Tuesday, 10 December 2024 | As the Iranian regime grapples with the fallout of the Assad regime’s collapse in Syria, an Iranian political analyst has offered a blunt assessment of what many in the Middle East and beyond have observed: the steady dismantling of Iran’s so-called “Axis of Resistance” under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Through
Continue Reading »Tuesday, 10 December 2024 | Defense Minister Israel Katz has ordered the Israel Defense Forces [IDF] to create a secure area free of “heavy strategic weapons and terror infrastructure” beyond the buffer zone with Syria, the Defense Ministry announced Monday. Katz said he had instructed the IDF to establish full control over the demilitarized buffer
Continue Reading »Tuesday, 10 December 2024 | The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), the UN agency mainly responsible for education and social services in the Gaza Strip, employed Hamas members, the New York Times confirmed on Saturday, almost a year after it was first revealed by Israel. The
Continue Reading »Tuesday, 10 December 2024 | The photo exhibit “Gaza, Palestine: A Crisis of Humanity, a Cry for Justice” in the lobby of UN headquarters in Manhattan includes images of demolished buildings, displaced civilians, maimed children and corpses. It mentions neither Hamas nor the terror group’s October 7 terrorist attacks in southern Israel that launched the
Continue Reading »Monday, 9 December 2024 | The rapid collapse of the Syrian Bashar al-Assad regime, whose government was overthrown on Saturday, has left Israel among the many watching the situation with hope for a new era of peace and concern about an uncertain future. And Israel is doing more than just watching: They have also been
Continue Reading »Monday, 9 December 2024 | What is happening these days in the Middle East cannot be found even in the most optimistic scenarios heard 14 months after the surprise attack of October 7. The Shiite axis designed to strangle Israel is collapsing before our eyes. Qassem Soleimani’s “ring of fire” vision, designed to allow Iran
Continue Reading »Monday, 9 December 2024 | In a rapid and calculated move, elite Israel Defense Forces [IDF] units—special forces, armored brigades and paratroopers—have deployed to critical points across Syrian territory, including the summit of Mount Hermon and areas beyond the Golan Heights buffer zone. These operations, executed without resistance following the hasty retreat of Assad’s forces,
Continue Reading »Monday, 9 December 2024 | A nativity scene that went on display at the Vatican on Saturday features a photo of the infant Jesus on a keffiyeh. The traditional Arab scarf has been adopted by Palestinians as a symbol of their national aspirations. The image comes at a time when a revisionist Palestinian narrative
Continue Reading »Friday, 6 December 2024 | The IDF [Israel Defense Forces] Ground Forces Command on Thursday reviewed its operations in Gaza and northern Israel, preparing for continued combat against Hamas in the coming years, regardless of potential hostage deals. The briefing highlighted challenges and lessons learned from the fighting in Gaza, which marked the military’s first
Continue Reading »Friday, 6 December 2024 | The Israeli branch of Amnesty International on Thursday publicly rejected the claim by the group’s international headquarters that the Jewish state is perpetrating genocide against Palestinians. “Amnesty Israel does not accept the main findings of the report by Amnesty International Global Movement which accuses Israel of genocide,” the Israel branch
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