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During the past week, I found that even most well informed Americans know very little about the causes of the war between Jews and Arabs in Israel. Here is a summary of 13 basic facts I think every American should know: I. Until 1964, the word “Palestinian” rarely described Arabs who once lived in Israel. That was when KGB Agents of Communist Russia created and funded a terrorist group called the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Its leader, Yasser Arafat, was born and raised in Egypt. The PLO was as artificial as other effective and deadly groups communists used during the...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Israel was replying to an attack of unprecedented cruelty by using cruel methods of its own. Putin told reporters that Russia understood the "logic of events" in the Middle East, where Israel has laid siege to the Gaza Strip and pounded it with air strikes in response to a weekend attack by Hamas militants who killed over 1,300 people. "Israel is replying on a large scale and also with quite cruel methods," Putin said during a visit to Bishkek, capital of Kyrgyzstan.

Facebook parent company Meta responded to legal threats by the European Union over its attempts to regulate misinformation related to the Israel war by launching an operating center. Meta released an updated content monitoring action plan on Friday detailing its approach for handling misinformation arising out of the war between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas. The plan arrived in response to a letter from EU Commissioner Thierry Breton, who threatened legal action against them over the Digital Services Act, a law that tightens the region's content moderation laws. The EU has already launched an inquiry into X, formerly known...

President Biden plans to meet via Zoom with the families of Americans held captive by Hamas terrorists Friday, telling CBS’ “60 Minutes” that he wants to show his administration will do all they can to get hostages back home — if they can locate them. “I think they have to know that the president of the United States of America cares deeply about what’s happening. Deeply,” Biden, 80, told anchor Scott Pelley in an interview that was recorded Thursday and will air in full Sunday evening.

The climate-change scheme and net-zero carbon policy are based upon a false notion that carbon dioxide and other gases cause global warming. They do not. We don’t have to guess about this. We have empirical and scientific proof. I owned a Weights and Measures gas-physics test-and-repair facility and conducted tests. We learned gas physics from engineers at factories that manufacture gas-physics instruments. They must understand gas physics, or their instruments won’t work. How academia got this wrongIn 1988, James Hansen flip-flopped from “global cooling” to “global warming” being dangerous. Al Gore fed the fear with $22 billion in annual funding...

This week, French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced that all pro-Palestine protests would be banned. According to the BBC, the decision was made “as European governments fear a rise in antisemitism triggered by the Israel-Hamas war.” France reportedly has a Jewish population of 500,000. In a statement, Darmanin stressed that foreign nationals who break the policy will be “systematically” deported. “The organization of these prohibited demonstrations should lead to arrests,” the minister said. And, he announced that Jewish schools and synagogues would be protected by a visible police presence. Darmanin reportedly told French radio that 100 antisemitic acts had been...

On Oct. 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 carrying 45 people, including a rugby team from Montevideo, crashed in the Andes mountains. Oct. 13 (UPI) -- On this date in history: In 1775, the Continental Congress ordered construction of America's first naval fleet. In 1792, the cornerstone to the White House in Washington was laid. It would be November 1800 before the first presidential family -- that of John Adams -- moved in. In 1903, the Boston Americans (later known as the Red Sox) beat the Pittsburgh Pirates to win the first modern World Series, five games to three....

Mosques broadcast messages telling Gaza Strip residents to stay put on Friday, in defiance of an Israeli military call for more than a million civilians to move south within 24 hours in the build-up to its expected ground offensive. Leaders of the enclave's governing militant group Hamas also urged Palestinians to ignore the call, and by Friday afternoon there were no signs of any mass exodus from the north of the enclave. ... Gaza analyst Talal Okal described the Israeli relocation order as an “attempt to push the Palestinian people of Gaza into Nakba".

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Some parents appear helpless to do anything about it. They know they ought to remove their kids from these schools but are helpless to do so. It is simple: both mother and father have to work. Neither of them can quit to home-teach their own children.

"Vivek Ramaswamy got an earful from Sean Hannity on Thursday night after the Republican presidential candidate slammed rival Nikki Haley." (snip) (Hannity)“What you’re doing here is– saying about Nikki Haley, is you’re saying that her concern for Israel is driven by financial and a corrupting influence,” Hannity said. “And your explanation that there’s disproportionate focus on rape, kidnapping and murder of the Jewish people in this attack and they’re – and your quote, ‘that there are frankly financial and corrupting influences that lead them exactly to speak the way they do.'” (snip) (Ramaswamy)“Well, the fact of the matter is, I...

