The New York Times reported Thursday that Israel had Hamas’s battle plan for October 7 for a year, dubbing it the “Jericho Wall,” but that senior analysts concluded that Hamas did not have the desire or the capability to follow through on the blueprint.
California, like the rest of America, has lower crime than it did decades ago, but crime has been rising in Newsom’s state in recent years.
In raw numbers, more people leave California for Florida. Newsom appears to be relying on a “per capita” basis.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Israel that it lacks “credit” to conduct the kind of military campaign necessary to defeat Hamas, saying that the Biden administration would not tolerate large-scale bombing over months in southern Gaza.
Two Muslim Arab teens are among eight Israeli hostages released by Hamas on Thursday night, part of a Bedouin family that was abducted by the Palestinian terror group in its October 7 attack, in which dozens of Muslim and Arab Israelis were also murdered.
Hamas terrorists branded some Israeli child hostages by forcing their legs against the exhaust pipes of motorcycles so that they would be burned and would be recognizable if they tried to run away, according to a report in the Israeli media on Thursday.
The Palestinian terror group Hamas released a video showing Yarden Bibas weeping over the alleged death of his wife, Shiri; his four-year-old son, Ariel; and his infant son, Kfir, all of whom were abducted on October 7 from Kibbutz Nir Oz in Israel.
The story of how 17-year-old Israeli hostage Mia Leimberg saved her family dog, Bella, and defied Hamas terrorists has emerged.
Two more Israeli hostages were freed Thursday after walking the now-customary gauntlet of jeering Hamas supporters in Gaza.
Pro-Palestinian activist and Columbia University historian Rashid Khalidi declined to say Thursday that Israel had a legal or moral right to respond militarily to the Hamas terror attack of October 7, describing the attack as a natural result of occupation.
November 30 marks the annual day of remembrance for 850,000 Jewish refugees from Arab countries, many of whom were forced to flee in the mid-20th century, both before and after the creation of the State of Israel.
Israel and Hamas extended their truce into a seventh day at the last minute, with a deal that will see Hamas release eight hostages to Israel and the bodies of three hostages who died (or were murdered) in Hamas custody.
Chuck Schumer is being praised for a speech on antisemitism. But with Schumer, what he does is more important than what he says.
Kissinger was a conservative internationalist, one who favored engagement over neutrality, but who prioritized American interests in doing so, and sought to create stability that would ultimately work to America’s advantage.
The sixth and final group of hostages — ten Israeli, four Thai — entered Israeli territory early Thursday morning as a truce expired between Israel and the Palestinian terror group Hamas.
Israeli children were kept as hostages in Gaza by a variety of civilians — including a teacher for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and a Palestinian doctor who isolated the Israeli child from his own children and denied him food.
A Thai hostage who was freed by Hamas has told Israel’s Channel 12 that the Jewish hostages who were held with him were beaten with electric cables, and that all hostages were denied adequate food.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Wednesday that it is evaluating claims by Hamas that a mother, her child, and her infant are dead after being taken hostage from the Israeli community of Kfar Aza by Palestinian terrorists during the October 7 attack.
A ceasefire that involves Hamas’s complete departure from Gaza would echo the solution that helped to end the First Lebanon War in 1982
Jewish groups have filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the University of California Berkeley and its law school for allowing antisemitism to flourish on campus.
Negotiators in Doha, Qatar, over the release of further groups of Israeli hostages have divided them into groups and categories — like cattle, much as Nazis divided Jews into different groups at concentration camps and death camps in the Second World War.
The White House said Tuesday that it opposes Israel’s plan to attack Hamas terrorists in the southern portion of the Gaza Strip unless it can provide an “accounting” for all of the internally displaced Palestinian civilians in the war.
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) was confronted this week by an anti-Israel activist — but he came prepared with the facts.
Twelve hostages released by Hamas — nine Israeli womaen, one Israeli female teenager, and two male Thai workers — are safe in Israel after a harrowing transfer in which they were jeered by a crowd of Hamas terrorists and supporters as they left Gaza.
Hamas terrorists are evidently trying to improve their image, posing Tuesday for a photograph with a freed Israeli hostage girl who is seen holding a cute puppy.
Hamas terrorists held an Israeli child hostage alone for 16 days, according to the child’s grandmother, commenting after his release Monday night.
A source within the Israeli government told Breitbart News on Tuesday that U.S. President Joe Biden’s pressure would lead to Hamas surviving the war intact, rather than allowing Israel to destroy Hamas or remove its military and governing capabilities.
The aunt of an Israeli child hostage recently freed by Hamas as part of a deal with Israel told French television that the terrorists had beaten the children, forced them to watch videos of atrocities at gunpoint, and threatened them with guns when they cried.
The Oakland City Council adopted a resolution Monday night demanding a permanent ceasefire between Israel and Hamas — while rejecting amendments condemning Hamas for terrorism against civilians.
The daughter of a critically ill Israeli hostage who was freed and taken straight to the hospital is slamming the International Committee of the Red Cross, saying that the organization did nothing to help her mother during seven weeks in Hamas captivity.
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk told Israel’s ceremonial president, Isaac Herzog, on Monday that there was no choice but to “kill those who insist on murdering civilians,” to educate Palestinian children not to hate, and to bring prosperity to Gaza.
The Palestinian Hamas terrorist group released the fourth group in a total of 50 hostages on Monday, number eleven women and children — all families whose fathers and husbands remain in Gaza as hostages.
Hamas has published a lettter, ostensibly written in Hebrew by a freed Israeli hostage, expressing excessive gratitude to her hosts after seven weeks of captivity with her young daughter.
Former South African Cabinet minister Ronnie Kasrils exuberantly praised the Hamas terror attack of October 7, in which roughy 1,200 Israelis were murdered, calling it “brilliant, spectacular,” and “damned good.”
The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas is refusing to release an infant Israeli hostage, Kfir Bibas, who was nine months old at the time of his abduction, among the 50-70 hostages it is letting go as part of a four-to-six-day “pause” in the fighting.
The White House confirmed Monday that Israel had agreed to extend the four-day “pause” in fighting in Gaza for two days in exchange for a Hamas promise to release 20 additional Israeli hostages over that period.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog told Twitter / X owner Elon Musk that his platform needed to do more “to fight and combat” anti-Jewish hate on Monday, as the tech guru visited Israel on a goodwill visit.
EJ’s Pizzeria, a kosher restaurant in the predominantly Jewish suburb of Skokie near Chicago, Illinois, was vandalized with a swastika over Thanksgiving weekend in the latest antisemitic incident since Hamas launched a war with Israel on October 7.
More details are emerging about the harsh conditions in which Hamas kept Israeli hostages, including children and the elderly.
The aunt of Roni Krivoi, 25, a Russian-Israeli who was one of the hostages released Sunday by Hamas terrorists, told an Israeli radio station Monday that he had escaped and hidden for four days in Gaza before being caught again by Palestinian civilians.
