Biden Blesses The Unthinkable By Making Sign Of The Cross At Pro-Abortion Rally

Nearly two years after launching a "whole-of-government approach" to support the abortion industry, President Joe Biden has now invoked a Higher Power. At a campaign stop in Florida on Tuesday, Biden made the sign of the Cross in an apparent attempt to ward off pro-life legislation, mocked the notion that miracles happen in politics, and wondered aloud about "what the Hell is in" the Bible.

During a pro-abortion speech in Tampa, the purportedly "devout Catholic" Biden lashed out at former President Donald Trump for allegedly being a pro-life extremist. The 46th president seemed incredulous that the 45th president "described the Dobbs decision as a 'miracle.' Maybe it's coming from that Bible he's trying to sell. Whoa. I almost wanted to buy one just to see what the hell is in it."

It seems curious Joe Biden wouldn't have picked up some of the fundamentals of the Bible from attending daily Mass before going to "the black church" every Sunday, between stops in the Greek Orthodox and Puerto Rican communities, all after attending synagogue on Shabbat. 

That was but one facet of Biden's inversion of Scripture. At a meeting with volunteers in Tampa, Biden invoked the power of our Lord's precious and life-giving Cross as a guest speaker discussed abortion. READ MORE

'Another blow to Iran': EU votes in favor of resolution against Islamic Republic

In an unprecedented vote, the European Parliament passed a resolution against the Islamic Republic of Iran on Thursday.

The resolution condemned Iran for its attack on Israel and reinforced the European commitment to the security of the State of Israel.

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz praised the European Parliament for its vote in favor of a resolution. It follows last Monday's decision by the European Union to sanction Iran in order to curtail missile and drone production.

"Another Israeli political success and another blow to Iran," Katz said. "We are tightening the chokehold around the neck of the Iranian octopus. The world understands that Iran needs to be stopped now before it is too late."

The resolution passed by a large majority of 357 for and 20 against.

Russian defense chief meets Iranian counterpart on widening military cooperation

MOSCOW – Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has told his Iranian counterpart Gharaei Ashtiani that Moscow is ready to expand military and technical cooperation with Tehran, the RIA state news agency reports.

Contacts between the countries’ military departments have increased significantly recently, Shoigu is cited as saying.

The meeting comes on the sidelines of a session in Kazakhstan of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a security grouping that includes Russia, India, China, Iran, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

US won’t sanction IDF units for alleged human rights abuses in West Bank – report

Washington will not go ahead with sanctions it has been considering against Israeli military and police units alleged to have committed human rights violations against Palestinians, including the Netzah Yehuda Battalion, according to an ABC News report.

While the Biden administration has determined “gross human rights violations” were committed by Israel Defense Forces against Palestinians in the West Bank, according to the report, the relevant battalions will remain eligible for US military aid.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken shared the assessment in a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson, ABC reports, in which he wrote that the position “will not delay the delivery of any US assistance and Israel will be able to receive the full amount appropriated by Congress.”

Earlier this week, US President Joe Biden signed into law a $95 billion war aid measure that includes assistance for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.

The legislation will send $17 billion in wartime assistance to Israel and $9 billion in humanitarian relief to citizens of Gaza and other war-torn regions — with Biden specifying at a White House event to announce the signing on Wednesday that the package “includes $1 billion for additional humanitarian aid in Gaza.”

The ABC report notes that allegations of rights abuses by IDF units took place before war erupted in Gaza on October 7, sparked by Hamas’s massacre in southern Israel.

It also notes that none of the cases involve “operations against Hamas in Gaza or against Iran or its proxies.”

Israeli officials, including Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and war cabinet minister Benny Gantz, held separate talks with Blinken this week in an effort to prevent Washington from going ahead with the reported plans to slap sanctions on Netzah Yehuda, a Kfir infantry brigade unit designed for religious troops.

America, start deporting the Hamas occupiers of the Ivy League

Daniel Greenfield is an Israeli-born journalist who writes for conservative publications.

(JNS) Hamas is a sanctioned Islamic terrorist organization. It’s illegal to provide aid to it. And for non-citizens, especially foreign students on visas, supporting terrorists is a deportable offense.

And yet after six months of pro-Hamas rallies on college campuses and in major cities, not a single foreign student appears to have been deported.

