Leaders in Ireland, Norway and Spain each agreed to recognize Palestinian statehood on Wednesday morning, angering the Israeli government and emboldening those who seek to destroy it. The trio of European countries coordinated to show support for people in Gaza as the Israeli Defense Forces spend another month rooting out Islamist militants following the Oct […]
The body of Shani Louk, whose treatment by her Hamas killers became a symbol of the barbarity of the Oct. 7 attack on Israeli civilians, has been found along with two other hostages. Israeli officials said Friday the bodies of Louk, 23, Amit Bouskila, 28, and Itzhak Gelenter, 57, were recovered. Israel Defense Forces spokesman […]
The body of Shani Louk, whose treatment by her Hamas killers became a symbol of the barbarity of the Oct. 7 attack on Israeli civilians, has been found along with two other hostages. Israeli officials said Friday the bodies of Louk, 23, Amit Bouskila, 28, and Itzhak Gelenter, 57, were recovered. Israel Defense Forces spokesman […]
Comedian Bill Burr and HBO host Bill Maher got into a tense exchange Sunday while discussing Israel’s war on Hamas during Maher’s “Club Random” podcast. The pair came to such a disagreement on Israel’s targeting of Hamas in Gaza that Burr challenged Maher’s political chops and asked him, “Why am I f***ing listening to you […]
Former President Donald Trump criticized American Jews who voted for President Joe Biden in 2020 on Thursday — a day after President Joe Biden threatened to withhold military aid to Israel. Biden told CNN on Wednesday night that he would withhold any munitions from the Jewish state if he believed they would be used to […]
The Israel Defense Forces were founded shortly after the establishment of the Jewish state in 1948. That same year, the fledgling army found itself in battle as several Arab nations invaded the newly formed nation of Israel. Without the IDF, Israel would have been annihilated many times over, including in the Arab-Israeli War of 1948. […]
President Joe Biden vowed to withhold military aid to Israel if the country’s military enters the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Biden made the comments in an interview with CNN anchor Erin Burnett on Wednesday evening about Israel’s ongoing offensive against Hamas. The Israeli government declared war on the terror group after […]
As a neophyte graduate student in history in the late 1990s, I once asked a veteran professor how he managed to focus on grad school during the campus protests of the Vietnam Era. “Easy,” he replied. “You went to the library.” In other words, the protesters might take themselves seriously, but that does not oblige […]
Before Iran’s attack on Israel last week, President Joe Biden had a one-word message for Tehran: “Don’t.” It didn’t listen. In the aftermath of the attack, Biden didn’t utter that one-word advice publicly, but it was fairly obvious what his administration wanted the Israelis to do: Axios reported that Biden had told Israeli Prime Minister […]
At some point in the last five years, we stopped merely studying history’s darkest moments and began experiencing them. For instance, in an 11-second viral clip posted Wednesday to the social media platform X, a woman identified as Loyola Marymount University graduate student Grace Obi-Azuike effectively re-enacted a scene from Nazi Germany when she spewed […]
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