<p style="font-weight: 400;">Roughly 200 celebrities, including Sting, Paul Simon, Richard Branson, Margaret Atwood, Mark Ruffalo, and Ian McKellen, issued an open letter for Israel to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/03/leading-cultural-figures-call-for-release-jailed-palestinian-leader-marwan-barghouti">release</a> the convicted murderer and terrorist Marwan Barghouti, who reportedly served as the leader and commander of the Al-Aqsa Brigades that murdered over 1,000 Israelis during the Second Intifada.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">The statement reads: “We express our grave concern at the continuing imprisonment of Marwan Barghouti, his violent mistreatment and denial of legal rights whilst imprisoned. We call upon the United Nations and the governments of the world to actively seek the release of Marwan Barghouti from Israeli prison.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Barghouti, 66, was convicted on five counts of murder and sentenced to life in prison in 2004. Barghouti was found responsible for a June 2001 attack in which a Greek monk was murdered, a January 2002 terror attack on a gas station, a March 2002 attack at Tel Aviv’s Seafood Market restaurant, where three people were murdered, and a car bomb attack in Jerusalem.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">In 2017, The New York Times was harshly criticized by many people, including Yair Lapid, former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren, and former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro, for publishing an op-ed by Barghouti while failing to inform readers that he had been convicted of five counts of murder and was implicated in four other terror attacks.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“He was the leader of the second intifada<em> </em>before his arrest in 2002,” Jamestown <a href="https://jamestown.org/marwan-barghouti-will-palestinian-prisoner-pursue-an-agreement-with-israel/">reported</a> of Barghouti.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Israeli Brigadier-General Yossi Kuperwasser <a href="https://jcfa.org/who-is-marwan-barghouti/">wrote</a>:</p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;"><em>Barghouti was the leader and commander of the Al-Aqsa Brigades, the key terror component of Fatah that carried out many terror attacks throughout the Second Intifada. He was also the leader of the umbrella organization of the Islamic and national forces, which oversaw the entire range of terror activity during those years, and served as coordinator between the different organizations. &#8230; Documents captured by the IDF in “Operation Defensive Shield” (April 2002) shed light on Barghouti’s involvement in commanding the terror efforts under Arafat. In those documents, Barghouti asks Arafat to authorize payments to several lists of Fatah terrorists, while he himself was approached by local commanders who asked him to authorize payments to terrorists from their units.</em></p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">According to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070703195937/http://212.150.54.123/casualties_project/stats_page.cfm">data</a>, during the Second Intifada, 764 of the 1,010 Israelis murdered in attacks from September 2000 – 2005 were civilians.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Just between May 2001 and May 2002, prior to the bombing at Hebrew University, there were these massacres: five Israelis murdered by a suicide bomber at the HaSharon Mall in May 2001; 21 Israelis murdered by a suicide bomber at the Dolphinarium Discotheque in June 2001; 15 Israelis murdered by a suicide bomber at Sbarro’s Pizza in August 2001, including six children and a 31-year-old woman who was the only child of her parents and was five months pregnant; 11 Israelis murdered in a bus bombing on Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem on December 1, 2001; 15 more Israelis murdered the very next day in a Haifa suicide bombing; 11 more Israelis murdered in a bus attack 10 days later in Immanuel; six Israelis murdered in an attack at a bat-mitzvah in January 2002; 11 more Jews killed in an attack on a yeshiva in March 2002, including a five-month-old child; 11 Jews murdered in a bombing at Café Moment in March 2002; 30 Israelis killed as they celebrated Passover in Netanya on March 27, 2002; 16 Israelis murdered in a suicide bombing four days later at the Matza restaurant, and 16 Israelis murdered in Rishon LeZion in May 2002.</p>


