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July 12, 2024 U.S. Resumes Shipment of Bombs to Israel The United States will resume shipments of 500-pound bombs to Israel, a U.S. official said on July 10. The official explained that the delivery of 1,700 MK-82 500-pound bombs for... July 12, 2024 Playing into Sinwar’s hands: Which of Hamas’s ceasefire demands can Israel accept? After nine months of fighting in Gaza and in the north, direct attacks from Iran, and terror attacks inside Israel, the country faces several difficult decisions. The main challenges are a wise transition... July 12, 2024 ‘The Neck and the Sword’ is Rashid Khalidi’s distortion of history “The Neck and the Sword” is the title of an extensive interview with the prominent Palestinian historian Rashid Khalidi in the latest issue of New Left Review, a London-based Marxist... July 12, 2024 OPCW Visits Ukraine After Accusations of Russian Chemical Weapons Use The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) visited Ukraine last week to deliver critical chemical weapons detection equipment and training. The visit — following accusations by Kyiv... July 12, 2024 Israel SitRep: July 12, 2024 Today’s Issue: Report on Be’eri Attacks: Army Failed to Protect Kibbutz, Bravery of Residents and Rapid Responders Commendable | IDF Raids Gaza City UNRWA Headquarters, Finds Weapons, Drone Parts,... July 11, 2024 IDF Details Failure to Defend Kibbutz Be’eri During October 7 Atrocities Defenders of a kibbutz ravaged by Hamas in the October 7 attack were outnumbered by more than 13-to-1 but managed to hold the line, an Israeli military inquiry found. The report... July 11, 2024 Defying U.S. Law, Biden Administration Fails to Report on Iran’s Nuclear Program The Biden administration is defying U.S. law by failing to submit congressionally mandated reports on the status of Iran’s nuclear program, a Wall Street Journal editorial noted... July 11, 2024 Meet Iran’s New Boss, Same as the Old Boss The accidental death in May of Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi, a cleric of unwavering loyalty to the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader, obliged Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to call... July 11, 2024 IDF releases its first probe into October 7 failures as the Shejaiya raid ends The Israel Defense Forces IDF) released the first of what is expected to be numerous inquiries into specific battles and operational failures that took place during the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023.... July 11, 2024 Israel Orders Evacuation of Gaza City as Ceasefire Talks Persist The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) ordered the evacuation of Gaza City on July 10, urging residents to move south to central Gaza in advance of an Israeli military operation. Israeli... July 11, 2024 Al Qaeda expands its network of training camps in Afghanistan Al Qaeda is operating training camps in the Afghan provinces of Kandahar and Takhar, the United Nations Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team reported. These facilities are in addition to those... July 11, 2024 Iran-Backed Houthis Continue Targeting Commercial Shipping Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen attacked a commercial vessel in the Red Sea’s Bab el-Mandeb Strait on July 10, one day after conducting an attack on a U.S.-flagged container... July 11, 2024 Return to Be’eri: What I learned from visits to Be’eri since Oct. 7 It is fitting that the Israel Defense Forces’ first inquiry into the failures of October 7 should focus on Kibbutz Be’eri. This is one of the sites where a large number of civilians... July 11, 2024 Power vacuum: Can an ‘interim’ force work for Gaza? Nine months into the war in Gaza a report on Thursday in The Washington Post indicated that Israel and Hamas could be open to an “interim” force that might govern Gaza as a stage... July 11, 2024 How an addiction to the Iron Dome doctrine has eroded Israel’s deterrence Over the past decade Israel’s air defense, particularly Iron Dome, provided Israel the time and protection to avoid a major war in Gaza. That all changed on October 7, 2023 when Hamas invaded Israel,... July 10, 2024 UN Special Rapporteur: Biden Has No Clear Iran Strategy President Joe Biden’s administration lacks a clear Iran strategy, the United Nations’ special rapporteur for human rights in Iran said on July 9. Arguing that Tehran has “been... July 10, 2024 Hezbollah Releases New Drone Footage Showing Israeli Military Bases The Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah posted footage on July 9 it claimed was filmed by a drone that overflew Israel Defense Forces (IDF) bases and other sensitive sites in... July 10, 2024 Iran Supporting and Funding Pro-Hamas Protests in the U.S. Following several months of often violent pro-Hamas protests across the United States, the U.S. Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines, stated on July 9 that the Islamic... July 10, 2024 The Neglected Domain In the future, NATO will need to field a larger, more capable fleet that can deny Russia the ability to hold member states at risk in the maritime domain and degrade Moscow’s ability to conduct long-range... July 10, 2024 Only American leadership can rally NATO to fight the new axis of authoritarian chaos NATO leaders on Tuesday arrived in Washington to mark the 75th anniversary of the historic alliance that helped defeat the Soviet Union and secure an American-led century. But diplomatic toasts... July 10, 2024 Navy should hit back harder against Houthi online disinformation Last month, Capt. Christopher “Chowdah” Hill, commanding officer of the aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower, invited journalists to inspect the flight deck of his carrier while it... July 10, 2024 Israel SitRep: July 10, 2024 Today’s Issue: IDF Shells Syrian Army Buildings in Israel-Syria Buffer Zone | IDF Troops Raid UNRWA Headquarters in Gaza City, Find Large Quantity of Weapons | Apparent Israeli Airstrike Kills Hezbollah... July 10, 2024 David Petraeus Is Wrong: Counterinsurgency Won’t Work in Gaza GENERAL DAVID PETRAEUS WAS ALL THE RAGE in the mid-2000s. No American general captured the public imagination in the way that he did, in part because he was one of the most prominent advocates of the strategy... July 10, 2024 Newly Enforced Chinese Coast Guard Law Heightens Maritime Miscalculation Risks Beijing began enforcing a new protocol last month authorizing China’s Coast Guard to seize vessels operating within China’s claimed maritime borders, a move that coincided with several provocative... July 10, 2024 What would a two-state solution solve? I don’t oppose a two-state solution. Nor do I oppose Tinker Bell. I just seriously doubt that either exists. If you’re among those who believe that widespread recognition of a Palestinian nation-state... July 10, 2024 U.S. Considers Nuclear Cooperation With Turkey as Congress Tees Up Sanctions The United States and Turkey are reportedly in talks for American companies to build nuclear reactors in Turkey — an effort Washington claims will help Ankara shift away from Russian nuclear supply.... July 9, 2024 Iran Expands Ballistic Missile Facilities as NATO Meets in Washington In another indication of Iran’s increasingly aggressive stance, Reuters reported on July 7 on satellite images showing that Tehran has expanded two facilities to increase the production... July 9, 2024 Two Israeli Civilians Killed by Hezbollah Rocket Barrage in Golan Heights ... July 9, 2024 Citing Hamas Links, Draft Defense Bill Pushes for Review of U.S.-Qatar Relations U.S. concern over Qatar’s relationship with Hamas is reflected in the Senate Armed Services Committee’s draft of the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), released... July 9, 2024 A greatly expanded arsenal means this is not the Hezbollah of 2006 Hezbollah launched dozens of rockets into northern Israel on Sunday. That attack followed a July 4 assault in which the terror group fired approximately 200 projectiles and over 20... July 9, 2024 Hamas Critic Badly Beaten in Gaza by Masked Men A Gaza-based activist who opposes Hamas was badly beaten on July 8 by two dozen masked men wielding batons and knives. The assailants, who claimed they were representatives of Hamas’s... July 9, 2024 IDF uncovers 6 tunnels in Gaza’s Shejaiya neighborhood; Hezbollah rockets kill 2 Israelis in the north Two Israelis were killed in a large rocket barrage on the Golan Heights on July 9. Hezbollah claimed it targeted several Israel Defense Forces (IDF) posts in response to the killing of one of its members... July 9, 2024 Justice Sotomayor dangerously misunderstands our military Excerpt Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor may be a constitutional law expert, but she apparently is unaware of a key limitation on executive power: our American troops. In her... July 8, 2024 New Iranian President Praises Hezbollah ‘Resistance’ Against ‘Illegitimate Zionist Regime’ Despite predictions in several Western news outlets that Iran’s new