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by Nils A. Haug • December 7, 2025 at 5:00 am
It may not be generally known that, immediately after WWII, as many as 48,000 volunteers, both Jews and non-Jews, from 59 nations arrived in Israel to fight for its independence. About 90% of Israel's fledging Air Force pilots were new arrivals – the often-overlooked heroes of their time. In many Western countries, the present cohort of military-age young people generally seems to display an ignorance of integrity, the indispensable value of freedom of speech, Judeo-Christian values, and patriotism. Instead, despite having the comfort of food, shelter, advanced technology, and no military obligations, they appear to be self-absorbed and resentful of how extremely hard they supposedly have it. Destructive rather than creative, many appear, at best, disinclined to contribute meaningfully to the common good of the societies that provide them with so much. Is it possible that we are infantilizing them -- depriving them of the most important education of all - by no longer requiring a military draft, a Peace Corps, or at least mandatory civilian national service to enable them to participate in "repairing" the world and seeing how most people actually live? "These young men and women, raised in the age of social media and short attention spans, are showing the world what true clarity and courage look like. They're not confused by decades of failed appeasement or the lies of global media narratives. They know why we are fighting. They have seen with their own eyes the evil we are fighting against.... They are... standing with a strength and moral clarity that cuts through the noise...." — Avi Abelow, JNS, October 19, 2025. Journalist Jonathan Tobin notes that these men and women (many of them reservists who in everyday life work at everyday jobs) went on to defeat their "Iranian, Hezbollah and Hamas foes, and did so while still preserving [Israel's] standards and humanity." They are a credit to their people and to the Judeo-Christian ethos underpinning Western civilization itself.
Almost every generation in history has a group of courageous men and women, of all ages, who deserve their place among the greatest and bravest of their time. The present cadre of Israeli warriors is no exception. Pictured: IDF soldiers in southern Israel are briefed as they prepare to go into battle against Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip, on December 13, 2023. (Photo by Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images)
When the Greatest Generation is mentioned, reference is invariably to those who went through the Great Depression and participated in the Second World War and who emerged victorious, at great personal cost, against various enemies bent on bringing America down. It may not be generally known that, immediately after WWII, as many as 48,000 volunteers, both Jews and non-Jews, from 59 nations arrived in Israel to fight for its independence. About 90% of Israel's fledging Air Force pilots were new arrivals – the often-overlooked heroes of their time. The influence and virtues of those generations are "fading into permanent silence," suggests political commentator Sean Patrick Calabria.
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by Amir Taheri • December 7, 2025 at 4:00 am
US President Donald Trump wasn't drafted and did none of the things that budding politically correct gurus counseled. Instead, he tried to make money, not always successfully, but he learned to distinguish the tangible from the intangible. By instinct he learned that getting money by making deals, or if you look for pseudo-academic cliché, securing economic advantages, could also be used to stop wars. Trump has invited protagonists to come along and "let us get rich or richer together!" What critics ignore is that getting the US involved economically could be a guarantee of durability for a peace deal. To them, making money from peace is worse than making it from war. What Trump offers is a method of persuading rival factions that they could make more money by sharing the resources rather than spending it on war, even if you need to give the US a cut as the go-between. In Gaza, money pumped in from outside enables groups like Hamas to devote all their resources to preparation for war and terrorism, while foreign donors cover the need for food, health, housing, education and even culture. In western Yemen, a good part of the cost of government and 60% of food needed are donated by "benefactors" thus enabling Houthis to act as a war machine while agriculture is devoted to growing qat to chew rather than food to eat. In Jafar Panahi's new film "A Simple Incident," the character Iqbal, a former Iranian "defender of the harem" in Syria, confesses that he volunteered to kill Syrians in exchange for money that enabled him to own a house and look after his family.
