December 9, 2023
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has allegedly told President Biden that his country will act militarily against Yemen’s Houthi movement if the United States fails to do so, according to a report by Israeli publication N12News. The Iran-aligned group has been harassing Israeli and U.S. forces in the Middle East since the start of Israel’s
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday slammed the UN Security Council after the United States vetoed a resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza. Erdogan, who does not recognize Hamas as a terrorist organization, described UN leadership as the “Israel protection council,” following a Friday vote in which the U.S. was the only member
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A Russian diplomat has warned that Israel’s plan to flood Hamas tunnels in order to flush out the terrorists may constitute a war crime. “War crimes are snowballing — shocking reports have been circulated in recent days that Israel plans to flood underground facilities in the Gaza Strip with seawater,” Russian First Deputy Permanent Representative
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JERUSALEM – Ever since Hamas terrorists carried out a brutal massacre in southern Israel on Oct. 7, President Biden and his White House team have been pushing for a post-war configuration that involves the Palestinian Authority (PA) – the body that governs Palestinians in parts of the West Bank – extending its authority into the
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WASHINGTON — As Israel widens its war in Gaza, now in its third deadly month, Biden administration officials are struggling to shore up support for the government of Benjamin Netanyahu even as it appears to ignore U.S. advice and Arab anger worldwide mounts. In New York at the United Nations and in Washington, where a high-level
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Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, on Friday told Reuters that he believes the U.S. “is the only power that is capable of ordering Israel to stop the war […] but unfortunately it doesn’t.” Abbas, speaking in an interview, also said that “the United States, which fully supports Israel, bears the responsibility of
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Greg Joseph has been raising money to provide aid in Israel since the terrorist attacks there in October, and he’ll be furthering his efforts this weekend. The Minnesota Vikings kicker began his “Kicks for Israel” campaign Oct. 17, 10 days after the Hamas attacks. Joseph is Jewish and has said his religion has “absolutely” guided
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Weeks of fighting have left 17 177 people dead in Gaza, mostly women and children, according to the latest toll from the health ministry. Israeli forces squeezed Gaza’s main cities Friday, two months after Hamas’s deadly attack sparked a war that has killed thousands, left the Palestinian territory in ruins and triggered an extraordinary UN
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Key Points The areas of refuge in Gaza are rapidly shrinking. Israel says it must wipe out Hamas and is doing everything possible to get civilians out of harm’s way. The United Nations Palestinian Refugee Agency says 85 per cent of Gaza’s population had been displaced. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in his strongest
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Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says Penny Wong’s visit to Israel next year is a “welcome move but it’s certainly very late”. “I think that other countries that indicated their strong and unequivocal support for Israel did it very quickly,” Mr Dutton told Sky News host Erin Molan. “Other world leaders, including the French President visited
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