U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham has played the role of shadow secretary of state this year. Back in April, Graham, a South Carolina Republican, traveled to Israel and met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a week after a trip to Saudi Arabia yielded a sit-down with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Earlier this month, conducting shuttle diplomacy throughout the Middle East, Graham and a bipartisan Senate delegation bounced from Saudi Arabia to Israel to Egypt, meeting with the leaders of all three countries in an attempt to keep the Israel-Hamas war from spiraling out of control and to save a potential…
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Less than two weeks after the Oct. 7 massacre of 1,400 Israelis, the world is predictably starting to turn on Israel, whether it’s at the United Nations, in the international media or now in the financial markets. Last week, major rating agencies, including S&P Global Ratings, Fitch Ratings and Moody’s took the perplexing step of downgrading Israel’s credit outlook to “negative.” Their rationale? The anticipation of a war negatively impacting the country’s economy. It is a grave mistake, however, to underestimate a nation armed with nuclear capabilities, one of the world’s most formidable armies and a highly advanced air force…
Elie Wiesel said it best: “Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” The silence from university presidents at Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, Brown, George Washington University and Cooper Union is deafening. In support of Hamas’s Oct. 7 rampage through southern Israel, paid protesters, agitators and rabble rousers have wreaked havoc on campuses across the U.S. At Cooper Union, Jewish students were subjected to a pro-Hamas mob that terrorized them. At George Washington University, the statements “Glory to Our Martyrs” and “Free Palestine from the River to the Sea”—barely concealed code…
Hamas is preventing hundreds of American citizens from leaving the Gaza Strip, U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan revealed to CBS on Sunday, ahead of a scheduled call between President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “The challenge right now … is that the Egyptians are prepared to let Americans and other foreign nationals out of Gaza. The Israelis have no issue with that. But Hamas is preventing their departure and making a series of demands,” Sullivan told CBS’s “Face the Nation” program. “We’re trying to work through that to create a circumstance where all of the Americans who are in Gaza are…
Israel has tried to enlighten the world about the true nature of Hamas for years. Since the unspeakable atrocities that Hamas committed on October 7, some of the Western world is seeing the light. Others never will because they simply don’t want to – in fulfillment of ‘הלכה היא ידועה שעשו שונא יעקב.’ But on Friday, even the anti-Israel New York Times published a report entitled: As Gazans Scrounge for Food and Water, Hamas Sits on a Rich Trove of Supplies. The report quotes Western and Arab officials confirming Israel’s assertions that the Hamas terror group has been stockpiling supplies…
An IDF officer was badly wounded and a soldier moderately wounded Saturday night during different operations against terrorists in the Gaza Strip, in a war the military says is being executed in “stages.” The officer was hit by a mortar shell fired at IDF forces that had entered the northern part of the coastal enclave to destroy enemy position. The solder was wounded in a different clash with terrorists in the same general area, who had tried to attack his unit. Both were taken to hospital in Israel and their families have been informed.
JERUSALEM (JNS) – A nine-year-old Israeli girl who suffered cardiac arrest last week while running to a bomb shelter in the southern city of Ashdod died on Saturday, Assuta Hospital announced. Israeli media identified the victim as Tamar Torpiashvili. The Israeli home front continued to face rocket fire from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, with volleys fired at greater Tel Aviv and Beersheba on Saturday. A rocket scored a direct hit on a home in Beersheba, but no injuries were reported, as civilians evacuated to safe rooms as warning sirens pealed. Rockets launched from Gaza also landed in the central cities…
(JNS) – Israel denounced on Saturday a proposal by Elon Musk to provide internet connectivity to aid organizations in Gaza, saying Hamas would take advantage. With electricity and internet connectivity nearly non-existent, Musk said on X, formerly Twitter, “Starlink will support connectivity to internationally recognized aid organizations in Gaza.” Starlink is a constellation of satellites providing internet connectivity in more than 60 countries, in areas with limited telecommunications infrastructure. Starlink is operated by Musk’s California-based SpaceX spacecraft manufacturer and launch service provider. Israeli Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi criticized the idea on X, formerly Twitter. “Israel will use all means at…
JERUSALEM (JNS) – Hamas has systematically turned hospitals in the Gaza Strip into terror command centers and hideouts, the Israel Defense Forces said on Friday, as volleys of rockets fired by Hamas targeted central and southern Israel. Four people were injured in a direct rocket strike on a residential building in Tel Aviv on Friday afternoon, ranging from moderate to light injuries. Half an hour after that attack, central Israel was again targeted by rockets. According to IDF Spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, the Israeli military is affixing a red flag to the world about Hamas’s war crime of using…
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Palestinian telecom provider Paltel says internet service in Gaza Strip has been cut off by Israeli bombardment. Services were cut Friday evening, following a heavy round of Israeli airstrikes that lit up the night sky over the darkened territory. The Palestinian Red Crescent, the main emergency service in Gaza, said it was cut off from its operations room in the strip because of the internet blackout. Photo by: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90