Biden’s hostage negotiator admits U.S. pressure on Israel hardened Hamas, stalled hostage deal

Brett McGurk, the man President Biden chose to bring home the hostages Hamas dragged into Gaza on October 7, now admits that American pressure on Israel hardened Hamas and made the hostages harder to free.
One horrible sentence, one lame correction, doesn’t help The New York Times’ long record of anti-Israel bias

The sentence appeared directly after the article had already stated the plain facts: that roughly 1,200 people were killed and about 250 were taken hostage. This means the newspaper had the truth on the page and chose to frame it as a matter of Israeli self-perception rather than settled fact.
Behind “Naza”: Genocide Claims, Hamas, a Whitewashed Terrorist, and a Film No Israeli Has Actually Seen

“Naza” arrived at the Venice Film Festival with a claim large enough to fill a headline: that the IDF has been running a policy of mass civilian killing in Gaza, executed with the help of artificial intelligence and accepted in advance rather than treated as an accident.
The famine that wasn’t: How Gaza’s own numbers exposed a global deception

For nearly two years, the world was told a simple story: Israel was starving Gaza. The United Nations declared famine. The Secretary-General called it a “living hell.”Now the UN’s own data has quietly dismantled the story it built.
Smotrich lays out Israel’s new doctrine: “Whoever attacks us loses land forever”

Israel Finance Minister said that territory, not body counts, is the only thing that actually defeats Israel’s enemies. He also revealed new details of a private meeting with U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff
Hamas terrorists storm UN food warehouse and assault aid workers as ceasefire obligations go unmet

The raid, confirmed by the UN’s own humanitarian coordinator for the region, exposes yet again the reality that Israel has documented since the war began: the terrorist organization ruling Gaza treats humanitarian aid as a resource to be seized, not a lifeline to be protected.
The Church of England almost called Israel “genocidal” and blamed the Jews for October 7, but ran out of time

The Church of England’s General Synod gathered in York this week to vote on a motion that would formally commit the Church to “engage with” a document accusing the Jewish state of genocide, colonialism, and ethnic cleansing.
Hamas says it’s stepping down from Gaza. Nobody’s buying it.

The announcement addresses one of the central conditions of the ceasefire brokered by President Trump in October 2025, yet mounting evidence shows Hamas has no intention of relinquishing actual control over Gaza.
The Gaza flotilla extremists and Iran: What has been missed

The spotlight on the funeral events for Iran’s late leader Ali Khamenei in Tehran has exposed some of the most rabid anti-American and anti-Israel extremists for what they truly are.
Extremism uncovered at American wing of UNRWA

A recent report by a U.S. government agency shows that the UNRWA is compromised by Hamas terrorists who have deeply entrenched themselves within the U.N. entity founded more than 75 years ago. Why didn’t this make prominent headlines in the United States?