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Swords of Iron: sources IIIIIIII (view source)
Revision as of 22:26, December 3, 2025
, 22:26, December 3, 2025→Notes part I: Nov-27, 2025+
Dec 2, 2025, 11:39 AM
Dec 2, 2025, 11:39 AM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/418691 INN]
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/418691 INN]
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Ex-kibbutz security chief who fought off Hamas on Oct. 7 opens coffee stand near Gaza border.
Rony Sfedj, who held off terrorists for hours in Kfar Kissufim during the attack, now runs a roadside coffee stand serving soldiers and bereaved families near the Gaza border as a message of resilience and community.
Roni Green Shaulov|12.01.25 |
[https://www.ynetnews.com/food/article/sydt7bo11zg YNet]
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio With Sean Hannity of Fox News’ Hannity
Interview.
Marco Rubio, Secretary of State.
Washington, D.C.
December 2, 2025.
[...]
QUESTION: We talk a lot, and a lot of people talk in the Make America Great Again movement, about America First. And I believe in America First, but I also believe that we have to have insight, wisdom, understanding that goes along with that. And it seems like every one of the examples I just gave you where the President did use the might of the U.S. military, it’s against radical Islam. And that threat, I think when people are chanting, “Death to Israel,” when they’re chanting, “Death to America,” specific threats against our country, I have not forgotten 9/11/01. What is the nature of radicalism that maybe some people don’t understand why it’s in America’s first interest?
SECRETARY RUBIO: Because ultimately all radical Islamic movements in the world identify the West writ large but the United States in particular as the greatest evil on the Earth. And every chance they have – the notion that somehow radical Islam would be comfortable with simply controlling some province in Iraq or Syria is just not borne out by history. Radical Islam has shown that their desire is not simply to occupy one part of the world and be happy with their own little caliphate; they want to expand. It is a – it’s revolutionary in its nature. It seeks to expand and control more territories and more people.
And radical Islam has designs, openly, on the West – on the United States, on Europe. We’ve seen that progress there as well. And they are prepared to conduct acts of terrorism – in the case of Iran, nation-state actions, assassinations, murders, you name it. Whatever it takes for them to gain their influence and ultimately their domination of different cultures and societies.
That’s a clear and imminent threat to the world and to the broader West, but especially to the United States, who they identify as the chief source of evil on the planet. Okay, the reason why they hate the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the leadership of the UAE, of Bahrain, is because they’ve allowed the United States to partner with them. That’s why they hate them. They consider them infidels for it. They hate Israel. But they also hate America, and they hate anywhere in the world that we have influence; they seek to attack it, including here in the homeland.
If you look at the domestic terrorist – at the attacks that have happened here domestically, the overwhelming majority of them have been inspired by radical Islamic viewpoints.
QUESTION: Do you —
SECRETARY RUBIO: And that includes the shooting in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. That includes the Saudi pilot in Pensacola, my home state. Two attacks that people seem to have forgotten...
[https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/12/secretary-of-state-marco-rubio-with-sean-hannity-of-fox-news-hannity State.gov]
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Column.
Campus Antisemitism.
CAIR’s ‘pay-for-Jew-hatred’ policy.
The California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations launched a “Champions of Justice Fund” that pays $1,000 “educational grants” to students disciplined for anti-Israel actions.
Mitchell Bard.
(Dec. 3, 2025 / JNS)
For years, the Palestinian Authority has rewarded terrorism through its “pay-to-slay” stipends—monthly salaries for Palestinians who murder Jews and for the families of “martyrs,” including suicide bombers. Some of the killers recently freed in Israel’s hostage exchanges have even become millionaires. That morally bankrupt model is now being replicated inside the United States. Hamas’s supporters here have created their own incentive system—this time to reward anti-Israel activism on American campuses.
The California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) launched a “Champions of Justice Fund” that pays $1,000 “educational grants” to students disciplined for anti-Israel actions. In October 2024 alone, CAIR-CA distributed $20,000 to protestors from elite universities like Harvard University, Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania.
