Blue State Blues: In Israel, Trump Shows That a Border Works Both Ways
Trump helped Israel defend its boundaries from terror — but he is also reminding Israel that boundaries set limits to those within, too.

Trump helped Israel defend its boundaries from terror — but he is also reminding Israel that boundaries set limits to those within, too.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed a bill currently being debated in Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, that would effect the annexation of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank), which Palestinians claim as theirs.

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif delivered a long and frequently belligerent speech to the U.N. General Assembly on Friday, railing against India for what he described as unprovoked aggression in May, and claiming Pakistan humiliated the Indian military in response.

U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters yesterday that he would not allow Israel to annex the West Bank, a step that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has considered in response to attempts to recognize a Palestinian state.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addressed the U.N. General Assembly in New York City on Thursday by video link, since he and the rest of his delegation were denied visas to enter the United States for reasons of national security.

Europe is prepared to accept a Palestinian state, as is. Here, in practical terms, is what that really means.

The United States no longer supports a Palestinian state in Israel’s “Judea and Samaria” (the West Bank) regions, declared U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, who suggested it could be formed “elsewhere in the region” — while warning Iran over uranium enrichment and insisting Hamas must free hostages before any end to the Gaza war.

A Palestinian terrorist shot and killed a pregnant Israeli woman who was being driven to the hospital to deliver her baby, whom doctors were able to save, on Wednesday in a drive-by shooting in northern Samaria.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday announced it has disrupted a Hamas terrorism financing scheme and seized about $201,400 in cryptocurrency.

Fresh surveys released ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit as the first foreign leader to meet President Donald Trump at the White House show that an overwhelming majority of Israelis support the emigration of Gaza’s population — an idea recently suggested on several occasions by President Trump — while most also oppose a Palestinian state, a failed policy long pushed by former Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama.

President Donald Trump responded to a question from a reporter in the Oval Office on Monday about Israel’s possible annexation of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) by illustrating how small Israel really is.

The Israeli government ordered UNRWA, the relief agency for Palestinians, to cease operations in its territory by Thursday, January 30.

Three Israelis were killed in a terrorist shooting attack Monday near Kdumim in the north of the West Bank, Israel’s ambulance service reported.

The Palestinian Authority froze operations of Al Jazeera for “broadcasting inciting materials and reports characterized by misinformation.”

Hollywood actor and staunch Israel supporter Michael Rapaport put outgoing Democrat Jamaal Bowman on blast for calling out “Free Palestine” during his final speech as a congressman and offered Bowman and other “squad members” a free trip to the West Bank so they can enjoy the heat of the war-torn area.

A Palestinian terror shooting attack on an Israeli bus in the West Bank killed a child Thursday morning and left three others wounded, Israeli emergency services said.

The U.N. Security Council (UNSC) issued a statement on Wednesday that “strongly warned” Israel against “any attempts to dismantle or diminish” the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) – the Palestinian relief agency that has been repeatedly linked to the terrorists of Hamas.

The government of Saudi Arabia will reportedly end an eight-year embargo on funding to the Palestinian Authority (PA) with millions of dollars in relief money for the “humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip and surrounding areas.”

The New Tolerance Campaign (NTC) is offering $1 million to support an LGBTQ+ Pride Parade in Palestinian-controlled territories.

Three Israelis were shot and killed by a terrorist Sunday at the border crossing between the West Bank and Jordan, Israeli officials said.

A U.S. citizen who was part of an anti-Israel organization was shot and killed during clashes between Israeli soldiers and violent Palestinian protesters near Nablus on Friday in Samaria (the Northern West Bank).

The Israeli military has concentrated its attention on terrorist cells in the West Bank in the last several days, taking on Hamas in the town of Jenin and in the Jordan Valley.

Khaled Mashal, the terrorist leader in charge of the Hamas “diaspora office,” delivered a speech on Wednesday in which he called for Palestinians in the West Bank to engage in mass suicide attacks against Israel, insisting “the escalation of this conflict is required.”

Left-wing HBO comedian John Oliver is facing backlash for “comparing Israel to the Nazis” during a “shameful” rant.

A mob of angry students attacked German Ambassador to the Palestinian Authority Oliver Owcza at Birzeit University in the West Bank.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian said on Tuesday that representatives from the two main Palestinian factions, the terrorist organization Hamas and Fatah, made progress at recent “unity talks” held in Beijing.

Abu Ubaida, a spokesman for Hamas’s paramilitary al-Qassam Brigades, on Tuesday praised the Iranian missile attack on Israel and called for “escalation” on every front of the conflict.

Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Shia terror group, fired rockets into northern Israel on Wednesday, hitting a factory that employed people with special needs, and killing a 23-year-old Druze Arab named Zaher Bashara in the facility.

Palestinian peace advocate Bassem Eid asserts that Israelis have historically offered peace while Palestinians have rejected these offers.

The leadership of Fatah, the ruling party of the Palestinian Authority (PA) government in the West Bank, suggested creating a fusion government with the terrorists of Hamas and Islamic Jihad (IJ) to take control of Gaza, a report on Sunday claimed.

Shay Germay, 19, an officer in Israel’s Border Police, was killed overnight Saturday into Sunday by a roadside bomb planted by terrorists near the West Bank city of Jenin.

Ismail Haniyeh, political leader of the Hamas terrorist group, published a pre-recorded speech on Tuesday in which he claimed Hamas is “open” to forming a unity government with the more moderate Palestinian Authority.

Decrying what they see as a “modern blood libel” against Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria, 23 Israeli lawmakers pushed back against the Biden administration’s statements about “settler violence,” arguing such instances are rare, especially in comparison to daily acts of Palestinian terror.

A new poll shows more than four-fifths of Palestinian respondents from the West Bank agreed with the terror group’s decision to execute the barbaric attacks.

Vice President Kamala Harris spoke of a post-conflict Gaza built around a revitalized Palestinian Authority with its own security forces “strengthened” as she entered a round of diplomatic talks with Arab leaders on Saturday.

Trump alumni at America First Legal representing Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) won a court order forcing Biden to disclose American taxpayer money funding Hamas terrorists at war with Israel.

The country of Jordan should be considered the true national homeland for the Palestinian people, according to Dutch right-wing politician Geert Wilders, who caused an uproar after making the declaration online.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Alex Wagner Tonight,” Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) stated that “We have been saying for so long, we are pro-Israel, pro-Israel’s right to exist, pro-Israel’s right to defend itself and self-determination. But we haven’t been saying

A recent poll shows significant Palestinian support for the U.S.-designated terrorist group Hamas and its October 7 massacre — the deadliest against Jewish people since the Nazi Holocaust, which saw the torture, rape, execution, and abduction of hundreds of Israeli civilians — while nearly three-quarters favor the elimination of Israel, with the creation of a Palestinian state “from the river to the sea” in its stead.

Three heavily armed terrorist gunmen who attacked a checkpoint near Jerusalem on Thursday, wounding six security forces, were killed as Israeli police fended them off, police have confirmed.
