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Israeli leaders are watching events across the border in Syria with trepidation, as 50 years of detente were upended in a matter of hours. “We don’t know much,” said Boaz Shapira, a researcher with the Alma Foundation, a think tank dedicated to issues in northern Israel. “The situation that we were used to in Syria in the past – 50 years with the Assad regime – has changed completely.” Bashar al-Assad was hardly an ally, but there was an understanding that allowed the countries to coexist. Though Israel occasionally offered treatment to casualties of Syria’s civil war, it maintained official...

The global rise of antisemitism, particularly in Canada, is fueled by the expanding influence of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) Sharia-driven agenda, which seeks to suppress dissent, restrict freedom of expression, and ultimately advance the Islamization of Western societies. As Islamophobia Awareness Month recently concluded, the world has witnessed an unprecedented surge in antisemitic aggression, unmatched since the October 7 massacre in Israel. November began with a coordinated wave of antisemitic Islamic violence sweeping Europe eerily reminiscent of Kristallnacht, the Nazi pogrom of 86 years ago. This destructive pattern is mirrored in Canada, with Jewish schools and synagogues struck...

On Friday morning, Pentagon officials held a classified briefing with the House Oversight Committee on Capitol Hill reportedly to discuss the unidentified objects flying over military sites and President-elect Donald Trump’s golf course in central New Jersey. Nearly every night for the past few weeks, New Jersey residents have spotted mysterious objects flying at night and recorded them on video. Some find the size alarming reporting they're seeing objects the size of a small car. Officials are concerned because the objects are flying over a military installation, the Picatinny Arsenal, and over Trump's Bedminster Golf Club. In response, the FAA...

Incoming First Lady Melania Trump opened up about the persecution she’s endured since leaving the White House in 2021. Trump shared her experience with Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo in an Oct. 7 interview. Trump said the persecution began as soon as President-elect Donald Trump announced his decision to run for president in 2015 but that it continued after leaving the White House. ... She recounted a time that a bank — not a branch but an entire company — dropped her as a customer. “The bank suddenly informed me they will not be able to do business with me anymore,”...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz visited Mount Bental in the Golan Heights this morning (Sunday), an observation point towards the Syrian border. The head of the Golan Regional Council, Uri Kellner, also participated in the visit. Addressing the dramatic fall of the Assad regime in Syria, Netanyahu said, "This is a historic day in the history of the Middle East. The Assad regime that was a central link in Iran's axis of evil - this regime has fallen. This is a direct result of the blows we have inflicted on Iran and Hezbollah, the main supporters...

A four-square-mile patch of Kursk Oblast in western Russia is a graveyard for Russian vehicles—and a harbinger of a looming catastrophe for the Kremlin as its yearlong offensive in Ukraine begins to falter. Kriegsforscher, a Ukrainian marine corps drone operator supporting the 20,000-strong Ukrainian force that has held a 20-by-12-mile salient in Kursk since August, tallied around 90 wrecked and abandoned Russian vehicles just in his two-by-two-mile sector on the northwest edge of the salient. That’s an entire brigade’s worth of vehicles. Ukrainian losses in the same sector have been much lighter: just 20 or so. A four-to-one loss ratio...

Romania’s Constitutional Court summarily invalidated the first-round results of its presidential election because the anti-globalist candidate, Calin Georgescu, unexpectedly won (while the globalist, Brussels-aligned, polling favorite was ignominiously booted from the race). The high court’s official justification for defying the will of the Romanian people? It insisted that too much “Russian disinformation” on TikTok had unfairly manipulated the minds of voters. Wherever would the Romanian Establishment have learned that dirty trick? Probably by watching its NATO partners repeatedly do the same thing. Wherever and whenever the entrenched “ruling class” in the West has suffered electoral defeat over the last decade,...

A Syrian airplane took off from Damascus airport around the time the capital was reported to have been taken by Syria’s rebels, according to data from the Flightradar website, suggesting ousted president Bashar al-Assad may have been onboard. The aircraft initially flew towards Syria’s coastal region, a stronghold of Assad’s Alawite sect, but then made an abrupt U-turn and flew in the opposite direction for a few minutes before disappearing off the map.….

MSNBC host Joy Reid and her primetime colleagues have faced a brutal decline in viewership since the election. "The ReidOut" has shed 47% of its total audience, averaging just 759,000 viewers after averaging 1.4 million viewers throughout 2024 leading up to Election Day, according to Nielsen Media Research. Reid lost even more viewers among the advertiser-coveted demographic ages 25-54, losing a whopping 52% of them, now averaging only 76,000 key demo viewers. Reid's MSNBC primetime colleagues have also suffered devastating losses in viewership over the past month. The network's primetime lineup has lost a whopping 53% in total viewers, averaging...

