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by Raymond Ibrahim • November 2, 2025 at 5:00 am
These atrocities are just part of a continuing wave of attacks by the Islamic State Mozambique (IS-M), which has been active in northern Mozambique since 2017, killing an estimated 1,800 Christians and displacing more than half a million people. The militants ... establish roadblocks to intercept travelers, particularly Christians, who are charged "tolls" ranging from $150 to $460 to continue their journeys. IS-M continues to demand that Christians convert to Islam, submit to IS authority and pay jizya ("tribute"), or face death. — Barnabas Aid, September 14, 2025, Mozambique. Organized by army officers and officials, these gatherings are presented to the public as "reconciliation," but Christian survivors call them diversions "designed to mask atrocities, shield perpetrators, and convince foreign diplomats that progress is being made... They told us to forgive and move forward, but they never asked who committed the killings. They only wanted photographs of us sitting together in the hall, so they could show Abuja and the U.S. embassy that peace has been restored." — A farmer whose brother was killed, persecution.org, September 3, 2025, Nigeria. Human rights advocates say such kidnappings are common. Girls as young as 10 are abducted, converted, and raped under the guise of Islamic marriage, while courts routinely ignore evidence of age. The case highlights Pakistan's failure to enforce child protection laws, while, under sharia law, Islamic authorities oppose raising the marriage age. "These are not teachers. The government has hired clerics to preach Islam instead of teaching." — A grandmother, persecution.org, September 24, 2025, Pakistan "When even NGOs (non-governmental organisations) want to distribute food, the category of people who will receive this relief is controlled by Government. So, Government in these places doesn't give it to minorities. Often Christians here have been told: 'Unless you leave your Christianity, no food for you'.... For a long time now, they're eating animal feed and grass. No wheat, no rice, nothing can get in. And, unfortunately now, no medicine – if you have just the flu it can kill you." — Local church leader, GB News, September 17, 2025, Sudan. "This is another tragic example of how Pakistan's blasphemy laws are being misused. Thousands of innocent people are languishing in prisons under false charges, and many have been murdered by vigilantes before trial. Social media is increasingly weaponized to settle personal scores and inflame communal tensions. Urgent reforms are needed to protect minorities and prevent abuse of Section 295-C [mandatory death penalty for blasphemy]." —Nasir Saeed, director of the Centre for Legal Aid Assistance & Settlement UK, September 24, 2025, Pakistan. [A] Christian pastor was denied access to a chapel at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport because Muslims were using it and unwilling to share their space with an infidel.... The chapel is dedicated to honoring U.S. military service members.... "Welcome to America, where we promote the Islam faith over all else in the name of inclusion," wrote one commentator — and shared similar experiences from other airports, raising broader concerns for Christians and others about access to public chapels. — September 27, 2025, United States of America. Mount Sinai, the site where Moses received the Ten Commandments, is under threat from a state-backed luxury resort project that locals warn will irreparably disfigure one of the world's most sacred Judeo-Christian landmarks. The Great Transfiguration Project reportedly aims to build five hotels, hundreds of villas, a 1.4-acre visitors' center, and a shopping complex within the St. Catherine Protectorate, home to the 6th-century St. Catherine's Monastery and countless ancient biblical sites. "I call it the Grand Disfiguration Project," said John Grainger, the former manager of a European Union project to develop the area.... While the government frames the project as a "gift to the world," locals and preservationists see it as an aggressive, top-down imposition, enforced by extensive security surveillance, that disrespects centuries of religious tradition and the sacredness of one of the Bible's most hallowed sites. Any Egyptian who dares speak up is clamped down on by an intricate and omnipresent security network. In the words of Ben Hoffler, a British travel writer and former resident of St. Catherine, "If they say anything about it, they get a knock on the door [from Egyptian security services]. The secret police in St. Catherine monitor everything so closely — phone calls, we've had spyware on telephones. They follow people literally in the street. I've been followed many times." — The New York Post, September 11, 2025.