MIDEAST-PALESTINIAN-REFUGEES

200 Celebrities Call For Release Of Palestinian Terror Chief Who Helped Lead Second Intifada

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<p><i>The first time I met Cory Pesaturo, he had just hijacked the stage at a wedding in Boston with an accordion strapped to his chest. Little did I know he would do the impossible: make me a fan of the accordion.</i></p>
<p><i>Cory is — and I’m not exaggerating — the world’s best accordion player. He’s won the accordion World Championship three times. He holds the Guinness World Record for playing the accordion for the longest continuous time. He brings his accordion with him </i><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DPY132wkTkt/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i>everywhere</i></a><i>, and can play just about anything, including the </i><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CknQsS8uqcW/?hl=en&amp;img_index=4" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i>accordion tracks</i></a><i> in the feature film “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.”</i></p>
<p><i>Most recently, he took his talents to Saudi Arabia, which is now </i><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-officially-designates-saudi-arabia-a-major-ally-of-united-states?author=Tim+Pearce&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Officially+Designates+Saudi+Arabia+A+%E2%80%98Major%E2%80%99+Ally+Of+United+States" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i>officially</i></a><i> a “major ally” of the United States. The Saudi Arabia he presents is much different from the Saudi Arabia most Americans probably imagine. — Brent Scher</i></p>
<p><b>***</b></p>
<p>Earlier this month, I arrived in Saudi Arabia for my second visit to a country which has always seemed like a forbidden land to the West. I’d been invited again as a guest star to play accordion in the “Riyadh Season” concert series — this time with Egypt’s biggest singing sensation, Angham.</p>
<p>What struck me, on both trips, was how aggressively the Saudis are betting on capitalism.</p>
<p>Everywhere you go, the top Western brands are visible: Dunkin’ Donuts, Texas Roadhouse, Bath &amp; Body Works, Chuck E. Cheese, and yes, Randy’s Donuts, with the giant donut on the roof are there for you in Riyadh. There is even a Disney castle and theme park.</p>
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<p>On every corner there seem to be concerts, tourist attractions, and massive development projects. The music you hear playing through the speakers of high-end locations? Jazz, Lady Gaga, or Burt Bacharach. The style of filming for major concerts?  Straight out of CBS’s Grammys playbook.</p>
<p>Could a country truly hate America if this is what I was seeing?</p>
<p>When I first traveled to Saudi Arabia two years ago, I didn’t even tell my father. You can’t lie to an Italian mother, of course, but my father? If he had known I was flying to a country he associated with the worst terror attack in American history, he would have tied me to my bed. Many of my friends felt the same, judging by their reactions when I returned: “Saudi Arabia? Are you insane? Are you trying to get arrested or killed?”</p>
<p>But over the past decade, the Kingdom, under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, has charted a different course. One built on peace, prosperity, and a surprisingly familiar engine: Western-style capitalism.</p>
<p>It is true that in Saudi Arabia, you have no real rights against the state — no First Amendment protections, no guarantee of a fair trial, a mandatory dress code, and laws that make smoking pot or ordering a margarita about as plausible as Cardi B performing Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto on the accordion — a stunt I once pulled to win a national title.</p>
<p>Yet, regardless of this different universe of ideas from the United States, I wasn’t afraid.</p>
<p>The free market being unleashed in Saudi Arabia, even if still in a more state-run manner, is the greatest modern example of how a country thought to be an untrustworthy foe can turn into an important ally.</p>
<p>What struck me most, though, was that while I was in Saudi Arabia, a Muslim socialist won the mayor’s seat in the financial capital of the world, New York City. Three different Saudis during the trip (including a Syrian security worker at the venue who had fled Bashar al-Assad&#8217;s regime) asked me some version of the same question: “What on earth are you Americans doing electing Mamdani? He’s crazy.” This, again, from inside the very center of Islam. And even they aren’t at all sold on the politics that Zohran Mamdani represents.</p>
<p>My insight is anecdotal, but the friendships I’ve formed in Saudi Arabia reveal a people not so different from my own friends back home. They want peace. They want prosperity. They want their families to be happy. They want to travel. They want to have fun.</p>
