August 23, 2024

Why Israel insists on maintaining control along Philadelphi Corridor

The location of the Philadelphi Corridor on Gaza’s border with Egypt. Credit: Hamzé Attar/X. by Yossi Kuperwasser (Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) — The Israeli military presence along the Philadelphi Corridor between Gaza and Egypt is essential to ensure that […]
August 23, 2024

Kirby: Reports that ceasefire talks “near collapse” are untrue

U.S. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby speaks to reporters at the White House, Oct. 3, 2023. Photo by Oliver Contreras/White House. (JNS) — Discussions between Israel and Hamas in Cairo have been “constructive” and ongoing, and media reports of […]
August 22, 2024

No martyr: Sinwar insists on guarantee of personal safety in any ceasefire deal

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in Gaza City on April 13, 2022. Photo by Attia Muhammed/Flash90. (JNS) — Hamas senior leader Yahya Sinwar, who has eluded Israeli crosshairs since Oct. 7, is making it a precondition to a ceasefire and hostage […]
August 21, 2024

With world complicity, Hamas even exploits dead hostages as bargaining chips

Yellow flags calling for the return of the Israeli hostages who have been held by Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, seen on Road 6 on Aug. 4, 2024. Photo by Yossi Aloni/Flash90. by Moshe Phillips The […]
August 20, 2024

Addiction to Defense: Why Israel’s Iron Dome Does Not Win Wars

View of a house which was directly hit in a missile attack from Lebanon, in Katzrin, northern Israel, Aug. 21, 2024. Photo by Michael Giladi/Flash90. by Ari Sacher I remember the night of Jan. 17, 1991, as if it were […]
August 19, 2024

Hamas again rejects ceasefire for hostages proposal

A rally at “Hostage Square” in Tel Aviv calling for the release of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, Aug. 17, 2024. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90. (JNS) — The Hamas terrorist organization formally rejected the latest U.S. proposal […]
August 16, 2024

“Constructive” talks have Gaza agreement “in the endgame” in Qatar, U.S. says

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani in Doha, Jan. 7, 2024. Photo by Chuck Kennedy/U.S. State Department. (JNS) — Although U.S.-, Egyptian- and Qatari-moderated negotiations between Israel […]
August 14, 2024

Not just Israel: Media whitewashing of Hamas harms the United States

Abu Ubaida (center), the spokesman of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the “military” wing of Hamas, speaks in the southern Gaza Strip on Nov. 11, 2019. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90. by James Sinkinson (FLAME) — Former Hamas chief Ismail […]
August 13, 2024

Christians and Jews should be appalled by anti-Israel encampments

Anti-Israel encampment in Montreal, July 2024. IIS photo. by Richard Robertson, Col. (ret) Michael Ward and Leonor Ward (JNS) — Since Hamas’s brutal terrorist attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, radical anti-Western demonstrations have erupted across Canada. In many cases, […]
August 11, 2024

It was a terrorist command center in a former school, stupid!

An infographic of terrorists eliminated in the strike on the Al-Taba’een school compound in Daraj Tuffah, Gaza, Aug. 10, 2024. Credit: IDF. by Ruthie Blum (JNS) — Following the strike on Aug. 10 in Gaza that eliminated 19 Hamas and […]
August 9, 2024

Medical team: “Raped” Hamas terrorist’s wounds may be self-inflicted

Hamas terrorists who were caught during the Oct. 7 massacre and during the Israel Defense Forces operation in the Gaza Strip, at a courtyard in a prison in southern Israel, Feb. 14, 2024. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90. by Akiva Van […]