A Christian pastor recently was denied access to a chapel at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport because Muslims were using it and unwilling to share their space with an infidel. Pictured: A billboard at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, on January 11, 2023. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
The following are among the abuses and murders inflicted on Christians by Muslims throughout the month of September 2025. The Muslim Slaughter of Christians Democratic Republic of the Congo: On Sept. 9, right before dawn, Muslim terrorists of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) attacked and slaughtered more than 70 Christians gathered for a wake. What was meant to be a night of mourning for a deceased loved one became a bloodbath. Men, women and children were gunned down. After the carnage, the jihadists torched homes, trucks and motorcycles, leaving families without shelter or possessions. "That's how they operate, that's how they act," a local administrator said: "You know, it's a terrorist group [the ADF]. And like all terrorist groups, their objective is often to instill fear in order to force the population to join their movement. That's why they behave this way."
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by Amir Taheri • November 2, 2025 at 4:00 am
The ideological approach to the issue is rooted in lingering anti-capitalist sentiments that have survived the fall of the USSR and the triumph of state capitalism in the People's Republic of China. Many orphans of Marx and Stalin have redefined themselves as "greens" or, labeled "watermelons" i.e. green outside and red inside. Despite the fact that nibbling at the magic forest has continued at an even faster pace under Lula, the crowd of do-gooders coming to Belém will be pleased because it reflects their own conviction that without stopping growth, or even going into what they call "negative growth", coping with climate change won't be possible. That position means accepting a distinct drop in living standards in the 60 to 70 countries with medium or high personal incomes and a freezing of it in the remaining medium-to-poor nations. True, human activity has caused tragedies such as the disappearance of the Aral Sea in Central Asia, Urmia Lake in Iran, and desertification in large chunks of Asia and Africa. But blaming disruptions in ecosystems solely on human activity ignores the fact that human activity must also be credited for saving many ecosystems and making large chunks of the globe fit for human, animal and plant life. If the cause of saving the planet is to be taken seriously, we must make it less political, more scientific, less anti-capitalist, less anti-American and more pro-growth.
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Hurricane Melissa, which has just devastated large chunks of Jamaica and Cuba, may be seen as an unwanted overture to the United Nations' next Climate Change Conference, to be held between November 10 and 21. To be held in the Brazilian city of Belém, the event known as COP30 is expected to be attended by over 190 nations, more than 300 NGOs and tens of thousands of "eco-warriors" from across the globe. The Brazilian organizers hope that the gathering will correct mistakes made in the notorious Paris Accords and following conferences, most recently held in the United Arab Emirates and Azerbaijan. Yet, without being the party-pooper, one cannot ignore facts that might derail this latest version of global-warming jamboree.
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by Majid Rafizadeh • November 1, 2025 at 5:00 am
Iran's regime has officially declared that it will not abide by any nuclear limits. It is finally admitting out in the open that its ultimate objective has always been to become a nuclear-armed state. Its announcement... represents the formal end of Iran's long-standing campaign of deception, in which it pretended to cooperate with international nuclear agreements while secretly expanding its program. When Iran claims now that the JCPOA is "dead," it is simply acknowledging that it never had any intention of honoring it in the first place. While the regime publicly claimed to respect the deal, in reality, it was quietly expanding its capabilities, building advanced centrifuges, and enriching uranium far beyond the levels needed for peaceful nuclear energy. The idea that Iran can be persuaded through diplomacy or economic incentives to change its behavior has failed time and again. The first and most crucial step is to reestablish deterrence. In addition to deterrence, the West needs immediately to reimpose and expand sanctions and secondary sanctions -– announcing that countries that do business with Iran may no longer do business with the United States. Unfortunately, Europe remains far behind. Appeasement and indecision will only embolden Tehran further. The Iranian regime is going full nuclear, and the West needs to act — swiftly, decisively, and with unity — before removing Iran's nuclear program becomes difficult.
Iran's announcement to the world that it will no longer respect any laws, treaties, or limits on its nuclear program is, in essence, a declaration of war. The regime has always wanted nuclear weapons. The West must tighten sanctions, monitor every step of Iran's program, and maintain credible military options. Pictured: Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian looks on as a 'Qasem Soleimani' missile is displayed during a military parade in Tehran, on September 21, 2024. (Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)
Iran's regime has officially declared that it will not abide by any nuclear limits. It is finally admitting out in the open that its ultimate objective has always been to become a nuclear-armed state. Its announcement is not merely a change of rhetoric; it represents the formal end of Iran's long-standing campaign of deception, in which it pretended to cooperate with international nuclear agreements while secretly expanding its program.