Pictured: US President Donald Trump hosts the signing ceremony of a peace deal with Rwanda's President Paul Kagame (L) and the Democratic Republic of the Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi at the US Institute of Peace in Washington, DC, on December 4, 2025. (Photo by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
Trump to host two African leaders! That was a footnote to world news last week still dominated by efforts to stop the Ukraine war. However, to those who follow African affairs, the triangular meeting at the White House looked like a miracle. Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame seemed determined to end a decades-long war that, despite claiming at least as many victims as the current war in Ukraine or the recent war in Gaza, never hit global headlines. The draft prepared by the White House was labeled "Peace and Economic Agreement" thus injecting the invisible hand of money into a conflict clothed in flimsy conceptual garments such as "national honor" and "sovereignty". US President Donald Trump wasn't drafted and did none of the things that budding politically correct gurus counseled.
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by Majid Rafizadeh • December 6, 2025 at 5:00 am
The European Union is reportedly preparing to sit down with Iran to negotiate on its nuclear program -- again. On the surface, this international charm offensive may appear to be a constructive effort toward dialogue, but a dryer analysis suggests that such negotiations risk handing a monumental victory to a vicious regime that is vulnerable and weak -- and rabidly opportunistic. By offering Iran another platform for legitimacy, the EU and the UN are shoring up a monumentally brutal regime at a time when, for the West's own good, it should be applying pressure, not extending a hand. By granting legitimacy to a regime that represses its own citizens, the EU and UN disgrace themselves as well as betraying those Iranians fighting for basic human rights. The efforts by the EU and the IAEA to resume talks with Iran are misguided and, frankly, dangerous. Iran's regime apparently does not see a need for reforming or have the slightest intention of doing so.
The European Union is reportedly preparing to sit down with Iran to negotiate on its nuclear program -- again. By offering Iran another platform for legitimacy, the EU and the UN are shoring up a monumentally brutal regime at a time when, for the West's own good, it should be applying pressure, not extending a hand. (AI image generated by Google Gemini)
The European Union is reportedly preparing to sit down with Iran to negotiate on its nuclear program -- again. Even Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) -- the UN's nuclear watchdog -- seems interested in engaging Iran in "diplomacy" again. Iran's regime, not surprisingly, appears more than happy to accept these overtures. On the surface, this international charm offensive may appear to be a constructive effort toward dialogue, but a dryer analysis suggests that such negotiations risk handing a monumental victory to a vicious regime that is vulnerable and weak -- and rabidly opportunistic. By offering Iran another platform for legitimacy, the EU and the UN are shoring up a monumentally brutal regime at a time when, for the West's own good, it should be applying pressure, not extending a hand.
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by Robert Williams • December 5, 2025 at 5:00 am
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, apparently attempting to impersonate a Soviet dictator, appears to be forcing mandatory digital ID on the population, despite huge opposition to the issue. "You will not be able to work in the United Kingdom if you do not have digital ID," Starmer said on September 26 at the Global Progress Action Summit. In other words, if you refuse to obey, there will be nothing for you but poverty and unemployment. Starmer -- who apparently could not care less that thousands of migrants from North Africa and the Middle East, both legal and illegal, continue to pour into the UK -- gaslights the public that this totalitarian measure is somehow needed to stop illegal migration. Remember when the world used to have closed borders everywhere – until the globalists opened them up? US President Donald J. Trump seems to have pretty much closed US borders without the need for a digital anything. Bizarrely, former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair -- the globalist who launched the floods of migrants into the UK and solidified the idea of a "multicultural state" – has been endlessly advocating for digital ID. He is claiming that the UK "desperately" needs it. For what? While the European Union has been rolling out digital ID for all member states, citizens have not been asked if they consent to such a measure. "It is Americans, including Bill Gates and the controlling owner of Oracle, Larry Ellison, who are financing the digital ID push." — Michael Shellenberger, author, September 28, 2025. The World Economic Forum, despite being elected by nobody, leads the G20 Global Smart Cities Alliance...
