Artiklar om 7 oktober

 ‘We’re not breaking’: The untold heroics of the female fighters who held off Hamas at Sufa

In her new book, ‘Israel’s Women Warriors,’ ToI correspondent Tal Schneider tells the stories of women who played an outsized yet largely unsung role in defending Israel during the October 7, 2023, terrorist onslaught. In this exclusive excerpt translated into English, Or Ben-Yehuda of the mixed-gender Caracal Battalion takes control as an army outpost is overrun, with the fates of fellow soldiers, and several communities, on the line

“One jeep broke toward the dining hall. I went in on foot. How naive I was at that stage. It was almost 9 a.m. Until then I hadn’t seen the terrorists with my own eyes, and suddenly, inside the outpost, they were standing right in front of me.”

— Lt. Col. Or Ben-Yehuda, commander of the Caracal Battalion

The October 7 battle for Sderot still rages in the minds of its survivors

Residents of embattled Gaza border city recall moments when Hamas terrorists invaded, gunning people down in the street, but vow to stay in their hometown

‘A deep scar’: Three years on, this Israeli first responder cannot escape October 7

Israeli rescuer Natan Kenig says it does not take much of a trigger for him to relive the October 7, 2023, attack: his eyes open or closed, at home or out with friends, he still sees the rockets, torched cars and lifeless bodies.

“I saw atrocities. The most terrible things in the world,” he said.

Three years after Hamas led the deadliest terror attack ever against Israel, Kenig, like so much of the country, remains traumatized. The flashbacks come daily, to the point that he has needed to see a therapist.

Newly released recordings shed light on final hours of Amit Mann, hero paramedic killed on Oct. 7

Newly released recordings reveal the final hours of Amit Mann, a Magen David Adom paramedic and paramedic course instructor, who was murdered on October 7, 2023, by terrorists in Kibbutz Be’eri, as she desperately tried to save victims of the attack and herself.

IDF chief honors officer whose Hamas invasion warnings were ignored by her superiors

During the conference, Zamir presented a certificate of appreciation to Chief Warrant Officer “Vav,” a member of the signals intelligence Unit 8200 — identified only by her first initial in Hebrew — who warned before October 7, 2023, that Hamas had a clear plan in place to attack Israel. Senior intelligence officers had dismissed and ignored her warnings.

“Vav” warned in an email sent to a number of IDF officers in the days leading up to the deadly Hamas terror assault that “the sword is coming,” and urged them to “warn the people” while there was still time.

After three years of war, Israeli kids bear the brunt of still-rising mental toll

New PTSD diagnoses across Israel’s population doubled the year after Hamas’s October 7, 2023, terror onslaught and continued to rise throughout the three years of war, according to a report published Sunday by Clalit Health Services, Israel’s largest health fund.

ZAKA, de frivilliga som städade upp efter massakern 7 oktober

 Berättelser om hur de som  såg det hemska som hände den 7 oktober traumatiserades

Facing October 7th

On October 7th, 2023, over 1,200 people were murdered across 22 communities in southern Israel. It was the deadliest day in Israel's history.

Hundreds of ZAKA volunteers were among the first to respond.

The largest mass casualty terrorist attack in Israel's history demanded the largest volunteer mobilization ZAKA has ever undertaken.

The cost in human trauma cannot be measured. Many who responded that day are still living with what they witnessed.

Intervju med Gadi Eisenkot som utmanar Netanyahu i parlamentsvalet

Om man vill förstå parlamentsvalet i Israel kan man börja med att läsa intervjun med Gadi Eisenkot som för tillfället leder i opinionsmätningarna.

Bereaved by war, determined to heal, protect and revive Israel: Gadi Eisenkot’s prime ministerial mission

In an impassioned interview with The Times of Israel, the opposition frontrunner explains why he stayed in politics after his son was killed in Gaza, how he would safeguard Israel and return it to the community of nations, and why Netanyahu, the PM of Oct. 7, must be sent home

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PA’s Abbas at UN: Israel trying to force Palestinians out with ‘genocidal war,’ ‘settler terrorism’

Abbas also stressed his rejection of terrorism and antisemitism during his speech.

