Tag: Hamas
It’s Biden who’s playing politics with the Gaza war, not Bibi
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s reputation as a master political schemer and a cynical seeker of power is so deeply embedded in the public consciousness that there is literally nothing he can do without...
‘Far-flung, expanding impact’ of Hamas war, says top US Middle East envoy
The U.S. State Department’s top Middle East envoy has spent nearly her entire career working in the region and has never seen it so hot.
“In my experience, there is nothing like the challenges that...
The buffer zone taking shape in Gaza
The Israeli Cabinet hasn’t issued an official directive to the military to create a buffer zone in Gaza yet, but de facto, on the ground, one appears to be taking shape anyway.
Only the prime...
US hopes any ceasefire deal becomes permanent
Washington is hoping that a ceasefire deal will lead to a permanent halt to hostilities in the Gaza Strip, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
"U.S. negotiators are pushing for a cease-fire deal that could stop...
Qatar: Hamas gives initial approval for hostages-for-ceasefire deal
Qatar has received an "initial positive confirmation" from the Hamas terrorist organization in Gaza in response to its most recent hostages-for-ceasefire proposal, Doha's Foreign Ministry announced on Thursday night, according to Al Jazeera.
"Israel agreed to...
U.S. defense secretary: No ‘all out-conflict’ between Israel, Hezbollah
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin addressed the media on Thursday in his first press conference following his initially undisclosed medical incapacitation earlier this month.
Alternating between questions about his personal health and the widening crisis in...
Hostages’ families urge gov’t to stand firm on talks with Hamas
As Hamas officials headed to Cairo on Thursday for negotiations on a supposedly imminent hostage deal, the families of some of the captives urged the Israeli government not to give in to the terrorists’...
War Cabinet’s Gantz, Eizenkot propose reducing aid to Gaza
Ministers-without-Portfolio Benny Gantz and Gadi Eizenkot, who both serve in the War Cabinet, proposed that Israel limit the flow of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.
They made the suggestion during closed-door meetings in recent...
Netanyahu to UN envoys: ‘UNRWA totally infiltrated with Hamas’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a visiting delegation of United Nations ambassadors on Wednesday that "UNRWA is totally infiltrated with Hamas."
Furthermore, the premier called to replace the U.N. agency because it intergenerationally perpetuates...
Tlaib, Cori Bush vote to allow Oct. 7 attackers into US
The U.S. House of Representatives voted 422-2 on Wednesday to deny entry into the United States to non-U.S. citizen members of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad who attacked Israel on Oct. 7.
Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Calif.) introduced H.R....