Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s warning is blunt, but the principle is basic: no nation is required to absorb violence, lawfare, and terror while pretending its enemies are merely filing paperwork.
Hamas
In a report delivered to the UN Security Council, the board says the terrorist organization’s refusal to give up its weapons remains “the principal obstacle to full implementation” of the Gaza ceasefire.
After the killing of Hamas military chief Izz al-Din al-Haddad, pressure on the organization is growing. Those involved in Gaza reconstruction efforts are openly saying that Hamas’s disarmament is inevitable.
The law details how judges are to be selected, how trials are to be conducted and provides for an appeals process.
The remarks by the US ambassador highlight a growing realization that disarming Hamas will likely be left to Israel as the terror group reasserts control in half of Gaza.
A new report by the Civil Commission on Oct. 7 Crimes Against Women and Children documents in devastating detail how sexual violence became part of Hamas’s strategy of terror.
Government and university officials declined to sanction an academic who called the Oct. 7 massacre “the most beautiful thing that has happened in our century.”
There has been a clear decline in the sense that Israel is winning the war.
There are growing doubts in Jerusalem over a deal with Tehran, stalled negotiations with Hamas, and an increasingly fragile situation on the northern border.
205th Reserve Brigade completes its sixth wartime deployment — eight tunnels blown up, dozens of terrorists killed.