The latest Hamas occupations at Yale and Columbia have stopped even pretending to be anything other than outright support for an illegal terrorist group and its ongoing murder of Jews.

Jewish students have been assaulted. Campus rabbis have told Jewish students to stay home for their safety. The Hamas supporters have been recorded on video threatening Jewish students and shouting antisemitic slurs. The media has continued to cover up what’s happening while insisting that Columbia had “peaceful protesters against genocide” arrested.

Pro-Israel groups and Jewish organizations opposed to antisemitism have focused on the mistreatment of Jewish students.

But this goes well beyond Jews.

“Students walking by the main library, Butler, might have heard “From the river to the sea, Palestine is Arab!” or “There is no god but Allah, and the martyr is Allah’s beloved!” Anyone walking near the gates on Broadway and 116th probably heard them yelling, “Al-Qassam make us proud, kill another soldier now!”

Widespread support for any Islamic terrorist group, even one that isn’t focused on terrorizing a particular minority group in America, whether it’s Jews, Hindus or anyone else, should not be tolerated.

Period.

We learned that lesson the hard way with the Blind Sheikh and the original World Trade Center bombing along with larger plans to target everything from the Statue of Liberty to bridges and tunnels.

There’s no room for enemy agents in America. The terrorists we harbor will eventually turn on us, whether it’s the Egyptian Islamic Jihad (a Muslim Brotherhood splinter group at the heart of Al Qaeda and its various early attacks in America) or other Islamist operations around the world like the one that led to the Manchester concert bombing in the United Kingdom.

Every non-citizen who publicly supports Islamic terrorist groups should be deported.

Every naturalized citizen who publicly supports Islamic terrorist groups should be denaturalized and then deported.

It’s the plain and simple law. No administration has chosen to enforce it, but that needs to change.

A few arrests followed by desk appearance tickets are not going to make the Hamas occupations of the Ivy League go away.

Start deporting the campus terrorists and suddenly the occupations will go away.

Israeli official: As far as Israel is concerned, the offer is for 33 hostages

An Israeli official stressed on Thursday evening that the latest Israeli offer to Hamas is for the release of 33 hostages and not 20 as was reported earlier.

"As far as Israel is concerned, this is about 33 hostages from the categories of women, soldiers, adults, the sick, including mentally disabled, and wounded," the source said.

In addition, as part of the effort to reach a deal, the Cabinet on Thursday authorized the negotiation team to hold talks with the Egyptian delegation that will arrive in Israel on Friday.

According to the outline published on Thursday evening, Israel will not declare the end of the war. Channel 12 News reported that the price for the deal that Israel will pay will be very heavy, but the military censor is not permitting further details to be published at this time.

New Hope Party chairman MK Gideon Sa'ar responded on Thursday evening to reports about the proposed outlines and wrote, "I have to repeat for the hundredth time, there is no chance of a new outline for the release of hostages without using full military power against Hamas. Not as words of arrogance. Not as a threat. But in practice. After a pre-Ramadan break, a Ramadan break and a post-Ramadan break in the war - the time has come for a new one. The goals of the war will not be achieved by begging or by planting illusions."

Turkey attempts to establish a foothold in the Palestinian arena, Arab countries refuse

During the first two months of the Israel-Hamas war, Turkey proposed to several Arab states to develop a security arrangement plan, Kan News’ program “This Morning” reported on Wednesday.

According to the report, an Arab diplomat familiar with the matter told Kan News that Turkey offered to present the plan to the United States and Israel, but some Arab countries, including Egypt, refused.

During the relatively early stages of the war, Arab states refused to entertain the idea of a situation that would involve deploying forces on their behalf in the Gaza Strip, Kan News reported.

“However, recently, there has been a shift in the matter,” the report continues. According to Kan News, some Arab countries “have proposed deploying forces on their behalf,” not just in Gaza but also in the West Bank. The report further states that the proposal from Arab states was presented as part of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. READ MORE

The goal of the campus Jew-haters: To render Israel indefensible, in both senses of the word

This Editor’s Note was sent out earlier Wednesday in ToI’s weekly update email to members of the Times of Israel Community. To receive these Editor’s Notes as they’re released, join the ToI Community here. 

