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In-Depth Issues:
IDF Kills Hamas Brigade Commander in Gaza City Airstrike - Emanuel Fabian ( Times of Israel)
The commander of Hamas's Northern Gaza Brigade, Izz al-Din al-Bik, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, Israel said Tuesday.
An airstrike in Gaza City on Sunday killed Hamas operative Shadi Abu Hasira, who headed a money exchange network which "transferred tens of millions of Israeli shekels in foreign currency to Hamas's military."
"These funds were used to finance terrorists, restore military infrastructure, and advance attacks against IDF troops," the IDF said.
See also Arrest of Hamas Official Provided IDF Intel to Kill Three Commanders - Yonah Jeremy Bob ( Jerusalem Post)
The capture of top Hamas internal security official Mu'in al-Arabid in Gaza City on Sept. 2 gave Israel tremendous intelligence which has helped in targeting other top Hamas officials, funds, and weapons, the Jerusalem Post has learned.
Three out of the five Hamas brigade commanders in Gaza have been killed since Sept. 11.
Poll: 27 Percent of Muslim Americans Blame Israel, Zionists for 9/11 - Alex Carson ( Jerusalem Post)
A new survey released on Sep. 27 by the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs (JCFA) found that 27% of Muslim American respondents said Zionists or Israel had been responsible for the 9/11 attacks.
19% expressed the belief that the U.S. government or the CIA had carried out the attacks.
62% of non-Muslim respondents identified al-Qaeda as responsible for 9/11, compared with 24% of Muslim American respondents.
Iranian Musician Sentenced to 74 Lashes for Hijabless Performance - Danielle Greyman-Kennard ( Jerusalem Post)
An Iranian court rejected Parastoo Ahmadi's appeal against her sentence of 74 lashes and a two-year ban on all artistic activities last week, Iranian media reported.
The court found that her hijabless performance had violated "public decency through the production and publication of obscene and immoral content on cyberspace platforms."
Free Ireland from "Free Palestine" - Brendan O'Neill ( Spiked-UK)
On Sunday, 140 Irish pubs refused to show the Nations League soccer clash between Ireland and Israel.
Picture it: pint-pullers acting as self-appointed commissars of the keffiyeh cult, protecting their customers' eyes and ears from the demonic vision of men from Israel playing soccer.
This is not normal. It's a sickness. Nothing better captures Ireland's craven surrender to the soul-rot of Israel-hate than this dystopic spectacle of soccer-free pubs.
Ireland has succumbed like no other country to the ideological intoxicant of Jew-state-phobia, defining its morality through its loathing of the Jewish nation. We need to free Ireland from "Free Palestine."
A Mao-lite lunacy swept Ireland before the match as demonstrators in mandatory keffiyehs stormed the streets to scream "Stop the Game," to demand that "our boys" be spared the indignity of playing with those genocidal demons.
A mob gathered outside Castleknock Hotel in Dublin, where the Ireland team was staying, and begged them with megaphones to boycott Israel. They even badgered ordinary hotel guests to tell the team to cancel the match.
Would anyone care to explain why the keffiyeh classes were superbly unbothered when the Irish cricket team played Afghanistan just a few weeks ago - a nation where women are treated like animals, homosexuality is punishable by death, and democracy is non-existent?
It breaks my Mick heart to watch Ireland bow and scrape to the Palestine cult.
It long ago conquered Ireland's universities, where you can't swing a cat without hitting 50 who think Israelis are Nazis.
Journalist Laura Perrins analyzed the output of four Irish media outlets and found they published 3,007 reports about Israel / Palestine between January and May this year. That's almost 20 a day.
Increasingly, what makes up Irish identity is its antipathy to the Jewish nation. Every Irish cultural export is madly, loudly, bizarrely anti-Israel. They have no idea how insane they sound to normies the world over.
The Irish puff themselves up as the historic victims of colonialism and famine who now have a holy duty to rage against the nation supposedly committing those crimes today.
Ireland's descent into the cesspit of Israelophobia reveals far more about its own moral disarray.
It's like an army of the damned, all searching for the source of their moral wretchedness. And you won't believe what it is: the Jews!
That Ireland has so enthusiastically joined this depraved crusade is sad beyond belief.
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News Resources - North America, Europe, and Asia:
- Radical Shia Clerics with an Apocalyptic Vision Are Calling the Shots in Iran - Secretary of State Marco Rubio interviewed by Sean Hannity
Secretary of State Marco Rubio discussed Iran on Fox News on Monday:
"We are talking about a regime that has slaughtered tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of their own people throughout this so-called revolution. If that's what they're willing to do to their own people, imagine what they would do to Americans or others in the region or Israelis or anybody if they had a nuclear weapon. They have no regard for the lives of anyone else."
"The problem with Iran is the revolution, and that's what governs in that country. It's not the government officials you see with suits that go on "Meet the Press" and get this free pass on American media....Who calls the shots in Iran are radical Shia clerics with an apocalyptic vision of the future. They believe that it is their religious calling to trigger the last days of the world and the apocalypse."
"I know this sounds like something from a movie, but it is the reality. It is the stated purpose of their revolution. People like that can never possess a nuclear weapon, because they will use it to blackmail the world and to kill people. It is an unacceptable risk."
