Israel News. Reports and Observations 27 May 2026, 11 Sivan, 5786.
Contents:
1. Video. October 7th Attack. Minute by minute. Objective Reporting.
2. May 2026. Basque Police at Bilboa airport beat up flotilla returnees.
3. Threats from Spain.
4. May 2026. Basque Police at Bilboa airport beat up flotilla returnees.
5. Is Kristoff the son of a Nazi?
6. Third Temple Myth. Nobody is in a hurry.
7. Article of Interest. LTTs in Afghanistan.
8. October 7, 2023, Atrocities.
9. ADL Report. October 7, 2023,
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1. Video. October 7th Attack. Minute by minute. Objective Reporting.
https://aish.com/hamass-october-7-attack-a-minute-by-minute-breakdown/?utm_source=googlegrants&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign
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2. Flottila Culprits forced to listen to "HaTikvah."
24 May, 2026, flotilla types forced to lie down on their faces for less than an hour while the Israel anthem "HaTikvah" was playing.
Personally despite its historic importance I do not like "HaTikavah." We can understand how having to listen to it for more than a few minutes may be considered mistreatment!
Nevertheless, the people of Israel, especially the secular types, seem attached to it.
Greta Thunberg and her crew refuse to watch a video of Hamas' atrocities on October 7, 2025.
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3. Threats from Spain.
Ione Belara: Secretary General of Podemos, a major political group in Spain, said:
"If we fail to stop Israel in time it will treat the rest of the world the way it treats the Palestinians."
The Foreign Minister of Spain later made a similar statement.
The Spaniards have a long history of anti-Jewish sentiment. The Spaniards saved Jews in WW2 bu at one stage considered turning the Jews over to the Nazis. A threat from Britain stopped them from doing that.
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4. May 2026. Basque Police at Bilboa airport beat up flotilla returnees.
The flotilla escapees were deported to Europe via Turkey. Some of them (maybe 10? males and females) were flown to Bilboa airport in the Basque region of Spain.
From the newsreel it appears that some of the returnees rather aggressively tried to leave the police cordon around them. The local police militia responded and dragged them along the ground and beat them with their batons.
This was followed by a mass demonstration in Madrid with ca. 80 thousands of people in Spain protesting rising rent price etc. One report tried to claim it was actually against police brutality!
The treatment of the Spanish returnees by their local police looked slightly more serious than that meted out to them by Israel though in Israel it may have been more demeaning.
it needs to be remembered that supporters of the flotilla are in effect strengthening the Nazi-type activities of the Hamas people.
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5. Is Kristoff the son of a Nazi?
Nicholas Kristoff recently wrote an article for the NYT. He claimed that the Israeli trained dogs to rape Palestinian prisoners. This was a lie. It is also biologically impossible.
Kristof was born in Chicago, Illinois, ... He is the son of Jane Kristof (nee McWilliams) and Ladis "Kris" Kristof (born W adys aw Krzysztofowicz; 1918-2010), both long-time professors at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. His father, who was born to Polish and Armenian parents in Chernivtsi, former Austria-Hungary, immigrated to the United States after World War II.
During WW2 the father of Kristoff was part of the anti-Semitic Fascist Rumanian forces who fought on the side of the Nazis and committed atrocious war crimes.
After the War, he also wrote a missive protesting the punishment of an anti-Jewish Vichi war criminal in France.
The
Times Columnist Kristof's Father Fought on Nazi Side in World War II
https://freebeacon.com/media/times-columnist-kristofs-father-fought-on-nazi-side-in-world-war-ii/
Extracts:
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, whose article accusing Israel of using dogs and carrots to rape Palestinian prisoners is being denounced by the Israeli foreign ministry as "Hamas propaganda," "fabricated," and a "baseless blood libel," had a father who served on the Nazi side during World War II.
Kristof's father also wrote a letter to the editor of the Times in 1989 defending Paul Touvier, the intelligence chief of a pro-Nazi militia in Vichy France who was convicted of killing seven Jewish hostages
The disclosure that Kristof's father served in the Romanian military on the Nazi side may help to explain why Kristof would be so eager to demonize Israel
father's name. A 2010 Times column says, "He arrived as Vladislav Krzysztofowicz, but no American could pronounce that. So he shortened it to Ladis Kristof."
# When my Dad was born, his village was in Austria Hungary, between the wars it was Romania, in WWII it became the Soviet Union, and after the USSR's collapse it became Ukraine. My father used to consider himself Romanian, but in his later years he identified more as an Armenian. #
The International Commission on the Holocaust in Romania reported in 2004, "between 280,000 and 380,000 Romanian and Ukrainian Jews were murdered or died during the Holocaust in Romania and the territories under its control. Referring to Romania, Raul Hilberg concluded that "ono country, besides Germany, was involved in massacres of Jews on such a scale." The commission concluded that, "Of all the allies of Nazi Germany, Romania bears responsibility for the deaths of more Jews than any country other than Germany itself."
