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On Wednesday’s “Mark Levin Show,” Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) stated that while Qatar has been helpful with getting the hostages in Gaza released, “Qatar is going to have to choose a side. You can’t play all sides, and you can’t

Kentucky Senate Republican candidate Nate Morris suggested that the Nobel Peace Prize be renamed after President Donald Trump when the president announced that Israel and Hamas had “signed off on the first Phase” of a peace plan.

“A great day for Israel,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared Wednesday night, announcing the approval of a landmark deal to bring home all the remaining Israeli hostages — a breakthrough reached with direct backing from President Donald Trump.

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) congratulate President Donald Trump on a “historic peace plan” between Israel, Hamas, highlighting how he and Trump have a “shared ironclad commitment to Israel.”

President Donald Trump said a deal to end the Israel-Hamas War is “very close,” and he could travel to the Middle East as soon as this weekend.

Tuesday pro-Hamas “peaceful” protests in the Colombian cities of Bogotá and Medellín concluded with numerous acts of vandalism and clashes between violent protesters and law enforcement, leaving several injured.

The Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen took another nine employees of the United Nations prisoner on Tuesday, bringing the total number U.N. workers detained over the past four years to 53.

Jihad al-Shamie pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in a phone call to police during the course of last week’s Synagogue attack.

The jihadist terrorist organization Hamas celebrated the second anniversary since its invasion and gruesome massacre of an estimated 1,200 random people in Israel on Tuesday, calling it a “glorious day of success.”

During an interview aired on Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” Ronen Neutra, the father of deceased Hamas hostage Omer Neutra, stated that President Donald Trump pressured both Israel and Hamas to get a deal and also stated that “we’re in

New York City’s Democratic Socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani marked the two-year anniversary of Hamas’s October 7 massacre by accusing Israel of waging a “genocidal” war — bombing homes, hospitals, and schools into rubble, alleging “war crimes.” He further declared “our government has been complicit through it all” — with Republicans and others erupting, calling the post “beyond disqualifying, heinous, disgraceful, and vile,” and blasting him as a “mouthpiece for Hamas propaganda.”

Israel’s military campaign in Gaza has killed many top leaders of Hamas and greatly weakened the terrorist organization, prompting other gangs and militias to step into the power vacuum.

Emmy-winning actress Patricia Heaton is warning that the rise of antisemitism in America could easily lead to another terror attack like 9/11.

President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will discuss Gaza and trade during their private meeting on Tuesday.

The Vatican announced on Tuesday that Pope Leo XIV will make visits to Turkey and Lebanon beginning in late November, his first international travel as the head of the Catholic Church.

A protest called for in central Berlin on Tuesday night featuring the paraglider symbol of the October 7th terrorist attacks was banned by German police with just hours to go before it was due to begin.

Lesbian comedian Jessica Kirson apologized to fans for performing at a comedy festival in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, claiming that her intention in going to the Middle Eastern country was to “help LGBTQ+ people in Saudi Arabia feel seen and valued.”

A group called Stand for Palestine Australia announced it would hold a “Glory to Our Martyrs” rally on October 7 – the anniversary of the horrifying Hamas terrorist attack that launched the Gaza war – in the western Sydney suburb of Bankstown.

Brexit pioneer Nigel Farage writes the UK faces a “wake-up call” it must heed on the anniversary of the October 7 terrorist attacks.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday urged Swedish career protester Greta Thunberg to see a doctor because, “… for a young person, she’s so angry. She’s so crazy.”

Families of hostages still held in Gaza — together with relatives of those already returned — urged the Norwegian Nobel Committee to award President Donald J. Trump the Nobel Peace Prize.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry declared during its regular press briefing on Monday that it “expect[s]” United Nations member countries to simply ignore the reimposition of sanctions on the rogue Islamist regime the Security Council approved in late September.

Americans continue to support Israel by overwhelming margins — despite media claims to the contrary, and the implacable opposition of global critics to the idea of Israel fighting, and defeating, Palestinian terror.

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) is criticizing anti-Israel protesters for not demanding the terrorist organization Hamas agree to President Donald Trump’s peace deal.

The Signpost, the main community newsletter on Wikipedia, noted a recent Tablet Magazine article by journalist Ashley Rindsberg in its “In the media” section. Reporting how Wikipedia smeared Zionism, Rindsberg’s piece noted previously-reported names of two prominent pro-Palestinian editors involved. A member of Wikipedia’s Arbitration Committee, often likened to a Supreme Court, removed the report with public site records of it deleted. A former Committee member claimed violations of the site’s doxing policy.

The government of Syria under former al-Qaeda jihadist President Ahmed al-Sharaa celebrated itself on Sunday for holding its first-ever election: an invite-only affair with hand-picked candidates meant to fill the seats in the country’s new “Syrian People’s Assembly.”

Having to sit on hard surfaces. Bedbugs everywhere. Inadequate food and poor water. These are just some of the grievances cited by Swedish professional activist Greta Thunberg against the Israeli government after she was taken into detention when her “aid convoy” was intercepted last week as it headed towards Gaza.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee marked the second anniversary of the October 7, 2023, Hamas terror attack on Israel by calling for the remaining Israeli hostages to be freed in a new deal.

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Party nominee for mayor of New York City, met with Palestinians to mark the “genocide” in Gaza ahead of the second anniversary of the Palestinian terror attack on Israel on October 7.

Swedish climate activist-turned-Hamas sympathizer Greta Thunberg is set to be deported from Israel on Monday after her second arrest for joining a “flotilla” attempting to run the blockade against the terror group.

The Israel Allies Foundation (IAF) on Sunday released its 2025 list of the Top 50 Christian Allies of Israel, led by Pastor Paula White-Cain and honoring the late Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, recognizing influential Christian figures who have “stood with Israel during these critical times,” with IAF President Josh Reinstein calling their support “a testament to the enduring bond between the Christian and Jewish communities.”

During this week’s broadcast of CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that to stabilize Gaza, Hamas, or anything that looked like Hamas, could not govern Gaza.

Members of a pro-Palestine protest in Rome reportedly defaced a statue honouring the late Pope John Paul II with graffiti that described him as a “fascist”.

President Donald Trump said Saturday that he told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that his Gaza peace deal was a chance for Israel’s “victory” in the war — adding, however, that “He has no choice.”

World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder said Saturday that President Donald Trump “is the Peace President,” declaring that if ongoing efforts result in Hamas’s disarmament, the return of all hostages, and an end to the Gaza war, Trump “without question deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.”