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WARNING: Middle East ‘Hangs in the Balance,’ Former Israeli Ambassador to US Says
JERUSALEM—Israel’s war with Hamas goes beyond land and borders; it’s a battle for “our common civilization, for our values,” a former Israeli envoy to the United States warns. “The enemy we’re fighting against is an enemy that detests everything that you stand for, everything that we stand for,” Michael Oren, who served as Israeli… -
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Don’t Make Ukraine Another Vietnam
Fifty years ago on April 30, Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese, and the defeat was America’s, too. South Vietnam was our ally, whose forces we trained, armed, and supported with our own troops, ultimately at the cost of more than 58,000 of our service members’ lives. The grim anniversary is a reminder that those… -
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Who Is Mark Carney, the Newly Elected Liberal Prime Minister of Canada?
The Liberal Party of Canada won a narrow victory on Monday night, catapulting its leader, Prime Minister Mark Carney, to his first general election win. The win is a fourth consecutive term for the party, and a remarkable reversal of fortune for Carney, who had originally faced a nearly 30-point deficit in polling to Conservative… -
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Canadian Election Results Portend America, Canada Likely to Remain at Odds
After a topsy-turvy election cycle in which the Conservatives started up 25 points before trade tensions with the United States and a Liberal leadership change, Canadian voters have given the Liberal Party another mandate in Ottawa. This is a big win for Mark Carney, the newly installed Canadian prime minister who had spent a career… -
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Envoy to Israel Huckabee Says Deal Can Be Reached If Iran Gives Up Ambitions of ‘Nuclear Weaponry’
JERUSALEM, Israel—Iran could see a breakthrough in its nuclear nonproliferation negotiations with the United States, but “it’s up to them,” according to U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee. Iran has “never ever been anything but clear in that their goal is the annihilation of Israel, and ultimately the annihilation of every free-thinking, free-living person… -
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Saudi Arabia, Qatar Bail Out War-Ravaged Syria
The Middle East was the source of some rare positive news on Sunday when Qatar and Saudi Arabia announced that they would be paying back the some $15 million that Syria owes to the World Bank. The payment will help enable the bank to assist in the rebuilding of Syria after nearly 14 years of… -
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Who Will Rule Gaza After the War? Ex-IDF Spokesman Sees Just One Option
JERUSALEM, Israel—If Hamas is dismantled and the war between Israel and the terrorist group comes to an end, Israel will need to step in and “rule Gaza” for a time, a former international spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces says. “I think in [an] interim period, Israel will apply a military occupation of it… -
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Biden vs. Trump: What Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu Says About Working With Each President
JERUSALEM, Israel—When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his advisers were discussing the plan to detonate explosives located inside pagers used by Hezbollah in Lebanon, some close to the Israeli leader encouraged him to give the Biden administration advance warning. Netanyahu refused. “I said, ‘no,’ and we didn’t,” Netanyahu said, adding, “I didn’t read… -
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New Secure Messaging Platform Offers Quantum-Resistant Defense Against Chinese Cyber Threats
A communications platform called Titanium Secure is positioning itself as a quantum-resistant defense against growing cyber threats from China and data harvesting by Big Tech companies. “We saw a need for conservatives to have their own platform where they could do several different things, and part of those was to secure communication and secure data,”… -
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Anton to Lead Trump Team Negotiating With Iran
President Donald Trump has chosen Michael Anton, the State Department's director of policy planning, to lead the next round of nuclear negotiations with Iran, Politico reported Thursday. This weekend, Anton will lead a dozen U.S. officials in talks with members of the Iranian government on the subject of constraining the Islamic fundamentalist state’s nuclear program… -
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Foreign Policy Experts Warn Against Strike on Iran’s Nuke Facilities
Some lawmakers are calling for President Donald Trump to help Israel strike Iran’s nuclear facilities even as foreign policy experts warn about the potential consequences of such an action. “Ultimately, short of regime change or occupation, it’s pretty difficult to see how military strikes could destroy Iran’s path to a nuclear weapon,” Justin Bronk, a… -
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US Treasury Sanctions Iranian Shipping Magnate
President Donald Trump’s Treasury Department is sanctioning an Iranian national and his corporate network for what Treasury says is the laundering of hundreds of millions of dollars in illicit petroleum products “to evade U.S. sanctions and generate revenue for Iran.” Iranian shipping magnate Seyed Asadollah Emamjomeh has worked with companies affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary… -
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Netanyahu Denies Israeli Security Chief’s Surveillance Allegations
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has denied allegations that he asked Israel’s domestic spy chief to surveil protesting citizens and demanded personal loyalty. The claims come from Ronen Bar, the head of Israel’s internal security agency, Shin Bet. Bar’s allegations are from an affidavit made public on Monday as part of a legal case about… -
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Beijing Vows Retaliation Against US Trading Partners’ Deals ‘at the Expense of China’s Interests’
China is sending a stern message to countries across the globe that are cutting trade deals with the United States: Stop it or face retaliatory measures. China’s Ministry of Commerce on Monday told its allies not to reach agreements that would come at the expense of the Chinese government. China “firmly opposes any party reaching… -
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Mexico Sends Tons of Sewage to San Diego, and Lee Zeldin Is Doing Something About It on Earth Day
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin is flying out to San Diego Tuesday to address a “public health and environmental crisis” regarding sewage on the U.S.-Mexico border on Earth Day. “There is nowhere more important for me to be tomorrow than on the border in California, dealing with this very important public health and environmental… -
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On Tariffs and Wireless Spectrum: Why Is Washington So Helpful to Communist China?
Thanks to President Donald Trump’s tariffs, our relationship with Communist China is again receiving the tiny bit of scrutiny that passes for communist China-relationship scrutiny. As always, the relationship deserves much more scrutiny than it gets. The last time the China relationship received a little scrutiny? That was in 2020, when the China virus reminded… -
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During Passover, Israeli Mother Asks for Help to Free Hostage Son From ‘Hell’ in Gaza
Jews across the world are currently celebrating Passover, but for Viki Cohen, “it’s not a holiday.” For the second year in a row, Cohen is observing Passover while her son, Nimrod Cohen, is living in “hell” as a hostage in Gaza. “I'm his mother, and I miss him so much,” Viki Cohen told The… -
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Europe, You Can’t Sit on the Sidelines Anymore
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. I’d like to talk today about the role of China, the United States, and the European… -
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Trump Called Off Israeli Strike on Iran, Report Says
President Donald Trump stopped Israel from launching military strikes against multiple nuclear targets in Iran, according to a New York Times report, which cited administration officials. Israel was planning to strike Iran as soon as May, the Times reported, but Trump intervened to take a more diplomatic approach. After months of internal debate among the administration, Trump… -
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Communist China’s Reach is Global and Growing
Communism is a word frequently uttered in the political arena. Yet, too often, the proper weight of this term and the devastating consequences this ideology has inflicted across the globe is overlooked or, at the very least, misunderstood. Far too many Americans complacently believe that liberal democracy has permanently triumphed. In doing so, they neglect…