“On behalf of the State of Palestine, I renew the commitments in which we believe: We want security and peace for all. We reject attacks against civilians by any party. We reject terrorism and extremism in all their forms. We combat antisemitism, racism and hatred. And we believe in a culture of peace, dialogue and coexistence,” Abbas said.

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 PA: Israel is "state of Satan on earth"

-Israelis – "the foreigners" – "will go to Hell, the land will remain Palestinian, Arab, and Islamic" - Fatah spokesman

- Israel is "the state of Satan on earth… they will be defeated and sent to Hell" – Egyptian cleric on official PA TV

- Genealogy of the Jews: "Evil is their father, oppression is their mother, betrayal is their brother, injustice is their sister" – official PA TV

 - Israelis/Jews have a "hate-filled nature," they are "barbaric, blood lusting and racist, shameless, immoral, inhuman, and conscienceless" – columnist of official PA daily

- Israelis "murder children in their sweet sleep… set fire to the clothes of mothers who have just given birth to their babies" – columnist of official PA daily

- World literature proves Jews are bad and "traitors" – columnist of official PA daily

Lögnen om folkmord motsägs av experter

 Israel anklagas dagligen för folkmord - oftast av människor som inte vet vad som är kriterierna för folkmord men också av sådana som borde veta bättre.

Här en artikel om det öppna brev med över 6000 underskrifter, många av dem experter på området, som säger att anklagelserna om  folkmord är en lögn.

Prominent scholars, legal experts among 6,000 signatories to letter rejecting Gaza genocide charge

“The bitter irony is that Israel, home to half the world’s Jews, is the only country to face a sustained war of attempted genocide – from its inception in 1948 until today,” the letter states.

Framstående akademiker, juridiska experter och historiker finns bland de drygt 6 000 personer som undertecknat ett öppet brev – offentliggjort tidigare denna månad – där anklagelsen om att Israel begått folkmord i Gaza avfärdas som en ”blodsanklagelse”. Brevet, som vid lanseringen hade fler än 5 000 undertecknare och senare passerade 6 000, gör gällande att anklagelsen om folkmord motsägs av Israels faktiska agerande i kriget och att den har utnyttjats som en förevändning för att utesluta och angripa judar världen över.

Prominent scholars who signed the letter include Harvard professor and public intellectual Steven Pinker. Other Harvard-affiliated signatories include Harvard Law professor Jesse Fried and visiting scholar Anat Alon-Beck, a professor of law at Case Western Reserve University.

Other notable scholars who signed on include historian Niall Ferguson, Israeli historian Benny Morris, Holocaust historian and former US Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism Deborah Lipstadt, Tel Aviv University professor emerita and former Yad Vashem chief historian Dina Porat, historian and author Simon Sebag Montefiore, UCLA professor Judea Pearl, and Brandeis University professor emeritus Jonathan Sarna.

Prominent legal figures include former Canadian justice minister and attorney general Irwin Cotler, Cornell Law professor Robert Hockett, Jeffrey Mausner, a former prosecutor with the US Justice Department’s Nazi War Crimes Unit, and Eugene Kontorovich, a professor of law at George Mason University’s Scalia Law School and director of its Center for the Middle East and International Law.

“The genocide libel is a case study in the longstanding – and intensified post-October 7th – historical, moral, legal and normative inversions of fact, law and history,” Cotler said in a statement cited by CCFP.

Political signatories include former UK prime minister Boris Johnson, Iraqi-born former UK cabinet minister Nadhim Zahawi, and former US secretary of veterans affairs Robert Wilkie, among others.

Netanyahus tal i FN och analys

Premiärminister Netanyahu höll sitt tal till FN:s generalförsamling senaste torsdag. Här finns hans tal, en kommentar och en analys från Times of Israel.

Bl.a de muslimska staterna avlägsnade sig från salen inför Netanyahus tal. Men det kanske man kan ta som en hedersbetygelse. Om de inte klarar av att höra vad man har att säga så har man antagligen något viktigt att säga.

Netanyahus tal var naturligtvis också en del av valkampanjen inför parlamentsvalet om några veckor.

Om man vill säga något negativt kan man säga att en stor ledare skulle ha erkänt att de judiska extremister som attackerar palestinierna är ett verkligt problem som myndigheterna inte lyckats förhindra. Det gjorde han inte, tvärtom förringade han deras verksamhet och det är inget som hedrar honom.