<p>I asked them everything — about Israel, Islamic extremism, terrorism, drinking, drugs, dating, hating their boss, weekend plans, and which video games keep them up until 4:00 a.m.</p>
<p>Watching a group of young men in Riyadh blast pop music at 1:30 a.m. as they inched through a Dunkin’ Donuts drive-through, talking about girls and killing time, looked the same as you’d see in America. Different faiths, different cultures, same very human scene.</p>
<p>A handful of companies profit from global conflict. But 99.9% of businesses in a free-market economy — from Nike and Coca-Cola to Apple and Tesla — depend on global stability and rising disposable income. Peace is profitable.</p>
<p>In just a decade, Saudi Arabia has gone from a place many Americans fear to visit to a place I can’t recommend enough to go see. If that’s the result of “greedy capitalism,” then count me in.</p>
<p><i>Cory Pesaturo is a three-time World Champion accordionist and Guinness World Record holder who has performed on six continents and at the White House four times. In addition to giving five TEDx Talks, he is also active in the motorsports world, bringing his signature blend of innovation and artistry to audiences around the globe.</i></p>
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President Trump Makes First Middle East Trip Of His Second Term

Is Saudi Arabian Capitalism Bringing Peace To The Middle East?

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<p style="font-weight: 400;">New York City’s Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has apparently discovered a new doctrine in municipal leadership: when a mob <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pro-palestinian-protesters-block-manhattan-synagogue-hurl-threats-anti-jewish-slurs?author=Hank+Berrien&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Pro-Palestinian+Protesters+Block+Manhattan+Synagogue%2C+Hurl+Threats%2C+Anti-Jewish+Slurs">surrounds a synagogue</a>, blocks Jews from entering, screams “Death to the IDF,” “Globalize the Intifada,” and unloads every antisemitic slur in the book — the real issue isn’t the mob. No, according to Mamdani, the real problem is the synagogue’s “violation of international law.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;" data-start="663" data-end="725">Welcome to the Mamdani School of Moral Inversion.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;" data-start="727" data-end="1126">Park East Synagogue — led by 95-year-old Holocaust survivor Rabbi Arthur Schneier — hosted a perfectly legal informational event run by Nefesh B’Nefesh, which helps Jews immigrate to Israel. For this crime, a mob of pro-Palestinian activists declared themselves judge, jury, and street-corner executioners, braying about intifada while hurling obscenities at Jews trying to enter a house of worship.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;" data-start="1128" data-end="1433">But Mamdani’s press secretary issued <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2025/11/mamdani-park-east-synagogue-protest/?utm">this statement</a> from the mayor-elect: “The Mayor-elect has discouraged the language used at last night’s protest and will continue to do so. He believes every New Yorker should be free to enter a house of worship without intimidation, and that these sacred spaces should not be used to promote activities in violation of international law.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">When pressed, his office explained that the “international law” being violated is — wait for it — helping Jews move to Israel, which they said amounts to promoting “settlement activity beyond the Green Line.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;" data-start="1794" data-end="2095">So a 95-year-old Holocaust survivor hosts an informational evening, a mob surrounds his synagogue screaming for intifada, and Mamdani’s instinct is not to condemn the mob but to reach for his imaginary pocket Constitution of the International Criminal Court and imply that the synagogue had it coming.</p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;" data-start="2097" data-end="2444">This is moral absurdity dressed up in pseudo-legal jargon. Mamdani has somehow weaponized “international law” as a rhetorical air freshener to cover the stench of refusing to forthrightly condemn a crowd that literally blocked Jews from a synagogue while shouting violent slogans.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">But hey, he “discourages” the language.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;" data-start="2446" data-end="2706">Meanwhile, real leaders had no trouble saying what anyone with functional eyesight saw. Mayor Eric Adams called the mob “sick and warped.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Mamdani’s response signals exactly what New Yorkers can expect: when antisemitism erupts, he’ll open his international law textbook, clear his throat, and explain why the Jews need to examine their role in being targeted.</p>


