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Sports League Keeps Politics Off the Field When Israel’s Participation Triggers Threats
Fourteen football players boarded a plane and flew from Israel to Amsterdam in the middle of July for the Australian Football League’s European tournament. When news of Israel’s participation in the tournament triggered threats of protests, Australian Football League Europe did not capitulate to political pressure. It is the role of the Australian Football League… -
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Israel to Permit Aid Airdrops Into Gaza as Tensions Grow Over Humanitarian Situation
Israel will soon allow Jordan and the United Arab Emirates to resume aid airdrops into Gaza. In coordination with the Israel Defense Forces, Jordan may conduct its first airdrop as soon as Friday, The Times of Israel reports. In 2024, the U.S., working with Jordan and other nations, airdropped aid into Gaza. The plan to… -
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France Will Recognize Palestine as a State, Macron Says
France will recognize Palestine as a state, French President Emmanuel Macron announced Thursday. “True to its historic commitment to a just and lasting peace in the Middle East, I have decided that France will recognize the State of Palestine,” Macron wrote on social media. “The urgency today is to end the war in… -
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Trump to Pull US From UNESCO
President Donald Trump is pulling the U.S. out of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization in a move Rep. Randy Fine says he fully supports. “This is an organization that has repeatedly pushed anti-Israel propaganda, from recognizing Palestinian statehood to denying the Jewish connection to holy sites,” Fine, R-Fla., who is Jewish, told The… -
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Deal or No Deal? Why Israel Launched Ground Attack in a Gaza City It Hadn’t Entered Since War Began
Israel Defense Forces has pushed into a central Gaza city for the first time since Israel’s war with Hamas began following the militant group’s Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel. Tanks rolled into the southern and eastern areas of Deir al-Balah on Monday. The city holds one of four “central camps” in Gaza, The Jerusalem… -
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Iran War Has Created Golden Opportunity for Stable Middle East Peace
For nearly half a century, the Middle East has been defined by a single overarching reality: the Iranian threat. Since 1979, the ayatollahs’ growing influence, nuclear program, and destabilizing activities have shaped regional dynamics more than perhaps any other factor. An entire generation has grown up accepting periodic clashes and proxy conflicts as the natural order, with… -
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Muslim Scholars Deem Trump ‘Enemy Against God’
Iranian media unveiled a letter this month written by “100 Muslim scholars and intellectuals” that declared President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “enemies against God.” In this letter, the Muslim scholars warned leaders of Islam that “compromise, normalization of relations, or collaboration” with these countries and their leaders is forbidden. The Iranian Islamic leaders… -
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Peace Through Strength: Why Trump’s Support for Israel Was the Best Foreign Policy in a Generation
In an era marked by uncertainty and geopolitical instability, one foreign policy legacy stands above the rest: President Donald Trump’s unwavering support for the state of Israel. Unlike past administrations that adhered to conventional wisdom and cautious diplomacy, Trump brought moral clarity and strategic resolve to the U.S.-Israel alliance. He did not just talk about… -
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Rubio Hits UN Human Rights Council Rapporteur With Sanctions
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday announced sanctions on United Nations special rapporteur Francesca Albanese. Rubio cited “her illegitimate and shameful efforts to prompt [International Criminal Court] action against U.S. and Israeli officials, companies, and executives,” in the announcement of the sanctions. The position of special rapporteur is appointed by the U.N…. -
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Princeton’s President Pursues Politicization
While the Trump administration tries to rein in the political excesses that foster civil rights violations and undermine the reasons for publicly subsidizing higher education, Princeton President Chris Eisgruber has doubled down on universities’ political activism. As a leader of the “Resistance” opposing President Donald Trump’s efforts, Eisgruber believes that universities should have the autonomy… -
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83 Percent of Jewish Students Face Campus Hate—How Much More Will Colleges Allow?
I walked into that house meeting with a knot of anxiety, a strange sense of paranoia. An hour later, I was running into the freezing Ohio night, barefoot and coatless, tears blurring my vision. My paranoia, it turns out, was simply an instinct for survival. During my last year at Kenyon College, my roommates, all… -
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What the 12-Day War Hath Wrought
Not many people today remember the exhilaration so many Americans felt after Israel’s victory in the Six-Day War in June 1967. The liberal folks around me at work and law school then had been frustrated and puzzled at the lack of progress being made in Vietnam by the 448,000 U.S. troops stationed there, and the… -
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Trump Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize
President Donald Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for his second term actions as president. That was the take from The Daily Signal’s Executive Editor Rob Bluey on a CNN panel that drew chuckles from the reliably liberal commentators. I agree, and not just because Rob is my boss. By the public standards of the… -
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Gaza Humanitarian Foundation Won’t Stop Aid Distribution After Hamas Puts Bounties on Workers
Hamas has placed bounties on the heads of American and local Gaza Humanitarian Foundation workers. But the Rev. Johnnie Moore, the group’s executive chairman, says, “If all of these threats are intended to shut us down, it’s just not going to work.” “Terrorists want to cause you to be afraid,” Moore said. “I’m a… -
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Turning Up the Heat: China Continues Its Years Long Military Pressure Campaign Around Taiwan
“Taiwan is, of course, a country,” proclaimed the island’s President Lai Ching-te on June 22. In his first of a series of 10 lectures, Lai reaffirmed that Taiwan’s sovereignty derives from its 23 million people, earning him a swift rebuke from Beijing. True to form, Beijing resorted to calling Lai’s speech “a ‘Taiwan independence’ declaration… -
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Symbolic Ritual in Iran Sees Women Hold Infants Aloft as Sacrifice
Hundreds of Iranian mothers lifted their babies above their heads in a symbolic act of sacrifice during the annual Hosseini Infants Ceremony in Tehran on Friday. The ceremony, with similar celebrations held across Iran on June 27, takes place on the first Friday of the Islamic month of Muharram and commemorates the death of Shia… -
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Trump’s Iran Strikes Were Masterful. Now His Dealmaking Skills Are Critical.
President Donald Trump is not like his predecessors. Confronting a hostile regime in Tehran that has played American presidents for more than 35 years, the commander in chief took decisive action on June 21 to keep his promise that he would never allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons. Operation Midnight Hammer was a success—America’s fine men and… -
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Dems’ NYC Socialist Nominee Ducks and Weaves When Asked to Condemn Term Calling for Killing Jews
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Democratic New York mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani failed to directly condemn the controversial phrase “globalize the intifada” on NBC News Sunday. The term “globalize the intifada” is widely seen as a call to violence against Jews, and Jewish advocacy groups were angered when Mamdani declined to directly denounce the phrase. When asked… -
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Shock-and-Awe ‘Midnight Hammer’ Iran Strike Encapsulates Trump Doctrine
My young family and I were in Israel when the Israel Defense Forces and Mossad began their offensive operations against Iran on June 13, commencing what President Donald Trump has since called the “12-Day War.” Although the Mossad’s intelligence and the Israel Defense Forces’ rapid establishment of air superiority inside Iran proved to be nothing… -
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American Press Corps Has Totally Discredited Itself
On Tuesday, in what it labeled an “exclusive,” CNN reported that initial intelligence assessments of the Iran bombing suggested Iran had been set back a couple of months in its quest for a nuclear weapon. The report’s lead reporter was Natasha Bertrand. In 2020, Bertrand played a lead role in attempting to discredit reports of…