Avi Abelow’s Pulse of Israel

We withdrew from Gaza in 2005. October 7 was the final answer. We uprooted 21 Jewish communities. Hamas turned Gaza into a terror stronghold backed by Iran. Never again can Israel trade security for promises that disappear when terrorists attack. Watch full video here: https://pulseofisrael.com/2026/08/24/jared-kushner-hamas/ To join the Israel Video Network - Pulse of Israel Group Click Here: Telegram ➡️ https://t.me/aviabelowpulse Whatsapp ➡️ https://chat.whatsapp.com/GkavRznXy731nxxRyptCMv

America just sat down with a Hamas leader who celebrated October 7. Khalil al-Hayya isn't a moderate - he is Hamas's leader, tied to Iran and the strategy behind the October 7 attack. We cannot normalize terrorists and call it diplomacy. Watch full video here: https://pulseofisrael.com/2026/08/24/jared-kushner-hamas/ To join the Israel Video Network - Pulse of Israel Group Click Here: Telegram ➡️ https://t.me/aviabelowpulse Whatsapp ➡️ https://chat.whatsapp.com/GkavRznXy731nxxRyptCMv

This isn't ancient Jewish history. We are watching Jewish history come alive. The Jewish people are back in Judea and Samaria - building, raising families and walking the same biblical hills as our ancestors. After thousands of years, we didn't forget our homeland. We returned to it. Watch full video here: https://pulseofisrael.com/2026/08/23/back-in-uniform-new-community/ To join the Israel Video Network - Pulse of Israel Group Click Here: Telegram ➡️ https://t.me/aviabelowpulse Whatsapp ➡️ https://chat.whatsapp.com/GkavRznXy731nxxRyptCMv

One day we won’t need to check jihadi cars... One day we will have leadership with the clarity and courage to ensure that jihadi Muslims, who believe in the 1,400+ year jihadi teachings and actions of Mohammad, no longer live among us, and that only those Arabs who truly understand how blessed they are to live in the Jewish state of Israel remain. Because the Jewish state of Israel is the only country where they enjoy more rights and freedoms than in any Arab Muslim country in the Middle East. That day will come. Until then, we serve in the IDF, we stand guard. We check cars. We try to prevent their daily terror against us. We do the hard, necessary work. And we refuse to accept that this has to be permanent. Why? Because we are the most blessed generation of Jews to finally be back as sovereign in our homeland with an army to defend ourselves. No more defenselessness in exile. That day will come, and life in our God-given, indigenous, ancestral homeland will be even better than today. And then…we rebuild our third Temple, continuing to fulfill our purpose as a nation. Help me share the truth through Pulse of Israel. The more people we wake up, the faster we reach that day. Thank you to my friend, the amazing Ben Goldstein, for capturing this moment as he drove by. To join the Israel Video Network - Pulse of Israel Group Click Here: Telegram ➡️ https://t.me/aviabelowpulse Whatsapp ➡️ https://chat.whatsapp.com/GkavRznXy731nxxRyptCMv

I still want Israel making agreements with every Arab and Muslim government willing to work with us. Take every opportunity. But immediately after the Abraham Accords were signed, I interviewed Middle East expert Dr. Mordechai Kedar and told me something in that interview that I will never forgot: “Every agreement with an Arab Muslim country is like sand in the wind.” The sands shift. Today's shared interest can disappear tomorrow. Iran itself was once Israel's strategic partner. Turkey was not long ago our regional ally, enjoying close military relations with Israel. Today, even the UAE can cooperate with Israel while joining other Muslim governments in condemning Israeli policies. So make agreements. Celebrate them. Benefit from them for as long as they advance Israel's interests. But never rely on them longterm or build the survival of the Jewish state upon them. Never surrender strategic territory because of them. Never sacrifice defensible borders because someone promises peace. And never confuse today's diplomatic alignment with permanent acceptance of Jewish sovereignty. The Jewish people did not return home after 2,000 years to place our survival once again in somebody else's hands. Agreements are valuable. Deterrence is indispensable. And another major mistake too many Israelis and Jews make: deterrence does not come from desperately proving to our enemies how badly we want peace. Deterrence comes when everyone in the neighborhood fears the consequences of attacking Israel—when they know that if they start a war against the Jewish people, Israel will fight decisively until they understand that attacking us was a catastrophic mistake they dare not repeat. That is how you prevent the next war. That is how you create real deterrence. And ultimately, that is how strength can create the conditions for a more durable peace. We are going in the right direction. We are a nation going through a wake-up process. Strengthen your faith. Stick with me for the truth. Am Yisrael Chai!!! To join the Israel Video Network - Pulse of Israel Group Click Here: Telegram ➡️ https://t.me/aviabelowpulse Whatsapp ➡️ https://chat.whatsapp.com/GkavRznXy731nxxRyptCMv