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, apparently attempting to impersonate a Soviet dictator, appears to be forcing mandatory digital identification on the population, despite huge opposition to the issue. Pictured: A march against the government's plans for digital ID, outside the Palace of Westminster in London, on October 18, 2025. (Photo by Chris J Ratcliffe/AFP via Getty Images)
Totalitarianism is growing at a terrifying speed in what was once considered the free world. "Digital identification" (digital ID) is now being pushed by world leaders, the World Economic Forum, and the tech billionaire set. Although this rollout has the potential to affect negatively everyone on the planet, the media, instead of reporting it, seems happy distracting the public with a Gaza obsession; unserious culture wars over wokeness, transgenderism, "climate change" and so on. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, apparently attempting to impersonate a Soviet dictator, appears to be forcing mandatory digital ID on the population, despite huge opposition to the issue. "You will not be able to work in the United Kingdom if you do not have digital ID," Starmer said on September 26 at the Global Progress Action Summit. In other words, if you refuse to obey, there will be nothing for you but poverty and unemployment.
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by Khaled Abu Toameh • December 4, 2025 at 5:00 am
In the eyes of Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups, the plan is nothing but another temporary ceasefire, not different than previous ones reached between Israel and Hamas over the past two decades. Those who think that Hamas, by agreeing to Trump's "peace plan," has abandoned its desire to eliminate Israel or has softened its position toward Israel are unfortunately dead wrong. Hamas leaders have stressed their opposition to the involvement of any non-Palestinians in the future administration of the Gaza Strip. Hamas has also made it clear that the role of any international troops should be limited to monitoring the ceasefire and safeguarding the borders of the Gaza Strip, not to disarming the terror groups and their military infrastructure. Hamas's remarks are a not-so-veiled threat that they intend to launch terrorist attacks against members of any international force that tries to disarm the terror groups in the Gaza Strip. That is doubtless the major reason most Arabs and Muslims appear reluctant to dispatch soldiers to the Gaza Strip: they do not want a direct confrontation with Hamas and the other terror groups operating there. To understand the mindset and intentions of Hamas, it is crucial that one pay attention to what the terror group says in Arabic, not what some of its leaders tell US envoys in meetings behind closed doors. Regrettably, there can be no peace, security, or stability in the area if Hamas and its allies are left standing on their feet and preparing for more massacres against Israel.
In the eyes of Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups, President Donald Trump's plan is nothing but another temporary ceasefire, not different than previous ones reached between Israel and Hamas over the past two decades. Pictured: Masked terrorists from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, in the town of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on December 3, 2025. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)
US President Donald J. Trump's plan for ending the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip is not a "peace plan." In the eyes of Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups, the plan is nothing but another temporary ceasefire, not different than previous ones reached between Israel and Hamas over the past two decades. It is a mistake even to call it a "peace plan": Hamas has not yet abandoned its stated goal of destroying Israel and replacing it with an Islamist state. Hamas, moreover, has never -- to this day -- recognized Israel's right to exist. Instead, Hamas continues to hold onto the idea that:
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by Lawrence A. Franklin • December 3, 2025 at 5:00 am
Perhaps more significant to US strategic interests [than Venezuela's trafficking illegal drugs] is Maduro's cooperation with an anti-American alliance of autocracies, including Russia, Cuba, China and Iran. Iran's regime, both before and after a number of visits to Venezuela, delivered military drones to Venezuela and has been strengthening Venezuela's military, thereby enabling Venezuela to threaten its neighbors, including Guyana, Trinidad and Colombia, as well as the US. Cuba's role in Venezuela is even more invasive than that of Iran. Russia's role in helping to buttress Maduro's regime includes arms sales, joint army and air force exercises, Russian naval warship visits, and the stationing of Russian defense advisors in Venezuela. In turn, Russia receives Venezuelan oil at below-market prices. China has extended an estimated $60 billion in loans to Venezuela. The main reason for the charge of Maduro's illegitimacy stems from the view that Venezuela's presidential elections have been fraudulent. Opposition protests have failed to dislodge the socialist regime, which has so far been sustained by Chinese loans, Russian weapons and Cuban troops. The Venezuelan people, disenfranchised and disarmed, have, in addition, been bullied into submission by regime-sponsored neighborhood revolutionary leftist gangs called "colectivos." The Trump administration appears to be hoping that its current sanctions on Venezuela will be harsh enough for Maduro's supporters to oust him without the US having to become militarily involved. Trump recently suggested the possibility of a land invasion, about which he did not sound overly enthusiastic. If nothing is done, however, Maduro will simply continue to wreck the formerly wealthy country while its people carry on in squalor.
