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The world’s eyes were on Sydney the night of October 9 as demonstrators lit flares and burned Israeli flags on the steps of the Opera House while chanting “Gas the Jews”. Hundreds of demonstrators had met at Sydney’s Town Hall to snake their way down to Circular Quay and through to the Opera House. One Jewish counter-protestor was arrested “for his own safety”. Another — an Anglican priest — was chased by thugs and had to find sanctuary behind a police van.The protestors were there following the massacre of more than one thousand Jews in Israel, the rape of Jewish...

As Israel seeks to defend itself from the Hamas terrorist attack launched against it over the weekend, the Middle Eastern nation has launched its own counterattack on Hamas radicals in Gaza. As a result of one of the airstrikes, the world’s biggest abortion business lost one of its centers, located in the Gaza strip section controlled by Palestinians. “On 8 October, PFPPA’s only center in Gaza was destroyed following an Israeli airstrike to an adjacent building,” the abortion giant said. The Planned Parenthood abortion business has sent out an emergency alert to its supporters asking for donations and complaining that...

BEIRUT, October 13. /TASS/. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said upon arrival to Beirut that more anti-Israeli fronts may be opened in the future. "In the light of the continued aggression and military crimes [committed by Israel in the Gaza Strip], and the siege of Gaza, there is possibility of other fronts being opened," the minister said in a comment to the Al Mayadeen television channel.

DeSantis declares Florida state of emergency after attack on Israel, activates Guard forces https://t.co/txDP6IDoD5— Sarasota Herald-Tribune (@HeraldTribune) October 12, 2023

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: For many reasons, the Arab world is not at all interested in giving the Palestinian Arabs a state. The Palestinian Arabs don’t really want one either, because why kill the “refugee” goose that lays the golden eggs? In Israel and in much of the Western world, we tend to think the Arab world is united in its support for the Palestinians—that it wants nothing more than to solve the Palestinian problem by giving them a state, and that all Arabs and Muslims love the Palestinians and hate Israel. This is a simplistic and incomplete view. While it is...

Qualcomm, one of the largest microchip manufacturers globally, is scaling back its workforce. The San Diego, California-based company will be laying off about 1258 roles in California, according to a filing with the California Employment Development Department. Impacted employees include those based out of San Diego and Santa Clara in multiple roles, from engineers to legal counsel to human resources, with job reductions coming around December 13th. The layoff news comes about a month after the company announced a deal with Apple to provide 5G chips through at least 2026. Qualcomm is also the chip supplier for the newly announced...

Early voting began on Thursday in the Ohio election — a poll which could decide whether or not the supposed “right” to abortion is codified into the state constitution. Ohioans have the opportunity through election day on November 7 to vote on Issue 1, which would “establish in the Constitution of the State of Ohio an individual right to one’s own reproductive medical treatment, including but not limited to abortion.” The ballot measure was put forward by Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights — a coalition comprised of far-left groups such as URGE, ACLU of Ohio, and Planned Parenthood Advocates of...

BREAKING: A Colorado jury has reached a verdict in the killing of Elijah McClain

Speaker Pro-Tem Orders Poster Board Placed on Voting-Room Windows

TEL AVIV—Hamas militants who flooded into southern Israel from Gaza last weekend carried detailed maps of the towns and military bases that they targeted. Some also carried tactical guides identifying weak spots on Israeli army armored vehicles. The documents, written in Arabic, were recovered from the sites of attacks or bodies of dead Hamas fighters by Israeli civilians, soldiers and emergency personnel. Taken together, the documents indicate that Hamas set out from the start to target not just military installations, but to attack civilian population centers and to take hostages, and they offer evidence of the scale of Hamas’s intelligence-gathering...

The FBI said this week it had no information indicating a credible terrorist threat against the United States, but social media pundits who have been raising the alarm for days aren’t backing down. Conservative social media influencers have been filling platforms such as X and Truth Social with speculation not backed by any evidence that attacks on civilians in Israel would soon be followed by similar attacks in major U.S. cities and that people should begin preparing — including by avoiding cities and purchasing firearms. The speculation with no evidence to support it has come from former President Donald Trump,...