Iran Invited Into the Pact? This Is What Happens When Israel Doesn't Finish a War With Victory For years, Israelis have been told that one of our great strategic goals should be peace and normalization with Saudi Arabia. Just imagine it, we were told: Israel, Saudi Arabia and the moderate Sunni states standing together against their common enemy, Iran. And now look at where we are. Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan have created a new mutual-defense pact, and Iranian participation has reportedly been raised with the Islamic Republic of Iran, even though Iran’s foreign minister has said they have received no “formal” invitation. Think about the extraordinary strategic picture. The same Iranian regime that has literally attacked Saudi Arabia and other Sunni states, and has been attacking countries across the region, is now being discussed as a possible participant in a broader regional security arrangement involving Saudi Arabia. If not against Iran. Then who do you think this alliance is against? Meanwhile, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan, Qatar, Jordan, Egypt and Indonesia just found something they could publicly unite around: Condemning Israel. Yes. Even the UAE that is part of the Abraham Accords. Jews and Israelis need to wake up. For too long, we have allowed ourselves to believe that another agreement, another normalization ceremony, another handshake with an Arab Muslim government will finally deliver permanent peace. We should pursue those agreements. We should benefit from them. But we cannot delude ourselves into believing that today's shared interests erase centuries-old religious, ideological and geopolitical forces—or guarantee tomorrow's alliances. And this is exactly what happens when Israel doesn't finish a war against a jihadist enemy with unmistakable victory. Israel has achieved extraordinary military successes in this war. We devastated Hamas's military capabilities. We crushed much of Hezbollah's leadership and infrastructure. We struck Iran itself and demonstrated capabilities that stunned the region. But military success is not the same thing as total victory. Victory means changing the calculation of everyone watching. Had Israel decisively destroyed Hamas’s ability to rule and wage war from Gaza, established lasting Israeli security control, permanently eliminated Hezbollah’s invasion threat from southern Lebanon, securing the strategic defensive areas Israel needs in southern Syria, applied Israeli sovereignty to all these liberated areas, removed the jihadi population, and restored Jewish communities there, and established one ironclad rule that every Iranian proxy attack means Iran itself pays a direct price, the strategic calculations of the Sunni states could look very different today. They wouldn't have to love Israel. They would have to respect Israel's power and dependability. Because this is the Middle East. Governments align with countries they believe can protect their interests and deter their enemies. If Saudi Arabia and the other Sunni governments believed Israel would decisively stop Iranian aggression, their incentive would be to deepen cooperation with Israel against Iran. But instead they see Iran surviving, rebuilding and continuing to threaten the region while Israel repeatedly stops short, so they hedge and reopen doors to Tehran. They build alternative alliances. And hostility toward Israel can once again bridge even the enormous Sunni-Shiite divide. That is the price of incomplete victory. This isn't about endless war. It is precisely the opposite. Only decisive victory creates lasting deterrence. When your enemies believe attacking you will cost them far more than they could possibly gain, they think twice before beginning the next war. And when neighboring governments understand that you are the strongest and most dependable power in the neighborhood, they have an incentive to work with you rather than against you. That brings us back to the Abraham Accords. I supported them.

October 7 destroyed the fantasy that territory automatically brings peace. Judea and Samaria overlooks Israel's population centers. A Hamas-style terror infrastructure on those strategic heights would put central Israel at enormous risk. We cannot gamble with Jewish lives again. Watch full video here: https://pulseofisrael.com/2026/08/23/back-in-uniform-new-community/ To join the Israel Video Network - Pulse of Israel Group Click Here: Telegram ➡️ https://t.me/aviabelowpulse Whatsapp ➡️ https://chat.whatsapp.com/GkavRznXy731nxxRyptCMv

Nearly three years of war - and I'm back in IDF reserve duty. We work, pray, celebrate, raise our children and build our homeland. But in Judea and Samaria, the threat of jihadist terrorism is never far away. This is Israeli life. We live - and we remain vigilant. Watch full video here: https://pulseofisrael.com/2026/08/23/back-in-uniform-new-community/ To join the Israel Video Network - Pulse of Israel Group Click Here: Telegram ➡️ https://t.me/aviabelowpulse Whatsapp ➡️ https://chat.whatsapp.com/GkavRznXy731nxxRyptCMv

