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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday evening that U.S. President Joe Biden’s description Friday of Israel’s proposal for a ceasefire and hostage deal was “partial,” and not an accurate description of Israel’s position.

A cadre of anti-Israel protesters blocked an LGBTQ pride parade on the streets of Philadelphia on Sunday, halting the procession.

Israel and Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed terror group in southern Lebanon, are near a war footing as Hezbollah fired dozens of rockets and projectiles at Israel over the weekend, causing widespread fires near Israel’s northern borders.

An apartment building collapsed in the Turkish city of Istanbul on Sunday, killing one person and injuring eight.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) announced that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was invited to speak before the United States Congress and Senate in a joint meeting.

Reactions from parties in Israel’s governing coalition confirmed Saturday that U.S. President Joe Biden lied to the world when he claimed a proposal for a ceasefire and hostage deal had come from the Israeli government.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) joined an anti-Israel commentator this week in blaming the Abraham Accords peace deal and the opening of the Jerusalem embassy for Hamas’s massive terror attack on Israel on October 7.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) operation in Rafah has exposed the existence of a secret overpass between Egypt and Gaza, which Hamas could use to import anything without international supervision, according to the Jerusalem Post.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday that Israel would not accept a ceasefire deal that prevented it from destroying Hamas, after U.S. President Joe Biden presented a so-called Israeli “proposal” that allowed Hamas to survive.

Anti-Israel protesters resurrected an encampment at Columbia University a month after the New York Police Department (NYPD) conducted a raid.

Israeli Prime Minsiter Benjamin Netanyahu declined Friday to confirm or deny U.S. President Joe Biden’s claim that Israel had proposed a deal for a ceasefire and hostage release that would keep Hamas armed and in power in Gaza.

The Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen claimed they attacked the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Iranian state media outlets limited their commentary on Friday regarding former President Donald Trump’s criminal conviction on Thursday.

Protesters interrupted Harvard University interim president Alan Garber Friday during “Alumni Day” proceedings in Harvard Yard, with one person storming the stage and dumping green glitter all over Garber as he delivered a speech.

President Joe Biden announced a proposal for a ceasefire and hostage deal between Israel and Hamas on Friday — but its terms repeat those that Hamas has already rejected in recent weeks.

The Spanish government has asked officials to stop using the term “genocide” to describe the situation in Gaza, because it gives two million Palestinians living there an instant asylum claim, entitling them to refuge in Spain.

Two new polls show Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu surging politically in Israel, despite pressure by Democrats in the United States, and left-wing protests in Israel, to force new elections and a change in government

Hollywood and Democrats are now getting a taste of what happens when you dance with the antisemitic devil.

Radical leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva officially withdrew Brazil’s ambassador to Israel, Frederico Meyer, on Wednesday.

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping used a speech to Arab leaders on Thursday to demand the establishment of a state of Palestine, with East Jerusalem as its capital, and pledged $3 million in funding to a Hamas-affiliated U.N. agency.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Thursday that three soldiers had been killed by a booby-trapped tunnel in Rafah that was located in a medical clinic that was part of a United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) school.

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) publicly ditched his Harvard University graduation hood on Wednesday during his address at the commencement of Yeshiva University, a religious Jewish college in New York.

Widespread online reaction followed a message from Ayatollah Ali Khamenei praising pro-Hamas American university students protesting Israel, welcoming them to the terrorist “Resistance Front,” and encouraging them to “become familiar with the Quran.”

The Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen claimed on Wednesday to have downed another $30 million U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone.

The government of Israel reacted to news that South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), was likely to lose its majority for the first time, by noting the South African government had been a “lawyer for Hamas.”

On Wednesday’s broadcast of “CNN NewsNight,” Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) said that Hamas can’t be eliminated and the idea they’re built on can’t be killed off and “We need a free Palestine so Hamas then ceases to need to exist.”

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) secured control of the entire length of the Gaza-Egypt border on Wednesday, known as the Philadelphi Corridor, and discovered some 20 tunnels nearby, as it continued military operations in Rafah.

Rioters in Mexico City threw Molotov cocktails at the Israeli embassy on Tuesday as international condemnation continued against Israel’s airstrike Sunday on two Hamas terrorists in Rafah, after which several dozen civilians died.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s “Supreme Leader,” congratulated American students on Wednesday for their anti-Israel, pro-Hamas protests, saying that they had joined the “Resistance Front,” which includes terrorist groups. Dear university students in the United States of America, you are standing

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) stated that the deaths of civilians in an Israeli strike on a tent camp in Rafah were “awful” but Hamas hides behind civilians and “there was a dump of

Pro-Palestinian protesters swarmed police outside Israel’s embassy in Mexico City on Tuesday night, throwing rocks and bottles.

Tariq Habash and Lily Greenberg Call, former political appointees for President Joe Biden who resigned over the Israel-Hamas war, said Wednesday on CNN’s “News Central” there is a “dam breaking.”

HBO host Bill Maher demolished the claims of his podcast guest, comedienne Sandra Bernhard, who tired to claim that it is conservatives, not liberals, who are guilty for the rise in antisemitism today.

A coalition of over 550 UK parliamentarians is urging the next government to officially label Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization.

Russia is expanding a factory to produce at least 6,000 Iranian Shahed suicide drones per year, according to the Prana Network.

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorist organization released a video of Israeli hostage Alexander Sasha Trupanov on Tuesday.