Category Archives: Israel & Middle East

A year after the IDF launched the massive counter-terror effort in Judea and Samaria, Israel still grappling with Palestinian terror wave, but many innocent lives have been saved, says IDF officer

JNS ‘Hundreds of Israeli lives saved by Operation Break the Wave’ Yaakov Lappin March 16, 2023 A little over a year ago, on April 7, 2022, a Palestinian gunman who infiltrated Israel from Jenin shot and killed three Israeli civilians … Continue reading

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Letter accuses Biden administration of allowing “taxpayer-funded antisemitism” at colleges and universities across the country

JPOST Republicans demand answers from Education Dept. on antisemitism funding March 13, 2023 Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and 14 other Republican senators demanded answers this week in a letter to Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, regarding the issues of taxpayer … Continue reading

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McKinsey, which works with China, Russia, and corrupt South African authorities, dropped sponsorship over Linda Sarsour appearance

FREE BEACON Rashida Tlaib and Biden Official Were Featured Speakers at Conference So Controversial It Lost Its Corporate Sponsor Alana Goodman March 9, 2023 Democratic representative Rashida Tlaib (Mich.) and a Biden State Department appointee spoke at Harvard University’s annual … Continue reading

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That China was able to step in and broker a deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia, is perhaps the biggest Biden Admin foreign policy failure yet

TABLET MAG Biden Is Delivering the Middle East to China Michael Doran March 15, 2023 Can Washington recognize a Sputnik moment when it sees one? The reconciliation that Chinese leader Xi Jinping brokered last week between Iran, America’s adversary, and Saudi Arabia, … Continue reading

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Republicans’ views are unchanged, with nearly eight in 10 (78%) continuing to sympathize more with the Israelis while 11% side with the Palestinians

GALLUP Democrats’ Sympathies in Middle East Shift to Palestinians Lydia Saad March 16, 2023 After a decade in which Democrats have shown increasing affinity toward the Palestinians, their sympathies in the Middle East now lie more with the Palestinians than … Continue reading

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These seven men and one woman — Theodore Herzl, Chaim Weizmann, Vladimir Jabotinsky, Abba Eban, Louis Brandeis, Ben Hecht, Ron Dermer, and Golda Meir — are eagerly split between American and European origins, and they all play starring roles in the long-deferred return to Zion

AMERICAN GREATNESS The Triumph and Tragedy of Abba Eban Rick Richman March 11, 2023 …Eban’s speeches were a record of eloquence unequaled by any diplomat during that period. Conor Cruise O’Brien, representing Ireland in the U.N. (sitting next to Eban … Continue reading

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Police say gunman shot dead after opening fire at people outside cafe on Dizengoff Street; another victim in serious condition; Hamas claims terrorist as member

TIMES OF ISRAEL 3 wounded, including 1 critically, in central Tel Aviv terror shooting Emanuel Fabian March 9, 2023 Three people were shot and wounded in a terrorist shooting near a cafe in central Tel Aviv on Thursday night, police … Continue reading

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Cancelling planned protest, elite air force squadron will ‘continue to serve the Jewish and democratic State of Israel as long as it is required’ and report to training

HAARETZ Elite Israeli Reserve Air Force Pilots Reverse Decision to Protest, Set to Meet With Their Commanders Amos Harel March 7, 2023 Reserve pilots from an elite squadron in Israel’s Air Force announced on Tuesday that they will not boycott … Continue reading

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Bibi: “Those who say, ‘Well, if we take action against Iran, we will face war’ – You will face a war if you don’t, a potentially horrible nuclear war if you don’t”

JPOST Netanyahu: ‘Horrible nuclear war’ will break out, if Iran isn’t stopped Tovah Lazaroff March 9, 2023 A “horrible nuclear war” will break out if the world does not stop Tehran from obtaining atomic weapons, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said … Continue reading

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The U.S.-backed anti-judicial reform protests in Israel are being shaped by the intersection of two crises, one in U.S. Iran policy and the other resulting from the rise to power of religious communities in Israel

TABLET MAG How U.S. Ambassador Tom Nides Became Israel’s Arsonist-in-Chief Michael Doran March 6, 2023 …So what, precisely, is the source of the terror that these [Israelis] are feeling? The reform is five conflicts in one. First, it is a … Continue reading

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