His first name roughly means “first crop,” which is what first-born son Omer was for Ronen and Orna Neutra 22 years ago. The photos his family shares show a young man bursting with life and possibility, broad smiles at the community center where he volunteered after school, […]
Just how ridiculous is the long-awaited Hamas response to the latest Qatari proposal for hostage releases? Even Joe Biden can’t summon much enthusiasm for it. At a presser earlier this afternoon, Biden tried to keep a positive spin, but … Hamas’s response to #Gaza hostage deal ‘a little over the top’ – #President Joe Biden […]
Have Iranian proxies had enough of the IDF? Maybe … if you can trust them to stick to their word. After almost exactly five months of war in Gaza and all-but-war in southern Lebanon, both Hamas and Hezbollah sent signals in the last 24 hours that they may be ready to scale back — for […]
The “response” from the Biden administration to attacks on American forces (since that’s apparently what we’re calling it) continued for a second straight night. This time, British forces joined in with American Air Force and naval assets in strikes against Houthi installations in Yemen. The Department of Defense said that three dozen targets were hit, […]
Everyone else: Yeah, sure. According to the Qataris, Hamas has agreed in principle to a temporary cessation in fighting to exchange all of the remaining hostages on a 1:3 ratio of Palestinian prisoners. Despite explicitly and publicly rejecting this formula just days ago, supposedly the Hamas negotiators today offered their “initial approval.” Not even the Palestinians […]
Perhaps Hamas has not received the memo. Using hospitals as cover and human-shield strategies while plotting terrorist attacks no longer works, at least according to the IDF and Shin Bet. Acting on intelligence that Hamas’ leadership abroad had coordinated weapons distribution from a cell embedded in a Jenin hospital, the IDF conducted a raid and […]
In the war launched by Hamas and Gazans against Israel on October 7, only one side has publicly and repeatedly promised genocidal extinction to the other. The International Court of Justice has, predictably, decided that the target of that genocidal ambition has to answer for its self-defense. Weirdly, though, the ICJ decided to creep up […]
This may be a first signal that the Gazans have had enough of Hamas — and that Hamas can’t hide it with threats any longer. A crowd of mostly Palestinian women and children protested outside the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza, in a town roughly halfway between Gaza City and the embattled Khan Younis. […]
In the wake of the October 7 massacres, the famously fractious Israelis muscled up their national unity and put aside deep political rivalries to form a war government. That arrangement couldn’t last forever, but it may not even last four months, according to news from Israeli media. And the dissolution might be caused by Benjamin […]
No one in their right mind or with an IQ above tapioca could be thinking about handing the Palestinians statehood after October 7th, regardless of whether they’re Israelis. Those exemptions certainly cover Joe Biden and Antony Blinken, who continue to press the issue with Israel and demand a commitment to a “two-state solution” while one […]
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