Garinei Nachal – The Next Military Frontier
The Lobby for the Renewal of Jewish Settlement in the Gaza Strip met in the Knesset on Sunday. The meeting was initiated by lobby chairs MK Limor Son Har-Melech and MK Tzvi Sukkot, in partnership with the Nachala settlement movement.
The meeting focused on the launch of so-called “Garinei Nachal” (military youth communities) in the Gaza Strip, and followed recent statements by Defense Minister Israel Katz, who has said several times that Israel will establish such communities in the northern Gaza Strip.
Deputy Knesset Speaker and chair of the Lobby for the Renewal of Jewish Settlement in the Gaza Strip, MK Limor Son Har-Melech, said in a request to Defense Minister Israel Katz: “…This is the right direction – the security and moral approach required at this time. Establishing military youth groups is the first and necessary step toward solidifying our presence on the ground.”
Weiss stated, “Everybody knows, I believe that Trump will also understand, that we are going to stay in Gaza forever. Gaza does not belong to the people who now threaten us all the time. Gaza belongs to the people of Israel and today was a historical moment.”
The Truth Cannot Be Hidden
In the ancient tunnels beneath Jerusalem’s Western Wall, where 2,000-year-old ritual baths still hold water and massive Herodian stones bear witness to Jewish sovereignty, two unlikely companions walked side by side through layers of history that Islamic authorities have tried to bury—literally. Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of Hamas co-founder Hassan Yousef, stood next to Knesset Member Ohad Tal as they examined the archaeological evidence that demolishes Palestinian claims to Jerusalem stone by stone.
Thirty feet underground, the three reveal truths about the Jewish Temples that the Muslim authorities tried to hide under tons of concrete.
Mosab said: “Why haven’t they found any coin or rocks that proves any Palestinian history here? If it’s so easy to use science to manipulate people, why they haven’t managed to find even a single coin that proves any Palestinian history here?” The answer, of course, is that no such evidence exists because the Palestinian narrative is fabricated. He bluntly stated: “Their name is fake. Their cause is a bloody fake cause, and their entitlement to anything is ridiculous.”
Despite the efforts of Islamic authorities, their propaganda aimed at Israel cannot obscure or eliminate 3,000 years of Jewish history. The evidence is clearly visible and sustains the truth.
Advancing Long-Term Measures
At a ceremony in Beit El on Tuesday, Defense Minister Israel Katz stated that the government is advancing long-term measures, including the establishment of Nahal settlements in northern Gaza. He described Israel’s current policy in Gaza as “practical sovereignty.”
The defense minister participated in a ceremony marking the construction of approximately 1,200 housing units in the Beit El community near Ramallah, in Samaria. In his remarks, Katz said, “We are in a period of practical sovereignty. There are opportunities here that have not existed for a long time.” He noted that the government is working to implement long-term measures from a broad strategic perspective.
The Sovereignty Movement, led by Yehudit Katzover and Nadia Matar commented:
“Honorable Defense Minister Katz,
With your declaration on bringing Nahal units to settle northern Gaza, we feel the beginning of victory in the Iron Swords war.
Settlement is the true blow to the Arab enemy.
We are also expecting the decisive blow — the application of Israeli sovereignty over Gaza and, of course, over Judea and Samaria.
Honorable Minister, your many actions show that you are committed to the goal and do not flinch leftward.
Continue to act in the spirit of Joshua and Caleb: ‘We shall surely go up and conquer!’”
Well said Yehudit and Nadia!
Sa-Nur is Returning Home
The Supreme Planning Council is set to convene under the leadership of Finance Minister and Defense Minister Bezalel Smotrich to approve a series of construction plans in Judea and Samaria, with a primary focus on the renewal of the community of Sa-Nur in northern Samaria.
The main plan calls for the construction of 126 housing units, along with commercial areas, road infrastructure, and public institutions, including kindergartens and schools.
The move represents a significant step in implementing the government decision approved last May, when Smotrich and Defense Minister Israel Katz authorized the renewal of settlement in the area.
Smotrich welcomed the development, stating, “What is happening here is the correction of a historical injustice and the practical realization of a Zionist vision. Sa-Nur is returning home not through slogans, but through plans, budgets, roads, and concrete action on the ground. Together with the approval of Ganim and Kadim and the long-awaited return to Homesh, this marks the transition from declarations to implementation, through professional, determined, and coordinated work at all levels. This is a national step to strengthen settlement, deepen our hold on the land, and make de facto sovereignty a clear and irreversible reality.”
Just as Yehudah in Parshat Vayigash advances, the settlement movement does as well. May it go from strength to strength!
WOW!! Incredible UN Budget Funds Israel Hatred
The United Nations spends roughly $100 million per year on reports, debates, special mechanisms, and communication activities dedicated almost exclusively to singling out Israel, the Permanent Mission of Israel to the UN said.
“Today we actually showed that these are orchestrated campaigns, well-funded and well-established within the UN budget,” Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon said. “These $100 million, which will be approved in the coming days in the new UN budget, are spent on activities against the government of Israel and against the IDF.”
Israeli officials said that what has been exposed regarding the UN’s allocation of budgetary funds is not a call to defund humanitarian aid or silence legitimate criticism. Instead, this is meant to put an end to a system that has normalized discrimination, rewarded bias, and wasted vast sums of the public’s money.
“We are sharing the information, and we are grateful to the US mission, which is taking a moral stand against the funding of these bodies,” Danon said. “Despite the huge amount of money directed against Israel, we will continue to stand strong and proud against the bias of UN organizations.”
It is time for the UN to focus on the real human rights abuses and true genocides going on in the world and stop diverting attention to these by consistently going after the only democracy in the Middle East!
Holidays, Signals and Demands
The upscale restaurant at President Donald J. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago is expected to be especially crowded next week. That will not only be because Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his entourage are arriving at US President Donald Trump’s estate, but mainly because both leaders’ plates will be overflowing.
Netanyahu is expected to lay out the threats Israel faces and the possible courses of action, including with regard to Iran, Syria, Lebanon and Gaza. For dessert, if he does his job properly, he will remind his host that Egypt is systematically violating the peace treaty and playing a double game not only with Israel but also with the Americans.
Trump, for his part, will likely tell Netanyahu that his own military is fighting as well. In neighboring Syria, US forces carried out a wide-ranging airstrike on Saturday. At almost the same time, the US Navy seized an oil tanker that had sailed from Venezuela.
Trump has taken these offensive actions while repeatedly declaring that he has no interest in wars. In this term, as the whole world knows, he sees himself as a global peacemaker. But Venezuela, he says, is flooding the US with lethal drugs, leaving no choice but to work toward toppling its president.
Terrorist groups persist in their objective of dismantling Israel, and in light of the lack of total disarmament, Israel has the right to protect itself from every angle. While Trump may not wish to be forever involved in the unfinished war Israel still faces, it is essential that he allows Israel to make decisions based on its own assessment to resolve the ongoing attacks against it. Indeed, the war has gone on for too long for individuals outside of Israel; however, for Israel, the task remains incomplete, and the imperative for terrorists to surrender their weapons is essential for concluding the war and Israel finally seeing a lasting peace.
Source:
Will Washington align with Jerusalem?, by Ariel Kahana/Israel Hayom, December 21, 2025
PowerPoint Has No Truth
Another glossy plan has landed on the desk of President Trump. This one is called “Project Sunrise.” Its vision? Rebuilding Gaza into a smart, high-tech, AI-managed Mediterranean beach riviera for the jihadi Muslims in Gaza. Towers. Resorts. Innovation hubs. A Middle Eastern Singapore rising from the ashes.
It sounds impressive. It also sounds completely detached from reality.
Because here is the truth no PowerPoint slide presentation can escape: no country on earth will invest one dollar in Gaza so long as jihadi terrorists are armed in Gaza, with Israel prepared to return and destroy them.
Not for high-tech infrastructure. Not for beachfront resorts. Not even to clear the rubble. Everyone knows it. The diplomats know it. The investors know it. And Hamas knows it too.
Which means that Project Sunrise, like so many Gaza “day after” fantasies before it, is built on a condition the world has proven utterly incapable of delivering, the demilitarization of Gaza.
Don’t Fall for False Facts
The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) last Friday issued a sharp rebuttal to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis report on Gaza, rejecting what it described as biased and predetermined conclusions that ignore data on humanitarian aid deliveries.
According to COGAT, the report’s authors formally acknowledged that there is no famine in Gaza, despite previously making what COGAT termed false claims, while still asserting a situation of acute food insecurity.
In an official response, COGAT stated: “COGAT strongly rejects the claims and conclusions presented in the IPC report published today (Friday), which once again portrays a distorted, biased, and unfounded picture of the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip. The report relies on severe gaps in data collection and on sources that do not reflect the full scope of humanitarian assistance. As such, it misleads the international community, fuels disinformation, and presents a false depiction of the reality on the ground.”
COGAT concluded: “The publication of statements and warnings that are not based on complete and verified data does not advance the humanitarian response. Instead, it harms it and diverts the discussion from the real challenge – improving collection and distribution mechanisms within the Gaza Strip and preventing Hamas from taking control of the aid.” The statement added that the international community must “avoid falling for false narratives and distorted information.”
Source:
COGAT rejects IPC report, says Gaza not facing famine, by Israel National News, December 19, 2025
Environmental Terrorism is a National Security Threat
Israeli leaders met Thursday to discuss plans to combat illegal Palestinian waste processing sites, where trash is burned without oversight or sorting, resulting in toxic air pollution which impacts Israeli towns on both sides of the Green Line.
During the meeting, the ministers decided to designate the illegal fires and the resulting air pollution as a national security threat, declaring the phenomenon a national emergency.
Defense Minister Israel Katz and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich vowed aggressive enforcement efforts to put a stop to the illegal garbage burning operations, which regularly leave towns in central Israel like Modi’in, Shoham, and Rosh Ha’Ayin blanketed with toxic black smoke.
Smotrich called the illegal fires “environmental terrorism,” lamenting that the smoke not only harms Israeli residents of Judea and Samaria but also crosses the Green Line into pre-1967 Israeli towns. It is estimated that no fewer than 1400 Israelis die annually due to this eco-terrorism.
“Environmental terrorism proves that the Green Line is virtual, and when Judea and Samaria are the backyard of the State of Israel, it is the entire people of Israel who are harmed. We are erasing the Green Line and taking responsibility.”
A new dedicated enforcement unit is set to be deployed next year to shut down illegal garbage burning sites and to prosecute those operating them, while Israeli firefighters will be enlisted to extinguish unauthorized fires.
Traffic Volumes Harm Security
Samaria mayors and governors recently wrote to the ministers of Defense, Finance, National Security, Transportation and Justice demanding a change in the policy for entry of Israeli citizens into Area A and equal enforcement at the security crossings.
The appeal comes against the backdrop of unusual traffic congestion at the Eliyahu crossing and on key routes in the area, which, they say, pose an immediate danger to Israelis. The congestion spills onto Route 55 and affects tens of thousands of Israelis in communities such as Karnei Shomron, Kedumim, Emanuel and the Gav HaHar region.
This constitutes a real security and safety risk, particularly in light of two shooting attacks that occurred in the area over the past year and a half. They cite the absence of a systemic response despite proposed solutions, including the reopening of another crossing that previously operated.