Words shape the Israel debate. "West Bank" is not the only name for this land. Judea and Samaria carries thousands of years of Jewish history. And Palestinian workers earning Israeli wages expose another reality the headlines rarely show. Know the history. Question the narrative. Watch full video here: https://pulseofisrael.com/2026/08/23/mainstream-media-palestine/ To join the Israel Video Network - Pulse of Israel Group Click Here: Telegram ➡️ https://t.me/aviabelowpulse Whatsapp ➡️ https://chat.whatsapp.com/GkavRznXy731nxxRyptCMv

Read the original UN Partition Plan. The language matters. In 1947, the UN proposed an Arab State and a Jewish State in Palestine. The history of Palestinian identity is more complicated than today's political slogans suggest. Know the documents. Know the history. Watch full video here: https://pulseofisrael.com/2026/08/23/mainstream-media-palestine/ To join the Israel Video Network - Pulse of Israel Group Click Here: Telegram ➡️ https://t.me/aviabelowpulse Whatsapp ➡️ https://chat.whatsapp.com/GkavRznXy731nxxRyptCMv

But the minimum required for them to understand, in their own language, is this: the answer to their evil terror against us, especially the atrocities of October 7, must be that they internalize defeat. They must lose land and be expelled. When that does not happen, they correctly conclude that the cost of October 7 was temporary. Three years after the massacre, Gaza has still not been fully taken, the jihadi population has not been expelled, and Jewish communities have not been reestablished there. The monuments to terrorists still stand in Judea and Samaria. Our enemies notice both facts. Every day those symbols remain is another day they conclude that Israel fears international condemnation more than it fears the next attack. The younger generation that fought this war already understands the difference between legalistic caution and moral clarity. They saw what happens when the enemy believes time is on its side. The question is whether the leadership will catch up to that clarity or continue managing the conflict as if the old illusions still hold. Destroy the monuments. Make the loss of land permanent. Every jihadi in Gaza, Judea, Samaria, and those holding Israeli citizenship must be relocated to countries that support and enable jihad, not here. We must speak in the language they understand. Everything else is commentary that our dead can no longer afford. We are in a wake-up process. We are facing an evil that too many people still refuse to call by its name. Jihadi Islam is evil. Too many still refuse to even label the Palestinian Authority an enemy, and still will not admit that the entire cause called “Palestine” is fundamentally about killing Jews, destroying Israel, and serving as the main catalyst for the growing Jew-hating antisemitism spreading across the world today. Join me at the Pulse of Israel in sharing these truths so more people open their eyes as quickly as possible, before the growing, emboldened jihad that senses our weakness continues to kill more. They do not care how many of their women or children were killed, or how many of their homes or cities were destroyed in Gaza. They see that we are still talking with the international community about rebuilding Gaza, and they are laughing at how easily they can exploit our Western-oriented mindset while they continue to plan their next genocidal terror attacks against us. We will overcome. Obviously, the sooner more of us wake up, the more lives we will be able to save. Strengthen your faith in Hashem. He is waiting for us to wake up, start acting like Jews again, fulfill our mission to spread good and remove evil from His Holy Land, and stop thinking and acting like Westerners. We got this! Am Yisrael Chai!!! To join the Israel Video Network - Pulse of Israel Group Click Here: Telegram ➡️ https://t.me/aviabelowpulse Whatsapp ➡️ https://chat.whatsapp.com/GkavRznXy731nxxRyptCMv