According to the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI), the fund raised more than $64,000 and framed unlawful encampments as “acts of solidarity,” urging universities to collaborate with demonstrators and portraying police enforcement as “violence.” NCRI’s Joel Finkelstein warned, “These programs support students after acts of criminality and violence, creating a reward structure for building the most militant face of the movement. This is how ideologies metastasize.”
This is not an aberration.
CAIR has a documented, decades-long record of extremism. Founded by leaders of the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP)—described by the U.S. government as part of Hamas’s “propaganda apparatus—CAIR is led by Nihad Awad, IAP’s former public-relations director. Awad publicly declared, “I am in support of the Hamas movement” in 1994. He eulogized Sheikh Abdul-Majid al-Zindani, a recruiter and fundraiser for Al-Qaeda. He asserts that “Zionist organizations” are “enemies of the Muslim community” and are the “core of the Islamophobia network in the United States.” He has claimed that the “Zionist lobby, or pro-Israel” lobby has corrupted Congress.
Astonishingly, the Biden administration had listed CAIR among the organizations that would help implement its national strategy to counter antisemitism. Then came Oct. 7.
Awad publicly celebrated the massacre as Palestinians “breaking the siege,” while denying Israel the right to self-defense, later offering a farcical, antisemitic “clarification” that the attackers were merely taking a symbolic walk on “ethnically cleansed land.” It wasn’t clear which “average Palestinians” he was referring to when the video footage shot by the terrorists showed “civilians” participating in the attack.
The White House disavowed the organization and erased its name from the antisemitism plan’s website. Spokesman Andrew Bates said that “we condemn these shocking, antisemitic statements in the strongest terms.”
Other CAIR officials have echoed similar themes: comparing Israel to Nazi Germany, denying Israel’s right to self-defense and cheering Hamas’s atrocities as “decolonization.” CAIR was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism-financing trial, where Hamas funders were convicted, prompting the FBI to sever all ties in 2008.
Lawmakers have taken notice. Rep. Randy Fine (R-Fla.) introduced legislation urging the U.S. State Department to designate CAIR as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. “This takes long-overdue action to confront the terrorist threat posed by CAIR, a Trojan horse for terrorism operating inside our own borders,” said Fine.
He noted that “CAIR still maintains a direct relationship with Hamas” and “is a group that celebrated the massacre on Oct. 7, saying it made them ‘happy.’” In an interview with The Daily Signal, Fine said CAIR is an “orchestrated Muslim terror front intended to legitimize Muslim terror and to shut down critics of it.”
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) requested that Internal Revenue Service commissioner Billy Long investigate CAIR’s nonprofit status “due to the group’s ties to terrorist organizations like Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.”
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has already acted, designating CAIR as an FTO under state law and barring it from acquiring land. “The actions taken by the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR to support terrorism across the globe and subvert our laws through violence, intimidation and harassment are unacceptable,” he said.
By adopting its own “pay-to-slay” model (“pay-for-Jew-hatred”), CAIR has again revealed that it is an organization that excuses terror, rewards antisemitism and works to mainstream extremism under the veneer of civil rights advocacy. The federal government should follow Texas’s lead. The State Department and IRS must strip CAIR of its tax-exempt status and formally designate it for what its record plainly shows it to be.
[https://www.jns.org/cairs-pay-for-jew-hatred-policy/ JNS]
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Victims sue for tens of thousands of shekels 5 years after attack.
Two Jews who were sprayed with pepper spray by an Arab attacker in Jerusalem have filed a civil lawsuit for 60,000 shekels.
Israel National News.
Published: Dec 3, 2025, 9:38 PM (GMT+2)
Yossi Zeigler/TPS
Two Jewish men who were attacked with pepper spray in the Old City of Jerusalem about five years ago have submitted a civil lawsuit for 60,000 NIS against the assailant, with legal representation from the Honenu organization.
The attack occurred in May 2021. The perpetrator was arrested following the incident and sentenced to 10 months in prison. Now that the criminal proceedings have concluded, the civil suit has been filed with the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court.