Venezuela under Nicolás Maduro, in addition to facilitating the trafficking of illegal drugs into the United States, cooperates with an anti-American alliance of autocracies, including Russia, Cuba, China and Iran. Venezuela's comprehensive links with its authoritarian allies must be severed forcibly if necessary, to protect US interests and preserve the Monroe Doctrine. (Illustrative image by Google Gemini)
US President Donald J. Trump's condemnation of Venezuela's illegal leader Nicolás Maduro includes his regime's facilitation of trafficking illegal drugs into the United States. The leader of Venezuela's democratic opposition, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corrina Machado, has accused Maduro of being chief of a criminal narcotics organization, Cartel de los Soles ("Cartel of the Suns"). US military forces have destroyed several speedboats laden with cocaine and other illegal drugs leaving Venezuelan ports. Perhaps more significant to US strategic interests is Maduro's cooperation with an anti-American alliance of autocracies, including Russia, Cuba, China and Iran. The US has deployed military aircraft and a fleet of 22 warships to the area, to which Russian President Vladimir Putin has responded by "signal[ing] its willingness to supply Venezuela with advanced hypersonic missiles, including the nuclear-capable Oreshnik."
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by Con Coughlin • December 2, 2025 at 5:00 am
"What is the mandate of security forces inside of Gaza? And we hope that it is peacekeeping, because if it's peace enforcing, nobody will want to touch that.... [R]unning around Gaza on patrol with weapons, that's not a situation that any country would like to get involved in." — King Abdullah II of Jordan to the BBC, October 27, 2025. The same is true for an international force, as the world has been witnessing in Lebanon. For nearly half a century. It is a measure of the Trump administration's growing desperation to move to the next stage of its Gaza peace plan that it has even approached the legitimate government of war-torn Yemen to deploy troops, even though it has proved totally incapable of defending its own country from Iranian-backed Houthi rebels. So while Trump may be celebrating the decision by the UN Security Council to back his Gaza peace plan, he may soon find that turning it into reality may be an impossible task so long as Hamas terrorists remain in Gaza.
Hamas claims that an International Stabilization Force (ISF) in Gaza that tries to implement disarmament of the terrorist organisation would make it a combatant acting on behalf of Israel, a declaration that all but guarantees the ISF would find itself involved in a violent conflict with the Islamist group. Pictured: Hamas terrorists in Jabalia refugee camp, in the Gaza Strip, on December 1, 2025. (Photo by Omar Al-Qataa/AFP via Getty Images)
Donald Trump's hopes of establishing a permanent ceasefire in Gaza could be fatally compromised by his efforts to create an International Stabilization Force (ISF) to run the Gaza Strip in place of Hamas terrorists. As part of Trump's wide-ranging plan to end the Gaza conflict, he has proposed the creation of a multinational force drawn from a number of Arab and Muslim states that will be mandated to maintain security in the enclave for an initial period of two years. A critical part of the force's mission will be to disarm Hamas terrorists and end their two-decade-long reign of terror in Gaza. During that time, apart from brutalising the local population, they used the opportunity to launch a constant stream of terrorist attacks against Israel, culminating in the invasion of October 7, 2023. It would be intolerable if Hamas's successor were to do the same.
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by Lawrence Kadish • December 2, 2025 at 4:00 am
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Perhaps not since President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Advisory Committee on Uranium in October 1939, whose mission would eventually lead to the creation of the atomic bomb, have the actions of a president regarding energy been so crucial to America's future. As November of this year came to a close, President Donald J. Trump established a dedicated Office of Fusion within the Department of Energy. It represents a pivotal shift in America's approach to energy independence and leveraging unlimited energy to ensure global leadership. By elevating nuclear fusion energy from a research-focused effort hidden within the Office of Science to its own office, the president has publicly recognized that the most transformative energy technology of the 21st century needs to be American "born."