In 2010, Kristof's father committed suicide, shooting himself with a .308 hunting rifle.
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6. Third Temple Myth. Nobody is in a hurry.
Proposed Destruction of Al Aksa,
The El Aksa Mosque sits on the Temple Site. It will need to be destroyed to build the Tempe BUT nobody is in a hurry to do this.
There are numerous other issues that need to be resolved beforehand,
Nobody is liable to do anything without prior approval of the ULtra-Orthodox in Jerusalem,
On the other hand, the Muslim Authorities in charge of the Temple mount, the Waqf, has engaged in activities deliberately intended to destroy archaeological evidence of Jewish presence in the past.
This should not be allowed. In 1997, the Western Hulda Double Gate passageway, part of the original 2nd Temple was converted into a mosque!
Antiquities are being made Muslim or destroyed by the Waqf on the Temple Mount.
n 1996 the Waqf began unauthorized construction of the largest Mosque in Israel on the Temple Mount. The Waqf rejected the claim that Israel had any right to halt the construction. Major earth-moving equipment was used causing much damage to ancient 2nd Temple period structures in the process and possibly parts of the Temple itself.
The Temple Mount Sifting Project is an archaeological project established in 2005 and dedicated to recovering archaeological artifacts from the 300 truckloads of topsoil removed from the Temple Mount by the Waqf during the construction of the underground el-Marwani Mosque from 1996 to 1999.
The Waqf are not interested in ancient Israelite findings and would prefer to destroy them all.
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7. Article of Interest. LTTs in Afghanistan.
Returning lost tribe of Ephraim: Sanhedrin meets Pashtun man from Afghanistan
https://israel365news.com/418286/returning-lost-tribe-of-ephraim-sanhedrin-meets-pashtun-man-from-afghanistan/
Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz
Brit-Am Comment:
A portion of the LTTs may have once been in Afghanistan as we mentioned in our work Hebrew Tribes.
Nevertheless, we doubt if many of them remained in that area.
Nevertheless, the article is of interest.
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8. October 7, 2023, Atrocities.,
AI Overview Extracts:
On October 7, 2023, Hamas-led terrorists launched a massive, coordinated surprise invasion from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel. Over 1,200 people were murdered... The attackers deliberately targeted civilians and used extreme violence.
Casualties & Locations: The terrorists struck over 20 towns, kibbutzim, and military bases, as well as the Nova music festival, where 364 civilians were massacred. The victims included children, entire families, and the elderly.
Sexual Violence: Extensive investigations, including by the UN and the Association of Rape Crisis Centres in Israel, have documented systemic, brutal sexual violence and gender-based crimes across multiple sites
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Hostages: 251 civilians and soldiers were abducted and forcibly taken back to the Gaza Strip as hostages.
Psychological Warfare: The attackers documented their own crimes, often livestreaming the brutality or sending footage directly from the victims' phones to their families in real-time
For an in-depth breakdown of the events and historical analysis, you can explore the IDF October 7 Massacre Overview or the detailed background provided by the Anti-Defamation League.
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9. ADL Report. October 7, 2023,
https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/allegation-claim-atrocities-committed-hamas-oct-7-including-sexual-assault
Extracts:
The fact that 1200 people were brutally murdered, mutilated, burned, raped and desecrated by Hamas terrorists, and that 240 people were abducted from their homes and taken hostage inside Gaza, is undeniable and incontrovertible.
Part, but only part, of the evidence for these atrocities comes from Hamas itself which proudly shared self-filmed videos of terrorists gleefully celebrating murders, humiliations and seizing innocents as hostages. Others come from videos from security cameras, survivors and rescuers, photos of blood-streaked homes and victims, and testimony of hundreds of civilians who spent hours hiding from Hamas terrorists, lost relatives, or saw their friends taken hostage.
It has been especially alarming to hear some question Hamas' documented widespread perpetration of sexual violence against both women and men, many of whom were killed on October 7. This despite testimony from witnesses, graphic photo evidence, demonstrates a willfulness to refuse to give Israeli victims the same credence given to sexual assault victims worldwide.
To hear claims that what happened is unverified, or even manufactured , is painful, and comes from a determination to whitewash Hamas massacre. It has echoes of those who have tried to deny that the Holocaust transpired, or claims that teenage witnesses to school massacres in the US are 'crisis actors.'