Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met with Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz late Tuesday in a rare visit to discuss strengthening economic and security ties. The pair met at Gantz’s home in Israel, marking the second meeting between the pair since Abbas hosted Gantz in August in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, Israel’s public…
Palestinian President Abbas Visits Israel’s Defense Minister in Rare Trip
Israel Suggests US Open Consulate for Palestinians in West Bank, Not Jerusalem
JERUSALEM—Israel stepped up its public opposition on Saturday to a plan by President Joe Biden’s administration to reopen a U.S. consulate for Palestinians in Jerusalem, suggesting such a mission should be in the occupied West Bank. Under former President Donald Trump, Washington closed the Jerusalem consulate and placed its staff within the U.S. Embassy to…
Supreme Court Urged to Allow Suit Against UK Bank Over Terrorism Complicity
More than 200 U.S. citizens, family members, and estates of deceased U.S. citizens are asking the Supreme Court to revive their lawsuit against a foreign bank for allegedly processing hundreds of transfers moving millions of dollars for terrorist group Hamas’s principal European fundraiser, Interpal, over a decade. A bipartisan group of U.S. senators has filed…
Media Bias Against Israel Is Entrenched and Runs Deep
Commentary Here is a joke I told some high school students years ago—teenagers can be a tough crowd—to show how easily media bias can manufacture or manipulate public sympathy. In Paris, a man sees a pit bull attacking a little girl. He kills the dog, saving the child’s life. Reporters swarm him. One says, “Tell…
Why ‘Justice for Palestine!’ is Antisemitic
Commentary American leftists are becoming increasingly open about their antisemitism. On July 31, hundreds of “Pro-Palestine” demonstrators in Brooklyn stripped away all euphemisms with a call to “Globalize the Intifada.” A global intifada is a worldwide terror war against Jews. It’s also—by far—the most honest expression of what it would mean to achieve “Justice for Palestine.”…
Biden Sends Secretary of State to Middle East to Speak to Israel, Palestinian Leaders
President Joe Biden’s secretary of state will travel to the Middle East this week to speak with leaders in Israel and other partners in the region, the White House announced Monday. Biden, a Democrat, credited America’s “quiet, intensive diplomacy” with helping bring about the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, a terrorist group that operates out…
A Ceasefire Solves Nothing
Commentary In outlining the goal for winning the Persian Gulf War against Saddam Hussein for invading and occupying Kuwait in 1991, Gen. Colin Powell, then the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said, “Our strategy to go after this army is very, very simple. First, we’re going to cut it off, and then we’re going…
NYC Principal Criticized Over Email Urging Staff to Promote Sanctions Against Israel
A Brooklyn middle school principal has come under fire for using her position to promote pro-Palestinian activism. In an email sent Wednesday, Charles O. Dewey MS 136 principal Amanda Bueno encouraged teachers and administrators to “take a stand” on the side of Palestinians in the latest escalation between Israel and Palestinian jihadist groups in the…
Pentagon Promises ‘Ironclad Support’ of Israel Amid Conflict With Palestinians
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Wednesday stressed the United States has “ironclad support” for Israel’s right to defend itself amid a military conflict with Hamas, according to a statement from the Pentagon. It comes as Israeli officials said that 16 members of the Hamas armed wing were killed by airstrikes—coming after Hamas and Islamic Jihad…
Dozens Dead as Israel and Hamas Escalate Aerial Bombardments
GAZA/JERUSALEM—Hostilities between Israel and Hamas escalated on Tuesday, raising the death toll in two days to 32 Palestinians and three people in Israel, with Israel carrying out multiple air strikes in Gaza and the terrorist group firing rockets at Tel Aviv. A pipeline belonging to an Israeli state-owned energy company was hit in a rocket…
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