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Ceasefire Negotiations Stall as Hamas Refuses to Provide Israel With List of Hostages Who Remain Alive
BICOM BICOM provides accurate, timely and balanced information that is read by officials, experts, journalists and many others. What’s happened: After what had initially appeared to be a promising week of negotiations, talks between Israel and Hamas have now stalled. * While Israel is understood to have agreed in principle
Russia Sponsors Pow Wow with Palestinian Terrorists
Dave Patterson libertynation.com Russian President Vladimir Putin sponsored an outreach to Palestinian terrorists. Does Russia really need Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and 14 other Palestinian Liberation Organization members as pals? Apparently, the Russian president believes he does. On February 29, representatives from these terrorist factions met in Moscow
Day 144 of the War: News in Brief
BICOM BICOM provides accurate, timely and balanced information that is read by officials, experts, journalists and many others. 1. Several incidents yesterday signalled a ratcheting up of tensions between Israel and Hezbollah on the northern border and an escalation of military actions on both sides. First, Hezbollah shot down an
Cautious Optimism Over Latest Hostage Release Talks
BICOM BICOM provides accurate, timely and balanced information that is read by officials, experts, journalists and many others. What’s happened: Following the success of initial talks with US, Egyptian, and Qatari mediators in Paris, an Israeli team has been dispatched to Qatar to continue negotiations which could lead to
Welcome to the Woke Reich
As I wrote during the Covid pandemic, I’d often wondered what it must have been like to be in say, Berlin, Rome, or Shanghai, and watch the world around you slide inexorably into totalitarianism. Well, now I know. Unfortunately, Covid was very far from the end of the story.
One Step Closer to the Abyss
The rise to power of the worst dictators of modern history was too often abetted by the weakness or connivance of police forces. In Italy, the weakness of its police forces meant that they were easily browbeaten by the Fascists (where they didn’t willfully co-operate). Similarly, in Weimar
PM Netanyahu Presents Plan for ‘Day After Hamas’
BICOM BICOM provides accurate, timely and balanced information that is read by officials, experts, journalists and many others. What’s happened: On Thursday night, Prime Minister Netanyahu presented the security cabinet with his proposal for ‘the day after Hamas’. * The plan was presented as a draft platform for further discussion,
Prince William’s Brain Fart
Prince William asking for a cease-fire between Hamas and Israel is a load of absolute uninformed woke rubbish. There is no way a stand-alone cease-fire could ever last with Hamas. Remember Hamas attacked, killed, raped, tortured and beheaded many of those 1400 Jews on October 7th then
In Today’s Good News…
It may be a bit soon to smile at his obituary, but for now I’ll just enjoy a hearty guffaw at his sickbed. Oh dear, how sad: Yahya Sinwar is very, very ill. Pass me my tiniest violin, Jeeves, and here’s to a shortage of antibiotics. Yahya Sinwar,
Israel Continues to Fight Across Multiple Fronts
BICOM BICOM provides accurate, timely and balanced information that is read by officials, experts, journalists and many others. Gaza Strip: The IDF continues to operate in the northern, central, and southern Gaza Strip against Hamas combatants and its terror infrastructure. * In Khan Yunis the IDF announced Tuesday, “troops are continuing
ICJ Begins Hearing Case on West Bank and East Jerusalem
BICOM BICOM provides accurate, timely and balanced information that is read by officials, experts, journalists and many others. What’s happened: The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague yesterday began hearing the case on the “legal consequences” of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
IDF Claims Victory in Khan Yunis
BICOM BICOM provides accurate, timely and balanced information that is read by officials, experts, journalists and many others. What happened: 18 of Hamas’s 24 battalions have been defeated and the Khan Yunis Brigade is now no longer effectively operating. * 200 terrorists have surrendered at the city’s Nasser Hospital,
Who Profited From Oct 7?
As we are all well aware, Hamas’ commanders live in luxury while their ‘brother and sister martyrs’ starve amid the rubble of the war they started. We also know only too well that most of their vast wealth is siphoned off from the billions of dollars of ‘aid’ money that
Gaza: Hands up Who Isn’t in Hamas
Is there anyone in Gaza who isn’t a member of Hamas? So far on the Hamas payroll have been UN workers, medicos, ambulance drivers, photojournalists, Palestinian day workers, not to mention its (voluntary or otherwise) army of “martyrs”, as well as sundry head-choppers, rapists, baby-killers and rocket-