🔺 3 hostages coming home 🔺 Netanyahu and Trump 🔺 Clashes on Lebanon-Syria border 🔺 UNRWA's HQ in Jerusalem closed 🔺 Beep beep 🔺 Middle East Report / Saturday, February 8 🔺 Ohad Ben Ami (56) was kidnapped together with his wife Raz from their house in Kibbutz Be'eri. Raz was released after 55 days and waited for over a year to see her husband. Or Levi (34) and his wife Einav left their little son at his grandparents and went to dance at the Nova music festival. When the attack began, they ran for cover in a shelter. Einav was murdered and Or was considered missing for 8 days until it became clear he was kidnapped. Eli Sharabi (52) hid with his family inside their home in Be'eri. When the terrorists entered the house they murdered his wife and 2 daughters. Eli was kidnapped together with his brother Yossi who lived in the next house. Yossi was later murdered by Hamas while in captivity, and Eli will return to an empty home. None was a soldier, none was a combatant, only husbands and fathers. 76 hostages (including 5 Thai nationals) are still waiting in Gaza, almost half of them known to be dead. Hamas worked hard to humiliate the hostages and the state of Israel. 2 of them were dressed in brown shirts, like in Israeli prisons, and the third in fake military uniform. They were forcibly paraded onto a stage and made to take part in a ceremony with their captors, giving public speeches, thanking the Hamas who had held them captive, looking frail and gaunt, what sparked dismay and outrage in Israel. 🔺 On the first days of the ceasefire, when Hamas was celebrating the victory of Gaza's disaster and Israelis were feeling how their strategic achievements were given away, I told you: don't underestimate Israel, and don't worry - things aren't what they appear. I believe we all got our answer on Tuesday, when Netanyahu and Trump met in the White House and changed the course of history for the coming decades. There is a problem in the Middle East, and it's not Israel. Why not? Mainly because Jews have been and always will be a minority in this region. We can't occupy "the greater Israel" and fight forever. We're very strong but unfortunately tiny. Can you compare 10 million Israelis (20% of them Arabs and Druze) with hundreds of millions of Muslims? That's why Israel sought to compromise from its very beginning. Even before the state was born, it accepted both partition plans, which tore huge chunks of what was supposed to be a Jewish state and gave them to the Arabs. The Jews accepted the plans because the goal was first of all to have a state. For the other side, the goal was that the Jews will never have one. Israel's compromises continued with returning Sinai to Egypt. Sinai is 3 times larger than Israel! Just imagine how big Israel could have been now. Israel also gave up a bit of land to Jordan, but in return it got peace. It was and still is a cold peace, unlike the one with have with the UAE. But the bottom line is that Israel is getting safer borders, Jordan gets Israeli water and defense and Egypt gets natural gas. Unlike Israel, the Palestinians would not settle for less than "from the river", and they will soon find themselves in the sea. Palestinianism (credit for the term goes to @EinatWilf) is the total ideology Palestinians are groomed into, and they are dedicated to it no matter what. They claim to have what no one else in this world has, which is a "right of return" (a right that never applied for any other group) and a refugee status that goes from father to son, even if they are millionaires living in America as US citizens. The thing with this mindset is that you can't change it. Instead, you have to break it, and that's exactly what happened this week when these two guys met: 🔺 So in addition to the world seeing how close Trump and Bibi were (this was the first visit by a foreign leader to the White House since Trump returned, and it took five hours), the Palestinian paradigm was challenged for the first time in decades: ▪️ All Palestinians living in Gaza will have to leave, says Trump. The Strip is a disaster zone. The IDF did a very good job, so good that tens of thousands of Gazans who went back to look for their houses in north Gaza, realized there's nothing to see there and returned south. ▪️ Except for Egypt and Jordan, there are other countries that will agree to take refugees in. Many countries have needs that the US and Israel can help with in return. ▪️ There will be no reconstruction. The houses still standing will collapse anyway, and the area is rigged with unexploded bombs, hazardous chemicals and the underground is lined with tunnels, shafts and their remains. ▪️ Saudi Arabia is ready for peace, says Trump, no strings attached (like a Palestinian state). The Saudis: "we never said that!" ▪️ The US is leaving the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), as other countries will soon follow (starting with Argentina and Hungary). Did you know that the UNHRC has a special place saved for Israel in its agenda (known as item 7). It's a permanent agenda item dedicated to the human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories. Every year, Israel is singled out without addressing human rights concerns in other regions. ▪️ America will stop financing UNRWA. Hallelujah. How many billions has the world wasted on teaching the Palestinians to be unaccountable for almost every aspect of their lives? Has it changed their lives for the better? You know the answer. ▪️ USAID, an American channel to financing DEI, political unrest and even terror groups was closed with a single signature. As details come out we learn that billions of dollars were funneled to political