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by Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury • October 31, 2025 at 5:00 am
The rise of Islamist extremism in South Asia is entering a new and troubling phase. Their real goal, however, is far darker than banning a Hindu organization: it is to purge majority-Muslim Bangladesh of its remaining Hindu population and to reshape the country into a theocratic state. In a disturbing development, the government's response to a court petition demanding a ban on ISKCON described the movement as a "religious fundamentalist organization". This rhetoric, once confined to the fringe, now finds a place in official discourse - a dangerous sign of how far Islamist influence has penetrated the state. [I]n the eyes of Islamist ideologues, peaceful outreach represents a challenge -- the assertion of a pluralistic worldview that contradicts their absolutist doctrine. What makes this current wave of anti-Hindu agitation particularly alarming is its transnational dimension. Intelligence officials in Dhaka have identified growing coordination between Bangladeshi and Pakistani Salafist groups, some with direct ideological or logistical ties to organizations once linked to Al Qaeda and ISIS. The persecution of ISKCON is not merely an attack on a Hindu organization -- it is part of a larger strategy to dismantle Bangladesh's secularism and to replace tolerance with totalitarian theology. If left unchecked, this campaign could transform Bangladesh into yet another bastion of jihadist ideology in South Asia.
In Bangladesh, the latest target of jihadist wrath is the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), a global Hindu organization. Pictured: Members of the Islamist Hefazat-e-Islam movement hold a rally in Dhaka, Bangladesh on November 29, 2024, to demand a ban on ISKCON. (Photo by Munir Uz Zaman/AFP via Getty Images)
The rise of Islamist extremism in South Asia is entering a new and troubling phase. What began as a political movement cloaked in piety has increasingly transformed into a campaign of cultural and religious erasure. In Bangladesh, the latest target of jihadist wrath is the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), a global Hindu organization. Islamists now brand it an "extremist Hindutva group", call for banning it, commit arson against its temples, and violence against its followers. Their real goal, however, is far darker than banning a Hindu organization: it is to purge majority-Muslim Bangladesh of its remaining Hindu population and to reshape the country into a theocratic state.
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by Lawrence Kadish • October 31, 2025 at 4:00 am
Legal scholars may continue to debate, ponder, and opine on the use of the U.S. Navy to detect and destroy drug smugglers in international waters, but one thing can be guaranteed. There are now many drug-smuggling murderers sitting beside their idle boats asking themselves, "Are we feeling lucky today?" Pictured: The USS Gravely enters Port of Spain, in Trinidad and Tobago, on October 26, 2025, visiting for joint exercises near the coast of Venezuela. (Photo by Martin Bernetti/AFP via Getty Images)
Legal pundits are continuing to debate whether U.S. military strikes on sea-going drug smugglers are within international law. Allow me to pose a different question: If those trying to bring death-dealing fentanyl to our communities were walking our streets and distributing their lethal doses to the unsuspecting, would you not call them hired killers? Would you not, in a trial, seek the death penalty for the carnage, mayhem, grief and misery they have caused? When, from abroad, Al-Qaeda and Islamic State were murdering Americans, there was no hesitation in eliminating them. Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, as well as his henchman, Ayman al-Zawahiri, were discharged without incident, and US forces unquestioningly removed countless Islamic State operatives from the battlefield (here, here, here and here). Then why would you not use deadly force to confront similarly lethal forces before they completed their deadly mission inside our nation's borders?
