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Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) slammed the “selective outrage” of those condemning Israel’s reported precision strikes against Hezbollah operatives while ignoring the terrorist group’s near-daily indiscriminate attacks against the Jewish state over the last year.

The Israeli Air Force (IAF) buzzed Beirut during a speech by Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Iranian-backed terror group Hezbollah, in which he vowed revenge for a wave of pager and walkie-talkie attacks over the previous two days.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) stated that Israel’s strikes against Hezbollah raised “the risks of escalation” and undercut the American goal “to prevent an expansion, an escalation of the war,” and “I don’t

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) responded to Israel’s strikes against Hezbollah by stating that he is worried doing so will hurt the prospects of a ceasefire deal and that

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) condemned Israel for a pager attack that killed 12 and wounded nearly 3,000 in Lebanon on Tuesday, most of whom were officials within or connected to the Hezbollah terrorist organization.

The authoritarian regimes of Cuba and Venezuela on Tuesday issued statements condemning an apparent attack on Hezbollah operatives in Syria and Lebanon in which hundreds of pagers exploded spontaneously.

“I already said, we will return the residents of the north in safety to their homes. And that is exactly what we will do.”

The U.S. State Department insisted on Tuesday that it had no prior knowledge of or involvement in a string of explosions apparently targeting Hezbollah terrorists throughout Lebanon and Syria.

The day after thousands of Hezbollah terror suspects were injured, and reportedly a dozen people killed, by their pagers almost simultaneously exploding, Lebanese and Iranian media reported a second wave of radio device detonations.

Three Hezbollah operatives were killed Wednesday and hundreds more were injured as walkie-talkies or two-way radios exploded in Beirut and southern Lebanon, a day after exploding pagers killed 12 and wounded thousands.

Exploding pagers were made in Hungary, a key European ally of Israel, the Taiwanese company whose brand name appeared on them said. 

A Lebanese minister reported Tuesday that eight people had been killed and 2,800 injured in an apparent attack on Hezbollah members and fighters that targeted the pagers that the organization has been using for communications.

Hundreds of alleged members of the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror organization were wounded on Tuesday when their pagers, which apparently had been hacked, exploded simultaneously in Beirut and elsewhere in Lebanon.

Israel’s security cabinet, which is responsible for setting military policy, decided early Tuesday morning to adopt the return of the residents of northern Israel’s border towns to their homes as an official war goal.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has launched a series of airstrikes in recent days against Iranian targets in Syria, including a daring ground raid in which troops seized equipment and documents, according to reports in Israel.

Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) criticized several airlines for suspending flights to Israel, noting that it was “effectively boycotting” the country.

U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Charles Q. Brown met with Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant and Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi on Monday, a day after Israel’s preemptive strike on Lebanon.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Monday that 90% of the Hezbollah rockets that were intercepted Sunday were fired from civilian areas in southern Lebanon, a further violation of international law by the Iran-backed terror group.

Hezbollah is being widely mocked after claiming on Sunday that it was attacking military targets in Israel, but hitting a chicken coop and little else.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Sunday that it had hit “thousands” of Hezbollah rocket launchers in southern Lebanon in a pre-dawn preemptive strike to thwart an attack on Tel Aviv. Lebanon reported one dead in the attack.

Israel launched pre-emptive strikes on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon in “self-defense” after identifying missile preparations, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), which warned civilians to evacuate immediately while vowing to do “everything… to defend the people of Israel.”

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced early Sunday morning local time that it had launched a preemptive strike on Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon to thwart a major imminent attack by the Iran-backed terror group.

Israelis are bracing for a possible attack by Iran or its Hezbollah proxy on Tisha B’Av, the annual Jewish day of mourning, which begins Monday evening.

A significant majority of U.S. voters continue to show strong support for the Jewish State over Hamas, with most demanding the removal of the Islamic terrorist organization from Gaza and advocating for conditional ceasefires based on key concessions, according to a Harvard CAPS / Harris poll.

The Biden administration has warned Iran that it could suffer economic harm if it launches a “significant” attack on Israel — though it appeared to indicate that a smaller attack against Israel would be acceptable to the United States.

Multiple reports on Tuesday indicated that the governments of Jordan and Saudi Arabia communicated to rogue terror sponsor Iran that it could not use their airspace to attack Israel in response to the elimination of Hamas “political” chief Ismail Haniyeh.

Lebanon’s Hezbollah terrorist group launched a series of drone and rocket attacks into northern Israel on Tuesday morning before warning that was just the start.

On Monday’s “CNN This Morning,” Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) stated that it’s ridiculous to argue that Israel deserves blame for the recent spike in tensions in the Middle East because they took out terrorists “who had spent decades killing Israelis

“Holy wrath” is coming against Israel, the furious head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Major General Hossein Salami, declared Saturday.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken reportedly warned G7 leaders during a conference call that Iran and Hezbollah could launch an attack on Israel within the next 24-48 hours, according to several sources.

An Israel Defense Forces (IDF) brigade that has been active in the fight against Hamas in Gaza drilled last week in northern Israel in preparation for a possible ground war against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.

Vice President Kamala Harris is the “worst Israel-hater and Islamist-propagandist” to have ever held the office of vice president or sought the Democratic presidential nomination, according to conservative radio host Mark Levin, who slammed the presidential nominee, alleging she has a long history of anti-Israel actions and alliances despite any attempts to appear pro-Israel.

The New York Times published an analysis Friday in which it claimed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had “gone rogue” by killing terrorists who had killed Israeli citizens, rather than acquiescing.

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has reportedly found Hezbollah responsible for the terror rocket that last Saturday killed 12 children in the Golan Heights’ Majdal Shams.

Israel eliminated two of its greatest enemies this week — Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah second-in-command Fu’ad Shukr — and the media, predictably, misinterpreted both events. Analysts on both CNN and the BBC said that the deaths of

Israel is defending both Western civilization and Judeo-Christian values, according to former Trump administration U.S. ambassador to Israel David Friedman, who slammed current Western leaders, and the Biden administration in particular, accusing them of being “feckless” in their handling of Iranian threats.