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DAILY ALERT
Thursday,
September 4, 2025
In-Depth Issues:
The Continuing Houthi Threat to Israel – Zvika Haimovich (Israel Hayom)
Israel’s strike in Yemen on Aug. 28 eliminated senior figures in the Houthi leadership. The successful strike carried important messages.
After nearly two years of activity, the new operational theater in Yemen established by the Israel Defense Forces has proven itself, collecting intelligence, including in real time, and closing a targeting loop 2,000 km. (1,240 miles) from Israel’s borders.
These capabilities must continue to develop and expand, to include targeting ground-to-ground missile threats, production sites, supply chains, and launch infrastructure.
Moreover, the strike will now force the Houthi leadership to change behavior. They will be more suspicious, more paranoid, constantly on the move. That will undermine their ability to govern and manage operations.
In the past 24 hours, the Houthis attempted to fire four missiles in three separate launches, alongside unmanned aerial vehicles. The threat remains. Their capabilities are limited but real.
The way to confront the Houthi threat is through a sustained, aggressive campaign of several days, based on precise intelligence, focused on intercepting launch capabilities (similar to what was done in Iran) and targeting leaders.
Ultimately, Israel will have no choice. Israel cannot allow normalization of a reality in which, every few days, or even several times a day, millions of Israelis are forced to seek shelter while hundreds of kg. of explosives are launched at city centers.
See also IDF Intercepts Houthi Cluster Bomb Missile Aimed at Central Israel (Jerusalem Post)
The Houthis in Yemen launched a ballistic missile with cluster bomb munitions to target Israel on Wednesday. The IDF successfully intercepted the missile.
Scottish Parliament Votes for Immediate Boycott of Israel – Steph Brawn (The National-Scotland-UK)
The Scottish Parliament voted 62-31, with 21 abstentions, to approve a proposal asking for “the Scottish and UK Governments to immediately impose a package of boycotts, divestment and sanctions targeted at the state of Israel and at companies complicit in its military operations.”
First Minister John Swinney, who leads the Scottish Government, referred to Israel’s actions as a genocide.
He added it is “time for the United Kingdom to withdraw from the UK-Israel free trade agreement in view of Israel’s behavior.”
IDF Drones Now Kill Most Terrorists in Gaza – Yonah Jeremy Bob (Jerusalem Post)
Drones now account for most of the kills of Hamas terrorists in Gaza, the IDF disclosed on Wednesday.
The IDF said that the Atalef (bat) suicide drone is now widely available within the ground forces.
Moreover, each platoon now has its own surveillance and intelligence drones.
Some are tasked with entering structures to spy out Hamas boobytraps or tunnels.
Other drones are used to look over the next hill to ensure there is no ambush from Hamas before the soldiers advance.
There are now 14 IDF schools training 20,000 soldiers to handle these drones.
Israel 5 Years from Laser Defense to Shoot Down Iranian Missiles – Tomer Hadar (Calcalist-Ynet News)
Israel could be less than five years away from deploying laser weapons capable of intercepting missiles fired from Iran.
[T]he breakthrough needed for laser interception had already been achieved. The focus now was moving from testing to mass production.
https://www.ynetnews.com/tech-and-digital/article/sj11gdl85el
Sorry,
I pressed the “select text” control too emphatically.
Laser defense, not
{spit}Houthis.10 Appalling Moments at the People’s Conference for Palestine 2025
Key Takeaways:
• The People’s Conference for Palestine gives terrorists and terror sympathizers a platform to speak.
• Speakers called for the “fall of the world order,” sympathized with Hamas, normalized intifadas using a positive connotation and not addressing their violence, demonized the Western world, and more.
• There was a children’s program during the conference which included a “curriculum” on Palestinian “resistance.”
• Local newspaper, The Detroit News, covered the event without asking questions, despite anti-American and violent rhetoric on display.
https://honestreporting.com/10-appalling-moments-at-the-peoples-conference-for-palestine-2025/
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Gaza Is a Springboard for Anti-American Activism
The genius of a lost cause is that its adherents never have to defend its real-world consequences. Which is one reason such movements are filled with people who are dedicated to keeping the cause lost.
When we talk about those with incentive to keep the Palestinians as “refugees” forever, we usually think of the NGOs and other groups whose funding depends on perpetual crisis—UNRWA first and foremost, since its organizing mission itself is to keep Gaza locked in a cycle of violence and terror.
But we can’t forget the activist class in the West, which needs the flame of Gaza to burn in perpetuity because it powers a global anti-West and anti-democratic movement that has nothing to do with the Palestinians…
The average American will never understand the plight of the Palestinian person because the state of Israel is a carbon copy of the United States. Therefore, the thing to do is to destroy the idea of America in Americans’ heads” and undo the “the warping of American exceptionalism and imperialism.
https://www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/the-palestinian-confederacys-lost-cause/
‘Oldest racial bigotry’: Douglas Murray reacts to Chris Martin’s comments to Israeli fans
Sky News Australia – September 3, 2025
More Students From China is a Bad Idea
Victor Davis Hanson – September 4, 2025