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A Mob Targets Jews — And Mamdani Targets The Synagogue

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<p style="font-weight: 400;">Iran is confronting an escalating environmental crisis so severe that President Masoud Pezeshkian has announced the country must <a href="https://www.iranintl.com/en/202511209098">move its capital,</a> declaring that the regime “no longer has a choice.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Tehran, once the political and demographic heart of Iran, is now overwhelmed by water depletion, collapsing land, and infrastructural strain. Pezeshkian warned that parts of the capital are sinking by up to 30 centimeters a year, calling it a “catastrophe” driven by decades of mismanagement, overbuilding in upstream regions, and disrupted downstream flows. With water resources no longer matching demand, he argued that continued population or construction growth in Tehran is impossible and that remaining in place means “signing our own destruction.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">The Iranian regime is studying relocation to the Makran coast, despite the area’s underdevelopment, security concerns, and financial burden — costs so immense that previous efforts since the 1979 revolution have repeatedly stalled. Nevertheless, Pezeshkian said Iran has reached the point where relocation has become “an obligation.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;" data-start="1193" data-end="1962">This dramatic moment stands in stark contrast to Israel’s successful campaign to overcome its own longstanding water scarcity, transforming from a drought-prone nation into a global leader in water security. Israel built a national system anchored in large-scale reverse-osmosis desalination plants, which now provide most of the country’s drinking water. The country also recycles nearly 90% of its wastewater — the highest rate in the world —largely supporting agriculture and preserving natural freshwater sources. Israeli-developed drip irrigation technology allows precise water delivery and enables high crop yields even in arid zones, while a centralized national water grid efficiently moves water to where it is needed, stabilizing supplies in dry years.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;" data-start="1964" data-end="2447">Israel’s technological capabilities were on full display in 2025, when it launched an <a href="https://x.com/InbarCohen13/status/1990408176290701356">unprecedented project</a> to pump desalinated Mediterranean seawater into the Sea of Galilee, restoring the stressed lake’s water levels and even reviving dried-out streams such as the Tsalmon. This initiative not only protects one of Israel’s most important freshwater reservoirs but also illustrates the country’s ability to reverse ecological decline through engineering and long-term planning.</p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;" data-start="2449" data-end="3263">Against this backdrop, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last July extended an extraordinary public offer directly to the Iranian people. Citing Iran’s severe drought — affecting 96% of the country — and warnings that up to 50 million Iranians could ultimately be displaced, Netanyahu said Iranians were victims of a regime that had squandered and mismanaged vital resources. He highlighted Israel’s breakthroughs in desalination, wastewater recycling, and agricultural efficiency, offering to share these methods by launching a Farsi-language website that would teach Iranians how to recycle water and preserve crops. Netanyahu framed the offer as humanitarian rather than political: “The Iranian regime shouts ‘Death to Israel.’ In response, Israel shouts, ‘Life to the Iranian people.’”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Islamic Republic 🇮🇷 has led Iran to the worst water shortage crisis in its history.</p>
<p>As prime minister <a href="https://twitter.com/netanyahu?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@netanyahu</a> said, Israel 🇮🇱 is one of the world leaders in water desalination, and is willing to share its technology for the benefit of Iranians 👇 <a href="https://t.co/6R5pX5N4e9">pic.twitter.com/6R5pX5N4e9</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrEliDavid/status/1949224206849495442?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 26, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;" data-start="3265" data-end="3538" data-is-last-node="" data-is-only-node="">As Iran contemplates relocating its capital to escape a deepening ecological disaster, Israel demonstrates how strategic planning, innovation, and responsible governance can transform water scarcity into long-term resilience — and even offer help to a nation in crisis.</p>


Rain prayer held in Tehran, which has suffered its worst drought in 60 years

Iranian Regime Faces Water-Driven Capital Relocation As Israel Showcases Water-Conquering Innovation

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<p>CNN data guru Harry Enten said on Wednesday that President Donald Trump was blowing his competition out of the water — both Republicans and Democrats — when it came to his approval rating with regard to foreign policy.</p>
<p>Enten spoke with CNN anchor John Berman about the latest numbers, which show Trump, nearly ten months into his second term, has a 43% approval rating on his foreign policy positions. Berman asked for context, wondering how Trump stacked up against past presidents in their respective second terms.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Trump&#8217;s foreign approval rating is up like a rocket compared to term 1.</p>
<p>He has the highest foreign policy approval rating at this point in his term 2 of any 21st century president.</p>
<p>Big reason why: Israel-Hamas conflict. E.g. His net approval is 40 pts higher than Biden&#8217;s was. <a href="https://t.co/8rzNjCphEJ">pic.twitter.com/8rzNjCphEJ</a></p>
<p>— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) <a href="https://twitter.com/ForecasterEnten/status/1991165239224656200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8220;This is one of the areas in which Donald Trump is performing significantly better than he was in term one,&#8221; Enten explained, noting that during his first term in the White House, Trump&#8217;s approval rating on foreign policy had been significantly lower at 35%. &#8220;Up like a rocket, we&#8217;re talking about 43% now, that&#8217;s an eight-point rise. On the net approval rating, that&#8217;s a double-digit rise.&#8221;</p>
<p>Berman noted that it was almost expected for presidents in their second terms to pivot to foreign policy and do whatever they can to cement their legacies before leaving office — and he asked Enten how Trump stacked up in that regard.</p>
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<p>Enten showed a graphic comparing Trump to the two other 21st-century presidents who served two terms — George W. Bush and Barack Obama — who had foreign policy approval ratings of 36% and 37% respectively, at the same point in their second terms.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is something I think Donald Trump really likes to look at because the bottom line is this presidents like to build their legacies off of foreign policy, and at this particular point the American people like much more of what Donald Trump’s doing on foreign policy than either of the two other twenty-first century presidents who serve at least — or served two terms,&#8221; Enten explained.</p>
<p>Berman asked whether Trump&#8217;s high marks on that particular issue had anything to do with how he&#8217;d responded to the war between Israel and the Hamas terrorists controlling Gaza, and Enten said it had likely been a major factor.</p>
<p>&#8220;The American people liked what Trump was able to do between the Israelis and Hamas,&#8221; he said — and pointed to Trump&#8217;s net approval on the Israel-Hamas conflict (+3) compared to former President Joe Biden&#8217;s (-37). &#8220;Joe Biden was 37 points below water by the end of his presidency.&#8221;</p>