While Jews have been celebrating the first days of Passover, the ancient festival of freedom, antisemites and their useful idiot collaborators on a swelling number of American university campuses have been rallying and issuing murderous threats in a strategic effort to end Jewish freedom, in the here and now, by destroying the world’s only Jewish majority state.

The underlying goal of the encampments and marches at Columbia, Yale, NYU and the other campuses is to render Israel indefensible — in both senses of the word.

The strategy:

First, to misrepresent what Israel has been subjected to and how it has responded since Hamas invaded our country on October 7, slaughtered 1,200 people, abducted 253 hostages, and then hid behind and beneath Gaza’s civilians in a bid to survive and do it all again.

Second, to falsely brand Israel as a brutal and indifferent aggressor, solely responsible for a soaring Gaza death toll that would, in fact, total precisely zero were it not for Hamas’s genocidal ambitions for the Jews and indifference to the lives of Gazan civilians. READ MORE

IDF hits 40 Hezbollah sites; Gallant says group’s south Lebanon command decimated

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Wednesday claimed that the military had killed half of Hezbollah’s commanders in southern Lebanon, as the Israel Defense Forces carried out a large wave of strikes against dozens of sites belonging to the terror group.

“Half of the Hezbollah commanders in south Lebanon have been eliminated… and the other half hide and abandon south Lebanon to IDF operations,” Gallant said, after holding an assessment at the Northern Command headquarters in Safed with the chief of the command, Maj. Gen. Ori Gordin, and other top officers.

He said Israel’s main goal in the north was to return tens of thousands of Israelis displaced by Hezbollah’s daily attacks to their homes.

“We are dealing with a number of alternatives in order to establish this matter, and the coming period will be decisive in this regard,” Gallant said.

As the defense minister toured the Northern Command, the IDF said some 40 Hezbollah targets in the town of Ayta ash-Shab were hit within just several minutes by fighter jets and artillery shelling. WATCH 

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Report: Iran reduced its presence in Syria

Iran has reduced its military footprint in Syria after a succession of strikes blamed on Israel, a source close to Hezbollah and a war monitor said Wednesday, according to the AFP news agency.

Iran has provided military support to Syrian government forces through more than a decade of civil war.

Near the start of the Syrian civil war, it was reported that then-Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had personally sanctioned the dispatch of officers from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards to Syria to fight alongside Assad’s troops.

Ali Akbar Velayati, a top aide to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, made clear several years ago that Iran would withdraw its “military advisers” from Syria and Iraq only if their governments wanted it to.

Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi visited Damascus last year and headed a "high economic-political delegation".

However, the source told AFP on Wednesday that a series of strikes targeting its commanders in recent months has prompted a reshaping of Iran’s presence in Syria.

"Iran withdrew its forces from southern Syria," including both Quneitra and Daraa provinces, which abut the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, the source close to Hezbollah said.

However, Iran still maintains a presence in other parts of the country, the source added.

Recent months have seen a series of strikes on Iranian targets in Syria, widely blamed on Israel, culminating in an April 1 strike that levelled the Iranian consulate in Damascus and killed seven Revolutionary Guards, two of them generals.

That strike prompted Iran to launch its first-ever direct missile and drone attack against Israel on April 13.

According to the source close to Hezbollah, Iran had already begun drawing down its forces after a January 20 strike that killed five Revolutionary Guards in Damascus, including their Syria intelligence chief and his deputy.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based organization affiliated with the Syrian opposition, said Iranian forces had withdrawn from Damascus and southern Syria.

Iran has said repeatedly that it has no combat troops in Syria, only officers to provide military advice and training.

The Observatory, however, says as many as 3,000 Iranian military personnel are present in Syria, supported by tens of thousands of Iranian-trained fighters from countries including Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan.

Hezbollah’s vast subterranean network in Lebanon is in a different league

Nadav Shragai is a veteran Israeli journalist.

In the summer of 2008, a group of Christian Lebanese from the Jezzine area were making their way by car towards the well-known Maronite summer resort town when it was suddenly forced to stop after being fired on at a Hezbollah roadblock.

They failed to understand why they had been detained and were even more astonished when they were sent for comprehensive questioning as to what they were doing in the area where they lived.

