Category Archives: Islam

“Women living under Hamas rule in Gaza describe to the Mail how they are sexually abused by the terror group’s fighters and forced to have sex in return for food aid”

JNS Gaza women break silence on sexual abuse and extortion under Hamas rule Bar Shaffer April 22, 2026 Gazan women living under Hamas rule are describing sexual abuse by men in senior positions, sexual extortion in exchange for aid or … Continue reading

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Tennessee General Assembly votes to change all official references to the region to “Judea and Samaria”

WPLN.ORG Tennessee bans the name ‘West Bank’ from official documents Marianna Bacallao April 13, 2026 Tennessee will no longer recognize the Middle Eastern region known as the West Bank in official state documents. The General Assembly voted to change all official … Continue reading

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“The strategic paradigms that governed the Middle East for decades have shifted. Not all of them. Not fully. But the shift is real, larger than is yet fully understood, and Israel drove it”

MIRYAM INSTITUTE Is Israel Safer Today? John Spencer April 21, 2026 It is hard to call any war’s outcome while it is still happening. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either not paying attention or not being straight with you. … Continue reading

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“He thought nobody was listening. The Saudis heard everything. And the Palestinian Authority will never recover”

SUBSTACK The Tape That Just Ended Mahmoud Abbas Hen Mazzig April 17, 2026 …I have spent years being told, in every Western capital where I am invited to speak, that the Palestinian cause is the conscience of the Arab world. … Continue reading

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“By ignoring the ideological reality of Hamas and Hezbollah, Klein treats Israelis and Palestinians as props in a Western morality play rather than actors in a high-stakes struggle for survival”

FREE PRESS Ezra Klein Doesn’t Understand Israel Haviv Rettig Gur April 17, 2026 …Because [Klein] misses the central point that any Westerner concerned for Palestinians must deal with: Any Israeli withdrawal from significant parts of the West Bank will almost … Continue reading

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“The Arab Case for Israel is the book that I would recommend above all others for anyone who sincerely wants to understand the entrenched conflict between Jews and Arabs in Israel”

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Senior Israeli official: “United States now intends to actively lead efforts to disarm Hezbollah”

JPOST US intends to lead Hezbollah disarmament, senior Israeli official tells ‘Post’ Amichai Stein April 16, 2026 A senior Israeli official told The Jerusalem Post that, unlike in the past, the United States now intends to actively lead efforts to disarm Hezbollah … Continue reading

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Oren: “Before Europe casts us off completely, perhaps we should separate first. It’s time, I maintain, to say goodbye”

CLARITY Time to Say Goodbye Michael Oren April 16, 2026 This week, on Yom Hashoa, a friend told me a story I had never heard—how her father as a young Jew in Libya during World War II was arrested by … Continue reading

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“Critics of administration have predictably dismissed the reverse blockade move as a desperate effort to regain leverage over Tehran. In truth, the strategy is anything but spontaneous”

FORBES Trump’s Hormuz Blockade Has Been Planned For Years Ilan Berman April 15, 2026 …A decade-and-a-half ago, while on a visit to U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) in Tampa, Florida, I had a candid exchange with a senior military official deeply … Continue reading

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“Why so many, on both the left and the right, keep getting Trump wrong”

TABLET MAG Seven Myths About the Iran War Michael Doran April 14, 2026 Donald Trump’s actions in the Middle East continually surprise the foreign-policy establishment and the media elite. According to commentators on both the right and the left, the … Continue reading

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