opposition groups worldwide and creating civil unrest all over the globe. NGOs in Lebanon fear that their operations will stop, as USAID invested over $123m in Lebanon since 2023. In Gaza, $300m were transferred to a cement company... so guess who (allegedly) funded Hamas' tunnels? The Democrats. ▪️ Sanctions will be imposed on the ICC following the arrest warrants issued to Israeli prime minister and former defense minister. American bank accounts and assets of the ICC seniors will be frozen, their travel to the US will be banned, because the US administration sees these actions against a democratic state under attack as a precedent for America itself. Through those steps, Trump is barricading Hamas from all sides. The only thing that Israel must insist on is keeping control over the Philadelphi corridor, otherwise the weapons waiting in Sinai will start flowing into Gaza again. 🔺 Clearing Gaza will allow Israel to reach all its goals of the war: returning the hostages home, removing Hamas from power and ensuring Gaza will never pose a threat to Israel again. Just imagine what it would be for the people in the Gaza envelope - no more sirens, no more running for safety in 15 seconds, living peacefully like normal people should. Israel will have an extra 40 km of beach, and the message will be: don't mess with the Jews again. So no wonder almost everyone is against this plan. After all, who wants Israel to live in peace? And that's exactly why it's so important this plan is now on the table. Israel must create the terms for a safe passage out for the Palestinians who desire it. As Egypt will keep playing it's double game ("supporting" the Gazans while keeping them locked in) it could be achieved through Israeli air and sea ports. From there they can get just anywhere as refugees (as they are, thanks to UNRWA). And then you'll see what hypocrisy looks like, as the countries who now support them with all their hearts, will do everything to keep them out. The excuse will be the same patronizing excuse: that its no one's right to kick them off their land. But what if they want to leave? Why not just ask them? The only challenge would be to get them past Hamas' iron grip. Hamas knows that a few drops can turn into a flood. After all, a victorious nation does not run away from its land and Hamas won't let them go. It will be just like the first days of the war when Hamas shot its own people in the back when they tried to escape north Gaza. >> In the next report: the Egyptian option. Let's put Gaza in Sinai and see how it looks. 🔺 UNRWA closed its central HQ in Jerusalem. 76 years too late, but better late than never. In a long tweet that received over a million views, it calls the Israeli law illegal, because it contradicts the "United Nations privileges and immunities, including respect for United Nations premises." Then they pulled the oldest trick in the Palestinian playbook: "The Government of Israel has stated publicly that the aim to vacate UNRWA premises in Sheikh Jarrah is to expand Israeli illegal settlements in occupied East Jerusalem." UNRWA talks just like a good Palestinian, could you believe it? They neglected to mention their involvement in the grooming of 4 generation of Palestinian children to martyrdom, the participation of their workers in the October 7 massacre, the usage of their "premises" in Gaza as well as Judea and Samaria for military purposes by turning a blind eye (or with eyes wide open), and of their efforts to perpetuate the conflict by maintaing a never ending status of refugees to Palestinians world wide. UNRWA is an accomplice in this war, and should be dismantled and forgotten. 🔺 Did you think the long border between Lebanon and Syria will stay quiet? A couple of days ago 2 Syrians soldiers of the New Syrian Army were kidnapped by Lebanese Shiite gangs who operate along the border, doing smuggling work for Hezbollah. The Syrian response was to kidnap people from the Lebanese side and give Lebanon an ultimatum. In addition, rockets were fired from both sides, in what seems like a great beginning of a new escalation. Needless to say, the Lebanese army is nowhere to be seen, the fighting is done by the local families, all well equipped, but certainly not an official force. >> More about Lebanon in the next report: Morgan Ortagus, the Trump administration's envoy to Lebanon, in her first visit + the new government was finally declared, with 5 Shiite ministers out of 24. 🔺 Speaking of Lebanon, in his visit to the White House, Netanyahu gave Trump a golden pager with the message "press with both hands". The beeper operation marked the beginning of Hezbollah's fall, to be followed by exploding walkie talkies, Nasrallah's elimination and then of his successor, together with the entire leadership. What a genius operation it was. 🔺 Israel's operation in northern Samaria continues. Dozens of terrorists killed, hundreds captured, weapons seized, houses used for terror blown up, and the most important thing: whole neighborhoods called to evacuate. Judea and Samaria are about to learn real quickly that those who support Gaza will end up looking like Gaza. ************************************* Got to the bottom of this Middle East Report but not following Chief Hasbara Officer yet?😘 Please share, like, follow, help others get the news... and I'll see you in the next report. ************************************* #Syria #Houthis #Yemen #Lebanon #Israel #Hamas #Hezbollah #Iran #Gaza #TheyAreComingHome #TimeToSurrender

Palestinian education in Gaza and the West Bank from a young age teaches the idea of clearing the land of Jews.

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