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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu briefed the foreign media, in English, on Wednesday, bringing maps to show Israel’s small size relative to the Middle East, and Gaza’s proximity to major Israeli cities.

Climate radical Greta Thunberg continues to branch out into other areas of lpolitics, and has been arrested on a Palestine demonstration.

Bret Stephens, a columnist for the New York Times who is a frequent critic of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, says that the Israeli leader is right that a hostage deal requiring a withdrawal from the Gaza border is a “poison pill.”

A pro-Israel counter-protester who confronted thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Manhattan on Labor Day declared afterwards: “If you’re Jewish and you vote for Democrats, you’re crazy, I’m sorry — you’re insane.”

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) revealed Tuesday that soldiers had discovered a railway track inside a Hamas tunnel underneath northern Gaza.

The Biden-Harris administration said Tuesday that it opposed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to hold onto the Gaza-Egypt border — known as the Philadelphi Corridor — to ensure weapons cannot be smuggled into Gaza.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) charged Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar with terrorism on Tuesday, together with six other members of the terrorist organization — nearly 11 months after the Hamas attack on Israel on of October 7.

A Hamas fanatic declared during Monday’s anti-Israel protest in Manhattan that hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin “deserved” to be murdered.

More than 300 directors and actors including Paradise Now filmmaker Hany Abu-Assad are calling for a boycott of Israeli movies playing at this year’s Venice International Film Festival in Italy, claiming the movies engage in the so-called “artwashing” of  “apartheid, occupation and now genocide.”

Hundreds of Americans gathered at Los Angeles’ Nova exhibit over the past 48-hours to pay their respects to six of the Israeli hostages kidnapped by Hamas terrorists last year and brutally murdered Sunday in Gaza.

British government condemned for suspending around a tenth of the weapons export licences for UK companies selling equipment to Israel. 

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced Tuesday that it had killed a Hamas terrorist who murdered an Israeli father in front of his children in one of the most notorious and sadistic scenes of the October 7 terrorist attack.

On Monday’s broadcast of “CNN Newsroom,” House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY) said that President Joe Biden “is starting to say that he’s going to reveal some of those other things and who he believes is

On Monday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Rob Schmitt Tonight,” Darin Hoover Sr. — whose son, Staff Sgt. Darin Taylor Hoover Jr., was killed during the Kabul airport attack during the withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 — said that despite a push

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) stated that Hamas is at fault for the conflict between it and Israel and could end the war right now, and Israel has “agreed to the American position here

Thousands of anti-Israel protesters took to the streets of Manhattan on Monday as the Democratic Party remains fractured over the Israel-Hamas war.

A high-ranking Hollywood talent agent for stars including Justin Timberlake and Matthew McConaughey reportedly  texted “Screw the left kill all” in reaction to the recent murder of six Israeli hostages by the Hamas terrorist organization.

Hamas terrorists filmed the six Israeli hostages before executing them last week — a gruesome reminder of the tactics of psychological warfare once used by ISIS.

An anti-Israel, pro-terror march in Manhattan on Labor Day brought 5,000 demonstrators into the street, chanting radical slogans, setting off smoke bombs, and overwhelming police who tried to stop the illegal demonstration.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres responded to the murder of American and Israeli hostages by failing to name or condemn Hamas.

Two U.S. service members were attacked by a mob of young Turkish nationalists in the western city of Izmir on Monday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded to criticism Monday from President Joe Biden by saying that pressuring Israel, in the wake of Hamas’s murder of six hostages, will only encourage Hamas to kill more hostages.

The left-wing Labour Party government in Britain announced Monday that it will be suspending dozens of arms export licences to Israel.

The Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen attacked three more commercial vessels in the Red Sea with drones and ballistic missiles.

U.S. President Joe Biden told reporters Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not doing enough to reach a deal with Hamas on the release of hostages — without evidence and in defiance of his own administration.

Dozens of people gathered at Congregation Or Torah on Monday morning to watch the livestream of the funeral of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, the American-Israeli who was murdered by Hamas along with six other hostages last week.

A-list Hollywood star Gal Gadot, a former soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), is mourning the brutal murder of six hostages by Hamas terrorists.

Israel is facing a general strike on Monday as the national labor union federation, the Histadrut, called on workers to stay home and to protest in favor of a hostage deal following Hamas’s cold-blooded murder of six hostages last week.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democrat vice presidential nominee, finally released a statement in response to the news that the bodies of six hostages, including one American citizen, had been discovered in a Hamas tunnel under Gaza after he previously dodged a question about the hostages.

Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin ordered the “flags to be flown at half-staff” to honor Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, an American-Israeli hostage who was among the six bodies found dead in a tunnel underneath Gaza.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic Party’s vice presidential nominee, walked away Sunday after being asked by a reporter what his “reaction” was to the news that the bodies of six Israeli hostages had been discovered in a Hamas tunnel

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) responded to the news that the bodies of six hostages were discovered in a tunnel underneath Gaza, saying his “support for Israel is unbreakable.”

Former President Donald Trump blamed “Comrade Kamala Harris” for what he called the “Hostage Crisis in Israel” on Sunday, in the wake of the murder of American-Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin by Hamas.

Mainstream media outlets, including CNN, NBC, and USA Today, are facing intense backlash for what have been called misleading and “vile” headlines about the brutal murder of six hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.

President Joe Biden issued a statement Saturday evening that he had “worked tirelessly” to secure the release of Hersh Goldberg-Polin and other murdered hostages, and claimed he would “keep working around the clock for a deal.”

“It was a surreal moment, my heart started racing,” 25-year-old Zakia Khudadadi said of the moment she “threw her helmet and mouthpiece into the air” winning the bronze against Turkey’s Ekinci Nurcihan in the women’s taekwondo competition Thursday in Paris, at the 2024 Paralympic Games.