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

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.

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.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday night said Israel is “on the verge of a very great achievement,” expressing hope that a deal could be reached in the coming days to bring home all remaining hostages in one phase while the IDF maintains control inside Gaza.

President Donald Trump announced Saturday afternoon that Israel has agreed to a proposed withdrawal line, and that a ceasefire will begin if and when Hamas agrees. 

Dave Chappelle joked that it’s “easier to talk” in Saudi Arabia than in the United States while headlining the Riyadh Comedy Festival. 

In defiance of pleas from politicians, police, and Jewish leaders to refrain from protesting in the wake of the Islamist terror attack on a synagogue, thousands of pro-Palestine activists took to the streets of England on Sunday.

Comedian Bill Burr has defended his performance at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia several of his peers denounced him and others as sellouts. 

President Donald Trump said Friday that his administration is “very close” to reaching “peace in the Middle East” after Hamas agreed to peace talks. 

President Donald Trump may have pulled off one of the most extraordinary diplomatic feats of the last several decades by negotiating a ceasefire and hostage deal between Israel and Hamas to end the Gaza war.

President Donald Trump told Israel to “stop the bombing of Gaza” on Friday evening, after Hamas responded favorably to his peace proposal, agreeing to free all hostages and leave power — but not necessarily to disarm.

Hamas agreed to President Donald Trump’s proposed peace deal, under which the remaining hostages held in Gaza will be released, and a ceasefire with Israel with begin, according to multiple reports.

Hamas reportedly has agreed to release all Israeli hostages and end the war — though it was not clear if the group has agreed to disarm.

President Donald Trump issued an ultimatum to Hamas on Friday, giving the terror organization just over 48 hours to provide a final answer to his proposed peace deal, which he released from the White House Monday.

Christians in the Syrian provinces of Hama and Homs called a general strike, blocked roads, set fire to a security checkpoint, and marched to demand justice after two of their number were murdered and a third was injured by masked gunmen wearing the uniforms of the General Security Service, the national police force of the central government controlled by President Ahmed al-Sharaa.

Lammy angrily heckled as he attempted to address the gathering, being told to “go to Palestine” and that he has “blood on your hands”. 

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, who is subordinate to “supreme leader” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, described the inevitable need to relocate the capital of his country out of Tehran during remarks on Thursday, citing an unsolvable water and overpopulation crisis.

The jihadist “interim” government of Syria sent a delegation to Moscow on Thursday for talks to facilitate better communication with the defense ministries of both countries, reports claimed – a challenge following Russia’s decades-long support of former dictator Bashar Assad, who the current government deposed.

Two members of the Jewish community who were barricading a synagogue as it was being attacked may have been shot through the door by police.