It was only in hindsight, after they saw the bulldozers, the heavy drilling equipment, and several Asian-looking individuals, that they suddenly realized that the members of the Shi’ite terrorist organization suspected them of being spies, collecting information on the excavation work being carried out on a whole network of fortifications and tunnels in the vicinity of their own homes. The individuals, it later turned out, were professional tunneling consultants from North Korea.

Similar to what the residents of the Christian village of Rumaysh did two weeks ago, the Christians from the Jezzine area asked Hezbollah not to be involved and to stop the activity there. They were mainly concerned that during a war, the village would become a target for Israeli strikes due to Hezbollah’s use of it. READ MORE

Netanyahu's incoming military secretary: Israel should control Gaza Strip after the war

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's incoming military secretary, Brig. Gen. Roman Gofman recently wrote a document in which he suggested that Israel continue controlling the Gaza Strip and its civilian population after the war, Israel Hayom reported.

According to the report, the document was distributed to all decision-makers in the political echelon and the defense establishment. It was met with a mixture of surprise and anger since Gofman's proposal negates the official stance of the Israeli government and the IDF as was presented to many since October 7th.

The report also stated that the defense establishment assumed at the beginning that Gofman wrote the document in coordination with the Prime Minister's Office or by its request - but he denied this and claimed that he wrote the proposal based on his own opinion.

Gofman is considered to be an officer who is never afraid to say what he thinks. When Gadi Eizenkot was Chief of Staff, he attacked the military brass who, in his opinion, was not aggressive enough and demanded that ground forces act more in battle.

On October 7th, Gofman went out to fight terrorists and was wounded in a confrontation in Shaar Hanegev. After recovering he served for a few months as the head of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories Headquarters, a position he recently left. The IDF had already appointed him to lead the division that deals with battle methods, but Netanyahu chose him as his next military secretary.

The IDF Spokesperson commented on the report: "This was an internal and classified document, which presents the officer's opinion only and does not represent the IDF's official stance."

Hamas official: These are the conditions under which we'll disarm

Khalil al-Hayya, a top Hamas official, on Wednesday told the Associated Press (AP) in Istanbul that the terror group would agree to a ceasefire of five years or more, and agree to lay down its weapons, if an independent Palestinian state were created along the pre-1967 borders.

Al-Hayya has represented Hamas in negotiations for a ceasefire deal and prisoner swap.

In the interview with AP, he said that Hamas wants to join the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) headed by Palestinian Authorty (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas, to form a unified government for Gaza, Judea, and Samaria.

According to al-Hayya, Hamas is willing to accept "a fully sovereign Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and the return of Palestinian refugees in accordance with the international resolutions" along the pre-1967 borders.

Such a state would see central Israel become virtually impossible to defend, leaving Israel vulnerable to a de-facto split into two separate areas which would not be able to communicate with each other.

If Israel agreed to such a scenario, al-Hayya said, Hamas would dissolve its military wing.

Meanwhile, Hamas' political wing still "rejects any alternative to the full liberation of Palestine, from the [Jordan] River to the [Mediterranean] Sea."

Al-Hayya did not tell AP whether such a two-state solution would end Hamas' war against Israel or simply represent an interim step towards the terror group's ultimate goal of destroying the Jewish state.

However, he claimed that Hamas' leadership in Gaza and abroad are in "uninterrupted" contact and that the two groups make decisions together.

He also claimed that Israel has not destroyed "more than 20%" of the terror group's "capabilities, neither human nor in the field." He added, "If they can’t finish [Hamas] off, what is the solution? The solution is to go to consensus."

According to al-Hayya, Hamas is genuinely interested in a prisoner swap deal, and has made concessions regarding the number of convicted terrorists it is demanding released for each Israeli hostage. But he also admitted that Hamas does not know how many hostages are still in Gaza, and how many are still alive.

At the same time, al-Hayya insisted that any prisoner swap include an end to the war: "If we are not assured the war will end, why would I hand over the prisoners?"

He added, "We categorically reject any non-Palestinian presence in Gaza, whether at sea or on land, and we will deal with any military force present in these places, Israeli or otherwise … as an occupying power."

Hamas does not regret the October 7 massacre, however, despite the war which ensued, and denied that Hamas terrorists targeted civilians in the attack on Israel, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

IDF pulls two brigades out of Gaza, completes preparations for Rafah operation

The Nahal brigade combat team carried out five brigade operations in the ​​Shati, Zeyton, Shifa' and Nuzirat areas as well as an operation in the Central Gaza Strip Corridor.