In the lawsuit, attorney Chaim Bleicher of Honenu describes the sequence of events:
"One of the plaintiffs was riding his bicycle in the Old City when he saw the defendant and another individual attacking Jews. The plaintiff followed the attacker and called the police. When they reached Chabad Street, the attacker turned toward two additional Jewish men, including the second plaintiff, and began shouting. At that point, he noticed the first plaintiff reporting him to the police, distanced himself, then returned and sprayed both of them with pepper spray. The two suffered severe eye irritation and required treatment from Magen David Adom medics at the scene. They claim the incident caused physical and psychological harm that warrants compensation."
Attorney Bleicher stated that such legal actions are essential for deterrence:
"We will continue working to ensure that Islamic terror rioters pay a heavy price for their actions. The knowledge that anyone who assaults Jews will pay dearly, and for many years, creates deterrence against terrorism and strengthens citizens' sense of security in our capital, Jerusalem."
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/418776 INN]
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Senate panel advances Trump nominee on Jew-hatred.
If confirmed by the full Senate, the Chabad rabbi would become the second Chassid to be approved by the Senate for a senior administration position..
(Dec. 3, 2025 / JNS)
The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations advanced the nomination of Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun to be the Trump administration’s special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism in a bipartisan vote on Wednesday.
If confirmed by the full Senate, the Chabad rabbi would become the second Chassid to be approved by the Senate for a senior administration position after Mitchell Silk was confirmed as assistant secretary of the treasury for international markets during the first Trump administration in 2020.
[https://www.jns.org/senate-panel-advances-trump-nominee-on-jew-hatred/ JNS]
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Body of slain hostage transferred to IDF.
An official statement by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror organization claims it found the body of a slain hostage in the northern Gaza Strip.
Israel National News.
Dec 3, 2025, 6:10 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/418752 INN]
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300 women's rights activists, rabbis urge removal of UN denier of Hamas rape
In a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the 300 signatories expressed their “horror and outrage” at Reem Alsalem’s rape-denial.
Israel National News.
Dec 3, 2025, 10:11 PM (GMT+2)
Reem Alsalem, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, wrote on X on November 14, 2025, that “No independent investigation found that rape took place on the 7th of October."
In a letter to the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, more than 300 women’s rights advocates, rabbis, Jewish studies scholars and community activists expressed their “horror and outrage” at Alsalem’s rape-denial. They pointed out that two UN reports, one by the Secretary-General himself, have confirmed that Hamas committed rapes and other sexual atrocities against Israeli women.
The signatories include the former U.S. Ambassador for Combating Antisemitism, Prof. Deborah E. Lipstadt; the past chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Rabbi Dr. Irving (Yitz) Greenberg; Dr. Judith Rosenbaum, head of the Jewish Women’s Archives; Rabbi Dr. Deborah Waxman, president of Reconstructing Judaism; Hebrew College president Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld; two past presidents of the Association for Jewish Studies, Prof. Jonathan Sarna and Prof. David Berger; and Prof. Deborah Dash Moore, multiple National Jewish Book Award laureate.
The petition was organized by Prof. R. Amy Elman of Kalamazoo College, in Michigan, and Dr. Rafael Medoff, historian and author of the new book, The Road to October 7.
Prof. Elman said: “The targeted sexual abuse of Israelis by Hamas and its supporters is one weapon in the arsenal of those seeking Israel’s obliteration. It’s outrageous that deniers such as Reem Alsalem are aiding and abetting the sexual violence by claiming it never happened. These apologists should be ashamed of themselves.”
Dr. Medoff commented: “If a UN official made such a remark concerning rape victims from any other ethnic or religious group, there would be an international uproar. The same standard should apply to Israeli Jewish women who were sexually assaulted by Hamas terrorists.”
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/418778 INN]
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UN spokesman doesn’t name Albanese but refutes controversial comment on press freedom
“It is very clear that journalists should never come under any violence,” Stéphane Dujarric said, after the special rapporteur said that an attack on an Italian paper should be a “warning.”
