2023 in Review: War, Chaos, and Criminalizing Free Speech
War in Israel and Ukraine, government-sponsored censorship, a growing divide between East and West, and the Balkanization of the United States.
War in Israel and Ukraine, government-sponsored censorship, a growing divide between East and West, and the Balkanization of the United States.
Israeli tanks reached the center of Khan Younis Sunday, a city of about 200,000 in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. It’s believed that Hamas fighters on the ground have lost contact with their leaders.
Researchers have discovered unusual trading patterns in Israeli stocks in the days before the October 7 terror attacks, suggesting that some owners of Israeli assets knew about the attacks and may be senior Hamas operatives.Continue Reading
If it seems too good to be true, it is: A popular shopping app is “an urgent security threat to US interests.”
Two missiles were fired at the USS Mason by Houthi forces in the Red Sea Sunday, threatening to escalate the Israel-Hamas conflict into a regional war.
The Washington Post named a colonel in the Ukrainian military as the man behind the bombing of the Nord Stream gas pipelines between Russian and Germany last September. This is a major shift in the narrative.Continue Reading
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas survived an assassination attempt Tuesday by a group calling itself Sons of Abu Jandal. The group demanded that Abbas declare war on Israel and tried to kill him when he didn’t.
Aaron Lipkin, CEO of Lipkin Tours, joins us from his home in Samaria and tells us that the shocking barbarity of the Hamas terror attack October 7 has united the Israeli people in a way that seemed impossible three weeks ago.
An embargo on Iranian missiles and missile technology, imposed by the UN Security Council in 2007, was allowed to quietly expire last week with no comment from the Biden administration.
This week has driven a wedge between Israel and its Arab neighbors, a win for Iran and Hamas. It also puts Ukraine and Taiwan on back burners, which advances the foreign policy of Russia and China.
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