The soldiers, in cooperation with Yahalom Unit and combat engineers located and destroyed over 20 km of terror tunnels in the Corridor area, part of which connected the Gaza Strip from north to south underground.

The Corridor, which separates the north and south of the Gaza Strip, is used by the IDF to carry out targeted raids and ambushes.

"The soldiers allow the passage of humanitarian aid on an ongoing basis," the IDF stressed.

"The division carried out engineering operations in the area, creating logistical and communications infrastructure to allow the soldiers optimal freedom of action." WATCH

Egypt to Israel: Freeze Rafah operation - in exchange for renewing hostage negotiations

Egypt on Wednesday presented to the Israeli delegation in Cairo a demand to completely freeze a military operation in Gaza, in exchange for renewal of the negotiations regarding a prisoner swap deal with Hamas, Al-Hadath reported.

Al-Hadath claimed that "Egypt passed Israel an initiative to freeze its invasion into Rafah in exchange for restarting the negotiations."

Israel's War Cabinet is currently meeting to discuss a possible deal. It is Hamas' last chance: If there is no deal, the Rafah operation will be brutal.

According to the report, Egypt passed Hamas' proposal to the Israeli delegation: a complete ceasefire for a period of one year, in exchange for a cessation of the attacks against Israel.

Egyptian sources told Qatar's Al-Arabi that, "Cairo is speaking with the heads of the Mossad and the Shin Bet, about overcoming the disagreements in negogtiations, in excahnge for freezing the operation in Rafah."

"The Israeli representatives will discuss the Egyptian proposals with the War Cabinet, and will issue a response."

The report also said that "Cairo presented a new offer to renew the hostage deal on the basis of the Paris talks. Egypt is holding intensive negotiations in order to prevent Israel from carrying out a military operation in Rafah."

Ex-Shin Bet official: Israel must strike the core of the Iranian regime

Yossi Amrosi, former senior Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) officer and member of the IDSF security group, spoke recently on 104.5FM radio and referred to the attack targeted at Iran allegedly attributed to Israel.

Amrosi stated, "We have had an enemy who, for 45 years, has been trying to destroy us through the arms of the Iranian octopus, such as Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis, and does so insidiously so as not to affect the Iranian regime. On April 14, the regime erred and deviated from its policy and directly and forcefully attacked Israel. This was not to demonstrate its capabilities or to intimidate us, but to kill as many of us as possible. The calculated attack also took our air defense into account." 

Amrosi continued, "Therefore, I think there was, and maybe still is, a golden opportunity to strike at the head of the snake, and to strike the Iranian core to eradicate the threat for our grandchildren's sake, because this problem will not disappear."

Amrosi encourages IDF to respond to Iran with full force

When asked how to target the core of the regime, he replied: "We should carry out a visible and significant strike on Iran. For example, destroy an oil field and let the black smoke linger for two weeks in the skies of Tehran. Iran will be economically affected and the entire Muslim world will see our strength. Most importantly, so will the Iranian people who oppose the regime.

"On October 7, we needed a more substantial response but should not have started a full-scale war. The Iranians understood that we were capable of hitting a specific target precisely, but in the Arab world, appearances are significant, so even if we were to attack in a more substantial way, we would not elicit another Iranian response." READ MORE

UN nuclear chief: Iran ‘weeks, not months’ from enough uranium to make a bomb

The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog has said that it would take Iran just weeks to have enough enriched uranium to make a nuclear bomb, and that Tehran’s activity, alongside the limited access it grants to its facilities, “raises eyebrows.”

But International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Mariano Grossi told Deutsche Welle in a report published Monday that attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities should be a “no-go.”

Grossi said that Iran is “weeks rather than months” away from having enough enriched uranium to make a nuclear weapon.

“But that does not mean that Iran has or would have a nuclear weapon in that space of time,” he added. “A functional nuclear warhead requires many other things independently from the production of the fissile material.”