Han påpekade att terrorn från palestinierna som riktas mot judarna är mycket mer omfattande och allvarligare, vilket är sant. Naturligtvis måste det vara oerhört frustrerande att omvärlden knappt bryr sig om terrorn som kommer från palestinierna och som belönas av de palestinska ledarna medan terror från judiska extremister får stor uppmärksamhet. Men Israel skall inte jämföra sig med palestinska myndighetens agerande som domineras av gamla och nya terroristledare. Israel har hittills haft och har förhoppningsvis också i framtiden en helt annan moralisk kompass.

 Netanyahu’s UN speech: Israel prevented ‘the genocide Mamdani’s Hamas buddies would have done to us’

PM slams Gaza genocide accusation as ‘lie of the century,’ denounces Qatar for spending billions to ‘brainwash young minds’ to hate Israel and US, insists evil Iranian regime will fall

David Horovitz, Times of Israel kommenterar talet:

Netanyahu’s strong defense of Israel unlikely to sway critics abroad. Will it move voters at home? 

Av nödvändighet  satsade han hårt på att bemöta den avskyvärda anklagelsen om att Israel har begått – eller försökt begå – folkmord i Gazaremsan sedan tusentals Hamasledda terrorister invaderade Israel, slaktade omkring 1 200 människor och förde bort 251 personer den 7 oktober 2023.

Han riktade sin mest slagkraftiga formulering i sammanhanget – med dess svidande och obestridliga träffsäkerhet – mot borgmästaren i staden där han talade: ”Här är den enkla sanningen. Israel begick inte folkmord. Israel förhindrade folkmord.”

En premiärminister som lever för ögonblick som det i FN:s talarstol i torsdags hoppas att åtminstone några i den globala publiken stannade upp och tänkte till. Lika viktigt – eller viktigare – för honom är förhoppningen att hans oklanderliga engelska, hans förmåga att hantera den internationella uppmärksamheten och hans medryckande tal om seger, motståndskraft och ett evigt Israel ska ha lockat åtminstone en liten del ytterligare av väljarkåren till hans sida.

Faktum är att en stor del av världen har slutat lyssna, vilket är mer än tragiskt eftersom den behöver höra så mycket av vad han hade att säga.

What Netanyahu didn’t say at the UN was as telling as what he did (TOI)

NEW YORK — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s 15th address to the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday was in some ways a classic Bibi presentation.

He railed against antisemitism, blasted what he characterized as the moral fecklessness of European leaders, and came equipped with not one, but two props for his performance — a beeper to taunt Hezbollah for the stunning September 2024 exploding pagers and walkie-talkies operation, and a Starlink internet terminal to needle and shame the Iranian regime over its silencing of its own people.

At the same time, there were surprising omissions from the address, omissions that reinforce the sense that Israel does not have a clear and viable plan right now for countering the central threat to its national security: Iran’s nuclear weapons program, its ballistic missiles, and its rapacious, tenacious regime.

Så vinklas nyheterna om Israel

 Hur man rapporterar om krig där Israel är inblandad tycks följa samma mönster oberoende av om det gäller stora som New York Times eller små som Österbottens Tidning.

En undersökning visar hur NYT rapporterat och undersökningen stämmer förvånansvärt väl in på hur ÖT rapporterade enligt min lilla undersökning  från 2009.

‘NYT’ coverage framed Israel as ‘sole aggressor,’ Palestinians as ‘passive victims,’ study finds

"...According to Pinker, in this narrative, from October 8, 2023, onward, Israel “has been the sole aggressor” whereas Palestinians are portrayed as “passive victims whose suffering grows daily as they are relentlessly attacked by the Israeli military.”..."

...Pinker says the NYT frequently did not mention Israelis killed after October 7, Hamas fighters killed during the fighting, or Hamas or other Palestinian attacks carried out after October 7.

Rubriksättning i Österbottens Tidning- uppdatering 2

Som sammanfattning kan sägas att rubrikerna och bilderna i Österbottens Tidning ger en mycket ensidig information om kriget i Gaza. Palestinierna är offer, Israel är angripare och Hamas raketbekjutning av Israel och civlbefolkningens lidande där existerar inte.