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In Israel's fight for survival against tech savvy Hamas terrorists Biden seeks to micromanage the war . . . By Rebekah Koffler. As Israeli Defense Forces resumed military operations to eradicate the Hamas terrorist threat last Friday, the Biden administration is inserting itself into Israel’s war planning process, teaching the Israelis – who’ve been fighting for their survival for decades – how to properly prosecute the conflict.

Washington warfare "experts" – who arguably haven’t secured a single clear military victory since 1945 – insist that Israeli military strategists alter their war plans to make their combat operations more targeted and their strikes more accurate, in order to minimize casualties, especially among civilians. The Biden administration’s demands, while noble-sounding, are misguided and unreasonable. Implementing these requirements, at the expense of achieving the main mission of eliminating Hamas and its entire supporting infrastructure, will likely prolong the conflict, ultimately resulting in many more Israeli and Palestinian deaths. Here’s why. Rebekah Koffler | Fox News

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PROGRAMMING ALERT: Watch the "Hannity" Town Hall with former President Trump on Fox News Channel at 9 p.m. ET . . . Donald Trump heads back to Iowa on Tuesday with just under six weeks to go until the state's caucuses kick off the Republican presidential nominating calendar. The former president – the commanding frontrunner in the GOP nomination race as he makes his third straight White House run – returns to sit down with Fox News' primetime opinion host Sean Hannity for a town hall in Davenport, Iowa. Fox News

6.9 million users of 23andMe had personal information stolen by hackers . . . An estimated 6.9 million users of the genetic testing company 23andMe had their personal information stolen by hackers in a recent data breach, a company spokesperson confirmed to The Hill on Monday. A spokesperson for 23andMe told The Hill an estimated 5.5 million users had their data accessed from the company’s DNA Relatives feature, which helps users find and connect with family relatives who also have the feature enabled. The Hill
 

Why share your genetic info with strangers? Please don't. Russia and China have been developing "genetic weapons" for about a decade. The weapons target entire segments of the population based on their specific genetics. 

War is coming. The time for doing business with China is finished . . . The recent attempt by China’s President Xi Jinping to halt worsening relations with the US in San Francisco – and so help his ever-downward-spiraling economy – was widely celebrated by the financial press, which noted the standing ovation American business elites gave Xi in San Francisco, after he told them that China is a “big market” and a willing “partner and friend” of the US. While the White House read out of the meeting between President Joe Biden and Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the APEC Summit was fairly circumspect in tone, noting the tension between “potential cooperation” and “areas of difference”, the overall feeling in the US is still one of deep concern over Chinese ambitions across the region and over the island-nation of Taiwan, set to hold elections in early January. And America and its allies have every reason to worry. Telegraph

Top U.S. general still waiting to hear from China on military ties . . . The United States' top general said he’s still waiting to hear back from China about resuming military-to-military ties as the two countries seek to stabilize their fraught relationship. "I’m standing by,” Charles Q. Brown Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at the Reagan National Defense Forum at Simi Valley, California on Saturday. "The opportunity to have dialog, whether it’s with our allies and partners or with our adversaries is really important,” Brown said. "With our adversaries, it’s to prevent miscalculation.”Japan Times

Israel Weighs Plan to Flood Gaza Tunnels With Seawater . . . Israel has assembled a system of large pumps it could use to flood Hamas’s vast network of tunnels under the Gaza Strip with seawater, a tactic that could destroy the tunnels and drive the fighters from their underground refuge but also threaten Gaza’s water supply, U.S. officials said. The Israel Defense Forces finished assembling large seawater pumps roughly one mile north of the Al-Shati refugee camp around the middle of last month. Each of at least five pumps can draw water from the Mediterranean Sea and move thousands of cubic meters of water per hour into the tunnels, flooding them within weeks. Wall Street Journal

2 Months Into War: Here’s Where Israel-Hamas Fight Stands . . . Since the war began, Israel has carried out more than 10,000 strikes against Hamas. Key targets include everything from Hamas’ leadership to the tunnel infrastructure. While the war has continued between Hamas and Israel, hostile actors have attempted 75 attacks on American bases and assets in Syria and Iraq, Greenway says. The U.S. has responded with five strikes targeting terrorists and terrorists’ sites in the region. Daily Signal

