Will the America First movement abandon Israel?

Charlie Kirk was worried. Privately, in conversations and in a letter he sent to Prime Minister Netanyahu roughly five months before he was killed, Kirk outlined what he saw coming: a younger generation of America First conservatives being systematically turned against Israel, and Israel doing almost nothing to stop it.
An Indiana tragedy. A mission that reached Gaza.

Six years ago, Scott Dodson stood in a hospital and said goodbye to his brother, who tragically bled out on the side of an Indiana road after a head-on collision with a truck. First responders resuscitated him three and four times just to keep him alive long enough for the family to get there. It was the last time Dodson would see him.
Texas Democrat calls to imprison and castrate “Zionists”

Galindo, a former sex therapist running in Texas’s 35th Congressional District around San Antonio, posted on Instagram last week that if elected, she would “turn Karnes ICE Detention Center into a prison for American Zionists and former ICE officers.
Israel’s finance minister has a plan to kill the two-state solution. For good.

Thirty-three years after the Oslo Accords were signed, Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has a message for the world: it’s over. The framework is dead. And Israel has roughly two years to make that permanent.
Why did God give the Bible to idol worshippers?

I’ve spent the last two years thinking and writing about this question, and I’ve come to believe it is directly connected to the greatest crisis facing the American Jews today. That crisis, and the answer to this ancient question, are the subject of my new book, Countdown: American Jews and God’s Plan for Redemption, published this week.
What the ancient Jews put on their doorposts

The entrance to a home is not just a threshold. It’s a declaration. It tells the world who lives there, what they believe, and whose they are. God understood that long before we did.
Returning lost tribe of Ephraim: Sanhedrin meets Pashtun man from Afghanistan

A man from Afghanistan walked into a meeting with the Sanhedrin in Jerusalem this week and introduced himself as a son of Yusuf, son of Yaakov, of the nation of Bani Israel. He is from the tribe of Ephraim. And he just may be the beginning of the return of millions of Pashtun as the prophesied return of the lost tribes of Israel.
Nearly 80% of Gazans want out. The numbers were rising long before the war.

A new survey from tells a story that Hamas does not want told: nearly 80% of Gazans surveyed expressed interest in emigrating from the Gaza Strip. It shows an overwhelming portion of Gaza’s civilian population is focused not on resistance, not on a Palestinian state, but on leaving.
Iran’s parliament votes to put a price on Trump’s head, and it’s not the first time

Iran is institutionalizing assassination as state policy, funding it with public money, and clothing it in the language of jihad, holy war. It has effectively declared war on the sitting president of the United States and the prime minister of Israel.
Dimming the sun: Israeli startup aims to block sunlight, echoing Joel’s prophecy

The prophet Joel did not frame a darkened sun as a technological achievement, but, rather, as an end-of-days warning from God.