David Collier investigates the BBC

Once again the BBC is called to task for its biased Israel reporting.

https://david-collier.com/the-bbcs-spiteful-hamas-propaganda/

October 7th, 3 Years Later.

 Today is the day that has been etched in the memory of (almost) all Israelis. Thoughts take us back to that fateful day: where we were, what we were doing, and how news of the tragedy and atrocities we suffered reached us.

The IDF has reported that 970 soldiers have fallen in operational circumstances during the war since October 7, 2023. In addition, 70% of soldiers wounded in the war have returned to duty.

The IDF struck approximately 100,000 targets on the various fronts:

·        65,000 in the Gaza Strip

·        28,000 in Lebanon and Syria

·        4,500 in Iran

·        80 in Yemen

More than 31,000 rockets were fired at the State of Israel: approximately 10,200 from the Gaza Strip, 20,000 from Lebanon, 1,200 from Iran, 50 from Syria and 90 from Yemen.

As we mourn our fallen soldiers and civilians on this Day of Remembrance, the useful idiots of our enemies march in many places around the world to "celebrate" what is presented as a "victory" over Israel. Governments around the world allow these anti-Israel demonstrations to take place, in a great show of cowardice.

After three years, peace is still far, far away. Israelis have every reason in the world to seriously doubt the plans, conceived in the United States, to bring peace to Israel's southern and northern borders.

Both Gaza and Lebanon continue to have deep-rooted, Iranian-backed terrorist armies deployed against Israel. No one has yet met an Islamist truly willing to give up his weapons.

Hamas is supposed to be stripped of its weapons and Gaza is supposed to be demilitarized by an "International Stabilization Force" (ISF), made up of Moroccan, Albanian, and other troops. The Hamas government is supposed to be replaced by a neutral (non-Hamas) "technocratic government." Members of this government and its "new" police force will have to be "vetted" for their peaceful intentions. This is pure fantasy.

In Lebanon, Hezbollah will also, hypothetically, be "dismantled" or driven out of southern Lebanon by the weak army known as the "Lebanese Armed Forces," infiltrated by Hezbollah. This near-fictitious force, overseen by international observers from the United States and reportedly also from Italy, Switzerland, and Indonesia, will be tasked with "verifying" Hezbollah's disarmament and demise.

On paper, all this is wonderful! But both Hamas and Hezbollah categorically deny that they will disarm, and they have certainly not abandoned their stated ideological commitments. Their founding charters remain unchanged. The goal remains the destruction of the State of Israel.

 

'The Ongoing Genocide against Christians'

                   The Extremist Persecution of Christians, May 2026

        by Raymond Ibrahim  •  September 7, 2026

• On April 8 the family received a WhatsApp call from a Muslim man identifying himself as Sohail Riaz, based in Dubai. He claimed Jia was in his custody and warned them against pursuing the case. Masih said Riaz had contacted her through social media and "groomed her for sexual exploitation under the guise of marriage." — Morning Star News, May 7, 2026, Pakistan.
• The terrorists set fire to the church, parish buildings, and countless homes. Archbishop Antonio Juliasse described it as "a terrifying scene, houses and infrastructure destroyed, a historic parish reduced to rubble." Captured Christians were also "forced to listen to the jihadists' proclamations of hatred." Over the last nine years, more than 300 Christians have been killed, continued the archbishop, adding, "most of them with their throats slit," and "at least 117 churches and chapels destroyed, 23 of them in 2025 alone. — lanuovabq.it, May 2, 2026, Mozambique.
• [A]uthorities completely demolished the Holy Mother of God Cathedral (the main Armenian Apostolic cathedral) and St. Hakob Church in Stepanakert, Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh). Satellite imagery has confirmed both Christian sites were razed to the ground, leaving only paved or cleared ground. The cathedral, consecrated only in 2019, had been the city's primary place of worship. The demolition followed the 2023 Azerbaijani military takeover that forced more than 120,000 Armenian Christians to flee. — christianophobie.fr, May 5, 2026, Azerbaijan
• Police and intelligence reports estimated more than 5,000 Muslims participated in the rioting, arson, and church attacks. Nearly 400 were initially arrested, but most, later, received bail, acquittal, or discharge. Of 336 suspects charged, only one remains in prison. — morningstarnews.org, May 22, 2026, Pakistan.
• "How many more churches must be desecrated before the nation fully grasps the gravity of these acts? For when a statue of Christ or the Virgin Mary is broken, when a consecrated place is deliberately vandalized, it is not merely stone, wood, or glass that is being attacked. It is a memory, a faith, and a civilization that some seem intent on trampling." — Tribune Chrétienne, May 26, 2026, France.

The following are among the murders and abuses Muslims inflicted on Christians throughout the month of May 2026.

Muslim Slaughter of Christians

Nigeria: On May 3, "Muslim Fulani gunmen killed five Christians in a fresh attack on Fan village," resident Bot James reported. The victims were ambushed returning home from their businesses. Fulani assailants in the same county also killed two Christians in Kassa village on April 27 and four Christians -- while injuring five others -- in Hurum village on April 19.