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by Khaled Abu Toameh • October 30, 2025 at 5:00 am
These [Palestinian poll] findings contradict claims by some Western media outlets that a growing number of Palestinians were disillusioned with Hamas because of the death and destruction it has brought on its people as a result of its October 7 attack. "The conclusion from these [Palestinian] numbers is that the past two years have led to greater support for Hamas rather than the opposite," according to the poll. Asked if Hamas had committed the atrocities seen in the videos shown by international media displaying atrocities committed by Hamas members against Israeli civilians, 86% said the terror group did not commit such atrocities. Only 10% said Hamas did commit them. A majority of Palestinians, the poll showed, are extremely supportive of Iran, Hezbollah, Qatar and the Houthi militia in Yemen, a terror group that fired dozens of missiles and suicide drones at Israel during the war. If elections for the presidency of the Palestinian Authority (PA) were held today, Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal would win 63% of the votes, as opposed to 27% for incumbent PA President Mahmoud Abbas. According to the poll, dissatisfaction with Abbas stands at 75%, while 80% want him to resign. If parliamentary elections were held today, 44% of the Palestinians say they will vote for Hamas, 30% for Fatah, and 10% for third parties. Also unexpected is the ongoing Palestinian support for the "armed struggle" (terrorism) against Israel. The results of the poll also show the challenges facing the implementation of the Trump plan, especially disarming Hamas and deradicalizing Palestinian society. Most Palestinians are openly opposed to disarming Hamas – a situation that will make it effectively impossible for any Arab or foreign party to confiscate the terror group's weapons by force. Any Palestinian or Arab leader who sees that most Palestinians oppose the disarmament of Hamas will think twice before he undertakes such a mission: he would not want to act against the wishes of the Arab street -- such a move would be regarded as treason. As for deradicalization, it is clear from the poll that Palestinians are moving in the opposite direction. Many Palestinians are afraid to speak out for fear of being labeled as traitors or collaborators with Israel. We have seen how Palestinians who challenged Hamas were tortured and executed in public squares in the Gaza Strip as soon as the ceasefire went into effect. Radical change in Palestinian society will come only when Palestinians rise up against destructive leaders who, over the past few decades, have been dragging them from one disaster to another.
A recent poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research shows that more than half of Palestinians continue to support the atrocities committed by Hamas against Israelis and foreign nationals on October 7, 2023, and a majority of Palestinians support Iran, Hezbollah, Qatar and Yemen's Houthis. Pictured: Palestinians rally in support of Hamas on December 15, 2023 in Nablus. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Those who thought that Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack on Israel and the ensuing war in the Gaza Strip have made Palestinians change their minds about the terror group are in for a rude awakening. More than half of Palestinians continue to support the atrocities committed by Hamas against Israelis and foreign nationals on October 7. Moreover, the terror group remains popular among a large number of Palestinians. Support for Hamas means support for the destruction of Israel through Jihad (holy war). A poll published on October 28 by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research showed that 53% of the Palestinians think that Hamas's decision to launch the October 7 attack was "correct." A majority of 54% of Palestinians blame Israel for the current suffering of Gazans, while 24% blame the US. Only 14% blame Hamas.
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by Uzay Bulut • October 29, 2025 at 5:00 am
Since 2011, Islamic violence against Nigerian Christians has escalated. "Our reporters have documented that mass kidnappings of women in Kaduna state in 2023 were in fact aimed at capturing scores of women in Southern Kaduna and selling them as sex slaves in the Fulani bandit community." — Douglas Burton, managing editor of "Truth Nigeria," interview with Gatestone Institute, October 2025. "The chief reason there is so little media attention is that the Nigerian media themselves have deliberately failed to give a clear picture of who is doing the violence and why.... Most media appear to be controlled by cash payments from government spokesmen or others offering 'courtesy gifts.' When the army holds a presser, every reporter who shows up gets a cash envelope, the more influential his paper, the bigger the reward -- still the practice in many countries, I believe. TV reporters get better incentives, and TV executives are said to receive parcels of real estate in Kaduna State. TruthNigeria reporters tell me that in previous years they used to take those 'courtesy gifts,' too. Our reporters find it very hard to get Nigerian public affairs officers to answer their calls...." — Douglas Burton, October 2025. U.S. Senator Ted Cruz has introduced the Nigeria Religious Freedom Accountability Act of 2025. "Nigerian Christians are being targeted and executed for their faith by Islamist terrorist groups, and are being forced to submit to sharia law and blasphemy laws across Nigeria. It is long past time to impose real costs on the Nigerian officials who facilitate these activities, and my Nigeria Religious Freedom Accountability Act uses new and existing tools to do exactly that. I urge my colleagues to advance this critical legislation expeditiously." — Senator Ted Cruz, September 11, 2025. Many in the U.S. are urgently expecting the Senate to follow Cruz's lead.
