In its dying days the Biden-Harris administration will be chomping at the bit to act on its most “progressive” impulses: To clobber insolent Israel and to reset US Mideast policy away from Israel.
The IDF confirmed that the operation was carried out by Shayetet 13 - Israel's Navy Seals.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The White House has warned the Islamic Republic not to respond to Israel’s Oct. 26 airstrikes.
The bill strips entities that transfer funds associated with terror — including the Palestinian Authority’s stipends to imprisoned terrorists and their families — from approaching the High Court.
Can any rational person compare what Hitler did when he initiated the most disastrous war in history to what former president Trump accomplished during his four years in office?
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The agreement calls for the withdrawal of Hezbollah and other terror groups from Southern Lebanon within 60 days after signing.
The Israeli government encourages countries to establish embassies in the Israeli capital.
The site even contained a loading dock for cargo. Naim Qassem will replace Hassan Nasrallah as Hezbollah's top leader.
Israel advised UNIFIL to withdraw for their own safety, as they have been acting as human shields for Hezbollah.
By Paul Gherkin
The current war on Jews in the United States and Israel, home to 85% of world Jewry, was fueled by President Obama's push to elevate the Muslim world, and the Islamic Republic of Iran in particular.
Iran (good), Israel (bad), Trump (worse)--read all about it in NYT
92 of 120 MKS overwhelmingly voted to bar UNRWA
When one's enemy has no war aim other than genocide, and has said so consistently for 90 years, there is most likely zero probability of a diplomatic route to peace.
If this year of beheadings and ballistic missiles has taught us anything, it is that Islamic trash talk is real. American platitudes are mere sound bites.
Were it not for the Jews and their Bible, there would be no Christianity – and therefore no Western civilization. The abolition of slavery was led by Bible-believing Christians. The Bible, not Aristotle, was their moral inspiration.
The Biden-Harris White House Owes Bibi an Apology
Hezbollah has a bunker full of cash and gold hidden under the Al-Sahel Hospital in Beirut - approximately half-a-billion dollars worth.
Alone, small nation champions a catatonically suicidal West
By Guy Millière
Sinwar wants everyone to be a martyr—except for him." Now he appears to want to have discussions again on the condition that the Israelis will not try to kill him during the negotiations on a deal
By Akiva Van Koningsveld - JNS
Failure to comply "may have implications for U.S. policy," U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin reportedly wrote.
Last year, Israelis thought that life would mostly go on the way it had. Now they know it cannot.
As we stand before G-d this Yom Kippur with the memory of October 7 fresh in our hearts, we must recognize our responsibility to actively shape how this chapter will be remembered.
By Bassam Tawil
There is no excuse for celebrating murder. A society that celebrates murder will never be a partner for peace. True peace will only come when Palestinian leaders values their people's lives more than celebrating the murder of Jews.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on the Lebanese people to take back their country from Hezbollah and Iran.
When someone criticizes Israel, we need only ask: “Are they OK with killing Jews?”
The targeted maneuvers follow months of special forces ops that uncovered staggering quantities of weapons meant for an invasion of the Galilee.
The proposals were passed unanimously by the committee following extensive discussions.
To a large degree, the international narrative regarding the prime minister is shaped by media coverage in Israel. But the Israeli public isn’t buying it.
Crystal Ball Time! Join Jonathan Tobin in guessing what will happen in the New Year.
A rocket landed on the highway.
'Once you have let it out, it It is impossible to put the genie back into the bottle'
In Six Weeks, Israel Has Eliminated As Many Wanted Terrorists as the US Has Done in the Last 20 Years
By Bassam Tawil
Hamas brought a nakba (catastrophe) to the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Hezbollah is bringing the Lebanese people another.
"Death to America" and "Death to Israel"
A Houthi ballistic missile was intercepted over the Tel Aviv region.
“It’s far past time to transfer to Israel the capabilities it needs to win,” senators Tom Cotton and Mitch McConnell wrote to President Joe Biden.
There is no legitimate way for Israel to take out a terrorist.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
On Aug. 21, Ramallah claimed its economy was at risk of collapsing within "days" after Israeli banks stopped accepting Palestinian Authority cash deposits.
Home Front Command closed schools in northern Israel, and the Transportation Ministry banned sailing in Lake Kinneret.
The entire existence of Hamas is nothing but a litany of gruesome war crimes.
Residents in those regions report hearing the booms from the rockets and interceptions.
Biden-Harris administration decided that the best way to honor the hundreds of Americans killed by Hezbollah, including the 220 Marines in the Beirut barracks bombing in 1983, the brutal torture of Colonel William R. Higgins...and Navy diver Robert Stethem who was beaten to death on TWA Flight 847, was by demanding that Israel surrender to the terrorists.
The IDF confirmed it struck a target in Beirut.
His sticker bears the Hebrew words Don’t wait for them to ask, just help! encapsulating his essence as a caring, proactive individual.
Lebanon is describing it as the most intense bombing since the war began.
The arrested Israeli suspect travelled to Iran twice where he met his handlers.
By David Isaac
"There is some leverage that we have had and used,” she said.
By Bassam Tawil
The most recent statement from Hamas makes it clear that the terror group wants Israel to abandon the Gaza Strip before any hostages are freed.
By Paul Gherkin
Harris and Trump agree that Hamas is an evil terrorist organization but it would appear that only a Trump Administration would push to destroy the group,
The problem with politics of hate is that hate is a hard habit to break.
Rocket alerts went off in central Israel at 6:32 AM Sunday morning.
