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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a video message on Thursday vowing that Israel "will stand alone" to defeat Hamas, if necessary, after President Biden threatened to withhold weapon shipments to the Jewish State should Netanyahu proceed with an invasion of Rafah. Netanyahu echoed the 1948 Israeli war of independence in his remarks, saying that despite a weapons embargo on Israel, Israelis had fought and defeated the Arab nations who attacked the nascent Jewish state, thanks to their bravery and unity. "Today, we are much stronger," the prime minister said. "We are determined, and we are united in order to...

Whereas President Joe Biden may not be antisemitic or anti-Zionist, many of his Democratic party elected officials have used antisemitic verbiage masquerading as anti-Zionism. Biden has failed to censure the likes of Somali-born Minnesota Democrat Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, and others, for making vile antisemitic statements. Antisemitism has been on full display among democratic leaders and left-wing protest groups such as Antifa and Black Lives Matters. Leaders of the Women’s March proved to be undeniably antisemitic, which caused the former Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz to distance herself from them. Still, those same antisemites including Linda Sarsour and Tamika Mallory...

Most voters disagree with Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar's recent comparison of the United States to terrorist groups such as Hamas and the Taliban, according to a new poll. The poll, conducted by Rasmussen and released on Wednesday, shows that 61% of voters disagree with Omar's recent “anti-American rhetoric" that has sparked backlash on social media and on Capitol Hill. Conversely, only 24% agreed with the remark, and 15% did not indicate one way or the other. **SNIP** Lawmakers who make particularly controversial comments are sometimes censured and, in rare cases, are stripped of their committee assignments. A whopping 65% of...

President Joe Biden’s massive $6 trillion budget proposal for the 2022 fiscal year includes hundreds of millions of dollars in restored aid to the Palestinians, some of which President Donald Trump had suspended over concerns about Palestinian support for terror. The precise amount of funding was unclear, but Secretary of State Tony Blinken said last week in a visit to the Palestinian Authority (PA) leadership in Ramallah that the U.S. is in the process of sending $360 million in aid to the Palestinians. Trump had cut aid to UNRWA over concerns that it fosters anti-Israel propaganda, and had also cut...