Tens of thousands of Christians in Nigeria have been murdered in recent years by Islamic terrorists, in an ongoing genocide. Other than the massacres, there are also thousands of church burnings, abductions and forced conversions of Christian children and women to Islam. Pictured: The Church of Christ in Nations building in Mangu, Nigeria, photographed on February 2, 2024, after it was torched by Islamic terrorists. (Photo by Kola Sulaimon/AFP via Getty Images)
As the genocide against Christians in Nigeria crashes on, a news outlet, TruthNigeria.com, continues to courageously shed light on the atrocities committed by jihadists against Nigerians of all religions. "Truth Nigeria," according to its website, "had to be launched to slice through the fog of war and the cloud of false narrative that bedevils mainstream media reporting of what many call a 'Christian genocide' in Nigeria that has been spreading like a cancer." Award-winning journalist Douglas Burton, a former U.S. State Department official who says, "I serve as managing editor for about 12 freelancers who risk their lives to lift the veil on the world's most shameful and still barely reported Christian genocide," was interviewed by Gatestone:
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by Nils A. Haug • October 28, 2025 at 5:00 am
The events of October 7, 2023, one recalls, began on a quiet, peaceful holiday morning. Innocent Israelis near the Gaza Strip were either still asleep in their homes, had just started going about their day, or were enjoying the Supernova music festival. All at once, thousands of rockets launched from Gaza came raining down, terrorists flew in on motorized paragliders, and bulldozers crashed through the Gaza border fence, followed by pickup trucks and motorcycles pouring over the border carrying murderous hordes intent on slaughtering them. As a result, Israelis of all ages, babies included, were cut down, raped, burned alive, and beheaded – for no reason other than living in Israel. Israel retaliated, as any normal nation would have done. Nonetheless, it was viciously blamed, starting the next day, for defending its people and homeland, and pursuing the perpetrators of atrocities. The use of the term "global justice" for charges against Israel is therefore an artifice -- a slogan designed to deceive the public into believing an invented people is a "just cause," as the late senior Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) official, Zuheir Mohsen, admitted in 1977: "The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism. Yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity exists only for tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan." Israel's war against terror, if one regards it as a fight between a civilization with laws vs. seventh-century terrorism with machetes, is the quintessence of a just war. Unfortunately, for its critics, it happens to be a righteous, justifiable, act of self-defense... If Israel is committing genocide, they're really, really bad at it. They could have had genocide on October the eighth.... It's absurd. If they were trying to commit genocide, it would not have taken them 22 months." — US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, CBS News, August 8, 2025. "The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters." — Antonio Gramsci, Italian politician, 1924. Many of Europe's leaders, in pandering to terrorists for votes, can be considered complicit in the rise of Jew-hatred and are therefore culpable for the consequences – which, ironically, look as if they will be worse for their countries than for Israel, the country they have been trying to undermine.
Today they are celebrating and congratulating US President Donald J. Trump on the release by Hamas of the living Israeli hostages as part of his Gaza peace plan. Yesterday they were trying to come up with any means they could to disregard him and undermine Israel. Pictured: Trump waves before boarding Air Force One at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel, on October 13, 2025, en route to Egypt. (Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
Today they are celebrating and congratulating US President Donald J. Trump on the release by Hamas of the living Israeli hostages as part of his Gaza peace plan. Yesterday they were trying to come up with any means they could to disregard him and undermine Israel. On October 1, after Israel's interception of Greta Thunberg's Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla, Colombia's President Gustavo Petro said: "The free trade agreement with Israel is cancelled immediately. The entire diplomatic delegation of Israel must leave Colombia immediately."
The Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a press release that read: "Colombia reiterates its solidarity with the Palestinian people and reaffirms its compromise with multilateralism, with respect to international law and global justice."
