The imam Abd Al-Rahman Al-Jamal prays: “Oh Allah, count them all, kill them one by one, and do not spare a single one of them.” In December 2024, an imam in Kansas City prayed: “Annihilate the criminal Zionists, O Allah, count them, kill them one by one.” In late November 2024, a Muslim entered a […]
What the Hostages Have Endured
Although it is clear that all of the Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza have. been subject to savage mistreatment, often chained and held in tunnels for almost their entire captivity, deliberately starved, and regularly beaten by their captors, it is only now, after the release of the three captives, Or Levy, Ohad Ben […]
Syria’s jihadist leader calls Trump’s Gaza plan a ‘crime,’ compares it to Trump’s ‘pushing Mexicans out’
What does anyone suppose might happen if those same Mexicans (second largest Catholic country in the world after Brazil) illegally flooded into Syria? They wouldn’t be just sent back by al-Sharaa. There’s a valid reason why Christians and other minorities are fearful in Syria. From The Independent: Altounian, an Armenian Christian, expresses a concern shared […]
Resettling Gaza
Is it the right thing to do and can it work? Yes it can. After President Trump proposed resettling the Arab Muslim settlers currently living in Gaza, there was an outbreak of furious objections from politicians, activists and media outlets. The objections could be roughly divided into the moral and the practical. The ‘moral’ objection […]
What Do Young Gazans Want?
Hamas has angrily rejected Trump’s proposal to move the Gazans out of the Strip, while what he accurately calls a “demolition site” full of rubble can be cleared away. The Palestinian Authority, with slightly less venom, has done the same. Trump had suggested that the Gazans could be resettled in both Egypt and Jordan, but […]
Hamas rejects Trump’s ultimatum, says ‘language of threats has no value and further complicates matters’
Trump demanded that Hamas release all its Israeli hostages by noon Saturday, or “all bets are off.” Hamas is hedging. Do they want to provoke Trump into an attack, presumably by Israeli forces, so that they can play the victim and the world will once again rain down condemnations on Israel and force it to […]
Historical Precedent and Trump’s Plan for Gaza
President Trump has expressed his hope to improve the lives of the Palestinians in Gaza, once the rubble has been removed and the infrastructure rebuilt, with the money for both that rubble removal and that rebuilding coming from the rich Arab states of the Gulf. He envisions turning the Strip, with its long beachfront of […]
Palestinian Authority claims Israeli hostages look ‘as if they had been in vacation resorts’
And the global “human rights organizations” will nod in agreement. “Palestinian Authority mockery: Israeli hostages were in ‘vacation resorts’; doctors say they’re like ‘concentration camp’ survivors,” by Nan Jacques Zilberdik, Palestinian Media Watch, February 9, 2025: In a grotesque editorial in its official paper, the Palestinian Authority wrote last week that Hamas is releasing the […]
In Gaza, Not Everyone is Rejecting Trump’s Plan
Much of the world has expressed its disapproval, chagrin, astonishment, or anger at Donald Trump’s plan to make life much better for the Palestinian Arabs now rummaging through the rubble in Gaza by providing them with decent housing at several areas outside of Gaza — he suggested sites in both Egypt and Jordan — where […]
Trump Administration Wants to Resettle Gazans in Somalia
I can’t think of anything that would make Rep. Ilhan Omar madder. Big if true, as they say. The Trump administration is considering three potential areas for the absorption of refugee Gazans after President Donald Trump announced that the US plans to take over the Gaza Strip and relocate those currently there to rebuild the […]