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U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee fired back at UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s criticism of Israeli operations in Gaza, invoking Britain’s World War II bombing campaign against Dresden to question the consistency of British wartime policy.

The Associated Press (AP) faced fierce backlash on Wednesday after publishing a sympathetic article about Hezbollah terrorists “struggling to recover” from Israel’s pager attack, with critics slamming the report as terrorist propaganda that would make Nazi sympathizers blush.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a forceful defense of Israel’s conduct in Gaza on Monday, drawing parallels between contemporary anti-Israel accusations and the medieval blood libels that preceded centuries of Jewish persecution, while announcing that Israel has authorized airdrops of humanitarian aid to bypass Hamas’s theft of food supplies.

Senior Hamas political bureau member Ghazi Hamad openly credited the October 7 terrorist massacre with forcing Western nations to recognize a Palestinian state, declaring in a weekend Al Jazeera interview that “the initiative by several countries to recognize a Palestinian state is one of the fruits of October 7” while vowing that Palestinians will never surrender their weapons.

Muhammad once again claimed the top spot as the most popular boys’ name in England and Wales, according to newly released government data, while the name “Yahya” made the fastest climb of any name in 2024—prompting broader questions about cultural identity and societal shifts in modern Britain.

Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, Yechiel Leiter, delivered a scathing rebuke Wednesday of the New York Times’ misleading front-page Gaza photo, calling it part of a “well-funded propaganda campaign to demonize and delegitimize the state of Israel and the Jewish people” that reached “perhaps hundreds of millions of people.”

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar delivered a defiant rebuke to mounting international pressure Tuesday, declaring “Israel will not be the Czechoslovakia of the 21st century” as he warned that European demands for Palestinian statehood would create “a Hamas state, a jihadist state” and vowed that diplomatic pressure attempting to force Israel’s surrender “ain’t going to happen.”

Dutch right-wing leader Geert Wilders delivered a fierce rebuke to French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to recognize a Palestinian state, sarcastically suggesting that southern France could become the new Palestinian state while declaring “Good luck Emmanuel Macron and France! Happy suicide!” in a provocative social media post that gained massive international attention.

Broadcasting legend Dr. Michael Savage — who rose from his Bronx roots as the son of poor immigrants to become one of America’s most powerful voices in talk radio — has his extraordinary American journey chronicled in bold new detail through a documentary capturing “a life defined by reinvention, rebellion, and raw conviction,” as the icon, now in his eighties, reflects on purpose, passion, and a new chapter: “Moses was called at 80; call me Moses.”

An Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) video explicitly targeted President Donald Trump by name while explaining that the regime’s notorious “Death to America” chant now specifically means “death to Trump,” directly contradicting Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi’s claims just one day earlier that the slogan only refers to U.S. policies, not individuals.

Newly released Israeli Defense Forces footage exposes Hamas operatives living in luxury beneath Gaza’s devastated streets, feasting on elaborate meals in well-stocked underground tunnels while the terror group simultaneously spreads propaganda claiming Israel is starving the Palestinian population, with IDF Arabic spokesman Avichay Adraee declaring “this is how the terrorists behave underground—isolated from the suffering of the population and contrary to the false claims of starvation.”

Oscar-winning actor Joaquin Phoenix made a rare podcast appearance, telling comedian Theo Von he came on specifically because it was “courageous and meaningful” that Von spoke out about Israel’s actions in Gaza, including his claim that Israel is committing “genocide.”

World-renowned urban warfare expert John Spencer has delivered a searing indictment of international inaction over the systematic massacre of Syria’s Druze minority, arguing that while “human rights organizations say little” and “Western capitals issue muted statements or none at all,” Israel alone has responded with decisive action to protect a vulnerable community facing what Spencer describes as “ethnic and religious cleansing in broad daylight.”

Department of Justice task force head Leo Terrell delivered a direct message to Jewish students across America on Sunday, promising that President Trump “has your back” and vowing to eliminate antisemitism from schools and universities as his administration takes an aggressive stance against campus harassment targeting Jewish students.

Republican lawmakers delivered a thunderous response following Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s explosive declassification of documents proving the Obama administration deliberately manufactured intelligence to create the false Trump-Russia collusion narrative, with revelations that expose what one Republican described as a disinformation campaign against the American people that “makes Watergate look like amateur hour.”

Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX) is demanding answers from Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) over the state’s use of federal waivers to extend Medicaid coverage to illegal immigrants — raising alarms about taxpayer accountability, legal violations, and the erosion of benefits for law-abiding Americans.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) reintroduced legislation Wednesday to officially designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, marking the latest push in his decade-long crusade to impose sanctions on the worldwide Islamist network that spawned Hamas and other terror groups threatening American interests.

Former Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) delivered a blazing opening statement to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, promising to reform the bloated United Nations bureaucracy and counter China’s growing influence while pledging his confidence under President Trump’s leadership: “we can continue to spread peace and prosperity — and we can Make the U.N. Great Again.”

Former Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Larijani, a former top judiciary official and adviser to the regime’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, warned that millions of Muslims support a fatwa declaring President Donald Trump a “muhareb” — a supreme heretic and enemy of God.

Iranian opposition leader Maryam Rajavi declared that regime change in the Islamic Republic is “realistic,” “within reach,” and “long overdue,” laying out her exiled movement’s strategy to topple the clerical regime and usher in a democratic future.

Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli tore into Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Thursday, branding him a “self-hating Jew” and accusing him of siding with “a Hamas fan advocating the globalization of the Intifada” over his backing of radical left-wing New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, whose record includes virulent anti-Israel rhetoric.

Democrats have “lost the plot” and the party has completely “moved somewhere else,” according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who declared himself “politically homeless” as he blasted the party’s economic vision and ideological shift, accusing the left of turning against capitalism, free markets, and the engines of American progress.

“These are momentous times,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday following a private meeting with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), hailing joint U.S.-Israeli military action under President Donald Trump’s doctrine of “peace through strength” for reshaping the Middle East and causing what he called “a great change in our region” that could pave the way for peace.

In a joint appearance at the White House on Thursday evening, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump said they are working closely to advance a plan that would give Gazans the option to voluntarily relocate abroad — something both framed as a matter of “free choice.”

Republican lawmakers are blasting Democrats over incendiary rhetoric — including calls for “blood” and warnings of being “willing to get shot” — which they say fueled a violent ambush on federal Border Patrol agents in McAllen, Texas, just hours after a bombshell report revealed the left’s increasingly militant push to fight against President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda.

Before boarding his flight to Washington, DC, on Sunday for a meeting with President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Israel stands at a historic turning point — ready to “expand the circle of peace far beyond what we could have imagined.”

Hamas has no place in Gaza’s future and must be dismantled entirely—just as the Nazis were after World War II—U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee declared, denouncing any scenario in which the terror group retains power as “senseless” as allowing Nazis to help rebuild postwar Germany, while reaffirming President Trump’s unwavering stance that Hamas will have “no future” in the Strip in any form.

Iranian state television broadcast live from New York as radical, anti-American activists rallied to celebrate the Islamic regime’s so-called “victory” over the U.S. and Israel in the recent 12-day conflict.

Former MSNBC host Joy Reid used her recently launched podcast to go on a racially charged tirade against Florida’s new illegal alien detention center, outrageously labeling it a “concentration camp” built to “round up brown people.”

America is “tired” of watching its identity be “hijacked by agendas that cater to a loud but narrow minority,” according to Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX), who is leading an effort in Congress to designate July as “American Pride Month.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised President Donald Trump for backing him against what the president called a “political witch hunt” aimed at weakening Israel’s leadership, echoing his call to “Make the Middle East Great Again.”

President Donald Trump, on the eve of the 31st anniversary of the passing of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, issued a letter to Chabad emissaries worldwide in which he honored the Rebbe as “one of the most dynamic and influential faith leaders in modern history” and reflected on how he personally drew “strength and inspiration” from his enduring legacy.

IDF Spokesperson Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin offered a detailed account of Operation Rising Lion, outlining the scope of Israel’s historic strikes on Iran that inflicted sweeping damage to the regime’s nuclear and missile programs, declaring Tehran’s bomb-making capability “removed at this time” while warning the broader fight is “not yet complete.”

Over 100 anti-Israel activists stormed a Belgian weapons facility to “stop arming Israel” — apparently unaware that the $1.1 million in equipment they destroyed was actually bound for Ukraine.

Iranian officials chanted “Death to America” as they voted to expel nuclear inspectors and accelerate uranium enrichment, following President Donald Trump’s bold strike on Tehran’s nuclear infrastructure — a move that also helped force a ceasefire and avert a prolonged regional war.

Israel’s top military official disclosed that elite Israeli commandos operated covertly inside Iran during Operation Rising Lion, as part of what intelligence and nuclear experts now assess was a campaign that inflicted systemic, not just tactical, destruction on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.