French minister warns country 'durably under threat from Islamist terrorism' after Paris stabbing suspect ID'd . . . French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin reportedly told TF1 television on Sunday that the country was "durably under threat from Islamist terrorism" after a prosecutor identified the French 26-year-old born to Iranian parents accused of fatally stabbing a German tourist and injuring two others steps away from the Eiffel Tower in Paris over the weekend. At a news conference on Sunday, France's top anti-terrorism prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard said suspect Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab, a French national, recorded a video speaking in Arabic before the attack in which he swore allegiance to the Islamic State group, used a name to introduce himself that referred to the Islamic State in Afghanistan and expressed support for Islamic extremists and jihadists operating in various areas around the world, including in Africa, Iraq, Syria, Egypt's Sinai, Yemen, Iran and Pakistan. Fox News

Kim Jong Un Urges Women to Be Good Comrades—and Give Birth . . . Kim Jong Un has a new mission for North Korean women: Have more babies. Kim acknowledged the impoverished nation’s plunging birthrate for the first time publicly at a rare National Conference of Mothers. Wiping away tears, the 39-year-old dictator, who is a father of three, described mothers as revolutionaries who were on the front lines of rooting out antisocialist behavior and helping the nation prosper.

Households producing “many children” would be given higher priority for housing, food and medical services, as well as unspecified subsidies and preferential treatment, Kim said, according to a Tuesday state-media report. Wall Street Journal

Money and Corruption

JPMorgan predicts a grim outlook for the stock market next year . . . The sizable rally in the U.S. stock market over the past month is likely to fizzle out by the end of next year amid a number of growing economic headwinds, according to JPMorgan Chase. Dubravko Lakos-Bujas, the chief global equity strategist at JPMorgan, said in a recent analyst note that slowing economic growth, the rapid depletion of household savings and ongoing geopolitical turmoil could trigger a steep decline in the S&P 500 over the course of 2024. Fox Business

U.S. Running Out of Money for Ukraine in War With Russia, White House Warns . . . The U.S. will be unable to continue providing more weapons and equipment to Ukraine if Congress doesn’t approve additional funding by the end of the year, the White House said, trying to prod lawmakers to quickly make progress in complicated negotiations on Capitol Hill. “Cutting off the flow of U.S. weapons and equipment will kneecap Ukraine on the battlefield,” Shalanda Young, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, wrote in a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.). “There is no magical pot of funding available to meet this moment. We are out of money—and nearly out of time,” Young wrote. Wall Street Journal

Zelensky will brief senators Tuesday ahead of key vote on military aid  . . . Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will address senators at a classified briefing Tuesday via a secure video conference feed, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced.   Zelensky will brief senators on the state of the war in Ukraine and the need for another round of military aid a day before the Senate is scheduled to vote on proceeding to the legislative vehicle for a $106 billion emergency foreign aid package that includes more than $61 billion for Ukraine. The Hill

Israel's UN ambassador slams Soros for donations to 'pro-Hamas groups' seeking destruction of Jewish state . . . Left-wing activist billionaire George Soros is facing intense criticism from Israel’s ambassador to the U.N. for pumping over $15 million into a network of nongovernmental organizations that allegedly support Hamas. "George Soros’ donations to organizations that seek the destruction of the State of Israel as a Jewish state is shameful. However, I am not surprised," Israeli ambassador Gilad Erdan told Fox News

Biden Admin Gave $86 Million to Company Accused of Peddling Fake COVID Test Kits . . . The Biden administration gave $86 million to a company accused of peddling counterfeit COVID test kits manufactured in China, according to records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon

These are the Americans that got a lot richer during the pandemic: report . . . US households got a boost to their finances during the pandemic, though the increases in wealth differed based on racial, ethnic and economic backgrounds, according to a new report. Between 2019 and 2021, the median household’s net worth increased 30%, to $166,900, according to Pew Research Center’s latest report released Monday, as COVID-related lockdowns provided less opportunities for impulse purchases and employees could pad their savings accounts by working from home and ditching expenses like commuting costs and expensive lunch runs. New York Post