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Trump Just Beat The Last Three Presidents On One Key Issue

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<p>WASHINGTON—Alexis Wilkins is a conservative country music artist whose boyfriend, Kash Patel, is the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. When the two began dating three years ago, they became a kind of conservative celebrity couple. But Wilkins never imagined that she would soon star in the internet&#8217;s pet conspiracy theory — one that would drown her and her family in a deluge of threats.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;I&#8217;ve been in the political sphere for a second,&#8221; she explained in a phone interview with The Daily Wire. &#8220;You get crazy things from the left, you&#8217;re kind of used to it if you&#8217;re speaking up about things that you believe in or talking positively about America. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">I kind of thought that [direction] would be where this would continue, just maybe more dramatic, but what&#8217;s happened is&#8230;the internet has just become a place where you can just say whatever you want and affect people&#8217;s lives, and it really reverberates.</span></p>
<p>Internet users and commentators have accused 27-year-old Wilkins of being an Israeli spy, a &#8220;honeypot&#8221; Mossad agent, assigned to manipulate her 45-year-old boyfriend as he leads the FBI. Wilkins, who is Christian, has repeatedly denied the claims, which she calls absurd.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;There&#8217;s security issues, there&#8217;s safety issues, the death threats are graphic, and, there are a lot of them,&#8221; she added. &#8220;You have to think about your house getting swatted, you deal with stuff where people are trying to harm you. T</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">hat is the intent, and that&#8217;s been very real, very quickly for me in the last couple of months.&#8221; </span></p>
<p>Their relationship, ages, and personal lives have been scrutinized publicly, as has Patel&#8217;s use of the FBI director&#8217;s plane for personal trips to see Wilkins (as FBI director, Patel cannot fly commercial and must use the plane for legitimate and needed purposes, but his <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/kash-patel-jet-tracker-fbi-director-alexis-wilkins-10980941">recent trip to Nashville</a> drew heavy criticism).</p>
<p>A source close to the couple told The Daily Wire that Patel &#8220;knew Alexis was the one as soon as he met her,&#8221; and that she recently moved in with him in Washington, D.C., but spends time in Nashville with her family. They will likely be engaged and married soon, that source shared.</p>
<p>In the meantime, the country music artist is grappling with the consequences of viral internet rumors.</p>
<p>An FBI spokesperson confirmed to The Daily Wire that Wilkins has received &#8220;hundreds of credible threats.&#8221; Wilkins now has a security detail, that spokesperson confirmed, based on security assessments of credible threats conducted due to her connection with Patel.</p>
<p>One concern, based on some of the threats, is that Wilkins might be kidnapped.</p>
<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s not getting threatened to be kidnapped by cartels because they think she&#8217;s cute,&#8221; a source close to Wilkins shared. &#8220;It&#8217;s because she&#8217;s a good hostage candidate.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Wilkins receives threatening messages almost daily on social media. The Daily Wire reviewed a number of these messages and posts, showing individuals fantasizing about killing her, graphically describing acts of sexual violence, promising to kill her within specific time frames, posting her address, phone number, and those of Patel and her parents online, and more.</p>
<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t feel very comfortable going in public,&#8221; she shared, asked how this affects her daily life. &#8220;I don&#8217;t leave my house a lot.&#8221;</p>
<p>Less explicit but still threatening rhetoric is also publicly visible on Wilkins&#8217; social media posts as well. For example, one commenter posted on an Instagram post of Wilkins and Patel at his swearing in: &#8220;I hope these two don&#8217;t plan on going out in public. Or having a public speaking event in an amphitheater.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;People know what to say,&#8221; she said, discussing the messages she shared with The Daily Wire. &#8220;These are not just hyperbolic threats, these are credible threats that [mention] things about you going in public together, things about you doing a public speaking engagement, things about you doing a concert outside&#8230;They want you to stop living your life. They want you to be afraid.&#8221;</p>
<p>About two weeks ago, Wilkins shared, her parents&#8217; home was swatted. This means that someone called in a false emergency at their home with the goal of prompting a massive law enforcement response. Swatting is particularly dangerous since victims may find themselves in violent or dangerous situations, depending how they respond to the law enforcement presence, since a SWAT team <a href="https://www.thefederalcriminalattorneys.com/swatting-crime">might be responding to what has been described</a> to them as an imminent threat, a bomb situation, or domestic violence.</p>
<p>Wilkins and her family now have to talk through security protocols that have never occurred to them, planning out how to respond when, for example, someone calls the house demanding to know if Wilkins herself is present — a sign that a swatting may be imminent.</p>
<p>&#8220;Swatting doesn&#8217;t only affect your house, you have to realize that people are also looking for your family, especially when it&#8217;s an allegation that is so untrue&#8230;you&#8217;re getting called a spy, so people are digging into your history, people are trying to find your parents, people are calling people that you&#8217;ve known,&#8221; Wilkins said. &#8220;Colleagues of mine have received calls asking for information about my family, some of them unaware of how to respond and will give a name or give my mom&#8217;s maiden name or give things that are helpful in order to find us.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;So it hasn&#8217;t just been me,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It&#8217;s been my family as well.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Wilkins has continued to attend speaking or singing engagements with organizations like Turning Point USA and the Young America&#8217;s Foundation. She is suing a number of political influencers and commentators for suggesting she is an agent of Israeli intelligence. And she says she is determined not to cower but to stand up for herself, arguing that &#8220;bullies respond to strength.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m so happy to support the person that I love, but I&#8217;m not the director of the FBI,&#8221; Wilkins said. &#8220;I&#8217;m here to support, and my parents are also&#8230;but ultimately, this is not something that they signed up for, and I think people forget that when they&#8217;re digging for what they think is the truth, they&#8217;re doing it in a way that is not helpful, and it&#8217;s very dangerous.&#8221;</p>
<p>Reflecting on the death of Charlie Kirk, who she knew through her work with TPUSA — at whose events she often sings the national anthem — Wilkins pointed out how massively important Kirk&#8217;s faith was to him, and how he talked about how he wanted to be remembered for his faith.</p>
<p>She is very proud of her own Christian faith. Yet now, she is &#8220;being called something that I&#8217;m not, a spy for another country, essentially accusing me of treason, which is horrific enough, but I&#8217;m a Christian.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I grew up Armenian. My family&#8217;s Armenian,&#8221; she explained. &#8220;I grew up Christian and I&#8217;m very proud of that.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;His legacy of his faith and the things that he represented, I think that it obviously is a huge void that we all feel now, because of who he was personally and who he was in the movement,&#8221; she reflected, sharing how the day after Kirk&#8217;s assassination, she had to come to terms with the fact that Patel would be speaking at an outdoor event, and she could do nothing but wait to hear that he was ok.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s that horrible feeling,&#8221; she said. &#8220;How radicalized do people become? Is this a chain of events? There&#8217;s no way to make yourself feel better about it.&#8221;</p>
<p>She has considered ignoring much of the criticism and threats. But, she says, she wants to be a &#8220;role model for people who are being attacked, for even just their views, no matter what side they are on.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I think that everyone should have the right to say what they want to say,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I love the Constitution. I love the First Amendment in this country.&#8221;</p>
<p>And asked what she would tell the internet folk who are posting about her, she responded: &#8220;If it feels fun behind your keyboard to hate someone, your heart is probably in the wrong place and you also probably have some details wrong.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Before you run with what sounds like the most fun, horrifying and cliquey conspiracy theory, there&#8217;s probably a more common sense result, a more common sense answer.&#8221;</p>