On May 8, Muslim Fulani gunmen killed 13 Christians in a pre-dawn attack on the community of Ngbra Zongo in Plateau State. "The attack has left dozens of other Christians injured, hundreds of others displaced," a spokesperson for the community related. Three pregnant women were among the dead.

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Israel Aid From America is ONLY 0.3% of the Total Aid

 

How Palestinians Blame Jews For "Their Acts"

by Leah Zakh Aharoni

 Every time the pro-Palestinian movement accuses Israel of an atrocity, I have started paying attention to what they are describing. They are describing themselves! Every single time.

Genocide?

The Hamas 1988 charter, Article 7 explicitly calls for the killing of Jews wherever they are found. Not Israelis. Not Zionists. Jews. Yes anti-Zionist Jews, it includes you! As a global project. Written down. Never rescinded in any meaningful way.

Ethnic cleansing?

Every Arab country that hosted a Jewish community expelled its Jews after 1948 or severely persecuted them. Egypt, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Syria, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco. Over 850,000 Jews forced from their homes. Israel absorbed them all. No one talks about them.

Occupation?

Jordan illegally occupied Judea and Samaria from 1948 to 1967. Egypt illegally occupied Gaza. Ethnically cleansed every Jew from the territory. Destroyed 58 synagogues in the Old City of Jerusalem. Paved roads with headstones from the Mount of Olives Jewish cemetery.

And successive terrorist organizations from PLO to Hezbollah have occupied Southern Lebanon with just one aim of firing rockets into Israel.

Apartheid?

Every Palestinian Arab document on the future Palestinian state specifies that no Jew will be permitted to live there. The PA has repeated this explicitly. Their vision of statehood is a Jew-free state. Their word for it is Judenrein.

They are not describing us. They are describing themselves.

But it goes deeper than the accusations. They are also projecting their entire worldview onto us.

Political Islamist movements, the same movements that fund and run the pro-Palestinian propaganda machine, operate from a specific cultural frame. And they cannot imagine that anyone operates from a different one.

Their frame is the glory of death. The Hamas charter cites the Islamic tradition promising that "the trees and the stones will say: 'O Muslim, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.'" That is Article 7. It is the founding document of their movement.

Their military wing is called the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, named after a jihadi killed while fighting Jews in Mandate Palestine.

Their suicide bombers are recruited with the promise of 72 virgins in paradise, a mainstream hadith cited by every jihadist organization from Hamas to ISIS. Children are taught this promise in Hamas schools before they can read.

Their funerals for terrorists are celebrated as weddings. The mother of a suicide bomber ululates in joy. The community distributes sweets. The martyr's photograph goes on the wall of the school he attended.

The Palestinian Authority pays lifetime salaries to the families of terrorists, the more Jews their relative killed, the higher the payment. "Pay for Slay" is a real, documented, ongoing PA policy.

Now here is the Jewish frame.

U'vacharta ba'chaim. Choose life. It is not a suggestion. It is a Torah commandment.

The Talmud states: "Whoever saves a single life, it is as if he saved an entire world." One human life is a universe.

Pikuach nefesh, the preservation of a single human life, overrides almost every commandment in the Torah. You can break Shabbat to save a life. You can break the fast on Yom Kippur to save a life. You can eat forbidden food to save a life. You can violate almost every ritual law to save a life. This is not a loophole. This is the whole point.

Our mourner's prayer, the Kaddish, does not even mention death. Not once. It is a praise of God's greatness. Because in the Jewish frame, even in the presence of death, we speak of life.

We named our first modern political movement "chibbat Zion" the love of Zion. Not the death of anyone. The love of a place. The desire to live there..

Our national anthem is called Hatikvah. The Hope. Not "The Vengeance." Not "The Conquest." The Hope.

They cannot see this.

They cannot see that when Israel does something, we are usually doing it because we are trying to keep our children alive. Not because we want theirs dead.

When Israel drops leaflets before a bombing, when Israel calls Arab phones to warn them to evacuate, when Israel opens humanitarian corridors even during active war, this is not weakness. This is Jewish law. Life is precious. Even the life of the population that houses your enemy is precious. And often the IDF goes to such extraordinary lengths that it endangers our own soldiers.

They cannot see this because in their frame, warning your enemy is stupidity. In their frame, showing mercy is defeat. In their frame, the goal is death, theirs, ours, everyone's, as long as it advances the political-religious project.

The Accusations

When they accuse Israel of genocide, they are describing what they would do to us if the roles were reversed. And we only need to look to October 7 to know that.

When they accuse us of wanting all the land, they are describing their own program from the river to the sea.

When they accuse us of killing children, they are describing the strategy they use, hiding rockets in kindergartens, using children as human shields, training six-year-olds to stab Jews.

Projection is not just a rhetorical move. It is what happens when a movement built on death encounters a people built on life and cannot imagine any other frame exists.

They have accused Israel of every crime in the human catalog. But they have described only themselves.

Look at what they say we do. Then look at what they actually do.

And then tell me who has the mentality of life, and who has the mentality of death.