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by Khaled Abu Toameh • December 1, 2025 at 5:00 am
The meeting underscores Qatar's apparent eagerness to play a central role in post-war Gaza. As a long-time supporter and funder of the Muslim Brotherhood organization, the Qatari regime's main goal seems to be ensuring that Hamas remains in power in the Gaza Strip. Hamas describes itself as "one of the wings of the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine." One does not need to be an "expert" to understand that Qatar, despite its attempt to present itself as a neutral mediator between Israel and Hamas over the past two years, continues to be affiliated with the extremist ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. Unfortunately, this ideology considers non-Muslims (and Israel) as Enemy No. 1. In his October 19 column in the Qatari government daily Al-Sharq, Ahmad al-Muhammadi, an imam and preacher in Qatar's Waqf Ministry, explained that the enmity between the Muslims and the Jews and Christians is existential and deeply rooted, and presented Islam as the truth and Christianity and Judaism as falsehood and heresy. He went on to call on Muslims to beware of slogans of tolerance that are aimed at uprooting belief in Islam, and asserted that Islam is "a religion that neither compromises nor reconciles." "Qatari Shura Council member Essa Al-Nassr said that October 7 was the beginning of the end of the Zionist state, presenting this as a divine promise mentioned in the Quran. He added that there can be no peace with the Jews, because their faith condones 'deception, the violation of agreements and lies' and they are 'slayers of the prophets.'" — MEMRI, September 15, 2025. Researcher and political analyst Eitan Fischberger recently uncovered a series of posts in which Majed al-Ansari, advisor to the Qatari prime minister and spokesman for Qatar's Foreign Ministry, openly praised suicide bombings and called for Tel Aviv to burn. In a recent speech, the Emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, said that the five Hamas members Israel killed in an airstrike in Doha last September were "our brothers." Qatari Education Minister Lowlah al-Khater has called Israel and the West an "ugly, racist, and vile civilization" She described Israel and its Western backers as a "mixture of ugliness, entrenched racism, and vile materialistic civilization." Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain are said to be "frustrated" by Washington's growing concessions to Qatar, their regional rival and a longtime supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood. "It's a mistake to rely on Qatar, which backs the Muslim Brotherhood... [Qatar] will undermine deradicalization efforts and try to ensure that Hamas remains in the picture and returns to power in the not-so-distant future." — Unnamed Saudi diplomatic source, Israel Hayom, October 12, 2025. Bringing Qatar into the Gaza Strip is effectively placing the fox inside a chicken coop. If Qatar is allowed to play a civilian or security role inside the Gaza Strip, this privilege would be seen by many Palestinians as a reward for Hamas and other Islamist terror groups. It will allow the terrorists worldwide to rearm and regroup, and enable Qatar to continue reasserting the policies of the Muslim Brotherhood throughout the Middle East – as well as in the US, where it has already exorbitantly bought influence. That purchase includes "economic commitments worth at least $1.2 trillion" in the US, the $400 million "flying palace" Boeing 747 jet, and "at least $100 billion" pumped into US universities.
One does not need to be an "expert" to understand that Qatar, despite its attempt to present itself as a neutral mediator between Israel and Hamas over the past two years, continues to be affiliated with the extremist ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. Unfortunately, this ideology considers non-Muslims (and Israel) as Enemy No. 1. Pictured: Qatar's then Emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani holds hands with then Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh during their visit to the Islamic University in the Gaza Strip on October 23, 2012. (Photo by Wissam Nassar/AFP via Getty Images)
Delegations from Qatar, Egypt and Turkey met in Cairo on November 25 to discuss implementation of the second phase of US President Donald J. Trump's plan for ending the war in the Gaza Strip, which erupted with the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel. According to media reports, the meeting included the heads of the Egyptian and Turkish intelligence agencies, along with the prime minister of Qatar. They discussed "ways to intensify joint effort to ensure the successful implementation of the second phase of the plan," which includes the disarmament of Hamas, the establishment of a transitional Palestinian governance committee, and the deployment of an International Stabilization Force in the Gaza Strip.
