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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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A Yom Hazikaron Reflection with Rachel Goldberg-Polin

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“Extreme threats, surprise direct talks and a barrage of clichés about Israel being thrown under the bus and an unstable leader: everything Israel went through with Hamas in Gaza is now repeating itself with Iran”

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Netanyahu cools talk of regime collapse in Iran Amit Segal March 26, 2026 It is tempting to try to assess what to expect from negotiations between the United States and Iran based on previous … Continue reading

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Post October 7, emails show Hamas-friendly Qatar conspired with universities such as Northwestern to coordinate anti-Israel messaging

FREE BEACON ‘Information Sharing and No Surprises’: Qatar demanded American schools in Doha ‘be aligned’ in wake of Oct 7, emails show Collin Anderson March 17, 2026 In the wake of Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack, the Hamas-friendly regime … Continue reading

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“Evanston mayor, critic of Israel, will succeed retiring Rep. Jan Schakowsky”

POLITICO AIPAC attacks fall flat as Democrat Daniel Biss wins Illinois House primary March 17, 2026 Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss won Tuesday’s Democratic primary to succeed Rep. Jan Schakowsky, dealing a blow to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in … Continue reading

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“26 nations, $17 billion, and no one will disarm the ideology that produced October 7th. They pledged billions to rebuild Gaza, but not to defeat Hamas”

FUTURE OF JEWISH Israel is the only country willing to defeat Hamas. Mitch Schneider February 22, 2026 …Twenty-six nations gathered. Seventeen billion dollars was pledged. The world’s cameras were there. And the force designed to implement everything agreed upon still … Continue reading

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IDF: “Looking ahead, without Hamas disarmament and under the auspices of the technocrat committee, Hamas will succeed, in our view, to preserve influence and control in the Gaza Strip”

ALGEMEINER Hamas Tightens Grip in Gaza as Trump Pushes Peace Plan Reuters and Algemeiner Staff February 19, 2026 Hamas is cementing its hold over Gaza by placing loyalists in key government roles, collecting taxes, and paying salaries, according to an … Continue reading

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Iran, Hamas: “From Cato the Elder, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Machiavelli”

WASHINGTON TIMES A few words of advice on Iran and Gaza Clifford D. May February 10, 2026 “Carthago delenda est!” In case your Latin is rusty, that means “Carthage must be destroyed!” Cato the Elder would repeat the demand in … Continue reading

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Jared’s vision: “A slick Western fantasy promises prosperity and peace while ignoring the culture of violence and corruption that destroyed Gaza in the first place”

FUTURE OF JEWISH The New Gaza™ (A Virtual Paradise Lacking Only the 72 Virgins) Jonathan Sacerdoti January 24, 2026 U.S. President Donald Trump’s strangely artificial Board of Peace event in Davos on Thursday looked like a Hollywood rendering of an … Continue reading

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