Christmas in Bethlehem:

For the first time, the Bethlehem Municipality has decided not to put up the traditional Christmas tree in Manger Square.

Instead, they put up a "nativity scene" featuring stones and a barbed wire fence in solidarity with the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

The Christians in Bethlehem are only doing this under pressure from radical Muslims and Hamas. Weeks ago, Palestinian Christians had to cancel their Christmas celebrations in Palestinian cities in order to demonstrate their sympathy to their Muslim neighbors.

While Palestinian Church leaders repeatedly talk about peaceful coexistence with their Muslim neighbors, it's all a lie. The "peace" is only maintained so long as the Christians comply.

We wish the Palestinian Christians a blessed Christmas and hope for them to one day be free, as the Christians in Israel are free.

And we want to take a moment to remind everyone: Jesus came as a Jew, NOT a Palestinian.

Netanyahu: We know the general whereabouts of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.

IDF officials say they are conducting a determined search for Hezbollah tunnels running under the northern border.

President Isaac Hertzog urges Israeli politicians to stop bickering against one another.

“Our enemies are celebrating the division between us.”

Anti-Israel protest in the Netherlands: 8,000 pairs of shoes representing 8,000 Palestinian children who Palestinian sources claim were killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip.

Couple of points:

1. This number is simply being accepted at face value with no evidence because it neatly fits the mainstream anti-Israel narrative.

2. Those responsible for any dead children in Gaza are Hamas, who not only prevented Gaza civilians from fleeing combat zones when Israel urged them to, but carried out its terrorist activities from inside and near civilian institutions and homes.

In recent weeks, more and more Palestinians are admitting this in interrogation and on social media. But don't expect the evidence to sway those who have decided Israel is guilty.

Delusional, or disconnected?

Al Jazeera reports that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, writing from a tunnel somewhere under southern Gaza, informed the terror group's "political leadership" abroad that his forces have killed 1,600 Israeli soldiers.

If he's talking about casualties during the IDF ground war in Gaza, Sinwar is either delusional, or disconnected and being fed lies by his own men.

As of this morning, 155 IDF soldiers have fallen in combat in the Gaza Strip.

Of course, Sinwar could be referring to the total number of Israelis killed by Hamas since the morning of October 7.

While every Palestinian is seen as a civilian, every Israeli is seen as a soldier.

The commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Syria, Razi Mousavi, was eliminated in Damascus.

Israel is of course blamed for this (and that might indeed be accurate), and the IRGC is vowing revenge.

"This war is far from over," Netanyahu says while visiting the troops in Gaza. "We won't stop until all victory conditions are met."

Santa Claus having a rough time today in Lebanon.

In the parking area at the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza, Israeli troops found a car stolen from an Israeli town in southern Gaza with blood stains belonging to abducted Israelis, as well as a pickup truck that took part in the Hamas invasion of October 7.

Yet more evidence that Gaza hospitals are used as bases for terrorist actiivity.

💔 Heartbreaking...

Elisha Yehonatan Lober chatting with his wife and young child just two hours before he fell in combat in the Gaza Strip.

2024 - A fateful year?

With elections in the US, Russia, the European Union and India, fateful decisions will be made over the coming 12 months that will determine global politics for many years to come.

And with major wars raging in Gaza and Ukraine, leaders in those nations are heaviliy influenced by the resulting security and economic implications of conflict.

We are indeed living in fateful times.

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