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Bloomberg
6 days ago
- Politics
- Bloomberg
A Defiant Israel Eyes a Full Gaza Takeover Despite Global Isolation
As pictures of malnourished Gazans flood world media, pressure on Israel is intensifying not only to dramatically increase the supply of food and end the fighting but to accept a Palestinian state. More than 61,000 Gazans have been killed in nearly two years; Hamas isn't destroyed; hostages are still held: the Jewish state is turning into a global pariah. But as international condemnation intensifies — arms embargoes, arrest warrants, cultural boycotts — Israel is not merely defying the pressure, it is redefining itself. Once a besieged secular outpost with an agrarian economy, it has evolved into a Middle East superpower: an aggressive military and intelligence juggernaut with a GDP per capita higher than the UK, an increasingly populist ethno-religious government with an unflinching security ethos.
Wall Street Journal
04-08-2025
- Politics
- Wall Street Journal
Hamas Starves Jews and Palestinians, and Israel Gets Blamed
As Israel faces a blitzkrieg of international condemnation again, mobilized in part by a global press happy to supply the ammunition, it is important to remember one thing: In the war between the Jewish state and its enemies in Gaza, one side is deliberately starving innocent people to the point of emaciation. One side irrevocably denies the right of its adversary to exist. One side would, if it could, conduct a genocide against the other, wiping every last remnant off the face of the planet.
Bloomberg
14-07-2025
- Politics
- Bloomberg
Israel Strikes Syria After New Clashes Involving Druze Minority
Israel launched attacks in southern Syria on Monday after deadly clashes that involved the Druze community, a minority group that the Jewish state has pledged to protect. The Israel Defense Forces struck several tanks advancing toward Suwayda province, where confrontations broke out Sunday and persisted into Monday. 'The IDF struck the tanks in order to prevent their arrival to the area,' the army said on Telegram.
New York Post
26-06-2025
- Politics
- New York Post
Iranian supreme leader crawls out of bunker to ludicrously claim victory over Israel: Tehran ‘delivered a hand slap to America's face'
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ludicrously claimed victory over Israel and said he 'delivered a hand slap to America's face' during his first address to his nation following the cease-fire. Khamenei said he was 'victorious' in the 12-day war despite reportedly losing years of progress to its nuclear programs, including scientists and the 'obliteration' of three nuclear enrichment facilities. 'The Islamic Republic was victorious and, in retaliation, delivered a hand slap to America's face,' Khamenei said Thursday. The head of the Islamic Regime has been in hiding since Israel launched Operation 'Rising Lion' on June 13, fearing an assassination attempt from the Jewish State. 3 Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks in a video address on June 26, 2025. IRIB NEWS AGENCY/AFP via Getty Images Israel had launched hundreds of missiles around Tehran, along with a covert operation that destroyed ground-to-air and ground-to-ground defense systems. Khamenei's address comes five days after President Trump ordered seven B-2 bombers to drop 'bunker busting' bombs onto the underground Fordow nuclear site, as nuclear capable submarines launched cruise missiles at two others sites, Natanz and Isfahan. 'US hit nuclear sites but couldn't achieve much,' Khamenei said in a televised speech before calling out Trump. 'US President Trump needed to do showmanship,' he said. 3 President Donald Trump speaks to reporters at the Hague on June 25, 2025. Xinhua/Shutterstock 3 Iran's Isfahan nuclear enrichment facility after the US surprise attack on June 21, 2025. Satellite image ©2025 Maxar Technologies/AFP via Getty Images 'With all that commotion and all those claims, the Zionist regime was practically knocked out and crushed under the blows of the Islamic Republic,' Khamenei said earlier on X. The isolated Iranian leader's statements are the first since a cease-fire was agreed upon by his nation and Israel. Trump announced the cease-fire Monday evening, hours before Israel said Tehran fired a missile barrage at the Jewish state, forcing the 79-year-old commander in chief to bash both nations. The Jewish State launched fighter jets directed at Iran, but there were no attacks. 'ISRAEL is not going to attack Iran. All planes will turn around and head home, while doing a friendly 'Plane Wave' to Iran,' Trump wrote on Truth Social Tuesday morning. 'I think they both violated it,' Trump told reporters on his way to the NATO summit Tuesday, calling out Israel's promise to resume attacks after accusing Iran of a 'blatant violation' of the agreed-upon cease-fire. The cease-fire agreement has since held as the US and Qatar attempt to get Iran back to the negotiating table to discuss its nuclear energy program. With Post wires
Telegraph
21-06-2025
- Politics
- Telegraph
I am proud to be a Zionist and you should be one too
Zionist bitch. This was what my friend discovered a colleague had called her. Not just a bitch. But a Zionist one. Over the past year it has become increasingly normal for people in this country to use Zionist as a slur. To say that simply believing in the State of Israel's right to exist is fundamentally reprehensible. I can think of no other religion or nation state that has to put up with this. It is only the Jewish state that has the right to its very existence challenged in this way. Only Jewish people who should be denied a homeland. A homeland in the place Jews have lived, loved, worked and prayed for thousands of years. It should be clearly understood that believing in Israel's right to a place amongst nations is not the same as saying you are in agreement with everything the government of the country does. Yet when it comes to Israel, growing numbers of people are unwilling to separate the decisions of politicians from the right to a national homeland. Personally I abhor the statements made by Right-wing extremists Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich in the Israeli government. Does that make me believe that an entire nation should be cancelled? A nation that also happens to be the only democratic state in the Middle East? Take Iran as a comparison. Israel and Iran could not be more different. In Tehran, free speech and political opposition are violently suppressed in a country run autocratically and often brutally by ayatollahs. Women are not equal citizens and the gay community have to live in fear. Yet do you hear anyone calling for an end to the existence of Iran? Are there placards at mass marches on Britain's streets calling for the extinction of that nation? Is believing in the right of Iran to exist an increasingly common insult in public, on social media or the workplace? The obvious question is why this is happening with Israel but not other countries. For me and many other people who share my faith the reason is horribly clear. It is because Israel is the homeland of Jews. The fightback against this denial of a Jewish state in the Middle East must be clear, determined and high profile. It must be led by those in our country who have the most influence. Let's start with the leader of our nation. Sir Keir, a simple question: do you believe in the State of Israel's right to exist? If the answer is yes, then please state publicly that you are a Zionist. Please say this loudly and clearly so that this growing tide of anti-Zionist hate, which is ultimately a mask for anti-Jewish hate, can be arrested before conditions worsen further for Jewish people in this country and become truly dangerous. I call on the Government's front bench MPs to be equally clear that they believe in Israel's right to exist, that they too are Zionists. In the current climate it will take some courage, but isn't that what leadership is all about?
