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Comedian Jon Stewart devoted his monologue on the Daily Show Monday evening to criticizing Israel’s response to the Hamas terror attack, and mocking the Biden administration for not clamping down on what he called a five-month bombing campaign.

The Palestinian Authority (PA) government performed the empty gesture of resignation on Monday — with the notable exception of President Mahmoud Abbas — in an attempt to appease U.S. pressure for “reform” as a condition for governing postwar Gaza.

Israeli sources reported progress in talks in Paris, France, this weekend over a release of hostages by Hamas in exchange for a temporary pause in fighting, as the Palestinian terrorist groups appeared to back down from demands for an end to the war.

President Joe Biden attempted to appease Palestinians Friday by reversing a Donald Trump-era policy Friday that declared the presence of Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) to be legal under international law.

New sanctions by the United States against Israelis accused of so-called “settler violence” are “extreme,” and don’t “make sense,” according to an Israeli government spokesman who briefed journalists on Thursday.

Hananya Ben Shimon, 23, an Israeli reservist fresh from military service in Gaza, shot and killed one of three Palestinian terrorists who had opened fire on civilians stuck in traffic on Thursday near Jerusalem, helping to stop the deadly attack.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken posted on X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday that he had met with Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, or Lula — but failed to note Lula’s recent smear comparing Israel’s war against Hamas to the Holocaust.

The United States vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution Tuesday calling for a permanent ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas terrorists in Gaza, but has prepared its own resolution calling for a “temporary” ceasefire.

Israel adamantly rejected claims Tuesday by a United Nations panel of “experts” that included noted antisemite Francesca Albanese that Israeli soldiers had committed sexual assault against Palestinian women and girls detained during the war in Gaza.

President Joe Biden plans to introduce a resolution at the United Nations Security Council calling for a temporary “ceasefire” and demanding Israel refrain from conducting an attack on the last Hamas battalions in Gaza that are the key to winning the war.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog reacted Monday to the release of surveillance video showing the abduction of Shiri Bibas and her young children on October 7 by reiterating their call the release of all Israeli hostages.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) published photographs Sunday of medicines that were meant to be delivered to Israeli hostages under a January deal with Qatar, but were instead found unopened during a raid at the Nasser Hospital at Khan Yunis.

Russia has invited over a dozen Palestinian factions to Moscow at the end of February for a summit aimed at producing a unified front as Hamas struggles to survive in the face of an Israeli counteroffensive following the October 7 terror attack.

Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, or Lula, caused outrage Sunday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, by comparing Israel’s war against Hamas to the Holocaust, then defending Russian president Vladimir Putin in the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

Israel has set a deadline of March 10 — the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan — for a hostage deal with Hamas, failing which it will proceed with plans to invade Rafah, the last stronghold of Hamas leaders on the Egyptian border in Gaza.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defied U.S. President Joe Biden on Sunday by submitting a resolution to his government opposing a Palestinian state imposed from outside, and having the resolution endorsed unanimously.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday that Israel would not accept a Palestinian state that had been declared unilaterally by other countries, telling world leaders they risked rewarding Palestinians with a “grand prize for terror.”

Anti-Israel staff at venues in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Tucson, Arizona, forced the cancelation this week of sold-out shows by Matisyahu, the Jewish reggae sensation.

Kibbutz Nir Oz, one of the hardest-hit communities in the October 7 Hamas terror attack, announced Friday that it had learned that 59-year-old Yair Yaakov had been murdered on October 7, and that Hamas had taken his body to Gaza.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) killed a Hamas terrorist named “Ghoul” who participated in the October 7 attack in Israel and later guarded an Israeli hostage whose body was discovered near Shifa Hospital earlier in the war.

Israel rejected a reported Biden administration plan for a Palestinian state as the outcome of the war that Hamas began with the October 7 terror attack, saying Thursday that now is “not the time” for “gifts” to the Palestinians for having launched the war.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) entered the Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, in southern Gaza, on Thursday in a “precise and limited operation” seeking Hamas terrorists hiding there, as well as the bodies of Israeli hostages that may have been held there.

Family members of Israeli hostages traveled to The Hague, Netherlands, on Wednesday to file charges against Hamas with the International Criminal Court (ICC), submitting a 1,000-page document on Hamas’s crimes since the October 7 terror attack.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that hostage talks are going nowhere, despite intense pressure from the Biden administration, because Hamas refuses to drop a demand that Israel withdraw from Gaza and agree to end the war.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched airstrikes Wednesday on Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon and beyond, in response to a rocket attack on northern Israel that hit the holy city of Safed, as well as a military base, killing a female soldier.

Evidence continues to emerge linking Al Jazeera journalists to terrorists in Gaza, as pressure grows within Israel to bar the Qatar-based network from the country for airing enemy propaganda.

South Africa has asked the International Court of Justice to issue a judicial opinion barring Israel from attacking the last Hamas battalions in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, saying that such an attack, which would win the war, violates Palestinians’ rights.

The State of Israel responded Tuesday to claims Monday by U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) that it is guilty of a “war crime” for allegedy “deliberately” withholding food from Palestinian children, saying his claims were “in conflict with the dry facts.”

U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), who has been a consistently anti-Israel voice since the October 7 terror attack, accused Israel on Monday of committing a “war crime,” claiming, without evidence, that Israel was withholding food from children in Gaza.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released footage Monday from a daring overnight raid to rescue two Israeli hostages in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.

The Palestinian Hamas terrorist organization issued a statement Monday morning complaining about the overnight rescue of two Israeli hostages by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), claiming that the rescue had caused a “massacre” in the city of Rafah.

The United Nations’ “Special Rapporteur” on human rights for Palestinians justified the October 7 terror attack on Saturday, saying that it was a reaction to Israeli oppression.

Biden administration officials met with, and courted the support of, an openly pro-terror leader in the Arab-American community in Michigan this week, according to reports.

Israel revealed a major Hamas intelligence tunnel Saturday that is partially located underneath the Gaza headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which has recently lost funding due to staff involvement in terrorism.

Israel launched an airstrike Saturday that eliminated several senior Hamas terrorist officials in the city of Rafah — while the world attempts to dissuade Israel from launching a broader ground offensive in Rafah, the last stronghold of the terrorist organization.

The Biden administration, after urging by left-wing Democrats, issued a memorandum Thursday that will require Israel to submit a report within 45 days on its compliance with international humanitarian law in its war against Hamas terrorists in Gaza.