, the Iranian regime’s mouthpiece Kayhan stated, in MEMRI’s words, that “a plan for Israel’s destruction, formulated and organized by Qods Force commander Qassem Soleimani and dictated by him to the commanders of the resistance organizations just before his assassination . . . had begun to be implemented. Kayhan in fact clarified that [Supreme Leader Ali] Khamenei was party to the plan and hinted twice that a great victory was on the horizon. Kayhan also wrote that Khamenei . . . in August 2023 had suggested that a major operation would take place soon.”

On October 15, 2023, a report by Iran’s Tasnim news agency “stressed that . . . Khamenei had declared that the operation’s name would be ‘Al-Aqsa Flood’ many years before its execution, and that he had ordered the establishment of a joint command and control center—commanded by Iran—for the resistance groups, with Iran providing weapons and training.”

On December 25, 2023, a spokesman for the IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) stated that October 7 was Iran’s revenge for Soleimani’s assassination by the US on January 3, 2020. Hours later, Iran’s Fars News deleted that specific claim from its website.

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*The November 2024 Trump victory constitutes a potential game-changing development, regionally and globally.

*President Trump will be preoccupied with US domestic challenges.

*However, in order to end/minimize wars and terrorism, he will have to cut the head of the venomous octopus, which mandates regime-change in Tehran.

*A regime-change in Iran would induce Saudi Arabia, Oman and additional Moslem countries to join the Abraham Accords.

*The Trump Administration would be conducive for a major enhancement of the mutually beneficial US-Israel cooperation.

*Israel should not be alarmed by a possible hostile step, by the Biden Administration, as was done by President Obama.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/israeli-hostage-confronts-pro-hamas-ucla-encampment-leader/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mXI4reXwnk

At 6 A.M. on October 7, Moran Stella Yanai saw rockets rain down from the sky into southern Israel, where she was attending the now-infamous Nova music festival. Like other Nova attendees, when Yanai realized that terrorists had invaded Israel, she ran and tried to escape via car. When she contacted Israeli police, they told her to get off the road, where Hamas terrorists were slaughtering anyone who dared to flee.

Yanai ran into a field where she was eventually captured by terrorists who filmed her kidnapping. Yanai’s parents discovered that their daughter had been taken hostage by that video. Thirteen Hamas members then dragged Yanai into a car and drove her across the Gazan border, where she remained for 54 days until she was freed in November’s hostage deal.

She promised other hostages in captivity that she would do “everything” within her power to bring them home. One of the ways she’s done so has been by sharing her story here in the United States with skeptics, government officials, and friends of Israel. At 40, Yanai is a poised, powerful, well-spoken individual who, months ago, sat down to debate Aidan Doyle, one of the University of California-Los Angeles students responsible for leading the university’s anti-Israel encampment, on the merits of Israel’s war in Gaza. The second part of the debate was released this week and has since gone viral — mainly because, even when speaking with the former hostage, Doyle refused to shed his pro-terrorist outlook.

Doyle is not a foreign policy expert, nor has he ever been to Israel or Gaza, but he is a mustached young progressive whose social-media feed went viral when the UCLA anti-Israel encampment sprung up, which has made him somewhat of an online hero among radicals. The philosophy student posted a series of videos after police arrested multiple encampment-occupiers for trespassing and vandalism, bemoaning the police’s cruel use of force.

At 6 A.M. on October 7, Moran Stella Yanai saw rockets rain down from the sky into southern Israel, where she was attending the now-infamous Nova music festival. Like other Nova attendees, when Yanai realized that terrorists had invaded Israel, she ran and tried to escape via car. When she contacted Israeli police, they told her to get off the road, where Hamas terrorists were slaughtering anyone who dared to flee.

Yanai ran into a field where she was eventually captured by terrorists who filmed her kidnapping. Yanai’s parents discovered that their daughter had been taken hostage by that video. Thirteen Hamas members then dragged Yanai into a car and drove her across the Gazan border, where she remained for 54 days until she was freed in November’s hostage deal.

She promised other hostages in captivity that she would do “everything” within her power to bring them home. One of the ways she’s done so has been by sharing her story here in the United States with skeptics, government officials, and friends of Israel. At 40, Yanai is a poised, powerful, well-spoken individual who, months ago, sat down to debate Aidan Doyle, one of the University of California-Los Angeles students responsible for leading the university’s anti-Israel encampment, on the merits of Israel’s war in Gaza. The second part of the debate was released this week and has since gone viral — mainly because, even when speaking with the former hostage, Doyle refused to shed his pro-terrorist outlook.

Doyle is not a foreign policy expert, nor has he ever been to Israel or Gaza, but he is a mustached young progressive whose social-media feed went viral when the UCLA anti-Israel encampment sprung up, which has made him somewhat of an online hero among radicals. The philosophy student posted a series of videos after police arrested multiple encampment-occupiers for trespassing and vandalism, bemoaning the police’s cruel use of force.