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Kash Patel’s Girlfriend Alexis Wilkins Details Violent Threats Spurred By Internet Theories

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<p style="font-weight: 400;">Reem Alsalem, the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, was harshly criticized after posting a statement on X that implied no one from Hamas raped any women on October 7, 2023, during their barbaric massacre against the Israeli people.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Alsalem was born in Cairo, Egypt, but now identifies as Jordanian.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“No Palestinian applauded rape in Gaza. No independent investigation found that rape took place on the 7th of October,” she stated.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">No Palestinian applauded rape in Gaza. No independent investigation found that rape took place on the 7th of October.</p>
<p>&mdash; Reem Alsalem UNSR Violence Against Women and Girls (@UNSRVAW) <a href="https://twitter.com/UNSRVAW/status/1989315118358745148?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 14, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, fired back:</p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;"><em>Any UN representative who denies Hamas rape must be removed from their post. Period. It is a stain on the UN’s reputation that Reem Alsalem, the Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls, denies the sexual violence that took place on October 7. This is a moral disgrace, an insult to the victims and their families, and a violation of every basic international standard. Israel will not allow Hamas&#8217; horrific crimes to be whitewashed. Antonio Guterres, your silence is complicity.</em></p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Any UN representative who denies Hamas rape must be removed from their post. Period. It is a stain on the UN’s reputation that Reem Alsalem, the Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls, denies the sexual violence that took place on October 7. </p>
<p>This is a moral… <a href="https://t.co/LIpmZtqZqr">https://t.co/LIpmZtqZqr</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Danny Danon 🇮🇱 דני דנון (@dannydanon) <a href="https://twitter.com/dannydanon/status/1989822608666218805?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">A father and son from Gaza <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13451089/The-father-son-Hamas-rapists-Terrorists-going-house-house-carrying-sex-attacks-murder-One-screamed-cried-father-raped-did-cousin-did-father-killed-her.html">openly admitted</a> they raped and murdered Israeli women on October 7. The father admitted raping a woman, adding, “She was screaming, she was crying, I did what I did, I raped her. &#8216;I threatened her with my gun to take her clothes off, I remember she was wearing jean shorts, that&#8217;s about it. I don&#8217;t know what happened to her, I was there for fifteen minutes and then I left.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">But his son Abdallah said his father had killed the woman: “My father raped her, then I did and then my cousin did and then we left but my father killed the woman after we finished raping her. &#8230; Before this woman, we had raped another girl as well, I killed two people, I raped two people, and I broke into five houses.”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">On October 7th, Hamas didn&#39;t just murder, kidnap, and burn civilians. They raped.</p>
<p>​This is the chilling confession from a captured Hamas terrorist:<br />&quot;She was afraid of me and said, &#39;Help me.&#39; The devil took over me. I laid her down, started undressing her, and did what I did (I… <a href="https://t.co/Z7tKwItBf7">pic.twitter.com/Z7tKwItBf7</a></p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Reem Alsalem is saying that she is being &quot;deliberately misrepresented&quot; after people became angry that she made the claim that &quot;No independent investigation found that rape took place on the 7th of October.&quot;</p>
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<p>&mdash; Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) <a href="https://twitter.com/HenMazzig/status/1989755511504281659?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">UN Special Rapporteur slash Hamas propagandist Reem Alsalem continues to deny Israelis were raped on October 7.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://twitter.com/UN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UN</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nytimes</a>, not to mention many Israeli investigations, have confirmed Hamas used sexual violence as a weapon during the 10/7 massacre. <a href="https://t.co/AIb8HIWF5X">https://t.co/AIb8HIWF5X</a> <a href="https://t.co/lrhqP3T3uO">pic.twitter.com/lrhqP3T3uO</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/IsraelWarRoom/status/1989860497793954254?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 16, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">In March 2024, a mission team led by the United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Pramila Patten found that there was substantial evidence to conclude that victims, as well as hostages and survivors of October 7, were sexually <a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-784636">abused and raped</a> by Hamas terrorists.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Two weeks before the UN report, the Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel (ARCCI) issued their report, which <a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-790204">stated</a> of the multiple rapes, “In most of these incidents, victims first subjected to rape were then killed, and at least two incidents relate to the rape of women’s corpses.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“<a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-790390">Last year in March</a>, Alsalem also denied knowing Israel had been a victim of repeated missile attacks by Hamas and Hezbollah as the terrorist groups launched air barrages on civilian communities across Israel,” the Jerusalem Post <a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-873910">noted</a>.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">As far back as December 2023, the Lieber Institute at West Point stated, “The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/04/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-sexual-violence-un.html"><em>New York Times</em></a>, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/05/un-hears-accounts-of-sexual-violence-during-7-october-attacks-by-hamas"><em>The Guardian</em></a>, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/sexual-assault-hamas-oct-7-attack-rape-bb06b950bb6794affb8d468cd283bc51">AP News</a>, and <a href="https://www.phr.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/5771_Sexual_Violence_paper_Eng-final.pdf">Physicians for Human Rights Israel</a> all mention instances of rape and gang rape in their reports relating to October 7. Other reported acts of sexual violence from these sources include forced nudity, sexual mutilation, and gunshots in the sexual organs and breasts of women.”</p>


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UN Special Rapporteur On Violence Against Women And Girls Denies Hamas Raped Women On October 7

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">President Donald Trump urged Israeli President Isaac Herzog to pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, saying that it would unite the country. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In a letter to Herzog, Trump said that he believes that the case against Netanyahu is politically motivated and “unjustified.” Netanyahu has been charged with bribery, fraud, and breach of trust in three different cases, accusations he has strongly denied. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trump said that a pardon for Netanyahu would help the country focus on maintaining peace in the region now that a ceasefire with Hamas has been agreed to. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“As the Great State of Israel and the amazing Jewish People move past the terribly difficult times of the last three years, I hereby call on you to fully pardon Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been a formidable decisive War Time Prime Minister, and is now leading Israel into a time of peace, which includes my continued work with key Middle East leaders to add many additional countries to the world changing Abraham Accords.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trump also said that the case against Netanyahu was without merit. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Prime Minister Netanyahu has stood tall for Israel in the face of strong adversaries and long odds, and his attention cannot be unnecessarily diverted,” Trump wrote. “While I absolutely respect the independence of the Israeli Justice System, and its requirements, I believe that this ‘case’ against Bibi, who has fought alongside me for a long time, including against the very tough adversary of Israel, Iran, is a political, unjustified prosecution.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It is time to let Bibi unite Israel by pardoning him, and ending that lawfare once and for all,” Trump added. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Herzog’s office responded to Trump’s letter, thanking him for his support, and said that Netanyahu must request a pardon for it to be considered. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The President of Israel holds President Trump in high regard and continues to express his appreciation for Trump’s unwavering support for Israel and his major contributions to the release of hostages, reshaping the Middle East and Gaza, and safeguarding Israel’s security,” Herzog&#8217;s office said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;That said, as the president has repeatedly clarified, anyone seeking a pardon must submit a formal request in accordance with established procedures,” it added. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In a speech to Israel’s Knesset in October after brokering a ceasefire deal in Gaza, Trump called for Netanyahu to be pardoned and had previously called for the trial to be cancelled. </span></p>


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Trump Calls On Israeli President To Pardon Netanyahu, Slams ‘Unjustified Prosecution’

