Friday, 15 November 2024 | In its first report on the mass assaults on Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam, the city’s municipality has accused them of chanting “hateful and racist songs against Arabs.” This language, which appeared in the fifth sentence of the 12-page report published on Monday, marked a shift from city officials’ rhetoric
Continue Reading »Friday, 15 November 2024 | Two major issues are delaying the end of the war in Gaza. First is the lack of progress on the hostage situation: Hamas demands a ceasefire before even considering any negotiation, whether large or small, and so far, Israel has not been asked for concessions concerning the Philadelphi or the
Continue Reading »Friday, 15 November 2024 | A US political adviser to the UN said on Wednesday that two UN resolutions—on “oil slick on Lebanese shores” and “permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territory”—are anti-Israel. “The US remains disappointed that this body has again taken up this unbalanced resolution that is unfairly critical
Continue Reading »Friday, 15 November 2024 | A Sino-crafted rapprochement [renewed friendly relations] between Saudi Arabia and Iran is currently unfolding. Just last month, Abbas Araqchi, Iran’s foreign minister, didn’t merely settle for a handshake with Saudi Arabia’s Faisal bin Farhan. Instead, he was whisked off to a high-stakes meeting with the Crown Prince himself, Mohammed bin
Continue Reading »Thursday, 14 November 2024 | Six members of the Israel Defense Forces [IDF] were killed on Wednesday morning in a firefight with Hezbollah terrorists in southern Lebanon, while a seventh was moderately wounded, the military announced on Wednesday night. Five of the slain soldiers were identified as IDF Capt. Itay Marcovich, 21, from Kokhav Ya’ir;
Continue Reading »Thursday, 14 November 2024 | A Russian aircraft landed in Israel on October 24 and later headed back to Moscow for reasons that are currently not clear. Officials denied reports a Russian delegation arrived in the country to negotiate the release of two Israeli–Russian captives held by Hamas: Alexander (Sahsa) Trufanov and Maxim Herkin. Hamas’s
Continue Reading »Thursday, 14 November 2024 | This is one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world, with residents from 180 countries. The Dutch aren’t the majority, nor are those of European descent. In the early 2010s, the Dutch made up 50% of the population but had dropped to 44% by the start of this decade.
Continue Reading »Thursday, 14 November 2024 | The director of a Jewish museum in Italy protested the presentation on Wednesday of a book celebrating the October 7 Hamas massacres at a state-funded university. “If we continue like this, Amsterdam is around the corner,” Davide Romano, the director of the Jewish Brigade Museum in Milan, wrote in a
Continue Reading »Wednesday, 13 November 2024 | After more than 400 days since the Hamas massacre on October 7 last year, residents of Kibbutz Nir Oz voted to rebuild their community. “Out of the unimaginable pain of what we have gone through and are still going through, and while calling on the government to immediately return all
Continue Reading »Wednesday, 13 November 2024 | The next US ambassador to Israel will be Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas who ran twice in the Republican presidential primaries for the presidency, President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday. Huckabee will replace Jack Lew, who was appointed by President Joe Biden. Huckabee ran in the 2008 Republican primaries
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