Iranian Suicide Drone Used in Tel Aviv Attack Constructed with American Components - Adam Kredo (Washington Free Beacon)
    The suicide drone used by Houthi militants in a deadly attack on Tel Aviv was constructed primarily with American components, highlighting severe gaps in U.S. sanctions on Tehran, according to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).
    "The construction of the drones is enabled by the regime's access to American components, and indeed the drones are built almost entirely from components produced by U.S. companies," Cruz said in a letter sent to the White House on Monday.
    "U.S. export and trade restrictions are aimed in part to prevent the acquisition of such components by rogue regimes such as Iran."
    "Those munitions are being used to attack U.S. servicemembers and our allies, including Israel and Ukraine, and more broadly to undermine American national security interests."

Strike on the Houthis a Big Win for Israel - Dr. Harold Rhode (JNS)
    Following Israel's recent strike on Houthi targets, White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby said: "We did not participate in today's Israeli attack on Yemen and did not help Israel."
    This is wonderful news. It shows to the Iranians, Arab states and others that Israel is an independent actor and demonstrates that Israel is willing to go it alone against the advice or demands of the Americans.
    It shows the Sunni Arab countries that Israel is a reliable partner against the Iranian regime because Israel will do what it must to protect itself and stop Iran and its proxies.
    The distance between Iran and Israel's target in Hodeida, Yemen (2,000 km.), is beyond the flight range of the F-35 fighter jet. That means the Israelis had to refuel during the trip.
    Since America didn't help them, the Israelis figured out a way to do so by themselves.
    The flight distance is the same as between Israel and most of Iran. Thus, the strike is a serious warning to Iran.
    Middle Easterners despise weakness. Israel's successful attack on Iran and the Houthis in Yemen demonstrates strength. Israel has gained new respect for its willingness to decimate its enemies.
    The writer, a fellow of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, served as an adviser on the Islamic world for the U.S. Department of Defense for 28 years.

Israel Targets Houthi Oil Storage Tanks - Michael Knights (Washington Institute for Near East Policy)
    On July 20, Israel responded to a deadly Houthi drone attack in Tel Aviv with heavy airstrikes on the Yemeni port of Hodeida, destroying most of the site's oil storage tanks.
    28 oil tanks were located in the targeted area. Satellite imagery showed 18 of them visibly destroyed, though other damaged tanks may have been obscured by smoke.
    Israeli forces also struck two gantry cranes at the container port.
    The writer is a Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute, specializing in military and security affairs of Iraq, Iran, and the Gulf states.

IDF Uncovers Trove of Hamas Secrets - Amir Bohbot (Jerusalem Post)
    The IDF and Israel Security Agency have uncovered a treasure trove of Hamas intelligence, including operational tables, equipment lists, and classified maps.
    "The amount of intelligence accumulated so far...allows us to dismantle Hamas from within," said a senior security official.
    The intelligence included Excel tables showing the readiness levels of special units, companies, battalions, and brigades, including the scope of training, weapons, and ammunition.
    It also included orders in the various units, equipment lists for each fighter, and protocols of meetings.
    One document detailed a plan to undermine the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank by infiltrating its security mechanisms and encouraging internal rebellion to overthrow and take control of the PA gradually.
    Literature from the Hamas education system was also found, promoting terrorism against Israel from the first day of education.
    They included children's books teaching how to murder Jews by running them over or stabbing them.
    "Based on what we saw in maps and documents and what was actually discovered, it is clear that Gaza was constructed as one large military base, including the use of kindergartens, schools, clinics, hospitals, and mosques," said a source who reviewed Hamas documents.
    "They intended to infiltrate a large number of IDF bases, including Air Force bases."

Knesset Hears Accounts of Hamas Rape, Infanticide from Casualty Identification Unit - Miri Weissman (Israel Hayom)
    In Knesset testimony, Rabbi Moshe Dickstein, a reservist who served as a commander of the casualty identification unit in the IDF's Southern Command, provided details of the atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists during the Oct. 7 attack on Israeli communities.
    "The first body we came across was in an overturned stroller. Inside the stroller was a baby, and his head was thrown aside with a knife in it."
    "The woman we found, presumably the mother, was lying on the couch with blood flowing from her private area."
    "And so we went from house to house and found women lying on the floor with legs spread, it's indescribable. Another house and another house, then also in the field."
    "They cut off men's genitals, and we found women with severed breasts. A pregnant woman with her belly opened up to reveal the umbilical cord and the baby with a knife in its body."

Chicago Imam Teaches Children Their Goal Is to "Die as a Muslim" (MEMRI-TV)
    Imam Karim Abuzaid taught a children's class at Chicago's Darul Quran Mosque on June 30, 2024, telling them that their number one goal in life is to die as a Muslim and go to Paradise.

Gaza Border Communities Rebuild - Seth J. Frantzman (Jerusalem Post)
    In the Israeli town of Sderot, one km. from Gaza, there are billboards announcing various activities and the shopping centers are full.
    This is a city of heroes who fought the terrorists on Oct. 7.
    The first Qassam rocket fired from Gaza fell on Sderot on April 16, 2001. Children who grew up under the Qassam threat are now fighting in Gaza against Hamas.
    Today, large cranes are building new buildings. People are moving here and most of the residents have returned.

Jews and Arabs Work Side by Side in Israeli Hospitals - Dr. Michael Segal (Wall Street Journal)
    Tensions over the Gaza war have spread to American medical centers, with doctors feuding and wearing pins to express their positions. The hospital at the University of California, San Francisco even had a protest encampment.
    Yet Israeli hospitals are free of such acrimony. Arabs and Jews work and receive treatment together.
    A year ago, my 94-year-old mother broke her hip and was treated in Jerusalem's Shaare Zedek Medical Center, so I spent most of a week there.
    Many doctors and nurses were Arab. So were many patients - and they shared rooms with Jews receiving treatment. Everyone got along fine.
    The harmony in Israeli hospitals comes as a shock to many opponents of Israel. When I described the atmosphere to participants in the Harvard Yard Gaza encampment, they were incredulous that Jewish and Arab patients were treated in the same hospitals.
    The teach-ins they attended told them that there was apartheid in Israel, so they assumed hospitals would be segregated.
    The writer is a neurologist and neuroscientist.