Israel SitRep: Feb. 7, 2024
Today’s Issue: IDF Soldiers Find Intelligence Documents and More than 20 Million Shekels in Cash | IDF Forces Operate Overnight in West Bank, Arrest 21 Wanted Persons | IDF Continues Operations in Gaza’s...
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The Middle East could get even uglier, with Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah ready to wage war on Israel
A brutal war is looming between the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah and Israel. The Iran-backed radicals began firing anti-tank missiles and drones at Israel Oct. 8, one day after Hamas carried...
Op-eds
Should America strike back at Iran?
Tehran knows that it's winning its proxy wars
Op-eds
US Should Sanction Lebanon’s pro-Iran ‘Resistance TV’
On December 27, an Israeli missile hit a home in the Southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, killing brothers Ali and Ibrahim Bazzi and Ibrahim’s wife. Within hours, Al Manar, Hezbollah’s official media...
Op-eds
COMAC Comes to Europe: strategic implications of the commercial aerospace battleground
China’s COMAC is out of the gates hot in the new year. The state-owned commercial aerospace champion is officially working to receive European certification for its C919 aircraft. COMAC’s...
Op-eds
What would a maritime security force mean for the Red Sea?
The Iran-backed Houthi attacks have only escalated in the past week by firing on Eilat, having begun in October to match the Hamas massacre.
Op-eds
Houthis Escalate Threats to Target all Ships Bound for Israel in Red Sea
The Iran-backed Houthis threatened on December 9 to target all ships heading to Israel via the Red Sea. “If Gaza does not receive the food and medicine it needs, all ships in the...
Flash Briefs
The Real Reason Iran Hates Israel
The anti-Semitic regime in Tehran believes Jews guide and control American policy in the Middle East.
Op-eds
On eve of ceasefire, fighting continues on several fronts
Smoke billowed from the northern Gaza strip as fighting persisted Wednesday ahead of a ceasefire deal expected on November 23. The dark black smoke which came out of a neighborhood in Gaza City was bookended...
Op-eds
Gulf, France aid Gaza, Russia evacuates citizens
Nations continue to vow aid to the Gaza Strip, continuing to also evacuate citizens.
Op-eds
Ten things Iran thinks it achieved on Oct. 7 – analysis
Iran’s IRGC leader gave a speech providing insight into the Iran regime’s prophecies about Israel and the US being defeated.
Op-eds
Israel Strikes Hezbollah Terror Sites in Lebanon
Latest Developments Israeli fighter jets struck terror sites in Lebanon on November 17. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that strikes targeted “several Hezbollah terror targets in Lebanon,...
Flash Briefs
Telesur’s Pro-Iran Propaganda
Disinformation from the Maduro regime should draw just as much attention from the State Department as Russian disinformation does.
Op-eds
Russia’s Weaponization of Antisemitism
We must inoculate the world’s nations as to the Moscow-origins of the recent spike of antisemitism and make clear that only our enemies win through this dangerous unruliness.
Op-eds
French Court Issues International Arrest Warrant for Syria’s Assad
French judges issued an international arrest warrant for Bashar al-Assad on November 15, citing his use of chemical weapons against Syrian civilians. The court also issued warrants...
Flash Briefs
Turkey’s ‘Aid’ Organization Is a Front for Supporting Terrorism
Turkey’s premier aid organization, the Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms (IHH), with strong links to the government, actively supports terrorist causes and should be designated as a Foreign (FTO)...
Op-eds
10 Things to Know About Hezbollah
1. Hezbollah is an Iran-backed Islamist terrorist organization Hezbollah (also spelled “Hizballah”) is a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization and a political party based in Lebanon. The...
Insights
Islamism is a failed ideology. Muslims must embrace the West
Those who came here to escape tyranny are now cheering the tyrants they left behind
Op-eds
Hamas overplayed their hand
The group hoped to lure Israel into a trap, instead it united the world behind the Jewish state.
Op-eds
Hezbollah Threatens U.S., Israel 40 Years After Deadly Beirut Blast
October 23 marked the 40th anniversary of the suicide bombing that took the lives of 241 U.S. peacekeepers in Beirut, 58 French servicemembers carrying out the same mission, and...