What Every American Should Know About U.S. Aid to Israel

Much is argued against the $3.8 bill aid given by the USA. But it is not all one way. Beyond Israeli contributions to the F-35 program saving billions in US R & D and related aviation technology, supporters of the aid relationship point to several areas:

1. Intelligence Sharing

Israel provides intelligence on: Iran's nuclear and missile programs , Terrorist organizations such as Hamas, Hezbollah, ISIS affiliates, and others, Russian and Chinese military equipment used in the Middle East, U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies cooperate extensively on counterterrorism and regional security. 

2. Missile Defense Development

Joint development of: Iron Dome, David's Sling and  Arrow 3. These programs involve shared technology, testing, and co-production between U.S. and Israeli firms. �

3. Combat Testing and Operational Experience

Israel frequently operates U.S.-made systems in real combat environments. This is sometimes described as Israel acting as a "real-world laboratory" for certain systems, although the value of this is debated.

4. Cybersecurity and Technology

Cooperation in: Cyber defense, Artificial intelligence applications, Unmanned systems and Electronic warfare.

5. Defense Industrial Benefits for the U.S.

Most U.S. military aid to Israel must be spent on American-made equipment. Thus, that means much of the money flows back to U.S. defense companies such as Lockheed Martin⁠�, Boeing⁠�, and Raytheon⁠�.

Missile-defense co-production involves numerous American manufacturers and workers. �

6. Strategic Presence in the Middle East

Many U.S. policymakers view Israel as a reliable regional ally in a volatile region. The alliance provides: Military cooperation, Joint exercises, Pre-positioned U.S. military stockpiles and Access to regional intelligence. �

In Short

If you exclude the F-35 and related R&D, the biggest benefits usually cited are:

Intelligence on Iran and regional threats.
Joint missile-defense technologies.
Combat experience and operational feedback on U.S. weapons.
Cybersecurity and defense-tech cooperation.
Economic benefits to the U.S. defense industry.
A close strategic ally in the Middle East.

Mapping Qatar’s $400 Billion Footprint in the United States

 Qatar Buys Influence in the USA

for the full report go to: https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2026/06/03/mapping-qatars-400-billion-footprint-in-the-united-states/ 

Why has a country of just 330,000 citizens that is half the size of New Jersey and a leading patron of the Muslim Brotherhood plowed $400 billion dollars into the United States? This amounts to approximately $1.2 million per Qatari citizen — an enormous sum.

Foundation for Defense of Democracies has collected the receipts for these Qatari transactions, most of which have taken place over the past decade. But it is noted that $400 billion is a lowside estimate. If you take the word of Qatari government estimates or even the White House, the total number may exceed $1.2 trillion.

Some Americans may welcome the generosity of the Qatari regime. After all, one could argue that a great many of these investments — spanning energy, defense, biotech and other important sectors — serve to benefit the U.S. economy and U.S. citizens.

But Qatar is different. There are more than a few reasons to question the largesse of the Qatari government. At the end of the day, Qatar is ruled by an Islamist, autocratic regime; Freedom House consistently ranks the country as “Not Free” in its annual survey World survey. Qatar’s tendency to support jihadi causes in the Middle East raise significantly more concern. The country’s horrific track record in this regard distinguishes Qatar from other Gulf states that spread their wealth in America.

Qatar is a longstanding patron of Hamas, the terrorist group that plunged the Middle East into violence on October 7, 2023. Finally, it is the primary patron of the Muslim Brotherhood, a global network of violent and nonviolent Islamist groups that seek the downfall of the West. 

To whitewash these offenses, the Qataris wield the Al-Jazeera Media Network, which broadcasts in multiple languages and multiple formats, to spread the regime’s messages. Al Jazeera’s U.S.-based affiliate, AJ+, has defied U.S. law for over five years by failing to register as a foreign agent.

It is for these reasons, and perhaps others, that Qatar’s massive investments in the United States should be scrutinized. Some of these investments include naked influence-peddling — from sponsorship of the annual congressional baseball game to annual White House correspondents’ dinner parties. The Qataris spend an enormous amount on lobby groups and public relations, which helps ensure that their investments continue with minimal scrutiny.

Perhaps most disturbing is the massive amount this small Islamic state has invested in American education. Qatar has half as many citizens as Washington, DC, has residents. Yet somehow, it has surpassed China as the largest foreign funder of American colleges and universities.

In an era of heightened cognitive combat, disinformation, and foreign influence, it is time for the United States government to look not just at China and Russia, but other autocratic states — and maybe democracies, too.

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) is a U.S. government body that scrutinizes investments by foreign governments in industries and businesses that could leave America vulnerable. It is time for CFIUS to address concerns about foreign influence in addition to national security risks.

The report by FDD provides a good first glimpse at Qatari dollars in America. It is certainly not the final word on the problem. But it should prompt a serious discussion. From there, one can only hope that a more serious national dialogue, followed by legislation or other government measures, can begin to tackle the problem.

America should be open to foreign direct investment, but not unwanted foreign influence. Qatar may only be one of many nondemocratic regimes seeking to buy sway in the USA.