Category Archives: Israel & Middle East

Zionism is the modern enactment of Hanukkah’s assertion of the right to Jewish independence, and the necessity of the Jewish state even for Jews outside

NATIONAL REVIEW Happy Hanukkah, and Am Yisrael Chai Jon Levin December 25, 2024 The deep Zionism of the Hanukkah story resonates especially in this era of endemic anti-Zionism and antisemitism. Hanukkah celebrates Jews’ successful assertion of their right to live … Continue reading

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“Turkey’s rise disrupts Riyadh’s narrative depicting itself as the undisputed leader of the Sunni Muslim world, countering Shia Iran”

ATLANTIC COUNCIL The Middle East’s shifting balance of power favors Turkey and Israel Frederick Kempe December 21, 2024 It’s hard to predict where the Middle East’s ongoing seismic shifts will leave the region following the collapse of the Syrian regime. … Continue reading

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Druze history is “a part of the still highly disputed story of why so many Arabs left the war zone of the First Arab-Israeli War (AKA Israel’s War of Independence) in 1948”

FUTURE OF JEWISH The Big Druze News You Didn’t Hear About Sally Prag December 26, 2024 A few days ago, a number of Druze villages in the Syrian Golan Heights announced that they wanted Israel to annex the area of … Continue reading

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“Removing the Iranian regime, often described as the “mother of all terrorism” and the godfather of terrorist groups, would bring lasting security and prosperity to the Middle East and beyond”

GATESTONE Thank You, Israel, for Saving the World, Defending Freedom and Reshaping the Middle East Majid Rafizadeh December 21, 2024 …In just over a year, Israel has succeeded in reducing Iran’s regional influence, effectively dismantling or weakening the pillars of … Continue reading

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Last September, the group StopAntiSemitism named Thunberg “Anti-Semite” of the week and stated, “she has sadly transformed her activism into a platform for vile Jew-hatred”

FEDERALIST Animosity Against Jews Demonstrates Leftist Icon Greta Thunberg’s Extremism Peter Murphy December 26, 2024 Greta Thunberg, once the darling of the climate change movement, has revealed herself as virulently anti-Israel, which should make her a pariah in any legitimate social … Continue reading

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The village of Hader held a town meeting over the weekend, with residents heard calling for Israel to annex the Syrian community rather than coming under the rule of jihadists

I24NEWS IDF meets Syrian Druze leaders after call to join Israel December 15, 2024 Israeli army officers have held their first meetings with the leaders of Syrian villages captured in the Golan in recent days, following the fall of Bashar … Continue reading

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Rep Foxx: “The reputation of US higher education institutions has been in “free fall” over their failure to address antisemitism on campus”

JNS Astounding’ government failures, House GOP report on Jew-hatred says Andrew Bernard December 19, 2024 U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) released an investigative report from six congressional committees about Jew-hatred in the United States after Hamas’s terror … Continue reading

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Just as Iran is the Shiite “head of the octopus” whose tentacles consist of Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and other assorted militias, so Erdogan is the Sunni “head of the octopus” in Syria

GATESTONE Turkey’s Syrian Jihadists Take Over Syria: Kurds, Half a Million Christians Under Intolerable Threat Uzay Bulut December 16, 2024 The Assad family’s rule of Syria, which lasted more than 50 years, collapsed on December 8. Jihadist forces took control … Continue reading

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Ireland’s hostility to Israel, and the Jewish people, is nothing new, as Simon Sebag Montefiore’s family well knows

FREE PRESS The Deep Roots of Irish Antisemitism Simon Sebag Montefiore December 17, 2024 On Monday, the Israeli government announced that it was making the “tough decision” to close its embassy in Ireland. Explaining the move, Israel’s ambassador to the … Continue reading

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CNN’s predictive data point on 2024 election: “Biden could be the last Democratic president for the foreseeable future who aligns so unreservedly with Israel”

COMMENTARY The Democrats’ Anti-Israel Future: It all changed with Barack Obama Joshua Muravchik January 2025 …More important, after the Trump administration killed the JCPOA, Joe Biden revived efforts to install a new version of it, solidifying the idea among Democrats … Continue reading

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