Defense Minister Galant said goodbye to the IDF General Staff Forum: “This forum carries the burden of security on its shoulders and has led the war in the last year in a very impressive way. This is a very difficult, very prolonged and very just war, and I think you are doing it in an impressive way – the war of seven fronts from Tehran to Gaza.

“I saw you in the difficult hours of failure on the seventh of October and I also saw you in the moments of recovery, and I saw the IDF bring unprecedented achievements, and the security system bring unprecedented achievements that have never been seen before. We changed the balance of power in the Middle East – from Gaza to Tehran, From Hodeidah to Daha’ah, in all these places things happened that had never happened before, and we pushed our enemies back decades…

“And finally, together with you, I am committed to returning the abducted, you are in the practical role and I will follow you and back you up, and of course to support the bereaved families and to assist and rehabilitate the wounded, the disabled, the injured in whatever way we can, we should always remember who went with us and what we are obligated to.”

Good words, and he’s a good man, like all our IDF soldiers.

Khamenei, the Supreme Idiot Leader of the Iranian Barbarians, woke up this morning and decided to make the following statement to the “experts” of the Iranian Council of Interests: “The jihad will continue in Lebanon, Gaza and Palestine and this is what will lead to the victory of the ‘resistance’. Although Hezbollah does not currently have prominent leaders like Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine, their spirit is inside the bodies of Hezbollah fighters. The world will clearly see how these Hezbollah fighters will defeat the Zionist entity.”

I guess that means he thinks Nasrallah’s replacement, Naim Kassem, is chopped liver. How insulting! Ha! These are backward primitives, all of them.

In the meantime, while he talks the IDF is cleansing southern Lebanon of Hezbollah weapons and operatives that endanger Israelis living in Northern Israel, now exiled from their homes. The photos are spectacular. With the press of a button, one hundred targets are exploded simultaneously in Meiss el-Jabal. Wonderful!

Today, the IDF destroyed the house of the sister of Nabih Berri, the speaker of the Lebanese parliament and the chairman of the Amal Shia movement, in the village of Tebnine in southern Lebanon, as well as the homes of many of Berri’s cousins. The city of Tyre is under heavy IDF fire as well.

The IDF spokesman reports this morning that: “Among the targets struck (by the air force in Lebanon) were approximately 20 terror targets in the area of Baalbek and north of the Litani River, in which approximately 60 Hezbollah terrorists were eliminated.” Excellent! Throw down your arms and surrender!

Abu Ali: “Haj Abdullah Abu Haidar, the uncle of Hassan Nasrallah and three of his family members were killed yesterday (the 40th day since Nasrallah’s death) in an IDF attack in Bazouriyeh in the Tyre district, southern Lebanon.”

In Gaza, rocket fire towards the Gaza Envelope (no one was hurt) has led to evacuation notices in the west of Gaza City from which the fire originated. Terrorists who embed with civilians cause them to be uprooted and moved again and again. No one seems to care. There are reports Gazans will not be allowed to return to the north at all – too close to the border with Israel.

Photos of dozens of Nukba terrorists rounded up and arrested in Gaza are on social media. Apparently, they are finding fewer places to hide. In my opinion, the time has come for them to be tried and if found guilty of murder, rape, or kidnap taken out and executed by firing squad. I don’t agree for my tax money to feed them.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced that he is working with the National Insurance to prevent a situation where self-employed reservists are forced to pay debts to the National Insurance incurred due to prolonged service in the reserves. But this can only be done through legislation.

“I’ve been self-employed in the food field for five years,” reservist Ben Sasson told Ynet today. “I have a cafe on Herzl in Ramat Gan, and I also have a business for making malabi [a dessert]. On October 7, I was drafted into the reserves, and in the first round I served for 100 days. Last September, I was drafted for another 14 days, and next week I am going out for another 14 days. Last month I found out to my astonishment that my salary for September did not come in, without being informed about it. [National Insurance pays reservists’ salaries when they are drafted based on their average earnings.] When I started to investigate this matter I found out that I am in debt for 14 thousand shekels for the National Insurance, of which the National Insurance has already collected 12 thousand shekels from me.”

How did this happen?! Well, since in the last months of 2023 this person had almost no income because he was in the reserves, the National Insurance offsets the advances it transferred to him. This is a completely absurd situation. “That’s right. The National Insurance actually says that it paid me too much, and that I have to return this money.” Hopefully, this absurd situation will change soon.

Regarding the elections, I would like to say this. It is not just Trump who was voted in and Biden-Harris voted out. It was Trump and every pro-Israel, anti-woke, pro-Jewish politician and activist that will be entering the new administration, flushing out the anti-Israel, anti-Semitic, pro- woke, perverts-reading-to-toddlers advocates, disgraceful university administrators, weak on crime, and defund policing, pro-Hamas terrorist demonstrators, pro-illegal immigrants and open border advocates that will be flushed out. It is time to celebrate a clean sweep, a moment of hope where America can go back to being the kind of country that made people proud to be Americans; that made people from all over the world dream about coming to America.

The Communists will be flushed out into the open. The collaborationists with Communist China will be outed and confronted for stealing technology and buying American farmland. And for this we must all rejoice and be grateful.

I know I am.

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