An internal memo viewed by the "NYT" reports the situation as if “Iran accepted the fall of Assad and has lost the will to resist." Iran has turned its back and abandoned its ally Syria as opposition forces topple the regime, an exclusive New York Times report on Saturday revealed. According to an internal memo from a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps that the NYT viewed, the situation in Syria was described as “unbelievable and strange.” It is as if “Iran accepted the fall of Assad and has lost the will to resist,” the memo said. In addition,...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Sunday that Russia's abandonment of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad led to his downfall, adding Moscow never should have protected him in the first place and then lost interest because of a war in Ukraine that never should have started. "Assad is gone. He has fled his country. His protector, Russia, Russia, Russia, led by (President) Vladimir Putin, was not interested in protecting him any longer," Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. "There was no reason for Russia to be there in the first place," Trump wrote. "They lost all interest in...

Kyiv is ready to make a deal with Moscow to stop the war in Ukraine, and Russian President Vladimir Putin should make efforts toward negotiating a truce, United States President-elect Donald Trump said early Sunday. "There should be an immediate cease-fire and negotiations should begin" in order to "stop the madness," Trump said in a post on Truth Social. "Too many lives are being so needlessly wasted, too many families destroyed, and if it keeps going, it can turn into something much bigger, and far worse," he said. "I know Vladimir well. This is his time to act. China can...

The debate over whether “Die Hard” is a Christmas movie might never be settled, but for those who think it is, a Cody gun range is offering customers a chance to fire the film’s iconic weapons this holiday season. You just won’t be able to do it while wearing a tank top and screaming with bloodied bare feet, like the movie’s hero John McClane, played by Bruce Willis. ‘Now I Have A Machine Gun’ For its Die Hard Christmas Special, Cody Firearms Experience offers customers a dose of holiday cheer. For $60, shooters can run a full magazine of ammunition...

Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem (12/8/24)[Prayer]Names and Titles of God the Holy Spirit (Spirit of Prophecy) Acts 21:7-15 7 And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais, and saluted the brethren, and abode with them one day. 8 And the next day we that were of Paul's company departed, and came unto Caesarea: and we entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, which was one of the seven; and abode with him. 9 And the same man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy. 10 And as we tarried there many days, there...

The Talk Shows December 8th 2024 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan anchors: Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio), Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee; Billionaire potential buyer of China’s TikTok, Frank McCourt; Samantha Vinograd, former Biden admin Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism, Threat Prevention, and Law Enforcement Policy at the Department of Homeland Security; Reps. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) and Jason Crow (D-Colo.). FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream: retired Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster; David Trulio, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute. Veterans panel: Rep....

It’s the Christmas season, and with it comes new Christmas movies. One of those supposedly kid-friendly films is called “Dear Santa” — which stars Jack Black as Satan. And the latter should come as no surprise, as Jack Black has been incredibly outspoken over the past few years regarding his progressive politics and support for Kamala Harris. In the film, his character is summoned by a dyslexic 6th-grader named Liam who had accidentally written “Satan” instead of “Santa” on a letter. Satan then attempts to get Liam to sell his soul for a few granted wishes. Liam then mistakes Satan...

Throughout my life, no matter who has been in charge of federal or state prosecutions, there have been voices alleging some level of politicization of the law enforcement process. Mostly, those allegations have been about improper use of government resources to protect those in power, who should be relying on their own private lawyers when their own conduct is at issue. But then there is the subject of use of the government’s law enforcement and regulatory authority to harass, disable and convict political opponents of the régime. Prior to the Trump Derangement Syndrome era, those sorts of abuses had been...

US President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday said that Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy was up for a deal to bring his country’s war with Russia to an end and called upon Vladimir Putin to take a step towards negotiation. Stating that he knows Putin “well", Trump said that it is “his time to act" in ending the Russia-Ukraine war that has claimed hundreds of lives on both sides of the border. His remarks came a day after he met Zelenskyy in Paris along with French President Emmanuel Macron who hosted three-way talks at the Elysee Palace on Saturday. “Russia and Iran are...

while others loot bags of CASH from central bank as it's confirmed the despot has fled the country Gleeful Syrians ransacked Bashar al-Assad's presidential palace in Damascus today of Louis Vuitton items after rebel soldiers stormed the capital. Scores of people can be seen in one video within the palace's walls raiding cupboards of the president and his British-born glamorous wife Asma al-Assad's expensive possessions. Duvets and linen bed sheets are strewn on the floor while one person can be seen holding an orange Louis Vuitton box as they walk up a flight of stairs and pass another looter carrying...

I knew I was in trouble when the media accounts of J6 took the tone they did on J7. Nothing the media said matched with what I had seen myself. Skeptical of the media since 1980, even I was a bit surprised at how decisively the tone and anger and verbiage synched across channels. My first introduction to atrocious media corruption came in 2004, when I cabbed down to the Institute of Medicine on Constitution Avenue in D.C. to see for myself the conference on the link between autism and vaccines. Since I was a longtime chiropractor practicing four blocks...