Most Clicked This Week
- Bret Stephen's Israel stint taught him "democracies rarely muster their full reserves of determination until they’ve been bloodied one time too many"
- Israeli Superstar Gal Gadot tries to cheer us up but the knives are out: “Nothing like rich famous people singing “imagine no possessions” in their mortgage free homes as the rest of society queue at Lidl for broken biscuits”
- “The Rafah Brigade has been defeated. Their four battalions have been destroyed, and we have completed operational control over the entire urban area”
- ‘Are you a Jew?’ Arab Attacks on Jews nothing new.
- "The explicit goal of the Palestinian Authority and Hamas is the elimination of the Jewish state, not the building-up of a Palestinian counterpart"
- Roman colonialists invented the word “Palestine” in order to insult the native Jewish population with the memory of their ancient enemies, the Philistines.
- Israel reaches out to France before resumption of Iran nuclear talks
- Rafah Egypt-Gaza border crossing "track record conclusively disproves the widespread fallacy that Hamas is primarily concerned with the Palestinian cause rather than the cause of global jihad"
Monthly Archives: August 2025
“Children are wildly suggestible. Ask repeatedly if she might be mentally ill—and she just might decide that she is”
FREE PRESS Stop Asking Kids If They’re Depressed Abigail Shrier August 11, 2025 Illinois intends to crop-dust its public schools with mental-health diagnoses. Last week, Illinois governor JB Pritzker signed into law mandatory annual mental-health screenings for all public school … Continue reading
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“No American city has a worse public pension problem than Chicago. It carries more pension debt than 43 U.S. states and is home to seven of the ten worst-funded local pension systems in the nation”
CITY JOURNAL Chicago Is on the Verge of Fiscal Collapse Austin Berg August 25, 2025 Chicago’s finances were already on life support. Now, with a single piece of legislation, the state of Illinois has pushed the city closer to fiscal … Continue reading
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“Both Israel and the Palestinians have competing aspirations for the land, but because E1 is located in Area C, Israel is within its rights”
JPOST Israel resumes construction of settlement project that would divide West Bank Pesach Benson August 20, 2025 Israel’s Civil Administration approved major construction projects in West Bank, marking a significant expansion in Ma’aleh Adumim in an area known as E1 … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Area C, Bezalel Smotrich, E1, Ma’ale Adumim, Palestinians
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The capture of Gaza City represents the most ambitious phase of Israel’s campaign against Hamas since the October 7 attacks
URBAN WARFARE What to Expect in the 2025 Battle of Gaza City John Spencer August 21, 2025 On August 20, Defense Minister Israel Katz formally approved the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) plan to capture Gaza City under the operational name … Continue reading
“If Hamas is ready to accept a ceasefire, the reason isn’t because it wants to stop the death and destruction in the Gaza Strip. Rather, Hamas wants to ensure that it can continue ruling the Gaza Strip after the war (and keep killing Jews)”
GATESTONE Do Not Be Fooled By Hamas’s ‘Positive Response’ Khaled Abu Toameh August 21, 2025 The Iran-backed Palestinian terror group Hamas said earlier this week that it has delivered a “positive response” to mediators on the latest US proposal for … Continue reading
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Tagged Gaza, Khaled Abu Toameh, Palestinians
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“The disclosure may be a trial balloon from the government, hoping to gauge how the Syrian public might react should an agreement with Israel materialize”
FDD For the First Time in 25 Years, Syria Acknowledges Direct Talks With Israel Ahmad Sharawi August 21, 2025 Israel and Syria are talking — and for once, no one is denying it. Syrian Foreign Minister Assad al-Shaibani met with … Continue reading
A Free Press investigation found that the viral photos lacked important context: The subjects have cystic fibrosis, rickets, or other serious ailments.
FREE PRESS They Became Symbols for Gazan Starvation. But All 12 Suffer from Other Health Problems. Olivia Reingold Tanya Lukyanova August 18, 2025 …An investigation by The Free Press reveals that at least a dozen other viral images of starvation … Continue reading
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Tagged Gaza, genocide, Hamas, Palestinians
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Since October 7, ‘anti-Zionist’ activist groups targeting Jewish landlords have sprung up across Brooklyn
JEWISH CHRONICLE More than 30 years after Crown Heights riots, Orthodox Jews face a new threat from their ‘anti-Zionist’ neighbours Eliana Silver August 19, 2025 On a recent Tuesday afternoon at the intersection of Utica Avenue and Eastern Parkway in … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged anti-Zionism, antisemitism, Brooklyn, New York
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“Korff’s connection to Israel spans several years, marked by his substantial charitable donations to various Israeli causes, including the IDF, medical institutions, and local community projects”
JPOST Billionaire behind Paramount mega-deal obtaining Israeli residency August 20, 2025 Brandon Korff, a Jewish-American billionaire renowned for orchestrating one of the media industry’s landmark deals, the $35 billion sale of Paramount, is in the process of securing Israeli residency. … Continue reading
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Tagged Brandon Korff, Paramount, Sumner Redstone
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In this imagined essay, Anne Frank reflects on the Holocaust, the massacre of October 7, and why the State of Israel and a strong IDF are the only guarantee that “Never Again” is not an empty slogan.
JEWISH JOURNAL If I Had Lived: Anne Frank on Why Israel Must Always Defend the Jewish People Shmuley Botach August 21, 2025 …On October 7, 2023, Jews again saw what happens when their enemies believe they are weak. Hamas, heirs … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Frank, Gaza, Hamas, Holocaust
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ArchitectGuy on Israel 