Mike Wagenheim.
(Dec. 3, 2025 / JNS)
Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, didn’t name Francesca Albanese in response to a question from JNS about the special rapporteur’s comment that appeared to partly justify an attack on journalists. But he rejected her statement in strong terms.
Albanese, whom the global body considers an independent “expert” and who has denounced Israel frequently in ways that U.S., Israeli and other diplomats have called Jew-hatred, drew criticism from across the Italian political spectrum, including the left, when she responded to an anti-Israel attack on the offices of Italian paper La Stampa on Nov. 28.
After the attack, Albanese, an Italian native, reportedly said that “we must not commit acts of violence against anyone, but at the same time this should also serve as a warning to the press to go back to doing its work.”
The comment was widely viewed as a threat that journalists should cover the war against Hamas in Gaza differently.
Dujarric told JNS during the Tuesday U.N. press briefing that, for Guterres, “it is very clear that journalists should never come under any violence wherever they may be, whether that violence is physical or whether that violence is verbal, whether they are intimidated.”
“Journalists need to be able to do their work freely, and they should never ever be intimidated,” he said.
Dujarric did not address Albanese’s comments directly, in line with a broad U.N. policy that special rapporteurs and independent “experts” appointed by the U.N. Human Rights Council are beyond Guterres’ purview.
Separately, Dujarric told JNS that it is a priority for Guterres to wind down the U.N. peacekeeping mission on the Israel-Lebanon border.
Envoys of the states that are U.N. Security Council members are slated to visit the region later this week with officials from the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon, as UNIFIL approaches its mandated conclusion at the end of 2026, despite renewed tensions on the border.
The Security Council’s resolution to shutter UNIFIL operations calls on Guterres to present options for proceeding without a UNIFIL presence in 2027. Multiple diplomats told JNS that ambassadors of states that are council members aim to return from the trip with ideas for Guterres.
The U.N. secretary-general’s radar “is wide and it is deep,” Dujarric told JNS, when asked if the UNIFIL issue had Guterres’s attention.
“Of course it’s a priority,”
said, noting Guterres’s longstanding support for the mission. That has come amid persistent efforts by Israel, and more recently the United States, to close the mission in the wake of accusations of its ineffectiveness and passive complicity in Hezbollah’s military buildup in southern Lebanon.
[https://www.jns.org/un-spokesman-doesnt-name-albanese-but-refutes-controversial-comment-on-press-freedom/ JNS]
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Rafah Crossing to reopen, allowing Gazans to exit to Egypt.
Gaza residents to be allowed to exit Gaza into Egypt, subject to coordination and oversight.
Israel National News.
Dec 3, 2025, 9:54 PM (GMT+2)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/418775 INN]
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IDF Soldier seriously injured in clash with terrorists in Rafah.
4 soldiers were wounded,1 seriously, when terrorists emerged from a tunnel in eastern Rafah and confronted IDF troops.
Israel National News.
Published: Dec 3, 2025, 7:18 PM (GMT+2)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/418768 INN]
Four Israeli troops wounded in Rafah clash with terrorists.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu implied that the incident constituted a violation of the terms of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
JNS Staff.
(Dec. 3, 2025 / JNS)
An Israel Defense Forces soldier was severely wounded, with three others sustaining lighter injuries, on Wednesday after encountering terrorists leaving a tunnel in the Gaza Strip, the military said.
In the eastern Rafah area in southern Gaza, troops encountered “several terrorists who emerged from an underground terrorist infrastructure,” the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said in a statement.
[https://www.jns.org/four-israeli-troops-wounded-in-rafah-clash-with-terrorists/ JNS]
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Rafah tunnel terrorists in constant contact with Hamas leadership.
All Hamas terror cells hiding in Rafah’s tunnels remain in continuous contact with the group’s senior military leadership, contradicting Hamas’ public claim that the cells act independently, Kan News reports.
Israel National News.