Fairfax County police want residents to be aware of a robbery scheme called "bank jugging." According to investigators, suspects scope out people walking to ATMs, banks, and other financial institutions. They observe them withdrawing a significant amount of cash. The suspects then follow the victim as they drive away and park their cars at another location, leaving the money in the vehicle. The thieves then break the window of the car and steal the money. According to Sgt. Jonathan Epperson, the most recent bank jugging case happened back on Friday, Sept. 15 around 3:13 p.m. A victim withdrew $9,500 from...

(Good Video showing Palestinians leaving at the link) The Israeli army requested Palestinians living in the north of the blockaded Gaza Strip, estimated to number around 1.1 million people, to relocate to the south of the territory. In a written statement, the Israeli army (IDF) claimed that members of the Izeddin al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, are hiding in tunnels and under houses in Gaza, as well as in buildings inhabited by civilians. In the statement, which stated that the armed wing of Hamas declared war on Israel, "Gaza City is an area where military operations are carried...

Hezbollah's chief has said the terror group is 'fully prepared' to join Hamas in its war against Israel as the conflict sparked by Saturday's attack continues to escalate, with Israel warning residents in the north of a possible incursion over the Lebanon border. Sheikh Naim Qassem addressed a large crowd of cheering supporters waving Hezbollah and Palestinian flags and holding pictures of burning Israeli ones. He said major powers, Arab countries and the UN had 'directly and indirectly' told Hezbollah 'not to interfere' in ongoing fighting between Israel and Hamas. Despite the warnings, the leader of the powerful Iran-backed Lebanese...

Just when you think it can’t get worse. A Hamas terrorist admits their true motive for kidnapping women and children — rape. pic.twitter.com/tk8BgfG1R9— Hananya Naftali (@HananyaNaftali) October 11, 2023The Qur’an teaches that Infidel women can be lawfully taken for sexual use (cf. its allowance for a man to take “captives of the right hand,” 4:3, 4:24, 23:1-6, 33:50, 70:30). The Qur’an says that a man may have sex with his wives and with these slave girls: “The believers must win through, those who humble themselves in their prayers; who avoid vain talk; who are active in deeds of charity; who...

There is an old saying, that professional militaries tend to fight the last war.But Israel has learned its lesson, in particular, the lessons of the failed 2006 war against Hezbollah. This time there will be no pinprick attacks. Israeli will go big and hard and heavy. This will be Fallujah on steroids.I reported on the 2006 war along the border zone for Newsmax and NBC News. After nearly two weeks of air strikes in response to thousands of Hezbollah rockets smashing into Israeli towns and villages, then Prime Minister Ehud Olmert ordered elite IDF units to launch small probing cross-border...

A teacher was killed in a knife attack in a school in the northern French city of Arras on October 13 and the investigation has been handed over to the anti-terrorism prosecutor's office. The regional Pas-de-Calais authority said the suspected assailant, who also wounded a second teacher and a school security guard in the attack, was arrested. The suspect was a Russian-born Chechen and former student of the Lycee Gambetta high school where the attack happened, a police source said. He was on a watch list of people known as a potential security risk in connection to radical Islamism, the...

[Make sure to read Robert Spencer’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]Why are the Islamic jihad groups fighting against Israel? Why do they think that committing the dismaying actions we saw in Israel on Saturday is the right, and indeed the righteous, thing to do?As the death toll from Saturday’s jihad massacres in Israel continues to mount, the world looks on in horror at the atrocities that were committed — the wanton massacre of people at a peace concert, the beheaded babies, and so much more. It is hard for Americans and...

What is “collegiality,” and what do universities need to do to establish it? Radical academics and administrators in higher education are now using “lack of collegiality” as a pretext to abrogate academic freedom or fire professors, regardless of tenure. The latest examples include Matthew Garrett at Bakersfield College, Scott Gerber at Ohio Northern University, Stephen Porter at North Carolina State University, and Amy Wax at the University of Pennsylvania. National Association of Scholars president Peter Wood writes that, in each of these four cases, “the university tried (sometimes successfully) to rid itself of a faculty member not for any academic...

The gunmen can be heard shouting orders at each other in the video as they run from house to house, the sickening sound of gunshots filling the morning air. Four gunmen can be seen approaching one family home before shooting into the windows. One of the terrorists can be seen kicking down the door as a round of five gunshots can be heard in the background in quick succession. ..... they ruthlessly shot dead screaming families as they begged for their lives. Israeli soldiers would later find the bodies of 108 Israeli civilians lying riddled with bullet holes in their...