Israel SitRep: Nov. 21, 2023
Today’s Issue: Israeli Cabinet to Meet Tonight to Approve Hostage Deal | Israel Announces It Captured Two Gazans Inside the Country a Month after the October 7 Attacks | IDF Forces Encircle Jabalya,...
Pope Francis
Walk like an Israeli
Why a Jew’s visit to the holiest Jewish site provokes outrage
Op-eds
The Middle East’s religious minorities are facing extinction. The world must act.
Pope Francis began his first-ever papal trip to Iraq on Friday, marking a watershed moment in relations between the Catholic Church and the Middle East. Yet for all the optimism of the Pope’s message,...
Op-eds
The Battle of Hagia Sophia: Erdogan’s Conquest of the Turkish Republic
This will set a dangerous precedent, emboldening supremacists not only in Turkey but also in the Middle East and North Africa.
Op-eds
Seoul’s concessions expose limitations of Inter-Korean summit
On the surface, last week’s inter-Korean summit appeared to be a momentous step towards peace after decades of hostility on the peninsula. However, FDD research associate Mathew Ha argues i...
Op-eds
This Christmas, Remember Imprisoned Pastor Andrew Brunson
Pastor Andrew Brunson will be spending his second Christmas in a Turkish jail, unfairly held by the Erdogan government on...
Policy Briefs
The Pope’s War
It’s not a religious war, according to His Holiness. Economic, yes. Political, sure. But not religious, because religious people want peace. That’s what he sai...
Op-eds
The Pope of Montecristo
So Pope Francis, having delivered himself of the usual Jesuit diatribe against capitalism and warned us all about rising global temperatures, has arrived in Cuba. That unhappy island inhabi...
Op-eds
Obama’s in Bed With the Pope, Tony Blair, Ruth Benedict, the UN and Most Universities
There was nothing particularly new about President Obama’s remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast the other day, and most of the opinion makers and shapers who feigned outrage are late to...
Op-eds
The Religious Cleansing of Middle East Christians
The fate of struggling Christians in Muslim-majority countries in the Islamic heartland has shifted from persecution to an existential struggle. Anti-Christian violence in 2014 saw...
Op-eds
Semitic Semantics
On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Pope Francis engaged in a brief, cordial exchange over the language spoken by Jesus. “Jesus was here, in this land,” Netanyahu...
Op-eds
The U.N. Assault on the Catholic Church
In the name of protecting children,the United Nations is now preaching to the Vatican. A report on the Holy See—released by a U.N. committee last week to much media fanfare—alleged th...
Op-eds
Protecting the World’s Christians
Co-authored by Danny Eisen As the winter holidays wind down for another year, Canadians can reflect on the blessing of their democracy, which enables its citizens to celebrate o...
Op-eds
Analysis: Despite Plight of Mideast Christians, Some Leaders Still Single Out Israel
The deadly bomb attacks in Christian districts of Iraq’s capital Baghdad on Christmas Day caused the deaths of 37 people. One bomb appeared to target congregants leaving a Ca...