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by Majid Rafizadeh • November 30, 2025 at 5:00 am
Iran's leaders appear to see nuclear weapons not simply as a strategic tool, but as an existential necessity — a shield for the regime's survival and a sword to advance its revolutionary ideology. Iran's leadership sees that one nuclear-armed missile aimed at Israel could accomplish what decades of proxy warfare, rhetoric, and regional maneuvering have failed to do. A nuclear weapon, in their ideological worldview, offers the possibility of wiping out Israel, fulfilling what they see as a historic, strategic, and religious prophecy. In the minds of Iran's rulers, a nuclear weapon is doubtless the ultimate insurance policy. They believe it can secure the regime's longevity by projecting an image of strength similar to North Korea's strategy: a nuclear-armed dictatorship that cannot be toppled from within or pressured from abroad. In their thinking, nuclear weapons elevate them to invulnerability. Iran has repeatedly used talks as a tactical pause, a chance to ease sanctions, gain financial relief, and reconstitute its nuclear capabilities behind closed doors. A flawed or partial agreement would allow Iran to continue enriching uranium, advance in missile technology, and expand its scientific base under the protection of international diplomacy. Far from slowing down Iran's nuclear ambitions, weak negotiations risk institutionalizing them. The Iranian regime clearly wants nuclear weapons – desperately – driven by strategic weakness, ideological ambition and fear for its own survival. The West must not give Iran the time or space it needs to complete its mission. The free world's objective must be to dismantle Iran's nuclear program completely, preserve no loopholes, and maintain pressure until Tehran's path to nuclear armament is permanently blocked. Anything less risks empowering a regime that seeks both regional dominance and ideological Islamist conquest under the secure shield of nuclear weapons.
Iran's leaders appear to see nuclear weapons not simply as a strategic tool, but as an existential necessity — a shield for the regime's survival and a sword to advance its revolutionary ideology. They see that one nuclear-armed missile aimed at Israel could accomplish what decades of proxy warfare, rhetoric, and regional maneuvering have failed to do. (Illustrative image generated by Google Gemini)
The Iranian regime has always sought nuclear weapons, but at the moment, this ambition may have taken on an unprecedented urgency. For decades, the ruling clerics have perceived nuclear capability as a symbol of power and ideological triumph. Now, more than ever before, the regime may be prepared to use every trick, tactic, and deception it has cultivated over the years to achieve that goal. Iran's leaders appear to see nuclear weapons not simply as a strategic tool, but as an existential necessity — a shield for the regime's survival and a sword to advance its revolutionary ideology.
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by Amir Taheri • November 30, 2025 at 4:00 am
[France's Chief of General Staff of Armed Forces General Fabien] Mandon... suggest[ed] that Russia was preparing for a war against Europe, with 2030 as a possible starting date. That the general wasn't talking through his cap became clear when President Emmanuel Macron, legally Commander-in-Chief, appeared to sanction the statement with his silence. A few days before the French general dropped his bombshell, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz had come out with a similar warning, with the difference that he cited 2029 instead of Mandon's 2030 as the possible date for the putative Russian attack. Despite claims of "some progress" by all sides, including Moscow's, the latest Trump attempt at playing peacemaker may fade in the fog of hoped-for but seldom realized possibilities. What was lacking, Mandon hinted, was the psychological-political readiness of Europeans to switch to a bellicose mood rather than quarreling over early retirement, adding to public holidays and dreaming of their next touristic escapade. The current mood in Europe may be summed up this way: We are ready for sacrifices if Russia attacks us directly but are reluctant to pay for defending Ukraine, let alone die for it. [W]ith an estimated four million young men leaving the country, Russia faces a shortage of fighting men that cannot be corrected by bringing Wagner mercenaries from Africa and cannon fodder from North Korea. Though surprisingly resilient, the Russian economy is already showing signs of structural fatigue.