Egypt, the other country besides Israel that borders Gaza, moved quickly this week to fortify its border and prevent a flood of Palestinians from entering Egyptian territory during Israel’s counteroffensive against Hamas. The Israeli military suggested on Tuesday that Palestinians who do not wish to be used as human shields by the Hamas terrorists should flee across the Egyptian border. Israeli Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Hecht rescinded that advice later on Tuesday. “Clarification: The Rafah crossing was open yesterday, but now it’s closed,” Hecht said. The Rafah crossing was evidently shut down because Israel dropped several bombs near it. The Israeli Defense...

The singer was one of the founding members of the Billboard chart-topping group.Rudolph Isley, a founding member of the iconic trio the Isley Brothers, died Wednesday. He was 84. The cause of death is currently unknown, but his brother Ronald confirmed the news in a statement to Billboard: “There are no words to express my feelings and the love I have for my brother. Our family will miss him. But I know he’s in a better place.” After years of singing gospel in the church, Rudolph formed the Isley Brothers with his siblings Ronnie, O’Kelly and Vernon in 1954 when...

Authorities in Ohio are offering $5,000 for information leading to the arrest of a youth pastor, who’s evaded arrest since being charged with sexually abusing minors. The pastor, Jario Isidro Thomas Sanchez, 38, of Forest Park, was indicted last Wednesday by a grand jury in Hamilton County, Ohio, on 14 counts of sexual abuse of minors, according to multiple reports. Sanchez is facing four felony charges, including three counts of gross sexual imposition and one count of abduction; and 10 misdemeanor charges, including four counts of unlawful restraint and six counts of sexual imposition. Sanchez, who was in the country...

A prominent Houston pastor has been ordered to pay $2.45 million to a woman that a jury found he gave herpes to. After a three-day trial and six and a half hours of deliberation, the jury unanimously found Rev. Ralph D. West II liable. “You can’t fix it, she’s got it for the rest of her life,” said Shaun Murphy, an attorney. Murphy spoke for his client, who a jury found contracted genital herpes from West after meeting on Facebook. As seen on the Church Without Wall’s website, he’s listed as the Eldridge Campus Minister. “The things that we look...

Five close Israeli friends all in their twenties – Guy Azar, Moshe Saadyan, Ben Hasid, Raz Mordechai and Or Moshe – attended the Supernova music festival together this weekend, held near the Israel-Gaza border. The 3,000-person event celebrated ‘friends, love, and infinite freedom’. But when Hamas terrorists attacked in the early hours of Saturday morning, at least 260 were left dead. Ben was murdered. Guy is believed to have been taken hostage in Gaza and later killed. Moshe remains missing. Only Or and Raz survived and made it home. This is their story…

If you thought the idiotic bile, the bizarre rationalizations, the inane whataboutism from the Left over the Hamas slaughter of Israelis had run its course – think again. None other than Democratic Socialist hero Senator Bernie Sanders has joined the chat. In a dizzying statement full of equivocation and gross omissions on Wednesday, Sanders demanded that Israel’s response to the terrorist massacre be reigned in.

Israel today released harrowing images of tiny babies who were murdered and burned by Hamas terrorists amid their ruthless attacks this weekend that saw hundreds of Israeli civilians including pregnant women killed in their homes. One appalling image shows the small body of a baby, who couldn't be more than 12 months old, lying on a now bloodied white body bag that is too large for it. The little child's baby grow dotted with flowers is covered in blood after the rampaging terrorists unleashed horrors that defy belief. Another two photographs released by Israel show the blackened and charred bodies...

Donald J. Trump plans to return next week to the New York courtroom where his civil fraud trial is slowly proceeding, according to two people with knowledge of the matter, a reappearance that is likely to bring him face-to-face with his former fixer Michael D. Cohen. Mr. Trump attended the first three days of the trial that stems from a lawsuit brought by the New York attorney general, Letitia James, and used the camera-lined courthouse hallway as an impromptu campaign stop. *** Mr. Trump’s return, first reported by The Messenger, is likely to coincide with the appearance of the most...

It turns out that propping up and embracing enlisted drag queens isn’t the answer to the U.S. Navy’s recruiting crisis after all. On Tuesday, Navy Recruiting Command revealed that the branch had failed to meet its recruiting goals for the 2023 fiscal year. According to the Navy Times, the branch brought in “30,236 new active duty sailors in fiscal 2023, falling short of the 37,700 target number accessions for the year.” The Navy also missed its targets for new active-duty officers and reserve officers by 452 and 773 enlistees, respectively. During her Senate confirmation hearing last month, Acting Chief of...