Secretary of State Antony Blinken, traveling in the Middle East to build support for the cease-fire proposal, called the response from Hamas to the U.N. resolution a “hopeful sign… but it’s not dispositive,” because it did not originate from the armed-group’s leadership in the Ga...
American evangelicals have solidly supported Israel's response to the Hamas attack since 7 October last year. This is partly because of the Bible. In 2017, a LifeWay poll found that 80% of US evangelical Christians believe that the creation of Israel in 1948 was a...
A senior Egyptian official said mediators Egypt and Qatar are expected to receive a response from Hamas during the Cairo talks scheduled to start Sunday. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not publicly authorized to discuss the sensitive talks. International mediators have be...
The death toll in Gaza, which has been described as the world's largest outdoor prison, continues to rise, 18,200 Palestinians plus 104 Israeli soldiers have been killed since Israel launched its military operation in respon...
US President Joe Biden said in a statement on Monday that the effort to arrest Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant over the war in Gaza was "outrageous", adding "whatever this prosecutor might imply, there is no equivalence ...
“Israel accepted the proposal, as it was and as it is. Hamas didn’t. I think it’s pretty clear what needs to happen, and we’re determined to make, in the coming days, we will work this with urgency and see if the gaps that are workable we can actually work and b...
Netanyahu spoke as Israeli negotiators are in Cairo discussing international efforts to broker a cease-fire deal with the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
ultimately contributed to the events of October 7th. Thunderous calls to Israel for an immediate ceasefire have overshadowed any proportionate international response towards Hamas to release the 239 hostages, many of them small children, women, and elderly, and of the condemnation of Hamas’ massacre...
in support freedom of expression, and against recent police arrests of students on the Columbia University campus, as protests continue inside and outside the university during the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist ...
The Israel-Hamas war is splitting the Democratic donor class. George Krupp, a top contributor to Joe Biden, thinks thatthe conflict could be catastrophicfor the president’s re-election bid [free to read]. The donor, who expects to raise $2.5mn for Biden at a Boston fundraiser that he’s...