Did you hear the latest manufactured scandal from today about MK Tzvi Sukkot destroying a Palestinian Authority monument that glorifies a terrorist? Of course he did the right thing. The manufactured outrage only exposes the absolute moral inversion we are facing, and the need for a much stronger leadership. Following Sukkot’s activity this morning in the village, alongside voices of support for the move, there was also criticism that this is the IDF’s responsibility. However, as reported by journalist Elhanan Gruner, he informed the IDF about this terrorist-celebrating monument at the beginning of July after ice cream was distributed to the village children in memory of the terrorist Yaman Faraj, who carried out numerous attacks. The commander of the Judea and Samaria Division initially promised he would take care of it, but after several days the IDF Spokesperson claimed they could not find the monument, when in reality they did not bother to search or ask the forces on the ground. Meanwhile, the forces on the ground had located it and were even pleading for permission to destroy it. Not surprisingly, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized MK Tzvi Sukkot for destroying the Palestinian Authority terror-celebrating monument. He said the MK took the law into his own hands. “The IDF is the sovereign authority in Judea and Samaria and is responsible for implementing the decisions of the political echelon. Taking the law into one’s own hands, particularly by public officials, is unacceptable and prevents the IDF from focusing on its missions against terrorism and incitement,” Netanyahu stated. Netanyahu's response is precisely the problem. Netanyahu should have told the world the opposite. He should have said: “You are upset about a monument celebrating a terrorist? You should be upset at the daily terror attacks against us, and at how the Palestinian Authority uses international funding to pay terrorists in jail and their families according to how many Jews they kill. Of course we will destroy these monuments. This is not a technical implementation-of-law issue. This is a 'getting rid of evil' issue. Civilians who tear down monuments that glorify the murder of Jews are not the problem. I am only sorry the army did not get there first. We will make sure the IDF immediately destroys every monument in Judea and Samaria that celebrates terrorists.” That is the leadership humanity needs, not just Israel. When our jihadi enemies see their terror monuments left standing, they correctly read it as Israeli hesitation. When they see the Prime Minister more focused on criticizing a Jewish MK for removing a symbol of Jew-hatred than on the existence of that symbol itself, they feel empowered. That is why Palestinian Authority policemen recently entered an area of Judea and Samaria forbidden to them, detained an Israeli, and took his gun. They sensed the same softness, and they still have not been punished! Former NYC Mayor Rudolph Giuliani understood the principle in New York: ignore the small, visible signals of disorder and you invite the large ones. Terror monuments are the broken windows of this conflict. Leaving them intact tells the other side that the old rules still apply. Destroying them tells them the rules have changed. MK Sukkot destroying this terror-glorifying monument will not incite more terror. What does incite more terror is leaving it standing, and treating his act as if it were the problem. We must stop thinking like Westerners and start acting in the only language our enemies understand. In his book "I Called it Jihad", Israeli journalist Tzvi Yehezkeli records a U.S. officer in Iraq being told by a Muslim tribal leader the local grammar of victory: when they win, they rape the women, kill the men, expel the survivors, and take the land. We will never act like them. We are not barbarians like Mohammad and his jihadi followers.

For 2,000 years, Jews prayed to return to Israel. We are the generation that came home. Aliyah is more than moving to Israel. It is the Jewish people reclaiming our homeland, Jerusalem and Jewish sovereignty. We are living the miracle our ancestors prayed for. Never take it for granted. Watch full video here: https://pulseofisrael.com/2026/08/23/mainstream-media-palestine/ To join the Israel Video Network - Pulse of Israel Group Click Here: Telegram ➡️ https://t.me/aviabelowpulse Whatsapp ➡️ https://chat.whatsapp.com/GkavRznXy731nxxRyptCMv

Israel cannot go back to October 6th thinking. Iran and its terror proxies understand strength, not appeasement. Netanyahu changed the equation. Now, as Israel's election approaches, we cannot surrender that hard-won strategic momentum. October 7 was the warning. We must never forget it. Watch full video here: https://pulseofisrael.com/2026/08/20/netanyahu-huge-win-lebanon/ To join the Israel Video Network - Pulse of Israel Group Click Here: Telegram ➡️ https://t.me/aviabelowpulse Whatsapp ➡️ https://chat.whatsapp.com/GkavRznXy731nxxRyptCMv

October 7 destroyed the illusion that international guarantees can protect Israel. We gave up Gaza, sacrificed strategic depth and watched Hamas build a terror army. Today Netanyahu is saying what Israel should have said long ago: no withdrawal before Hamas is truly disarmed. The Jewish people must control our own security. Watch full video here: https://pulseofisrael.com/2026/08/20/netanyahu-huge-win-lebanon/ To join the Israel Video Network - Pulse of Israel Group Click Here: Telegram ➡️ https://t.me/aviabelowpulse Whatsapp ➡️ https://chat.whatsapp.com/GkavRznXy731nxxRyptCMv

Israel is finally breaking the deadly cycle. For decades, we won wars, surrendered strategic territory under international pressure, and watched Hamas and our enemies rebuild. Netanyahu changed the equation: Israel's security comes before the world's demands. October 7 proved what withdrawal can cost us. Never again. Watch full video here: https://pulseofisrael.com/2026/08/20/netanyahu-huge-win-lebanon/ To join the Israel Video Network - Pulse of Israel Group Click Here: Telegram ➡️ https://t.me/aviabelowpulse Whatsapp ➡️ https://chat.whatsapp.com/GkavRznXy731nxxRyptCMv