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kazakhstan became the first nation to join the Abraham Accords during President Donald Trump’s second term on Thursday.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trump announced Kazakhstan’s entry into the agreement in a </span><a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115505478418176575"><span style="font-weight: 400;">post</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on Truth Social on Thursday evening while hosting leaders from five Central Asian countries at the White House. The president said an official ceremony to mark Kazakhstan’s entry will take place at a later date.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I just held a great call between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, of Israel, and President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, of Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan is the first Country of my Second Term to join the Abraham Accords, the first of many,” the president wrote.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“This is a major step forward in building bridges across the World. Today, more Nations are lining up to embrace Peace and Prosperity through my Abraham Accords,” he continued. “[T]here are many more Countries trying to join this club of STRENGTH. So much more to come in uniting Countries for Stability and Growth — Real progress, real results. BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS!”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kazakhstan’s entry into the accords would make it the first Central Asian country to join. Kazakhstan had earlier established diplomatic ties with Israel in 2020, also making ties with Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, according to </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/us/politics/kazakhstan-abraham-accords.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The New York Times</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Aside from furthering the Abraham Accords, a top achievement of Trump’s first term, Thursday’s White House meeting also dealt with potential deals on critical minerals as the White House seeks to diversify its sources for the minerals outside of China.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tokayev said that a deal with the United States is nearing to develop his country’s deposits of tungsten, a critical mineral used in weapons manufacturing. The Kazakhstan president has appeared enthusiastic about U.S. investment in his country, noting that the Trump administration has “more pragmatism from a political point of view” than its predecessor, according to the Times.</span></p>


Great Success: Another Muslim Majority Country Joins Abraham Accords, Hailed As ‘Major Step Forward’

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I recently listened to the daughter of a Hamas sheikh share her story — one that serves as a warning for New York’s mayoral election. For her safety, I’m withholding her name. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Her mother was Jewish and escaped their Arab village in Israel soon after giving birth. Her father was a wealthy, devout Muslim sheikh with multiple wives. At 14, his daughter chose to live with him, hoping for family and belonging. Instead, what she found was indoctrination and abuse.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Her father woke her routinely in the middle of the night to test her on the Quran. Beatings were justified because, in the Quran, women are only capable of reaching heaven if the men around them are satisfied. At 15, he forced her to marry her 22-year-old cousin. She immediately became pregnant. At six months, her husband beat her in the street for stepping outside her home without permission. She lost the baby at his hands. Her father blamed her — and made her thank her husband for not killing her.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Her father was embedded in Yasser Arafat’s inner circle — the leader of the Palestinian Authority (PLO), and architect of the Second Intifada.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">The men around her spoke of Israel as a meal to devour “bite by bite” — relentless, incremental, unending. In conversations she overheard, the goal was never compromise. The hate was endless.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She escaped at 17. Homeless, terrified, and alone, when an Israeli social worker discovered her and soon discovered Judaism’s light: a faith rooted in justice, kindness, and human dignity. Today, she raises her children in freedom and dedicates her life to protecting girls from the same abuse she endured.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Her warning is simple: no matter what you give, negotiate, or attempt at nation-building, political Islam’s hate will never stop. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The ideology that brutalized her doesn’t stay overseas — it is finding its way into our American cities. Hamas wages physical war in Gaza, but its politics are being waged in local councils and mayoral races, where figures like Zohran Mamdani repurpose Hamas-style rhetoric of “resistance” and “liberation” under the banner of socialism.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I’ve seen it firsthand — radical doctrine pushed under the guise of progressive policy. Over the past two years, I helped apply pressure to block two BDS resolutions at the council level in Nashville, Tennessee. This isn’t theory — it’s unfolding through politics, education, and activist networks quietly advancing Islamist agendas to destabilize the West.</span></p>
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<h3><strong>Politics:</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Islamist‑backed groups like </span><a href="https://www.cair.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Directory.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CAIR sponsor or support at least 235 elected officials</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> at state and federal levels, shaping policy and narrative — including in the current New York mayoral race. Once in office, these politicians import religious ideology into governance, reshaping norms and weakening Western culture. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">CAIR’s Unity &amp; Justice Fund reportedly contributed </span><a href="https://www.jns.org/cair-reportedly-donated-100000-to-support-mamdani-campaign-for-nyc-mayor/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">$100,000 to Zohran Mamdani’s campaign</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, reinforcing the alliance between Islamist networks and democratic‑socialist politics. Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Representative Elise Stefanik (R-NY) have called for a federal investigation into CAIR’s funding sources, questioning whether the organization is financed or directed by Hamas or other terrorist groups. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Meanwhile, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has renewed efforts to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization — a network whose U.S. affiliates, including the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), hold the deeds to hundreds of mosques and Islamic centers across the United States. CAIR has documented ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, including being listed as a member of its Palestine Committee in the 2007 Holy Land Foundation terrorism‑financing trial, and was named an unindicted co‑conspirator.</span></p>
<h3><strong>Political Symbols And Education:</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Anti-American and anti-Israel rhetoric are being woven into classrooms, books, and art — disguised as “diversity” or “multiculturalism.” This summer, a public school in downtown Nashville hosted “</span><a href="https://x.com/StopAntisemites/status/1966492472827101673"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Keffiyeh Day</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">,” celebrating a political symbol tied to Yasser Arafat and the Second Intifada. </span><a href="https://combatantisemitism.org/cam-news/virginia-high-school-students-glorify-violence-in-horrifying-mock-kidnapping-videos/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">At Thomas Jefferson High School in Northern Virginia</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, students from the Muslim Student Association reenacted Hamas kidnappings in keffiyehs to promote their group. These are not isolated incidents — they reflect a broader ideological initiative.</span></p>
<h3><strong>The Socialist Cover For Islamist Ambition:</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Words like justice, freedom, victim, oppressed, and occupation are being repurposed to advance extremism. Mamdani, who up until recently has refused to condemn chants to “globalize the Intifada” while promoting the anti-American and anti-Israel BDS movement, exposes how Islamist talking points are being mainstreamed through progressive politics. Under the banner of equity and oppression, Mamdani blurs the line between social justice and political Islam — turning compassion into a Trojan horse for division. His rhetoric mirrors the same moral inversion used by groups like Hamas and the BDS movement: recasting terrorists as victims, and democracies like America and Israel as oppressors. It’s not solidarity — it’s subversion.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The solution is not compromise — it’s clarity. If we elect leaders without Western values, we erase Western values.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Just as the daughter of the Hamas sheikh found light after darkness, our communities must commit to deradicalization, education, and the moral courage to say a definitive “no.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The fight is no longer overseas. It’s here — on our American soil. We must act now, before the next bite is taken.</span></p>
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<p><em><a href="https://www.instagram.com/alyssarosenheck/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Alyssa Rosenheck</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is a bestselling author, photographer, and advocate. Her forthcoming book, </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/White-Blonde-Jew-Extremism-Reclaim/dp/1637748329/ref=sr_1_1?crid=UJ7NPIJLIAN4&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.W7OErBmXjvcOkzIL6CaMWA.HJFSsuAGn5R9HuLVL4y2TZQ4fCAJZ29OsWCYVOVWZpY&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=white+blonde+jew&amp;qid=1761853630&amp;sprefix=%2Caps%2C114&amp;sr=8-1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">White. Blonde. Jew.</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, turns the three words meant to silence her into a roadmap for courage and clarity in an age of extremism.</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.</span></em></p>