"Every dollar that Iran has, what they have done over the last 30 years is anytime they get money...they don't use that money to improve the life of the Iranian people. They use that money to do two things: build weapons for themselves and export the revolution. They use the money to fund Hizbullah; they use the money to fund Hamas; they use the money to fund Shia militias in Iraq....They use the money to sponsor terrorism and assassination plots all over the world." (U.S. State Department)
- U.S.: Iran's Floating Oil Reserves nearing Zero - Max Bacall
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent predicted Sunday that Iran will complete its remaining oil shipments to China within two weeks, as only 15 million barrels of Iranian oil remain out on the way to delivery since the U.S. blockade.
"They are going to make their final deliveries of oil to China, and then they will have nothing," he said.
Tehran's latest proposal on Saturday offered to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Bessent said it's already open. "We're averaging now 15 to 22 million barrels a day. It was at about 20 pre-conflict....So think of it this way, the score is the United States, one billion - more than one billion barrels have gotten out - Iran, zero." (Fox News)
- Iran's Chokehold on Hormuz Breaks Down - Georgi Kantchev
The U.S. Navy and Gulf oil producers have become better at fending off or evading Iranian attacks, allowing more tankers to cross the Strait of Hormuz as Iran's ability to choke off the oil flow is breaking down. Shipments via Hormuz and bypass routes were delivering almost 80% of their prewar regional flows, according to tracker Kpler.
So far in September, crude exports moving through Hormuz and alternative routes have risen to almost 13 million barrels a day. (Wall Street Journal)
See also Saudi Arabia Resumes Red Sea Oil Exports in Blow to Iran - Summer Said
Saudi Arabia has resumed exporting oil via its East-West pipeline after repairing damage from drone strikes by Iran-backed forces in Iraq, sources said Monday, restoring a crucial route around the Strait of Hormuz and dealing a blow to Iran. Saudi Aramco started loading vessels with crude at the Red Sea port of Yanbu via the pipeline on Sunday.
The pipeline is operating at a rate of 3.5 million barrels a day. (Wall Street Journal)
News Resources - Israel and the Mideast:
- Netanyahu in UAE on Sunday for Talks on Iran - Amichai Stein
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spent six hours in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday to discuss Iran with UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (MBZ), sources said.
(Jerusalem Post)
See also Two Gulf States with No Diplomatic Relations with Israel Took Part in Netanyahu's UAE Meeting - Danny Zaken
Senior representatives of at least two additional Gulf states that do not maintain diplomatic relations with Israel took part in Prime Minister Netanyahu's meeting in the UAE on Sunday, Gulf diplomatic officials confirmed. Iran was the central focus of the meeting, with discussions of various scenarios for the near future.
The sides also addressed diplomatic and security coordination and defenses against the Houthi threat. The meeting was held with the knowledge and approval of the U.S. (Israel Hayom)
- Drone from Jordan Carried 9 Kalashnikov Rifles into Israel - Emanuel Fabian
IDF soldiers monitoring surveillance cameras identified a drone crossing the border into Israel from Jordan on Monday. Troops dispatched to the scene located the drone, which was carrying nine Kalashnikov assault rifles and magazines, along with a pistol. (Times of Israel)
- Netanyahu Orders Preparation of ICC Case Against Turkey's Erdogan over Attacks on Kurds, Hamas Funding - Avishai Grinzaig
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered Israel's International Law Department to begin preparing a legal case at the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Turkish President Erdogan over his attacks against Kurdish minorities in Turkey and his funding of Hamas, i24News learned on Sunday. The order came after Erdogan announced that he had approached Interpol seeking an Interpol Red Notice for Netanyahu. (i24News)
Global Commentary and Think-Tank Analysis:
Observations:
- The possibility of a two-state solution for this generation was a casualty of Oct. 7. It is hard for me to understand how anyone can honestly say that they would not protect themselves if their neighbor had already killed one of their children and threatened to do it again as soon as they had the opportunity. It is sad that self-preservation has become something Israel, and increasingly Jews, seem to have to argue for.
- When Oct. 7 came, the people of Israel rose up and came to the aid of their county. They searched for hostages, killed terrorist before they were able to rape, kill and maim even more people, and collected the blood and remains of so many dead so they could be buried and their families could have graves to visit and mourn.
- Once you've seen the videos taken on GoPros by the terrorists on Oct. 7 or hear the glee in the recorded conversations where they tell family about what they are doing. Once you've seen the horrific scenes and participated in the cleanup of massacres like the Nova festival, can you support allowing a border state to Israel that would be governed by the group that planned and committed this atrocity?
- Even hearing about the work that was done from people whose eyes are haunted and dead is enough for most people to know that so many were killed on Oct. 7 and the two-state solution was also a casualty. This generation will never support such an approach.
- For so many years, Israelis in bordering towns both north and south lived with rockets raining down on them constantly. They raised their children with an uncertainty borne of constantly needing to run to a bomb shelter. But this seemed to be the price to pay - the necessary reality of having neighbors who wanted us killed and world opinion who wanted Israel to exercise never-ending restraint.
- This, too, broke after Oct. 7. Many woke up to see that accepting such a life was impossible going forward. That
protecting its citizens was the most important consideration. It feels like Israel and this generation is done hoping and conceding.
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