Secretary of State Antony Blinken jammed at a bar in Kyiv, performing Neil Young’s classic rock song “Rockin’ in the Free World” after giving a speech defending Ukraine President Zelensky’s decision to cancel elections.Continue Reading
Today we visited several sites attacked by Hamas and report what we saw at Sderot, just half a mile from the border with Gaza, and the Nova Music Festival, where terrorists killed 364 people—the deadliest terror attack in Israel’s history.
President Biden said all the right things in his speech for Holocaust Remembrance Day Tuesday night—condemning antisemitism and reaffirming support for Israel. But behind the scenes, the White House held up a shipment of needed ammunition to Israel.
The IDF operation to eliminate the four battalions of Hamas fighters remaining in the southern Gazan city of Rafah had begun. Some 100,000 Palestinian Arabs were warned to evacuate to an expanded humanitarian zone ahead of the attack.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to push for a ceasefire in Gaza. Netanyahu says a military operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah will proceed nonetheless.
PRO-HAMAS PROTESTS on college campuses around the United States this week began to evoke images of 1930s Germany.Continue Reading
Pro-Hamas protests continue at Columbia University in New York, where Jewish professors and students have requested police protection and have been advised to stay away from campus for their own safety.
Congress passed the REPO Act Saturday, which empowers the Biden administration to seize some $6 billion in Russian assets and send it to Ukraine for reconstruction. But there will be consequences for the US and Europe.
Congress has reauthorized FISA and granted the US government expanded surveillance powers to essentially ignore the 4th Amendment to the Constitution while spying on American citizens.
Reuters reports that a Turkish diplomatic official said Iran warned the US before its attack on Israel Saturday night, and that the White House told Iran any action had to be “within certain limits.”