The Boston-area city faces criticism for arresting the alleged shooter right away, but not the man who appeared to attack him before getting shot.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Firefighters were working to put out a fire that broke out, the IDF said.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Troops reportedly entered an unspecified arms depot, removed equipment and documents and then set off explosives to destroy the facility.
By Dan Diker
Big Surprise: Hamas leader Sinwar DOESN'T want a hostage deal.
By Bassam Tawil
Sadly, many demonstrating in Israel today appear unaware that they are being used by Hamas; that they have walked into Hamas's trap: to force out a leader, Netanyahu, who is finally succeeding in defeating Hamas.
Among the dozens of suspects arrested in the Tuesday morning raids was an employee of the Ministry of Transportation.
The Israeli operation aims to prevent Iran and its Palestinian proxies from opening a new front against Israel from the West Bank.
Israel does not have a “Right to defend itself”--it has a RIGHT and a DUTY to go on the offensive and WIN
A system, not a woman, backed by a state propaganda machine was installed
The start of the semester means a renewed surge of delegitimization of Zionism and open antisemitism.
The PA's failure to crack down on the "battalions" means that Iran now has a small army in the West Bank
The Biden-Harris administration wants Bibi out to work with "their" PM: one who presumably would be delighted not only to have a terrorist Palestinian state on his borders and a nuclear Iran, policies promoted by Obama,
“The charges unsealed today are just one part of our effort to target every aspect of Hamas’s operations,” Merrick Garland said. “These actions will not be our last.”
By Bassam Tawil
Hamas leaders are banking on the Biden WH to compel Israel to give in to the terror group's demands.... Long the dream of Hamas and many Palestinians to see the US turn its back on Israel.
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable…- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) British Prime Minister
Thousands of Israelis gathered in Jerusalem on Monday to pay their final respects to Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who became one of the best-known of the hostages held by Hamas.
By Moshe Dann
Why reward terrorists with a State? Why, then, since nearly all Palestinians reject the 2SS, is it still relevant – and why is the claim constantly made that there is “no alternative?”
Present Israeli deterrence is at its lowest point in years, and any US-brokered compromises with Hamas, Hezbollah, or Iran, will be disastrous to us.
There has been a notable escalation in terror attacks in Gush Etzion this past week.
More than ever this past school year, our community-centric Shabbat was a much-needed respite for us students as we were often preoccupied with dealing with the encampments and protests on our various campuses.
The IDF said it took several months of effort to locate the soldier's body.
65% of Muslim students either hate Jews or Israel.
In April, Iran launched an aerial attack. Israel should have responded with conviction to ensure Iran would never dare try it again. Instead, to maintain US support we made only a symbolic gesture, by bombing a radar station. And now here we are again.
The ancient Hebrews fought the Canaanites without mercy. There was no possibility of a two-state solution; for one tribe to live here, the others had to go. When Amalek attacked the people of Israel on their way to their land, bribing them to stop murdering us was not considered.
Hezbollah was about to launch a massive attack which Israel preempted.
Special restrictions are in place from Tel Aviv northward.
By JCFA- Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs
How October 7 Conditioned the Israeli Psyche
By Braha Bender
I have struggled with what feels like a new full-time job. Just like you, I am now a trauma management specialist. This job takes a real chunk out of my schedule. Psychological warfare is real.
How can Israel use the consequences of human and societal evolution to help her overcome the massive propaganda assault, both in the West and in the Middle East?
Those in Israel who see the removal of Netanyahu as PM as a higher priority than the defeat of her enemies are idiots at best and traitors at worst.
By Bassam Tawil
Hamas is now in dire need of a ceasefire because its leaders want to retain its power in the Gaza Strip.
Oct 7 is not just in Israel, it’s in India, America, Russia, Africa and in Europe. Our governments have lied to us for too long and fooled us into not seeing the pattern that is killing us.
Countless civilian deaths in both Israeli and Gaza have doubtless resulted from signals sent by the Biden-Harris administration that they are hostile to Israel, determined to have Hamas win, and still fund Iran.
Instead of fixating on a ketz hageulah (end of redemption), which places the burden on G-d to act, we should embrace the approach of being metzapeh l’yeshua and mechakeh lo, never despairing and continuing our mission with hope and purpose.
Radical Islam vandalizes the image of G-d, creates a cult of death and tramples the notion of divine image.
“We’ve been active in the area for a few years, but we’ve seen a definite uptick in activity since the start of the war."
[T]he likelihood of Iran launching another attack against Israel in retaliation for Haniyeh's assassination appears to be receding, not least because Tehran is well aware that, in any major military confrontation with Israel, it will inevitably be the loser.
What better moment than the eve of Tisha Be’Av – ten months distance from Israel’s contemporary national catastrophe of Tisha Be’Av magnitude – to remind oneself of the Biblical warnings against the politics of defamation?
To say that the Jewish world is “resilient” is an understatement.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Post-Judaism leads in the end to a rejection of democracy, which means, a rejection of Zionism too.
“Having a proposal that’s unified between the three mediators can be quite powerful,” said a senior Biden administration official.
Justified hate, even hate we hide from ourselves, is still hate.
Despite Israel picking off senior Hamas leaders and destroying much of its infrastructure, Sinwar still lives, and he controls the fate of dozens of hostages still alive in Gaza.
We are in a bad spot, but there is one strategy that might succeed: that is to strike a massive blow at the Iranian regime and Iran’s infrastructure,
If only he had also been an austere religious scholar too.