France's Chief of General Staff of Armed Forces General Fabien Mandon recently suggested that Russia was preparing for a war against Europe, with 2030 as a possible starting date. Pictured: Mandon arrives at Elysee Palace in Paris on November 17, 2025. (Photo by Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images)
"The Russians are coming!" Throughout the Cold War, that phrase expressed the anxiety felt by Western democracies about the possibility of a surprise nuclear attack by the Soviet Union. Half jest, the tongue-in-cheek quip evoked Russian chief Nikita Khrushchev's notorious braggadocio in 1956 addressed to Western powers: "We will bury you!" Later in an address at the United Nations, the Communist leader hinted that the promised burial could come by the year 2000. By 1992, however, another phrase was making the rounds in Western capitals: "The Russians are going!" While "the Russians are coming" had been a putative cause for concern, "the Russians are going" posed practical problems. The giant "superpower" didn't have the logistics to take its 300,000 troops and civilian staff plus unknown quantities of weapons out of eastern and central Europe.
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by Nils A. Haug • November 29, 2025 at 5:00 am
Jewish have been rooted to Israel (Zion) for nearly 4,000 years.... Israel's immediate enemy is violent extremist Islam -- particularly the brand espoused by ideological offshoots of the Muslim Brotherhood such as Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, Qatar, Syria and Iran. Their worldview seems to be that "Islam is a faith and a ritual, a nation and a nationality, a religion and a state, spirit and deed, holy text and sword." The world is not just getting less safe for Jews. It is also rapidly becoming less safe for Christians, Hindus and Muslims deemed by other Muslims not Muslim enough. Unfortunately, many in the West appear not to believe that yet. Meanwhile, the doctrines of the Muslim Brotherhood are being spread throughout Europe and Canada, and most recently in New York, Michigan, Minnesota, Texas, the heart of America, and Australia. "To place any religion beyond criticism just because some Muslims may feel offended is to ignore, as Salman Rushdie puts it, 'the battle against fanatical Islam, which is highly organised, well-funded, and which seeks to terrify us all, Muslims as well as non-Muslims, into cowed silence'." — Quadrant,, September 16, 2025. When the Third Reich pushed people into gas showers, or during the massacres of October 7, 2023, no one asked the victims if they were "rightist," "leftist," or "centrist." For the Jews, Christians and other "infidels," although many seem not to believe it yet, the choice is all or nothing: either survival or elimination. In this respect, Zionism – the safety of Israel – is the for persecuted Jews, the only sanctuary. If Jews are to be criticized for defending their minute piece of real estate on Earth, so be it: they hold the moral high ground; their critics and enemies do not.
On November 10, 2025, Israel's President Isaac Herzog unapologetically stated that Zionism is "the national liberation movement of the Jewish people; a return to an indigenous homeland after millennia of persecution." Pictured: Herzog addresses a Joint Meeting of Congress in the House Chamber of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on July 19, 2023. (Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
On November 10, 2025, Israel's President Isaac Herzog unapologetically stated that Zionism is "the national liberation movement of the Jewish people; a return to an indigenous homeland after millennia of persecution." This statement follows the response of his father, Chaim Herzog (then Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations) in 1975 to an antagonistic UN General Assembly on its shameful resolution that "Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination": "Zionism is nothing more – and nothing less – than the Jewish people's sense of origin and destination in the land linked eternally with its name."
