By Khaled Abu Toameh, Gatestone Institute— Why are Iran’s Palestinian proxies, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, disturbed about the death of Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s Quds Force, who was killed in a US airstrike on January 3, 2020? The two Iranian-backed groups in the Gaza Strip were quick to mourn the “martyr”…
DetailsBy Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, Breaking Israel News— IDF intelligence reported that Iran will have enough uranium for a nuclear warhead by the end of year but President Trump is leading a multinational effort to prevent this from happening. An article published in Haaretz on Tuesday reported that Israeli military intelligence estimated that by the end…
DetailsBy JNS— South Dakota became the 28th state to enact a measure to combat boycotts of Israel as Republican Gov. Kristi Noem signed an executive order on Tuesday prohibiting state offices from doing business with companies that boycott Israel. “Israel is one of our nation’s closest allies, and their success is critical to American national…
DetailsBy Caroline Glick, JPost— For the past 40-odd years, two narratives have guided American Middle East policy. Both were invented by the Carter administration. One relates to Iran. One relates to Israel. Both narratives reject reality as the basis for foreign policy decision-making in favor of delusion. Over the past two months, President Donald Trump…
DetailsBy Times of Israel— Iran is refusing to hand over for analysis the black boxes from a Ukrainian airliner that crashed near Tehran to the plane’s manufacturer Boeing, Iranian media said Wednesday. The crash, whose cause is still unclear, came shortly after an Iranian missile barrage on US forces in Iraq. “We will not give…
DetailsBy The Rogatchi Foundation—- We are especially glad to make the announcement at the time when two celebrations of good will, kindness and light, Hanukkah and Christmas, coincide this year, thus adding and accumulating yet more positive energy for all of us to benefit from. Rogatchi Foundation Humanist of the Year is awarded annually for…
DetailsBy Inna Rogatchi, Times of Israel— There is a joyful tradition in Judaism when some of the Jewish holidays are celebrated for two and more days without disruption. In such cases, it is generally accepted among the observing people that we are living through one wholesome and uplifting day, would it be 48 or 72…
DetailsBy The World— The United States is sending nearly 3,000 additional troops to the Middle East from the 82nd Airborne Division as a precaution amid rising threats to American forces in the region, the Pentagon said on Friday. Iran promised vengeance after a US airstrike in Baghdad on Friday killed Qasem Soleimani, Tehran’s most prominent…
DetailsBy Asaf Romirowsky, Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies— Like clockwork, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s recent observation that “the establishment of Israeli civilian settlements in the West Bank is not, per se, inconsistent with international law” was immediately denounced by the Jewish Left. The head of the Reform movement in North America, Rabbi Rick Jacobs,…
DetailsBy Melanie Phillips— The attacks against Jews in New York and London during the past week have left people deeply shocked. The stabbing rampage against Hanukkah celebrants in Monsey, N.Y., following a deadly attack on a kosher supermarket in New Jersey in which two Chassidic Jews were shot and killed, has produced much anguished discussion…
DetailsBy Giulio Meotti, Gatestone Institute—- Martha Bulus, a Nigerian Catholic woman, was going to her bridal party when she was abducted by Islamic extremists of Boko Haram. Martha and her companions were beheaded and their execution filmed. The video of the brutal murders of these 11 Christians was released on December 26 to coincide with…
DetailsBy Yoav Limor, Israel Hayom— The assassination of Qassem Soleimani is a rare event that alters reality and renders everything that happened before it irrelevant. What’s required now is almost a complete reassessment of all previously held assumptions and conventions. It was, by a wide margin, the most significant assassination ever carried out in the…
DetailsBy JPost— IRGC Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, along with at least 10 other people, were killed in an attack by US forces in Baghdad on Friday morning Israel time, according to reports confirmed by the Pentagon and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC). In a statement, the…
DetailsBy Rabbi Stuart Weinblatt, JNS— It’s no secret that Jewish kids on college campuses have been subjected to increasingly aggressive and intense intimidation, ranging from the placement of “eviction” notices on the doors of their dorm rooms to faculty members refusing to sign permission slips for students to study abroad in Israel. In an effort…
DetailsBy Bassam Tawil, Gatestone Institute— The Palestinian ruling Fatah faction, headed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, is celebrating the 55th anniversary of its first terrorist attack against Israel by reminding everyone that it remains committed to the “armed struggle as the only way to liberate Palestine.” Thousands of Fatah supporters took to the streets…
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