If Trump wants to avoid escalation, it is time to tell Iran: Bluster has a price. Harm even one hair on an American soldier or sailor’s head and lose its Indian Ocean ports forever.
For too long, the discussion around these events has been dominated by political positioning rather than practical solutions for those suffering real economic harm.
By controlling the main entry point for humanitarian assistance, the Houthis can siphon off assistance to sell it, provide it to their supporters, and weaponize its denial to regions the Houthis deem politically disloyal.
The faculty members are making the absolutist claim that it is always a denial of academic freedom for governments to pressure universities with a cut-off of funding.
Trump sees himself as a winner and despises losers. Whereas he may once have seen Erdoğan as a strongman, it is now clear that the would-be sultan wears no clothes.
The protesters, like many of the residents of the Gaza Strip, are, in all probability, just trying to avoid more death and destruction now that they see Israel, fully backed by the Trump administration, resuming its counter-terrorism operations.
The Islamic Republic of Iran deserved its terror designation. It cheerleads Hamas, funds it, trains its leaders, and smuggles weaponry to it. Turkey now does the same.
Time is ticking on a new conflict in the Middle East. The chess pieces are being put in place. The Iranian regime would be foolish to believe the restraints of the last 45 years apply today.
The Israeli pilots are as good as any on the planet, and the latest additions to Israel’s fleet of F35s, which ultimately will number 75, will guarantee the Jewish state’s air superiority for many years to come.
By going on Carlson’s podcast and speaking about his warm feelings for Qatar and his ideas regarding the Israel-Hamas conflict, Witkoff displayed judgment that was arguably even worse than that demonstrated in the Signal group-chat scandal.
According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, the ayatollahs have continued to work on their nuclear program to the extent that they now have enough material to construct at least five nuclear warheads.
None of the media outlets or organizations clamoring for the right of Islamic terrorist supporters to come to the US on visas objected to blocking pro-Israel musicians from coming to perform here.
Already a year ago, US officials revealed that operatives of Russian military intelligence were present in Sana’a, advising the Shi’ite Islamist group.
Khamenei is detached from reality; his gamble will fail. Just as Israel struck with precision, removing S-300 anti-aircraft missile batteries in Isfahan, so too can the United States now strike Iran with precision.
The President’s promise that there will be 'many more [deportations of supporters of terrorism] to come,' leading all the other Khalils on campuses from sea to shining sea to shudder in anticipation of a crackdown, has given me a warm feeling inside.
Democrats and the larger cultural establishment that they represent have moved beyond pretending that they are expressing sympathy for the nebulous concept of ‘Palestinians’ and ‘innocent civilians’ and have moved on to openly associating their movement with supporters of the mass murder of Jews.
A combination of sustained military pressure, economic warfare, resistance support, and aggressive information operations will erode their power base and sever their lifelines.
While the Trump administration has ordered strikes against the Houthis, and while Hezbollah and Hamas have been weakened by Israel, it will take time before it is safe to declare all three proxies non-threats.
The president’s attack on these schools isn’t a war on education. It’s a battle to save education and America itself at a time when a counter-cultural revolution on the nation’s campuses is desperately needed.
Many of them see the link between the United States and Israel as one of the greatest barriers between them and their dreams of global retreat, and they want to break it.
Oman’s relationship with the Houthis is analogous to Qatar’s relationship with Hamas and the Taliban: Muscat uses the cover of mediation to advocate for the victory of one side over another.
Where Saul is held back by his insecurities as a leader, David inspires men who were on the verge of stoning him by rallying them to fight with him. Saul is stymied by political considerations while David trusts in G-d.
Certain themes have been consistent in their descriptions: beatings, hunger, threats, being moved around between Palestinian families, and psychological abuse.
A number of Syrian sources have told me in recent days that the present Islamist regime in Damascus harbours a particular hatred for Syria’s Alawis, who they habitually refer to by the insulting name of ‘Nusayris.’
Israel views the emergent regime in Damascus as characterized by three factors: a Sunni Islamist/jihadi orientation, strong links to Turkey and relative weakness. It is acting accordingly.
At heart, Trump is a dealmaker, and his administration is the only political entity offering to stop the killing before it expands even further into world war than it already has.
The real issue was never hair or eye color; it was Jewishness. The red hair of the Bibas children like the Aryan blond hair and blue eyed criteria are only pretexts for racializing and killing Jews.
That’s how the West is. Culture is being sold off. And suddenly there is nothing more important than culture, but of course not your own, but foreign culture.
Hamas's presence during reconstruction will only result in the emergence of the Lebanon model: Hezbollah, another Iranian proxy terror group, simply created a terrorist state-within-a-state.
If engagement is unavoidable, it must operate concurrently with—not replace—efforts to destroy Hamas. The Trump administration must establish parameters if these talks continue.
Iranian hardliners don’t embrace a 'resistance economy' for its own sake—it signals a broader defiance of the world, in this case, it means accelerating nuclear weaponization, as Khamenei sees the costs as inevitable and intends to reap the rewards.
By having a partner in Washington who doesn’t believe that Hamas is an 'idea' that can’t be defeated but a terror group that can and should be eradicated, Netanyahu can finally start waging war on it in a way to accomplish that goal.