Dec 3, 2025, 10:53 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/418777 INN]
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Israel strikes Hamas targets in Gaza following Rafah tunnel ambush.
Hours earlier, terrorists ambushed Golani troops, wounding four; Jerusalem accuses Hamas of violating the ceasefire amid delays in returning the last hostage bodies.
Yoav Zitun, Einav Halabi|12.3.25.
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rkms3fr11bx YNet]
Rafah Flashpoint.
Hamas Leadership Terrified of Israeli Surprise Attack as Rafah Crossing Announcement Ignites Egypt War.
Fear of targeted assassinations and a swift return to war has gripped the Hamas leadership following recent Israeli strikes, even as a contentious announcement to open the Rafah border crossing sparks a diplomatic row with Egypt.
Eliana Fleming.
Dec 3, 2025 13:51
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/rafah-crossing-dispute JFeed]
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Using ChatGPT to Build Bombs.
Terror Plot Foiled: Israeli Teen Planned to Attack Soldiers at Bus Station After ISIS and Hamas Influence
A young man from the Negev region has been arrested and indicted after planning a terror attack against soldiers at a Be'er Sheva bus station, inspired by ISIS and later Hamas, and attempting to construct explosive devices.
Eliana Fleming.
Dec 3, 2025 14:33
Counter-Terror Operation Foils Planned Attack.
A joint operation by Israel's Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and the Police has revealed that a resident of the Negev, approximately 18 years old, was arrested last month on suspicion of planning a terror attack at a bus station in Be'er Sheva. The operation was launched after intelligence indicated the suspect's increasingly radicalized activities.
Following the investigation, the Southern District Prosecution filed a serious indictment against the young man today (Wednesday), which includes charges of preparation for an act of terrorism, receiving instruction for terror purposes, and weapons offenses.
Investigation findings indicate that the suspect began actively browsing channels and websites affiliated with the ISIS terror group as far back as 2020. This exposure led him to decide on carrying out a stabbing attack at a bus station frequented by soldiers in the city. To prepare, he purchased a knife and began practicing its use while searching for instructional videos online on "how to stab people."
Switching Allegiance and Planning Explosives.
The suspect's plans later escalated. He decided to execute the attack using explosive devices or a suicide belt. Notably, following the events of October 7th, the accused decided to rebrand his planned attack as being on behalf of the Hamas terror group rather than ISIS.
In recent months, the young man began constructing improvised explosive devices. However, fearing that the initial devices would fail during the attack, he unsuccessfully tried to acquire a handgun to ensure the plot's success. Due to the difficulty in obtaining necessary materials to complete the construction of the explosives, the accused ultimately decided to replace his two initial devices with a simpler one and discarded the first two into a trash can near his home.
Wider Network of Radicalization
This case is part of a series of arrests highlighting the issue of self-radicalization and terror-inspired plotting within Israel.
Just last month, a 14-year-old resident of Jaffa was arrested in Ramallah in a joint operation led by the Tel Aviv Central Unit and directed by the Shin Bet. The investigation revealed that the youth had established contact with both ISIS and Hamas, providing them with videos and documentation of structures in Israel allegedly related to security forces. It was further reported that the autistic 14-year-old, who taught himself languages, traveled alone to Jenin to prepare explosives and successfully created devices whose functionality remains under investigation. The youth reportedly exchanged messages with ChatGPT for hours on how to construct an explosive device and viewed Hamas instructional videos.
Furthermore, two months ago, an indictment was filed against Najib Dik, a 25-year-old resident of Baqa al-Gharbiya. Dik was arrested after pledging allegiance to the ISIS terror group and planning a deadly attack. According to the prosecution, Dik considered attaching an explosive device to a kiosk near Moshav Ma'or where soldiers were present, aiming to cause fatalities. He even drove around the area listening to jihadist songs but did not carry out his plan. His indictment detailed that he systematically viewed terror and execution videos, downloaded guides for making explosives, and read aloud the ISIS oath, thereby considering himself a full member of the terror organization.
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/israeli-teen-terror-plot-foiled JFeed]
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