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Israel’s War on Hamas Is Justified and Morally Correct

The bodies of people, some of them elderly, lie on a street after they were killed during a mass-infiltration by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip, in Sderot, southern Israel, Oct. 7, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Ammar Awad

Zionist prophet Ze’ev Jabotinsky once reportedly said, “The past lays a railroad track for the future.”

Jabotinsky also reportedly asked, “‘Everybody is wrong and you alone are right?’ No doubt this question springs by itself to the reader’s lips and mind. It is customary to answer this with apologetic phrases to the effect that I fully respect public opinion, that I bow to it, that I was glad to make concessions …. All this is unnecessary, and all this is untrue.”

All of these things are true in June 2024, and they will always be true when it comes to the Jewish people.

Last week, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said no to a proposal that France, the United States, and Israel would form a contact group to work on defusing escalating tensions with Hezbollah on the northern border.

As Gallant said, “As we fight a just war, defending our people, France has adopted hostile policies against Israel … In doing so, France ignores the atrocities committed by Hamas against Israeli children, women and men.”

Rightfully, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently said, “If we must stand alone, we shall stand alone. If we must, we shall fight with our fingernails. But we have much more than our fingernails.”

The reality is that Israel is at odds with much of the world — but Israel did what any democratic country would do. It launched a war of defense to prevent Hamas from orchestrating anymore October 7 massacres, or fulfilling its mission to destroy Israel.

Hamas has stated that its goal is to annihilate Israel; the Oct. 7 massacre, and the recent attacks from Iran and Hezbollah, show how serious that threat is.

If a Hamas-like group was in control of Canada and launching wars from its territory, would the US end a war without destroying that terrorist group? Of course not. The same goes for any other free nation in the world.

The criticism of Israel for working to defeat Hamas comes down to one thing: Jew-hatred.

There are so many conflicts over the world — where, unlike in Israel, those armies are not trying to prevent civilian casualties. Sudan is the latest example — others in the Middle East alone include Syria and Yemen, where so many civilians have been killed.

But there are no street protests, no campus rallies, no calls for “intifada.”

Why? Because Jews aren’t involved.

Jews are in danger worldwide — but we have done nothing wrong, and we can’t let people convince us that we have. Israel is trying to avoid civilian casualties — but Hamas has embedded itself in civilian areas. This war is Hamas’ fault.

The US is delusional when lecturing Israel on a two-state solution. There is no partner for peace, with most Palestinians still supporting the October 7 massacre. Notably, in Gaza, where the war is being fought, less people support the war than in the untouched West Bank. That points to something quite newsworthy.

Israel knows we have to sometimes fight alone, as history has shown us. The Holocaust showed us we can never rely on anyone else for our safety — and that is why Israel was created.

As Jabotinsky noted, “We hold that Zionism is moral and just. And since it is moral and just, justice must be done, no matter whether Joseph or Simon or Ivan or Achmet agree with it or not.”

Dear world: yes, everyone is wrong and we alone are right. We are the Jewish people — and we will live.

Ronn Torossian is an entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist.

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Treasure Trove: How a Polish-Jewish artist told Canadians about the horrors of Nazi Germany and produced beautiful illustrations

Arthur Szyk (1894-1951) was a Polish-Jewish artist whose work reflected the historic times he lived: the two world wars, the rise of totalitarianism in Europe and the birth of the State of Israel. In 1940, with the support of the British government and the Polish government-in-exile, he visited Canada to popularize the struggle against Nazism. […]

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Biden hits Fundraising Trail in Show of Strength after Dismal Debate Performance

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S., June 28, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo

President Joe Biden embarks on a series of fundraising events across two states on Saturday as he works to stamp out a crisis of confidence in his re-election campaign following a feeble debate performance that dismayed his fellow Democrats.

Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will visit the upscale New York beach enclave known as the Hamptons for a campaign fundraiser hosted by hedge-fund billionaire Barry Rosentein. Later in the day, he will travel to New Jersey for a fundraiser hosted by wealthy New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, a Democrat.

Fellow hedge-fund founder Eric Mindich and his Tony Award-winning producer wife Stacey, celebrity couple Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, and actor Michael J. Fox are all listed as members of the host committee at the New York event, according to an invitation seen by Reuters.

Biden told a rally in North Carolina on Friday he intended to defeat Republican rival Donald Trump in the November presidential election, giving no sign he would heed calls from Democrats who want him to drop out of the race.

Biden‘s verbal stumbles and occasionally meandering responses during Thursday night’s debate heightened voter concerns that the 81-year-old might not be fit to serve another four-year term.

The Biden campaign on Saturday boasted it had raised more than $27 million between debate day through Friday evening, but questions remain about whether the debate performance will hurt fundraising, at least in the short term.

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Arab League Rescinds the Classification of Hezbollah as a Terrorist Group

Mourners carry a coffin during the funeral of Wissam Tawil, a commander of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan forces who according to Lebanese security sources was killed during an Israeli strike on south Lebanon, in Khirbet Selm, Lebanon, Jan. 9, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Aziz Taher

i24 NewsThe Arab League no longer defines Hezbollah as a proscribed terrorist group, an official said on Saturday.

Hezbollah, a Lebanon-based Shiite militia and a proxy of the Islamic regime in Iran, boasts the world’s largest rocket arsenal of any non-state actor. It is animated by the antisemitic ideology of jihad and is committed to the destruction of Israel.

“In earlier Arab League decisions, Hezbollah was designated as a terrorist organization, and this designation was reflected in the resolutions,” Hossam Zaki, the assistant secretary-general of the Arab League, was quoted in Arab media as saying.

“The League’s member states concurred that the labeling of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization should no longer be employed,” Zaki said, adding that the regional body “does not maintain terrorist lists and does not actively seek to designate entities in such a manner.”

Hezbollah has unleashed numerous rockets, mortars and drones on northern Israel in the past eight months starting on October 8, a day after the Jewish state suffered the worst antisemitic massacre since the Holocaust at the hands of the Palestinian jihadists of Hamas.

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