Captagon several years ago became a favorite drug of Hezbollah traffickers, rivaling heroin and cocaine in profitability. The Washington Post explored Hezbollah’s drug trade back in 2020: “Hezbollah operatives seen behind spike in drug trafficking, analysts say,” by Joby Warrick and Souad Mekhennet, Washington Post, August 4, 2020: Among the varieties of drugs associated with […]
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Hezbollah, The Drug Trafficking Criminal Organization
Hezbollah is not only a terror group. It is also a criminal enterprise, and one of the world’s biggest drug dealers. It’s a worthy rival to, and occasional partner with, the Sicilian Cosa Nostra, the Neapolitan Camorra, and the Calabrian Ndrangheta. It may even have ties of mutual convenience to the Russian Bratva. Heroin, cocaine, […]
A Short Course for Keir Starmer on Israel and the Mandate for Palestine
Here’s the promised first installment of that short course for Keir Starmer on Israel and the Mandate for Palestine. When the Ottoman Empire collapsed after World War I, the League of Nations proposed to deal with some of its former territories by creating a system of mandates. The European holder of a Mandate was responsible […]
Macron Shocks French Jews
French President Emmanuel Macron has shocked French Jews with his willingness to collaborate with the pro-Hamas and antisemitic hard-left party, La France Insoumise. When Macron’s party, Renaissance lost seats in the European Parliament on June 7, he decided to call a snap election for the French Parliament, gambling that his party would have a better […]
NPR Interviews Member of Palestinian American Medical Association Without Identifying Him As Such
On June 23, NPR carried an interview with Dr. Adam Hamawy, a member of the Palestinian American Medical Association, but did not identify him as a member of that association. Such identification at the very beginning of the interview might have caused a little more wariness on the part of listeners. So if you did […]
Dr. Adam Hamawy of the Palestinian American Medical Association Appears on NPR
Dr. Adam Hamawy is a member of the Palestinian American Medical Association, and a plastic surgeon who on May 1 began working in Gaza at the European Hospital. After six weeks, he has recently returned home. The European Hospital has the greatest number of foreign doctors working – some intermittently —on its staff of any […]
Israeli October 7 victims sue UNRWA for ‘playing key role’ in October 7 attacks
“The work of UNRWA could not be carried out without sustained contributions from state and regional governments, the European Union and other government partners, which represented 93 per cent of all contributions in 2023.” Top contributors: US, Canada, France, Germany, EU, UK, Sweden, Netherlands, Norway and Japan. In 2023, 42 per cent of the Agency’s […]
A Call for Emergency Mobilization in Israel
Israel is now fighting a multi-front war, with Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, Palestinian terrorists in Judea and Samaria, Israeli Arabs opposed to the Jewish state, Muslim Brotherhood members and ISIS remnants in the Sinai, and the sinister state that supports, supplies, and directs Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis — […]
U.S. National Conservatism Conference Invites Muslim Apologist Who Equates Zionism with Jihadism to Speak
Link to pdf version: Ed Husain – National Conservatism Conference Washington 2024 Ed Husain is a former jihadist member of the Islamic Caliphate revival organization Hizb ut Tahrir , founded by the Al-Azhar University educated Palestinian Muslim sharia judge, Taqiuddin al-Nabhani. Husain disavowed Hizb ut Tahrir, “de-radicalized,” chronicled his experience, and then created the “anti-Islamist extremism” British organization, The Quilliam Society. Perhaps […]
UN Committee: No Evidence of Famine In Gaza
The monstrous regiment of anti-Israel campaigners have been accusing Israel of deliberately withholding food aid so that a “famine” is taking place in Gaza. In fact, more aid trucks laden with food have been entering Gaza today than went into the Strip before October 7. And as several academic studies have concluded, there is no […]