president, Masoud Pezeshkian, will “soften” the Islamic Republic’s “absolutist foreign policy,” among... July 8, 2024 Turkey Open to Hosting Syrian Leader for Normalization Talks Turkey is open to repairing ties with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad more than a decade after severing diplomatic relations with Damascus at the outbreak of the Syrian civil war... July 8, 2024 Victorious Left-Wing Coalition in France Pushes for ‘Immediate Recognition’ of Palestinian State The leader of France’s main far-left party pledged on July 7 to grant “immediate recognition of the State of Palestine” following a powerful showing by a coalition of left-wing... July 8, 2024 UNRWA Headquarters Among Buildings Targeted in IDF Sweep of Terrorist Centers in Gaza City The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched a major raid against Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) targets in several Gaza City districts on July 8. In what appeared to be one... July 8, 2024 Syria and Turkey could be headed for new era of ties In the latest sign that Syria and Turkey could be headed for reconciliation and normalized ties, a Syrian official gave an interview to Al-Ain media in the UAE in which he discussed the determinants of normalization... July 8, 2024 What two months of Hamas use of UN sites tells us On Monday, July 8, the IDF said that it had begun an operation in Gaza City targeting terrorists and terrorist infrastructure. UNRWA’s headquarters was among the sites targeted. Hamas and... July 8, 2024 Rafah through the eyes of int’l journalists Rafah is “unrecognizable,” a “ghost town,” and a “wasteland,” according to recent reports from international media. The Israel Defense Force took foreign journalists to the Philadelphi... July 8, 2024 Israeli forces enter Gaza City neighborhoods to target terrorist infrastructure The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched a new operation in portions of Gaza City on July 8. A raid by troops from the IDF’s 99th Division targeted several neighborhoods that fan out from Gaza’s... July 8, 2024 Israel SitRep: July 8, 2024 Today’s Issue: | IDF Begins Counterterror Operation in Gaza City at UNRWA Headquarters | IDF Eliminates Member of Hezbollah Rocket and Missile Unit in Overnight Strike | IDF Troops Kill More Than 30... July 8, 2024 NATO and Cyber: Outrunning the Bear In the future, NATO will need an institutional platform for operational collaboration in cyber among member states and the private sector. A new cyber center scheduled to be announced at the July summit... July 7, 2024 Hezbollah Launches Dozens of Rockets at Northern Israel The Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah launched dozens of rockets at northern Israel on July 7, wounding a farmer in the central Galilee and igniting several fires. The initial... July 7, 2024 Why did Israel shift military pressure and hostage release tactic? In mid-November, a month after the Hamas massacre of October 7, the IDF was fighting with intensity in Gaza. Divisions of troops were deployed around Gaza City and the terrorist group was facing a... July 7, 2024 Iranian President Pezeshkian will not open a new chapter for Iran-Israel relations Iran’s new president Masoud Pezeshkian won a runoff presidential election on Friday and has become Iran’s ninth president since the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Iranian media said that out of 30... July 7, 2024 Hezbollah rocket barrage on Israel wounds several, including a US citizen On July 7, Hezbollah launched several rounds of rockets and anti-tank missiles at Israel, wounding at least four people. Two of those injured, including an American citizen, suffered serious... July 7, 2024 Israel helped avert a famine in Gaza but gets no credit This is the headline you never saw: “Famine averted in Gaza; Israel and UN facilitate surge of humanitarian aid.” The news is true, anchored in data collected by the leading global authority... July 6, 2024 Mass Boycott by Voters Persists as Masoud Pezeshkian Wins Iran Presidential Election At least 50 percent of Iranian voters boycotted the second round of the Islamic Republic’s presidential election on July 5, which resulted in a victory for Masoud Pezeshkian, touted... July 6, 2024 Hamas Drops Key Demand for Hostage Talks Israel and Hamas are expected to resume mediated negotiations over the hostages’ release after the Palestinian terrorist group reportedly dropped its demand for an a priori commitment...

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