Monthly Archives: May 2024
Peace now?
The unbearable images of the war in Gaza have shaken the world, prompting urgent calls for an end to the suffering. However, neither calls for an immediate unilateral ceasefire, nor incantations, nor grand speeches,...
Fact-checking the IJC: Omissions and deceptions
Unsurprisingly, the International Court of Justice played along with the cynical attempt by Hamas’s ally South Africa to halt the Israeli military operation launched to destroy the terrorist organization after its horrific Oct. 7...
Oct. 7, verbatim
The same week Ireland’s Bambie Thug was embarrassing her country at Eurovision, in New York City two Irish investigative journalists premiered the first play about Oct. 7. Not surprisingly, it was difficult to find...
Egyptian soldier killed after IDF troops targeted at Gaza border
The Egyptian military opened fire at Israel Defense Forces troops stationed on the Gaza side of the Rafah border crossing on Monday.
An exchange of fire followed, with one Egyptian soldier killed.
The IDF confirmed that...
Israel: Civilians killed by fire that broke out after Rafah strike
Noncombatants were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Rafah on Sunday night due to a fire that broke out after the attack, an Israeli government spokesperson said on Monday.
The Israel Defense Forces earlier said that it...
Knesset to vote on bill designating UNRWA a terror group, another stripping its immunities
Israel’s Knesset is set to hold a preliminary vote on Wednesday on two bills targeting the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) over its ties to terrorism.
One of the bills, proposed by Knesset...
Knesset advances bill to commemorate Iraq’s Farhud pogrom
Israeli lawmakers on Monday advanced a government proposal to designate June 1 as a day to commemorate the Farhud, the 1941 pogrom in Iraq coordinated by Palestinian leader Haj Amin al-Hussein.
The Commemoration Day for the...
Air Force camp fails inspection: ‘Nothing learned from Oct. 7′
IDF inspectors posing as thieves succeeded in infiltrating a sensitive Air Force site and simulating the theft of ammunition and weapons.
Military officials criticized the facility’s lapse in security and the lack of discipline of...
ICJ rules Israel must ‘immediately’ halt Rafah military offensive
The International Court of Justice, the principal United Nations judicial arm located in the Hague, voted 13 to two on Friday to insist that the Jewish state “immediately halt its military offensive and any...
‘Hamas responsible for prolonging Gaza war’
Hamas started the war with Israel and is responsible for perpetuating the conflict by refusing to lay down arms and release the hostages, Israel Defense Forces Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said on Thursday.
“Hamas...