Tag: Hamas
‘There is a problem of deep rot at the United Nations’
The United Nations has always been an extremely challenging arena for Israeli representatives. During the six months of Israel’s war with Hamas, with pro-Hamas protesters flooding the streets outside and supporters of the terrorists...
Blinken heading to Riyadh for talks with Abbas, Arab leaders
U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is scheduled to meet with Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas and Arab leaders this week on the sidelines of a World Economic Forum summit in Saudi Arabia, the...
Israeli archaeologists in Jerusalem recently found a 2,000-year-old clay token that was used in...
Ideas that reduce complex problems into simple mantras are always popular. But those that cloak a political ideology in the sort of language and symbolism in sync with the cultural fashions of the moment and...
‘Must do all we can’ to save hostages, says Rep. Brad Schneider
A video clip that Israelis of a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen being held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip has provoked a rebuke from a vocal pro-Israel Democrat in Congress.
“For 201 days, Hersh Goldberg-Polin’s family...
Biden, world leaders issue joint statement demanding release of hostages
U.S. President Joe Biden and 17 other world leaders issued a joint statement on Thursday calling on Hamas to immediately free all of the hostages the terrorist organization is still holding in the Gaza...
Minister Gamliel to JNS: Israel will destroy Hamas, and the US knows it
Destroying Hamas is not a matter of if, but when, and Israel’s allies know this is the case, Israeli Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology Gila Gamliel told JNS on Thursday.
“All our friends know...
No green light from Washington for Rafah mission, US envoy says
Despite reports to the contrary, the Biden administration has not given Jerusalem its approval of a military operation in Rafah—the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip—the U.S. State Department’s top Middle East diplomat said on...
Top Qatari official: No to negotiations with Israel
There can be no negotiations with Israel as the Jewish people are “slayers of prophets,” a top Qatari official told representatives at a recent Arab League summit, according to a translation of the speech...
IAF strikes Gaza launch pads after rockets fired at Israel on Passover
Israeli Air Force fighter jets destroyed two Hamas rocket launchers embedded in a humanitarian zone in southern Gaza, the army said Wednesday, as the war started by the terrorist group entered its 200th day.
The...
Biden administration caving to BDS tactics against Israel
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is reportedly considering blacklisting the IDF’s Netzach Yehuda Battalion under the “Leahy Laws,” two statutory provisions that, according to the State Department, prohibit the U.S. government “from using funds for assistance...