Category Archives: Israel & Middle East

Oren: “How did a group of real-estate moguls bring peace to the Middle East?”

CLARITY How Three Businessmen Negotiated for Peace Michael Oren Oct 16, 2025 …But Donald Trump, Steve Witkoff, and Jared Kushner—all adept at developing urban properties and golf resorts—seem to have succeeded where generations of aspiring peacemakers failed. How? The answer … Continue reading

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“Crowds dancing in streets expose famine hoax as terrorist leaders view ceasefire only as tactical pause”

WASHINGTON TIMES Gaza celebrates while Hamas prepares for next war Clifford May October 14, 2025 Gazans are celebrating. For the past few days, large crowds of healthy, energetic men, women, and children have been cheering, dancing in the streets, and … Continue reading

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“How a ceasefire snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, ensuring the terror group survives to fight another day”

MIDDLE EAST FORUM The Ghost of Gaza: How Hamas Survived Gregg Roman October 10, 2025 …The fundamental error underlying this agreement is treating Phase One and Phase Two as sequential components of a unified plan when they are incompatible frameworks … Continue reading

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On October 7, Roei Shalev and his girlfriend Mapal Adam hid under a truck and played dead for hours until Palestinian jihadists shot Mapal at close range.

I24NEWS ‘All is dead inside’: Nova massacre survivor who saw girlfriend murdered in front of him dies by suicide October 11, 2025 Roei Shalev, who survived the October 7 massacre but saw his girlfriend murdered in front of him, died … Continue reading

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“Gaza became the first true information war: where what happened online and in the “hearts and minds” of global publics was truly as important as what transpired on the ground, if not more so”

FORBES Lessons Learned From The Gaza War Ilan Berman October 14, 2025 …While Israel unquestionably dominated the military battlefield, Hamas masterfully controlled the larger narrative surrounding the conflict. The Islamist group, in the words of one expert, successfully managed to … Continue reading

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“Faced with rising antisemitism and a radical would-be mayor, New York’s Jewish artists confront a once unthinkable question: Is it time to flee?”

TABLET MAG The Mamdani Exodus Yoni Weinberg October 13, 2025 … That weekend’s [WhatsApp] debate splintered the group in a way I’d never seen before. The topic: Is New York still good for the Jews, or is it time to … Continue reading

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National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir clashes with American envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner during government meeting to approve the agreement with Hamas.

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Yes, we won Amit Segal October 9, 2025 …Hamas no longer threatens Israelis, and if Israel resists the temptation to return to its old habits of restraint, it will not rise again. Iran has … Continue reading

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“October 8, 2023 was when the world changed for Jews, and when Jews began to change for the world”

VOICE OF ZION The hostages are coming home! Yonah E October 9, 2025 …Today the Middle East wakes up redrawn — not with ink on paper, but with courage, deterrence, and divine wrath. The lesson is eternal: you touch a … Continue reading

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Eli Sharabi was taken captive by Hamas, and released on Feb. 8. He is the author of “Hostage.”

WASHINGTON POST What 491 days as a hostage taught me about Hamas Eli Sharabi October 6, 2025 On Oct. 7, 2023, terrorists broke into my home in Kibbutz Be’eri. My wife, Lianne, our daughters Noiya and Yahel and I hid … Continue reading

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“The Jewish state has taken on many U.S. enemies since Oct. 7, 2023, even as the left turned against it”

WALL STREET JOURNAL America’s Debt to Israel Reuel Marc Gerecht and Ray Takeyh October 6, 2025 Two years after Hamas’s Oct. 7 atrocities, the U.S. should be grateful to Israel. The Jewish state has defanged a range of militant actors … Continue reading

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