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by Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury • November 28, 2025 at 5:30 am
According to a shocking new report by the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP), as well as Jihad in America: The Grand Deception, a 2012 film by the Investigative Project on Terrorism, the Muslim Brotherhood, along with its major patron, Qatar, has a dangerous ideological agenda aimed at undermining the West from within. ISGAP's latest report highlights a crucial and overlooked fact: the ruling family of Qatar has pledged Bay'ah -- a spiritual oath of loyalty -- to the Muslim Brotherhood, the intellectual parent of modern political Islam. This ideological commitment drives Qatar's global influence operations and informs the direction of its foreign funding. Qatar's influence does not end with funding. ISGAP identifies the Muslim Students Association (MSA) -- founded by Muslim Brotherhood activists -- as the primary vehicle for campus-level ideological entryism. Operating on 600+ US campuses, the MSA works closely with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). Since the Hamas atrocities of October 7, 2023, these groups have mobilized some of the most aggressive anti-Israel activism, including disruptions, protests and dissemination of pro-Hamas messaging. According to ISGAP's Executive Director, Charles Small, the Muslim Brotherhood aims to isolate Israel and weaken US-Israel ties, fragment US society through antisemitism and campus radicalization, and challenge democratic norms and replace them with Islamist ideological frameworks. Qatar's campaign is not confined to the United States. A credible security source, cited in a report by the Usanas Foundation, a "geopolitics and security affairs organization" based in India, indicates that Doha is funding Islamist-aligned academia, media, and campus activism across India, the United Kingdom, and EU nations. Money is flowing to journalists, professors, and influencers in India who promote political Islam under the guise of "Palestinian activism". Unless democracies take decisive action -- through transparency laws, foreign-funding oversight, campus reform, and ideological vigilance -- Qatar's anti-democratic ideological offensive will continue hollowing out the foundations of free societies throughout the world.
Qatar continues to conduct one of the most extensive foreign influence operations in modern history. Through hundreds of billions of dollars -- estimated at up to a trillion dollars -- funneled into Western universities, research centers, media platforms and political advocacy networks, Qatar has become the leading global patron of the Muslim Brotherhood in pushing an ideological agenda aimed at reshaping democratic societies from within. (Image source: Google Gemini)
Qatar continues to conduct one of the most extensive foreign influence operations in modern history. Through hundreds of billions of dollars -- estimated at up to a trillion dollars -- funneled into Western universities, research centers, media platforms and political advocacy networks, Qatar has become the leading global patron of the Muslim Brotherhood in pushing an ideological agenda aimed at reshaping democratic societies from within.
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by Drieu Godefridi • November 27, 2025 at 5:00 am
The terrorist designation by the US federal government, which is not a slogan, derives from Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. § 1189) and from Executive Order 13224 (2001, Bush). Any foreign organization that threatens the security of US nationals or US national security must be placed on the FTO list and have its assets seized. The criteria are explicit: systematic use of violence, transnational scope, political intent. Antifa meets all three. It is a transnational terrorist organization whose existence much of the mainstream media stubbornly refuse to acknowledge. The State Department leaves no room for ambiguity: "Left-wing terrorism does not enjoy ideological immunity." Why is there not the same moral clarity in Western Europe? The American decision -- neither an ideological crusade nor a publicity stunt -- is a proportionate response to proven crimes. The four designated groups are not "radical activists": they are terrorists who kill, maim and destroy in the name of an outdated totalitarian utopia -- or even a not-outdated one -- that aligns itself with Islamic jihadists declaring that they would like to take over the planet. Liberal democracies have a duty to defend themselves — without complacency, without naïveté, and with the full rigor of the law. Can we in Europe expect Antifa members to be intercepted in the same manner as drug-trafficking vessels in the Caribbean?
The criteria for designation as a terrorist organization are explicit: systematic use of violence, transnational scope and political intent. Antifa meets all three. It is a transnational terrorist organization whose existence much of the mainstream media stubbornly refuse to acknowledge. (Image source: Google Gemini)
On November 13, 2025, the US State Department added four European terrorist organizations to its list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs): Antifa Ost (Germany), the International Revolutionary Front (Italy), Armed Proletarian Justice (Greece) and Revolutionary Class Self-Defense (Greece). This decision by the US administration was based on overwhelming evidence: knife and hammer attacks, shootings, bombings and the use of improvised explosive devices that targeted civilians, public infrastructure and private businesses. The move forms part of a wider transatlantic dynamic launched by Hungary. In September 2025, the Hungarian government -- after a series of attacks in Budapest in which Antifa Ost torched police vehicles, destroyed shops, and carried out targeted assaults on right-wing activists -- designated the group as a terrorist organization. Earlier in September, the US classified Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization.
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