Culture and Censorship

DOJ Blocked Google From Informing Congressional Staffers They Were Being Spied On, Court Orders Show . . . The Department of Justice (DOJ) secured court orders to prevent Google from informing congressional staffers of the DOJ’s efforts to monitor their communications, according to court documents. Legal group Empower Oversight released the five court orders Monday after filing a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for the records related to the DOJ’s previously unknown attempts to monitor the communications of staffers conducting oversight of the department. Daily Caller

Prestigious science journals confirm censored views: masks at best don't reduce COVID infection . . . The best-case scenario for one of the most common COVID-19 interventions may be that it has no measurable effect on infection, recent studies suggest. A systematic review of studies of mask mandates for children, published Saturday in the British Medical Journal's Archives of Disease in Childhood, found "no association" with infection or transmission in 16 of the 22 observational studies and "critical" or "serious" risk of bias in the six countervailing studies. It got the attention of Elon Musk, owner of X, formerly Twitter. Just the News

What’s Going On? Pentagon and Air Force Along with US House – Block Access to The Gateway Pundit Website: Report . . . In a recent development, The Gateway Pundit, one of the top conservative websites in the country today, reported that its access has been blocked on networks within both the United States House of Representatives and the Pentagon. On Thursday, sources from Capitol Hill informed The Gateway Pundit that attempts to access the website from the House network were unsuccessful. Gateway Pundit

AI is driving Google’s health care business. Washington doesn’t know what to do about it . . . Google wants to make your cell phone a “doctor in your pocket” that relies on the company’s artificial intelligence.

But first, the tech giant will need to convince skeptical lawmakers and the Biden administration that its health AI isn’t a risk to patient privacy and safety — or a threat to its smaller competitors. Politico

House Report Sheds Light On FBI Targeting Of Catholics, Pro-Lifers . . . The FBI reportedly “abused its counterterrorism tools” to go after Catholics and pro-lifers “as potential domestic terrorists,” according to a new report from the House Weaponization Subcommittee released Monday. In February, the FBI retracted an internal memorandum from the Richmond field office, which described traditionalist Roman Catholics as “radical” and claimed they espoused “anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ and white supremacist ideology,” after facing immense backlash. Daily Caller

Doctor treating freed Hamas hostages reveals unprecedented abuse: 'We have to rewrite the textbooks' . . . A doctor treating freed Hamas hostages in Israel says survivors are suffering from an unprecedented level of "extremely severe psychological abuse" endured during captivity. "I can tell you that on behalf of all the medical and psychological teams treating those who return, the mental states we encountered have no precedent in medical literature. We feel that we have to rewrite the textbooks of post-trauma," Dr. Renana Eitan told "Sunday Night in America." Eitan revealed the Tel Aviv Medical Center is actively treating more than 15 former hostages and described their "severe physical and mental abuse." Fox News

Active Measures . . . By Miljan Vešović. "If I ever meet you, I'll blow your brains out. Better not leave the house. Scumbag! I'll bash your head in with fists and bricks, even if it's the last thing in my life." This is the message that, a few days ago, awaited Montenegrin political analyst Ljubomir Filipović on social networks. This message came after Filipović criticized tennis player Novak Djokovic for his aggressive Serbian nationalism. A few hours after this message, a new one followed, from another profile. "I know where your daughter lives, there will be blood between her legs" - said the unknown sender to Filipović. Filipović, who does not receive threats for the first time, reported the case to the police. He briefly explained to the media that "he has reported threats to the police several times, but there was no serious outcome." The police, he concluded, "are doing their job, but the Prosecutor’s Office is not." Antena M

Loud fart sound erupts during John Kerry’s speech at climate panel . . . John Kerry might need to cut back on his own emissions. The Biden Administration’s climate envoy was discussing US policy on coal power plants at the Climate Change Conference in Dubai on Sunday when Kerry may have unleashed a burst of wind energy. The former secretary of state was speaking next to Becky Anderson, Managing Editor of CNN Abu Dhabi, and Fatih Birol, Executive director of the International Energy Agency, when a Bronx cheer suddenly erupted midsentence. New York Post