Ballistic missiles, broken ceasefires, and Iran’s open hand in the war against Israel
Sunday night, Iran launched ten ballistic missiles at Israel. This was not a strike against Israeli aggression toward Iran. For the first time in this war, Tehran made no attempt to disguise that they were going to war for Hezbollah.
Beaufort, the Tehran Grand Bazaar, and boots on the ground in Lebanon
A twelfth-century Crusader fortress in southern Lebanon teaches a lesson that Washington keeps refusing to learn: ceasefires are not a strategy, and walking away from the battlefield only guarantees the next generation will have to return to it.
Living Between the Ceasefires
In Israel these days, there’s a shorthand in our speech and mannerisms that are just understood and can be discerned quickly, in under five seconds.
The pope’s lie: How a debunked story about a dead child became Vatican anti-Israel propaganda
Pope Leo XIV reached into his pocket and pulled out a photograph and told journalists that it was a picture of a Muslim Lebanese boy who had been killed in this final phase of the war. The problem is, the boy in the photograph is alive.
IDF soldiers jailed, dismissed from combat after smashing Jesus statue in Lebanese Christian village
The IDF was unequivocal in its judgment: the soldiers’ conduct “completely deviated from IDF orders and values.”
US-brokered Israel-Lebanon talks: “We’re on the same side against Hezbollah”
The meeting between Israel’s Ambassador to the US and Lebanon’s Ambassador was framed by both sides not as a negotiation between enemies seeking recognition, but as a coordinated effort to confront a shared destabilizing force that has dominated the Israel-Lebanon border for decades.
Miracle mixed in with tragedy: four members of one family murdered in Haifa in IRGC missile attack
Officials said the warhead, which carried hundreds of kilograms of explosives, did not detonate on impact, a fact that prevented far greater destruction and likely saved dozens of additional lives, even as the kinetic force alone proved deadly.
NPR flew to Lebanon to interview a synagogue terrorist’s family and never once called the synagogue
NPR is publicly funded. American taxpayers, including American Jews, pay for it. The children who fled that Michigan preschool in terror deserved to have their story told. Their parents deserved to be asked how they felt.
Israel strikes Iran as fighting intensifies in Lebanon, resilience tested at home
Israel intensifies coordinated strikes against Iran while expanding operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon, even as a deadly battlefield mistake claims the life of an elite soldier. At home, civilians in the north press on under relentless rocket fire, determined to endure despite the constant threat.
Hezbollah launches 150 rockets at Israel in largest attack to date in escalation linked to Iran
Waves of rockets and drones launched from Lebanon sent hundreds of thousands of Israelis in the Golan, Galilee, and the Haifa region running to bomb shelters while Israeli air defenses scrambled to intercept the incoming fire.