Iran’s nuclear goals, he maintained, are “a matter of speculation,” though he criticized the country for its enrichment activity that “raises eyebrows” and its opaque dealings with UN nuclear inspectors, who are not being given the level of access to facilities that he believes they need. READ MORE

Iranian president threatens Israel’s annihilation if major attack occurs

DUBAI — An Israeli attack on Iranian territory could radically change dynamics and result in there being nothing left of the “Zionist regime,” Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi was quoted as saying on Tuesday by the official IRNA news agency.

Raisi began a three day visit to Pakistan on Monday, and has vowed to boost trade between the neighboring nations to $10 billion a year.

The two Muslim neighbors are seeking to mend ties after unprecedented tit-for-tat military strikes this year.

Iran launched a barrage of missiles and drones at Israel on April 13 in what it said was retaliation for Israel’s suspected deadly strike on a consular building in Damascus on April 1, but almost all were shot down.

On Friday, explosions were heard over the Iranian city of Isfahan in an alleged Israeli attack on a missile defense system, but Tehran played down the incident and said it had no plans for retaliation. READ MORE

Gallant: IDF has ‘eliminated’ half of Hezbollah’s south Lebanon commanders, remainder are in hiding

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant says half of Hezbollah’s commanders in southern Lebanon have been killed by the Israeli military.

The remarks are made following a visit to the IDF Northern Command in Safed, where Gallant held an assessment with the chief of the command, Maj. Gen. Ori Gordin, and other top officers.

“Half of the Hezbollah commanders in south Lebanon have been eliminated… and the other half hide and abandon south Lebanon to IDF operations,” Gallant says.

He says Israel’s main goal in the north is to return the tens of thousands of displaced Israelis to their homes, amid Hezbollah’s daily attacks.

“We are dealing with a number of alternatives in order to establish this matter, and the coming period will be decisive in this regard,” Gallant says.

IDF preparing for Rafah operation in the near future

After months of discussions, delays, and international pressure, the IDF is preparing to begin a military operation in Rafah in the near future, Israel Hayom reported.

The decision, which may change in accordance with developments, became final after Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar responded in the negative to a hostage deal proposal.

The Mossad at the time noted that rejection of the proposal, which was put forward by three brokers, "proves that Sinwar is not interested in a humanitarian deal and the return of the hostages, and continues using the tension with Iran to move towards uniting the fronts and a general escalation in the region."

Israel will still coordinate with relevant countries regarding the incursion into Rafah.

The Wall Street Journal noted that Israel's preparations for the ground operation are gaining intensity, and that the evacuation of Rafah's civilian population, which stands at 1.4 million Gazans, will take approximately three weeks, provided Hamas does not prevent the civilians from leaving the area. The operation itself is expected to last for about six weeks.

It is estimated that prior to the operation in Rafah, the IDF will carry out preparations, and then begin evacuating the civilian population. In recent days, the US reported that the Defense Ministry purchased tents for the civilian population evacuated from Rafah.

It is estimated that a substantial number of terrorists have managed to escape to Rafah in recent months, and the IDF has not ruled out intense fighting in the city. However, the four Hamas battalions in Rafah are not Hamas' strongest battalions; the stronger battalions, which have badly suffered in the war with Israel, are based in Gaza City and Khan Yunis.

It is also estimated that some of the hostages were brought to Rafah, and are still there. Though the goal was to bring about the hostages' release through a prisoner swap deal, Sinwar, who is not being pressured by the international community and receives abundant humanitarian aid from Israel, decided to insist on preconditions which are unacceptable to Israel, including the complete cessation of the war.

At the same time, following the ongoing missile attacks from northern Gaza towards southern Israel, the IDF is preparing for a ground incursion into northenr Gaza as well. On Tuesday, the IDF warned Gazans in Beit Lahia to leave their homes.

Watch: Unusually large strike in Lebanon, dozens of targets hit

IDF fighter jets and artillery struck approximately 40 Hezbollah terror targets on Wednesday in the area of Ayta ash Shab in southern Lebanon.

The sites that were struck included storage facilities, weaponry, terror infrastructures, and additional targets used by the Hezbollah terrorist organization in the area.

The IDF noted that the Hezbollah terrorist organization "extensively uses the area of Ayta ash Shab for terrorist purposes and has established dozens of terror means and infrastructures in the area in order to attack Israeli civilians and soldiers within the state of Israel."

Saudi news station al-Hadath reported that the purpose of the strikes was to destroy the Hezbollah tunnels in Ramiyah and Ayta ash Shab.

During the strike, the IDF updated that forces were "currently striking Hezbollah terror targets in southern Lebanon." WATCH

Intelligence sources confirm that Sinwar has left his tunnel

Intelligence sources have confirmed reports that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has left his hiding spot and walked the streets of Gaza, according to the Hostage Families Forum.

The forum added that "his leaving the depths of the tunnels, where the hostages still are, is the picture of Israeli failure, whether it was photographed or not."

The statement comes after a Hamas official told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that Sinwar walked the streets of Gaza. "He is not cut off, rather he does his job as the leader of the movement on the ground."

The official added: "Recently he visited areas where there were battles between the resistance and the occupation forces, and met fighters from the movement above ground and not in the tunnels."

According to the official, whose name was not published, the Israeli reports that Hamas only offered to release 20 hostages are incorrect.

He also claimed that the captive soldiers and officers are "being held in high-security locations, and are very far from the hand of the occupation - it is impossible to reach them under any circumstances."

Nancy Pelosi: Netanyahu is an 'obstacle' to the two-state solution

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu an "obstacle to the two-state solution," insisting that he resign his position.

In an interview with RTÉ's Six One News in Ireland, Pelosi said, "We recognize Israel's right to protect itself. We reject the policy and the practice of Netanyahu. Terrible. What could be worse than what he has done in response?"

She added, "I don't know whether he's afraid of peace, incapable of peace, or just doesn't want peace, but he has been an obstacle to the two-state solution."

Though Pelosi described the October 7 massacre and rapes as cruel brutality, she insisted that "too many" Gazans have died in Israel's attack on the Hamas terror group, which rules Gaza.

She also noted that "The United States has always supported Israel as our friend because it has been in our national security interest to do so."

When asked by RTÉ about the move by some members of the European Union to recognize a "State of Palestine," Pelosi responded, "I don't know what state they would be recognizing - a Hamas-ruling state or the Abbas Palestinian authority?"

“This Will Be the Sleeper Issue of 2024” — THE DEMOCRAT ELECTION STEAL IS IN MOTION: 1.7 Million Mysterious Voter Registrations Recorded in Texas Since 2020

The Democrat election steal machine is in motion.

While Republicans sleep Democrats are already maneuvering for another massive election steal in November 2024.

Either the Republican Party is completely worthless or is in on it. They can’t possibly be this blind and ignorant.

Catherine Engelbrecht from True the Vote released a shocking video on Monday regarding a mysterious surge in Texas voter registrations since the beginning of 2024.

Texas added 1.8 million new registrations before the 2020 election.

Since 2020 Texas has added 1,783,547 names to the voter rolls. That’s an 11 percent increase!

Democrat groups are also spending tens of millions on groups that claim they are “get out the vote” efforts, but are they really?

The Gateway Pundit broke the news last year on how one group, GBI strategies in Michigan, was caught dumping 8,000 to 10,000 ballot registrations into one county in Michigan.

The FBI later took over this investigation where it went to die over three years ago! READ MORE

Biden's Department of Education Goes After Christian Universities

A dust storm of political madness is brewing in Phoenix, Arizona as Grand Canyon University faces the continued threats of Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona. Christians have watched as the Biden administration attacks biblical views left and right, with a particularly vehement disregard of the sanctity of life and marriage. 

As such, it can't be too surprising that Cardona, a part of this leftist administration, has "vowed" to shut down America's largest Christian university.

In late October, GCU was hit with "a $37.7 million fine brought by the federal government over allegations that it lied to students about the cost of its programs," AP News reported -- an accusation GCU President Brian Mueller described as "ridiculous." 

Around the same time, Liberty University, America's second largest Christian university, was also fined $37 million "over alleged underreporting of crimes." GCU appealed its fine in November even though a hearing is not expected until January 2025. But the question Mueller has is one of integrity. Is this genuine consideration for the well-being of students, or is this a targeted attack against religious institutions?

"It's interesting, isn't it, that the two largest Christian universities in the country, this one and Liberty University, are both being fined almost the identical amount at almost the identical time?" the college president speculated in a speech. "Now is there a cause and effect there? I don't know. But it's a fact." READ MORE