Finance Minister and Religious Zionism Party head Bezalel Smotrich holds a faction meeting in northern Israel, May 19, 2024. Photo by Ayal Margolin/Flash90.
Judea and Samaria leaders on Tuesday applauded Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s announcement earlier this week that major steps had been taken to transfer administrative authority in the area from military to civilian hands.
A protest organized by B’yadaim Shelanu to prevent the entry of P.A. workers to Efrat in Gush Etzion, June 23, 2024. Credit: B’yadaim Shelanu.
Some 120 protesters gathered in the Gush Etzion town of Efrat on Sunday morning to prevent local building contractors from bringing Palestinian laborers into the community.
“As the Rafah operation expands to take out Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and the northern front continues to escalate. ILTV’s Emily Schrader speaks with journalist and talk radio host Josh Hasten about the situation.
4 hostages were rescued from the hands of Hamas in a miraculous Israeli military operation. The media flipped the script and focused in on the “innocent” Gazan civilians killed in the operation. But were the civilians innocent? Were they and do they continue to be complicit with Hama?
JNS CEO Alex Traiman and Middle East Correspondent Josh Hasten delve into this issue and other pressing stories
– Coalition crisis with Benny Gantz leaving the war cabinet
– Blinken visiting Israel
– Hezbollah attacks in the North
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As Iran moves forward towards nuclear weapons, Hamas’ popularity surges, and Hezbollah attacks the north, Josh Hasten says that Israel and the Western powers must show strength in the face of all threats. On today’s Israel Uncensored, Hasten says that history has taught that appeasing terrorists in our region or kicking the can down the road, does not yield results. Even though the administration in Washington has adapted policies showcasing weakness, Israel must stand strong with threats on many fronts.
In a military operation many are comparing to the “Raid on Entebbe,” the IDF, counter terrorism police, and the Israel Security Agency, rescued four Israeli hostages from the clutches of Hamas in Gaza. All were being held in “civilian” homes in central Gaza. On today’s Israel Uncensored, Josh Hasten discusses the operation which lifted the spirits of a nation. Unfortunately, it was with mixed emotions as a member of the elite Yamam force, which led the raid, Commander Arnon Zamora, HY”D, was killed during the hostage extraction.
On today’s Israel Uncensored, Josh Hasten discusses the three-staged ceasefire proposal between Israel and Hamas, laid out by U.S. president Joe Biden. Hasten says that bottom line, the plan would leave the Hamas terrorist organization afloat, and in control of Gaza. He says that Israel must not accept any type of agreement that does not meet Israel’s three conditions towards ending the war: the removal of Hamas from power, the return of the hostages, and the disarming of Gaza, so that it no longer poses a threat to the Jewish State.
No Impact on Israel’s International Relations After Rafah Incident: Middle East Correspondent
President Joe Biden is not changing his policy toward Israel after a recent strike led to more civilian deaths in Gaza. Senior White House officials say Israel hasn’t launched a major ground operation in Rafah yet, or crossed any red line that would change U.S. support.
Hamas Wants Civilians Killed for PR: Middle East Correspondent
On May 26, an Israeli airstrike in Rafah led to the deaths of 45 Palestinians, many of whom are women and children according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry. NTD spoke with Josh Hasten, Middle East correspondent at Jewish News Syndicate, about media fallout from the incident that comes just days after the United Nations International Court of Justice ordered Israel to end its assault in Rafah.
Josh Hasten on NTD News
Iran began holding funeral processions on May 21 for the regime’s president Ebrahim Raisi and other officials killed in a helicopter crash.
Josh Hasten, a Middle East correspondent at Jewish News Syndicate, tells NTD that Mr. Raisi’s death will have little impact on the war in Gaza because he was a puppet of the regime’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei.