Iran Begins Rebuilding Missile Sites, but a Key Component Is Missing - Jon Gambrell (AP)
    Iran has begun rebuilding missile-production sites targeted by Israel during its 12-day war in June, satellite images show, but a key component is likely still missing - the large planetary mixers needed to produce solid fuel for the weapons.
    Iran could purchase them from China.

UK Decision to Recognize Palestinian State Could Lead to UK Paying 2 Trillion Pounds in Reparations - Gabriel Millard-Clothier (Daily Mail-UK)
    Britain's decision to recognize a state of Palestine could lead to demands for the UK to pay more than 2 trillion pounds in reparations to the country, legal experts have said.
    Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is demanding "reparations in accordance with international law" for land "taken from the Palestinian people" when Britain relinquished control of the region, based on the value of the land which was under British rule between 1917 and 1948.
    Some international law experts have described 2 trillion pounds, roughly the size of Britain's total economy, as a "good place to start."

At UN, Indonesian President Says Guaranteeing Israel's Security Is Key to Peace (Times of Israel)
    Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto told the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, "We must also recognize, we must also respect, and we must also guarantee the safety and security of Israel. Only then we can have real peace."
    Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim country and does not have relations with Israel.

Why Arab States, Palestinian Authority Will Not Run Gaza's "Day-After" - Prof. Hillel Frisch (Jerusalem Post)
    Commentators raise the possibility that Gaza, "the day after," will be run by the Palestinian Authority (PA) with the support of the moderate countries - Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE.
    The crucial role of these countries stems from the PA's weakness. Since the PA will not be able to deal with Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza, only the crucial policing role of moderate Arab countries can render PA rule in Gaza viable.
    The problem is that a close reading of the statements of these states proves that they are not prepared to play that role in Gaza.
    At a conference of the Arab League that convened in Cairo this past March, Jordan and Egypt were content to train PA police forces to ensure security in Gaza. There is not a single word about the willingness of these countries to contribute their own forces toward ensuring security in Gaza.
    On the contrary, the league member states emphasize that security "is an exclusive Palestinian responsibility to be managed by the legitimate Palestinian institutions."
    A Joint Declaration on Developments in Gaza published in August by Arab and non-Arab Muslim countries once again included no commitment on the part of the signatory countries to provide internal security in Gaza.
    Gaza must not be viewed through rose-colored glasses. No one will eradicate Hamas for us.
    The writer is professor emeritus at Bar-Ilan University and a senior researcher at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security.

Israel Is Decimating Hamas Infrastructure Using Explosive-Laden Unmanned Armored Vehicles (X)
    Army Radio military correspondent Doron Kadosh reveals how Israel is decimating Hamas infrastructure using explosive-laden unmanned armored vehicles to obliterate terror strongholds while dramatically reducing danger to troops.
    Each robotic strike delivers the force of two Air Force bombs, precisely targeting booby-trapped buildings and neutralizing IEDs.
    Deployed dozens of times daily, the APCs drop their explosive payloads, retreat to safety, and detonate remotely, making them reusable instead of expendable.

The Palestinian Nuclear Option - Irwin J. Mansdorf, Ph.D. (Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs)
    The past two years of war have been a lesson in psychological asymmetry, the phenomenon whereby a strong military force "loses" a psychological battle to a weaker force.
    The Western world has fallen victim to the psychological ammunition of a people who have used victimhood psychologically and terror militarily.
    Victimhood is the psychological equivalent of a nuclear weapon. It utterly changes the perceptual landscape and casts fallout that spreads well beyond the borders of the conflict itself.
    It erases any weakness or guilt associated with behavior that would otherwise be considered horrific.
    Victimhood allows an aggressor the freedom to be absolved of any accusation that they, in fact, are responsible for the consequences of their behavior.
    While victimhood may create a psychologically weaker Israel in the West, its effect in the Middle East may be the polar opposite. Here, power, not victimhood, is respected, and Israel is seen as a force to be reckoned with.
    Clear victories in Lebanon and Iran have cast a shadow of grudging respect borne of fear across the entire region.
    In an area where Israel can strike thousands of kilometers from home, there is no appetite to be the next victim.
    The writer is a clinical psychologist and a fellow at the Jerusalem Center specializing in political psychology.

"Kill the Jews!": The Cry Went Out across the World - Howard Jacobson (Telegraph-UK)
    The antisemitism of today is purposive, orchestrated hate, combining Islamic hostility to the very idea of a Jewish state on Arab land; Christian anti-Judaism that goes back two thousand years; and professorial obsession with settler-colonialism, a made-up academic discipline that denominates Zionism as an ideology of conquest, no matter that the first Zionists were returning to their historic homeland as refugees from the pogroms of Eastern Europe.
    As for the argument that you can hate Zionism and not hate Jews, that was blown apart in the first weeks of October 2023 when all such distinctions were dropped in the carnival excitement of the butchering and raping of Jews wherever they came from and whatever they believed.
  "Kill the Jews!," the cry went out across the world. Not just Zionists and Israelis, but all Jews.

Bennett: Recognition of a Palestinian State Will Only Breed More Terrorism (Jerusalem Post)
    Former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett said Sunday on X: "We tried a Palestinian state before and it became a full-blown terror state. From their terrorist state in Gaza, they launched a horrible massacre and slaughtered 1,163 civilians."
    He cited the example of "radicalized Muslim minorities" in France. "They've already said their goal is to kill Christian infidels. They've already launched terror attacks all across Europe. We've learned this the hard way, will you? Palestine today means Paris tomorrow."

As Long as the Existence of Israel Is Seen as an Insult, There Can Be No Peace - Jake Wallis Simons (Telegraph-UK)
    Israelis have been through all this before. They tried peace in the nineties with the Oslo Accords and got 140 suicide bombers.
    They tried it when Ariel Sharon withdrew from Gaza in 2005 and handed the Palestinians the keys. The reward for that was the massacre on Oct. 7.
    The Abbas government in the Palestinian Authority has long given generous handouts to any Palestinian convicted of terrorism. Its schools and state media are infested with antisemitic incitement.
    Yet while Benjamin Netanyahu would be arrested for setting foot in Britain, Abbas is treated to tea with our prime minister. For shame.
    The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not about borders. It is about honor. For centuries, Muslim empires ruled up to 100 million people, with Jews living as second-class citizens. This created natural confidence in the supremacy of Islam.
    However, with the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1922, the cultural and religious trauma ran deep. When Hitler arose, historians record that much of the Islamic world rushed into alliances with him, seeing the Third Reich as a vehicle for reclaiming dominion over the West. But Nazi Germany became the vanquished.
    When the weakling Jews returned to their ancient home, here was the ultimate dishonor. As long as the existence of Israel is seen as an insult, millions will never be satisfied until a Palestinian state replaces it.
    That is a truth in need of international recognition.