The lie travels around the world before the truth catches up. We saw it in Taybeh: Israel was condemned before the facts were established. Now the same information war is targeting Judea and Samaria. Stop reacting to headlines. Start demanding evidence. Watch full video here: https://pulseofisrael.com/2026/08/19/qatar-pa-settler-violence/ To join the Israel Video Network - Pulse of Israel Group Click Here: Telegram ➡️ https://t.me/aviabelowpulse Whatsapp ➡️ https://chat.whatsapp.com/GkavRznXy731nxxRyptCMv

May Defense Minister Katz stand by his words. May the IDF implement them decisively. And may every jihadist enemy understand that the Jewish people are finished waiting passively to see what comes next. We are here to protect Jewish life. We are here to defeat our enemies. And we are never returning to the reality before October 7. Ultimately, we must aim to liberate all of Gaza, enable its jihadist population to relocate elsewhere and rebuild Jewish Gaza on a scale even greater than before Israel’s disastrous 2005 withdrawal. That is the decisive victory our enemies must see: Israel will protect its people, reclaim its land and defeat jihad without being restrained by a legal or defense establishment still trapped in the failed thinking that led us to October 7. It is up to us. No to jihad. Yes to Jewish liberation of Jewish lands, while getting rid of the evil from God's Holy land that he entrusted to the Jewish people. Strengthen your faith. We got this! Am Yisrael Chai!!! To join the Israel Video Network - Pulse of Israel Group Click Here: Telegram ➡️ https://t.me/aviabelowpulse Whatsapp ➡️ https://chat.whatsapp.com/GkavRznXy731nxxRyptCMv

Hamas studied us for years. It tested our fences, our soldiers, our cameras, our response times and our willingness to absorb provocations. It learned that Israelis had been conditioned to dismiss each escalation as an isolated incident. It is only a protest. It is only a balloon. It is only a kite. It is only a few people approaching the fence. It is only a hole in the barrier. Until suddenly it was thousands of terrorists, and unarmed civilians invading Israel, murdering approximately 1,200 people and kidnapping 251 others, with our soldiers unwilling to shoot because not all of the infiltrators had guns! That is why the latest kites cannot be dismissed. The kites found in Israeli communities reportedly did not carry explosives or incendiary material. But that does not mean they were innocent. We do not yet have public proof of who launched each kite or under whose orders. Yet anyone who understands Hamas’s methods must recognize the obvious possibility: Israel is being tested again. Can objects cross the border without being detected? How quickly does the IDF respond? Will Israel investigate but do nothing? Will civilians become accustomed to seeing kites overhead? Can the launches gradually become more frequent and then become weaponized? This is how jihadist organizations operate. They probe for weakness. They normalize the abnormal. They begin with something the West can dismiss, then expand once they learn that the response will be limited. That is why Katz’s new standard is so important. Israel must stop the threat before it develops not after an Israeli field is burning, not after an explosive lands in a kindergarten and certainly not after another soldier or civilian is murdered. Every object deliberately launched from enemy territory toward an Israeli community must be treated as a potential weapon. Every organizer must know he is a target. Every Hamas commander who enables the launches must understand that he will pay a price. Every neighborhood or position used to threaten Israel must lose the immunity Hamas believes civilian surroundings provide. This is how deterrence is restored. Not through statements of concern. Not through investigations that conclude months later. Not through another appeal to international mediators. Through immediate, unmistakable consequences. The Middle East does not interpret restraint as goodwill. Our jihadist enemies interpret restraint as weakness. They view every Israeli hesitation as an invitation to test us again. That does not mean acting recklessly. It means recognizing hostile intent early and preventing an emerging threat from becoming another established reality. The responsibility of the IDF is not to preserve normal life for Hamas-controlled Gaza while Israeli communities are tested and terrorized. Its responsibility is to protect Jewish life. The responsibility of Israel’s legal establishment is not to make warfare impossible for our soldiers. It is to provide them with a clear framework that enables them to defeat the enemy while defending the country. And the responsibility of the government is to ensure that never again will our soldiers stand with their hands effectively tied while jihadists approach the fence to test, attack and murder them. This must become the new Israeli doctrine: A threat is stopped before it grows. A border violation receives an immediate response. Those directing attacks pay the price. Israelis do not wait to be murdered before being allowed to defend themselves. For too many years, we allowed the enemy to establish the rules of the game. October 7 taught us the price. Now Israel must establish new rules and enforce them without hesitation. No more “containment.” No more accepting “limited” terrorism. No more waiting for kites to become incendiary devices, incendiary devices to become explosives, riots to become invasions and threats to become massacres. Finally, Israel appears ready to stop this dangerous nonsense before it grows into something far more deadly.