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Eli Rosenbaum, director of human rights enforcement policy and strategy at the U.S. Department of Justice's human rights and special prosecutions section, speaking at the U.S. Institute of Peace on June 28, 2022. Source: Flickr/U.S. Institute of Peace.

Top Nazi hunter to retire this month, after 38 years at US Justice Department

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The U.S. Department of Justice’s longest-serving prosecutor Eli Rosenbaum, who is also one of the world’s top Nazi hunters, intends to retire after 38 years at the department by the end of the year. Rosenbaum serves as counselor at...
An artistic depiction of the First Temple in Jerusalem. Image: Tombah/Wikimedia

The Babylonian bubble

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A terrible scene flashed across our screens the other day. It was late afternoon on Friday as Shabbat was coming in and suddenly the sirens sounded. Jerusalem was under attack. Alarms blaring, all the...

To Destroy Jerusalem, by Howard Kaplan

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TO DESTROY JERUSALEM, Kaplan’s fifth gripping Middle East thriller, is his longest and most ambitious to date. A historical novel set in 1990, the action races around the globe from Jerusalem, to Rio de...
Crowds of Israelis wave flags at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City during Jerusalem Day celebrations, May 18, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Israel has rights

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Recently, I attended a dinner given by a major pro-Israel organization. It was the first since COVID and the turnout was great. There were old and new friends, Jews and non-Jews, Democrats and Republicans....
Palestinians fleeing from Khan Yunis to Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Dec. 18, 2023. Photo by Atia Mohammed/Flash90.

Biden is causing an unnecessary humanitarian crisis in Gaza

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The plight of Gazans is due, first and foremost, to the invasion and massacre of Israelis by Hamas on Oct. 7. They are now suffering because they are being used as human shields by...
DF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi (center) visits soldiers of the Golani Brigade in Gaza City's Shejaia neighborhood, Dec. 16, 2023. Source: Twitter/X.

Gallant in Eilat: If Houthis keep attacking, we’ll know what to do

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If the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen continue to attack Eilat with missiles, the State of Israel will “know what to do,” Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said during a visit to the Red Sea city...
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken testifies before the Senate Committee on Appropriations on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 31, 2023. Credit: Chuck Kennedy/U.S. State Department.

Blinken: Not in world’s interest for conflict to end with Hamas still in power

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Hamas should be removed from power when the conflict in Gaza ends, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said during a year-in-review press briefing at the State Department on Wednesday. “Everyone would like to see...
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir at the entrance to Ben-Gurion Airport, March 9, 2023. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.

Ben-Gvir: Reverse decision to allow Palestinian workers into Israel

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Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on Wednesday called on National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi to reverse a decision to allow some 8,000 Palestinian laborers to work in Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria...
Soldiers from the IDF's Oketz canine unit patrol in Kerem Shalom on the Gaza-Israel-Egypt border, May 18, 2022. Photo by Michael Giladi/Flash90.

IDF dog cam shows hostages escaping, days before deaths by friendly fire

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GoPro camera footage obtained from an IDF dog shows how Golani Brigade infantrymen killed terrorists holding three Israeli hostages, allowing them to escape. Five days later, the escaped hostages were mistaken for terrorists and...
Senior Fatah official Azzam al-Ahmed (left) and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh announce a reconciliation agreement between the terrorist factions in Gaza City, April 23, 2014. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

Hamas in secret talks with Fatah about post-war alliance

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The "political" wing of the Hamas terrorist group is holding secret talks in Doha with its Fatah rivals about forming an alliance after the war in Gaza ends, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. These discussions...