We can only hope that Trump’s pressure is part of a larger plan to secure Israel’s total victory, not its surrender.   It seems that the deal brokered under pressure from incoming President Trump is done, forcing Israel to release terrorists and essentially withdraw from Gaza in exchange for freeing some hostages. "I am left grappling with profound confusion and disbelief." How is it that after enduring the most horrific attack in modern Israeli history—a...

The Terrorist Palestinian movement Hamas and Israel have reached an agreement on ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.   'Wings of sparrow' Operation - Here are the main details about the deal.   About the agreement Hamas and Israel confirmed that an agreement has been reached. It will come into force on January 19 and happen in three stages. The first stage of the agreement would last 42 days and see a ceasefire, withdrawal of Israeli troops from densely populated areas of Gaza,...

Trump said that if the hostages currently in gaza were not released by the time he gets inaugurated (in about a week from now), there would be “hell to pay.”   This got both Yisrael and Hamas on the edge. Now, few days before Trump becomes president, both sides are scrambling to make a deal work and they just might. But do we want this deal? And more importantly, is this deal good or will it come back to haunt us with another October 7 attempt just around the corner?...

Today in Helsinki, NATO leaders will gather for a summit to discuss measures to combat Russia's shadow fleet in the Baltic Sea.   The meeting will be attended by the presidents and prime ministers of Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Denmark and Sweden, as well as the Chancellor of Germany and the NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. At the end of the day, a joint statement on NATO's retaliatory measures against acts of destruction of underwater infrastructure will be...

Jewish legal organizations have filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. government on behalf of American citizens living in Judea and Samaria and targeted by the sanctions   Just days before his term ends, President Joe Biden and top U.S. officials are being sued by US citizens living in Judea and Samaria following U.S. government sanctions on some residents of the area. Jewish legal organizations, including The National Jewish Advocacy Center, together with two law firms, filed...

Real people who are being harmed by Hamas kidnappers and Hezbollah’s rockets, writes the head of Americans For A Safe Israel.   The question of whether American Jews should criticize Israel has nothing to do with free speech, or democracy, or peace in the Middle East. It has everything to do with the real-life consequences that Israelis suffer when they bow to criticism from abroad. In a recent JTA op-ed, Rabbi Jill Jacobs called on American Jews to pressure Israel to...

“It is a sort of disease when you consider yourself some kind of god,” George Soros   'Congratulations' to Hillary Clinton, Jose Andres, and Bill Nye who managed to not be the worst person that Biden decided to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to. That honor goes to George Soros! This Soros. “It is a sort of disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it...

The annual “infidel car-burning festival” has kicked off ahead of schedule. 41 vehicles already torched, police and firefighters under mortar fire, and ambushes waiting for first responders. And it’s still days before New Year’s Eve.   FIRST RESPONDERS UNDER SIEGE Firefighters can’t even fight fires without police escorts due to coordinated ambushes. Mortar fire rains down on both police and emergency crews. The Alliance police union has long warned...

The U.S. Treasury Department Dec. 30 informed Congress that it sustained a “major cybersecurity incident” at the hands of a state-sponsored Chinese group in which a BeyondTrust API key was hacked, resulting in the compromise of Treasury workstations and the theft of unclassified documents.   In a letter to the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, Aditi Hardikar, assistant secretary for management at Treasury, said that on Dec. 8, BeyondTrust notified...

"The United Nations and the international community are trying to forget the torture and atrocities that took place on Oct. 7th," Danny Danon stated.   Israeli Health Ministry will submit a report, which details the “torture and atrocities experienced by Israeli hostages since Oct. 7th” including “abhorrent instances of sexual violence,” in the “next few days” to Alice Jill Edwards, the U.N. special rapporteur on torture, the Israeli mission to the...

The president-elect will need to give Tehran an ultimatum right after taking office, according to a report by the Jewish Institute for National Security of America   Once he takes office on Jan. 20, President-elect Donald Trump will have very little time to stop Iran’s march to nuclear weapons and no margin for error, according to a report by the Jewish Institute for National Security of America. The report, released on Dec. 19, calls on the incoming U.S. administration to...

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC)  have tightened control over the country’s oil industry and now manage up to half of exports, funding its military capabilities and those of armed allies across the Middle East according to a Reuters report.   Western officials, security experts, and Iranian trading sources cited by the news agency said the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) now control up to half of the country’s oil exports, up from around just a fifth...