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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The terror group Hamas returned what it said were three bodies of hostages to Israel on Sunday.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hamas militants gave the remains, which it said were the bodies of three Israeli soldiers, over to the Red Cross, which brought them into Israel. The prime minister’s office said that the remains would be taken to the Ministry of Health’s National Center for Forensic Medicine for identification.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“All of the hostages&#8217; families have been updated accordingly, and our hearts are with them in this difficult hour. The effort to return our hostages is ongoing and will not cease until the last hostage is returned,” the prime minister’s office </span><a href="https://x.com/IsraeliPM/status/1985061283482194380"><span style="font-weight: 400;">said</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in a statement. “The public is requested to respect the families&#8217; privacy and to refrain from spreading rumors and unofficial and unverified information.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The hostage release comes just days after the terror group claimed to have found the remains of three other hostages that it turned over to the Red Cross. Forensic testing conducted on the bodies confirmed that none of the remains belonged to any of the hostages remaining in Gaza, however.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hamas and Israel struck a ceasefire agreement last month in which Israel agreed to pull back forces from inner Gaza and Hamas agreed to turn over all of its hostages back to Israel, 20 living and 28 dead. While the living were returned, the terror group has returned just 16 of the dead. If the three bodies turned over on Sunday are confirmed, eight more will be left for Hamas to hand over.</span></p>
<p>Hamas has claimed that it needs time to find the bodies of hostages, which it has said have been buried in some cases below rubble. Drone footage <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/vance-provides-update-on-ceasefire-after-hamas-attack-in-gaza">released</a> last week showed Hamas militants burying remains that were soon dug up again and handed over to the Red Cross.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Israel has accused the terror group of being in breach of the ceasefire agreement for failing to return the hostages. Israel has also conducted strikes within Gaza twice since the ceasefire went into place in retaliation for attacks that have killed several Israeli soldiers.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Trump administration, which mediated the ceasefire and potential peace proposal between Israel and Hamas, has tamped down concerns that the tit-for-tat strikes will threaten the ceasefire.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The president achieved a historic peace in the Middle East, the ceasefire is holding. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t going to be little skirmishes here and there,” Vice President JD Vance </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/vance-provides-update-on-ceasefire-after-hamas-attack-in-gaza"><span style="font-weight: 400;">said</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> last week. “We know that Hamas, or somebody else within Gaza, attacked an IDF soldier. We expect the Israelis are going to respond, but I think the president’s peace is going to hold despite it.”</span></p>


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<p>The Israeli military said Wednesday that a ceasefire remained in effect after it carried out a series of strikes in Gaza, following the killing of an Israeli soldier by Hamas terrorists a day earlier.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dozens of terrorists were killed in response to Hamas violations of a ceasefire negotiated by the Trump administration, the Israel Defense Force (IDF) said Wednesday. The strikes came after Israel accused Hamas of lying about the return of the remains of deceased hostages and attacking IDF troops in Rafah. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“In accordance with the directive of the political echelon, and following a series of strikes, in which dozens of terror targets and terrorists were struck, the IDF has begun the renewed enforcement of the ceasefire in response to Hamas’ violations,” the IDF said in a statement. “As part of the strikes, the IDF and ISA struck 30 terrorists holding command positions within the terrorist organizations operating in Gaza.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The IDF will continue to uphold the ceasefire agreement and will respond firmly to any violation of it,” it added. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The IDF soldier <a href="https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel-at-war/artc-idf-announces-soldier-killed-in-sniper-attack-in-rafah-2">killed</a> on Tuesday by <a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-871996">reported</a> Hamas sniper fire was identified as Master Sergeant Yona Efraim Feldbaum, father of five children. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Commenting on the strikes during his Asia trip, President Donald Trump said that Israel had “a right” to retaliate because “they took out an Israeli soldier.” He added that “nothing’s going to jeopardize” the ceasefire and said that Hamas needed to “behave.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“They said they would be good, and if they’re good they’re going to be happy,” Trump said. “And if they’re not good, they’re going to be terminated.”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Vice President JD Vance <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/vance-provides-update-on-ceasefire-after-hamas-attack-in-gaza?author=Tim+Pearce&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Vance+Provides+Update+On+Ceasefire+After+Hamas+Attack+In+Gaza">said</a> Tuesday night that the ceasefire would hold despite the back-and-forth fighting. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The president achieved a historic peace in the Middle East, the ceasefire is holding. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t going to be little skirmishes here and there,” said Vance. “We know that Hamas, or somebody else within Gaza, attacked an IDF soldier. We expect the Israelis are going to respond, but I think the president’s peace is going to hold despite it.”</span></p>


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