Hamas was, unsurprisingly, delighted, saying:
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by Khaled Abu Toameh • October 27, 2025 at 5:00 am
According to a report by Israel's KAN News, Hamas has already selected half of the technocratic government's members, including figures sympathetic to the terror group, while the Palestinian Authority, headed by Mahmoud Abbas, chose the other half. Mediators, including Egypt, presented the full list to Hamas to ensure its approval, a move that will allow the terror group to maintain influence in the Gaza Strip after the war. The terrorists who launched the war by committing the worst crime against Jews since the Holocaust and who brought death and destruction on their own people should not be allowed to have a say in the future governance of the coastal enclave. If Hamas is allowed to maintain a security presence in the Gaza Strip, this means that the new government and its members would be at the mercy of terrorists and militiamen who are already carrying out extrajudicial executions against their critics, political opponents and suspected "collaborators" with Israel. US President Donald J. Trump's plan for ending the war in the Gaza Strip states: "Hamas and other factions agreed to not have any role in the governance of Gaza, directly, indirectly, or in any form. Gaza will be governed under the temporary transitional governance of a technocratic, apolitical Palestinian committee, responsible for delivering the day-to-day running of public services and municipalities for the people in Gaza." The factions that met in Cairo made no mention of an "international transitional body" or the proposed "Board of Peace" as outlined in Trump's plan. Needless to say, the Palestinian factions pointedly ignored the part of Trump's plan that calls on the terror groups to lay down their weapons. Hamas leaders have repeatedly emphasized that their group has no intention to disarm before the establishment of an independent and sovereign state. Fatah and Hamas, in short, do not want Trump's "Board of Peace" or any international body to play any role in the governance of the Gaza Strip. Each of the two factions wants the Gaza Strip to be ruled by its own loyalists, masquerading as "independent" and "apolitical" figures. What we are currently witnessing is an attempt by both Fatah and Hamas, with the help of Egypt and Qatar (Hamas's main sponsor and funder), to circumvent the Trump plan.
If Hamas is allowed to maintain a security presence in the Gaza Strip, this means that the new government and its members would be at the mercy of terrorists and militiamen who are already carrying out extrajudicial executions against their critics, political opponents and suspected "collaborators" with Israel. Pictured: On October 10, 2025, senior Hamas official Mohammed Nazzal said on the UAE's Al-Mashhad TV that "the Hamas movement will never surrender its weapons." (Image source: MEMRI)
Are Egypt and Qatar working to ensure Hamas's continued rule over the Gaza Strip by allowing the terror group to choose members of a new technocratic government? Hamas has submitted a list of more than 40 "independent national figures" as potential candidates for forming a technocratic body to administer the Gaza Strip. Mohammed Nazzal, a senior Hamas official, told Qatar's Al-Jazeera TV network that the proposed technocratic government is intended to "enhance humanitarian governance and management in the Gaza Strip in the aftermath of the war," which erupted on October 7, 2023 when the terror group and thousands of ordinary Palestinians invaded Israel, murdered more than 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals, wounded thousands more, and kidnapped 251 people.
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by Pierre Rehov • October 26, 2025 at 5:00 am
Macron did not even have the decency to make his recognition of a non-existent Palestinian state contingent on Hamas releasing the hostages. Joining Macron in this narcissistic display were other small, soft leaders with large, hard Islamist constituencies -- Britain's PM Keir Starmer, Australia's PM Anthony Albanese, and Canada's PM Mark Carney -- who followed Macron's lead in granting international legitimacy to a cause dedicated to terrorism. The Palestinian Authority continues to operate as an unelected dictatorship, funneling millions into its infamous pay-for-slay "jobs" program -- sometimes listed as "welfare" -- which grants salaries to terrorists and their families based on how many Jews they succeed in murdering. The more Jews they murder, the higher the monthly stipend. Palestinian schoolbooks still erase Israel from maps, depict Jews as usurpers, and teach children that the ultimate aspiration is martyrdom. Macron's recognition, applauded by large sections of Europe and beyond, was not the action of a statesman seeking peace. It was a pitiful lunge to hold onto power by a weakened leader, desperate to posture as a "moral arbiter" abroad while avoiding accountability at home. Macron is willing to betray the Israelis, who are fighting not only for the West but for his own people, the French. After France's defeat at the hands of Germany in 1940 came collaboration. France's Vichy regime did not merely submit to German edicts; it embraced its own homegrown antisemitism. Vichy's machinery operated with bureaucratic zeal: statutes defining who was a Jew, the exclusion of Jews from professions, property seizures, internments, and ultimately deportations to Auschwitz. The cultivated myth of a France "shielding" Jews while Germany did the harm has long since been demolished by the historical record. Vichy was a French government, enacting French laws to persecute Jews on French soil, and in too many instances, to deliver them to their deaths. The moral cost was enormous. By making stability the overriding priority, French authorities tacitly normalized contact with organizations that targeted Jews and Israelis. These back-channel accommodations blurred the line between counterterrorism and collusion — and served as an early modern example of a recurring French pattern: When domestic tranquility and influence in the Arab world collide with the safety and security of Jews, the balance is often struck in favor of tranquility. President Chirac, during a visit to Israel in October 1996, erupted at what he called a "provocation" by Israeli plainclothes security guards during a walk in the Old City of Jerusalem — an incident that became emblematic of Paris's sensitivity to perceived Israeli slights and a readiness to dramatize grievances that resonated with the Arab and Muslim public. Whether the outburst was theatre or genuine indignation, it fed a narrative: France would hold Israel to scrutiny in a way that sometimes felt public and punitive, while remaining discreet, conciliatory, or accommodating toward Arab regimes. [H]ow come, if Mohammad al-Durrah was shot, there was no blood at the scene? The controversy led to libel suits, heated media debates in France, and a long war of narratives: for many critics, the al-Durrah case became a test of whether French media could be trusted to report dispassionately on Palestine-Israel — or whether powerful images produced abroad would be turned into instruments of political mobilization at home. For decades, the front pages of Le Monde, Libération, and Le Monde Diplomatique have provided disproportionate framing that vilifies Israel while sanitizing Palestinian violence. Headlines portraying Israeli counter-terrorism as "aggression," while minimizing rocket fire or suicide bombings, have shaped French public opinion, sometimes more decisively than presidential speeches. The effect of this editorial slant is cumulative: each cover, each op-ed, each biased image is built into a narrative architecture in which Israel stands as the perennial aggressor and Palestinians as the archetypal victims. This distortion is not merely academic. It affects political choices, emboldens intellectuals who conflate anti-Zionism with moral virtue, and reinforces a climate where politicians know they can score points by signaling distance from Jerusalem. In the long run, media coverage has hardened the double standard and provided cultural cover for diplomatic betrayals. The 21st century has added a more transactional layer to France's Arab policy: investment in the French economy. Few states have invested more aggressively in French assets and businesses than Qatar. The oil-rich emirate poured billions into Parisian real estate, media holdings, luxury firms, and sports franchises. The purchase of Paris Saint-Germain football team became a symbol of how deeply Qatari capital has embedded itself into French public life. Alongside investment came soft power: television channels, think tanks, and influence campaigns aimed at projecting Doha's narratives into French discourse. Qatar's record is not benign. For years it has financed Hamas and sheltered its leadership. That France tolerated -- even courted -- Qatar despite these links testifies to a familiar pattern: geopolitical expediency trumping moral clarity. Macron's post on X insisted on conditionality (Hamas must relinquish control and the Palestinian Authority must reform), yet those conditions remain unenforceable in practice. A state without concrete guarantees risks rewarding the very actors — such as Hamas and its patrons — who use terrorism as a policy. Macron's declaration looks less like statesmanship and more like firing blanks: a symbolic attempt at appeasement to placate vocal constituencies at home and reclaim the moral high ground abroad by offering up a state that someone else -- a sovereign nation, far away -- is supposed to implement, while offering Israel and the United States nothing at all. Domestically, Macron's maneuver landed poorly. Multiple polls indicate that a large majority of the French public — roughly three-quarters — opposed immediate, unconditional recognition of a "Palestine" while Israeli hostages remained in Gaza or while Hamas remained in power. The disconnect between Macron and his electorate is striking. While he sought applause abroad, he was being widely perceived at home as indulging in moral posturing that had little chance of delivering peace and a lot of chance of making matters worse.
French President Emmanuel Macron's recognition of the non-existent state of "Palestine", applauded by large sections of Europe and beyond, was not the action of a statesman seeking peace. It was a pitiful lunge to hold onto power by a weakened leader, desperate to posture as a "moral arbiter" abroad while avoiding accountability at home. Macron is willing to betray the Israelis, who are fighting not only for the West but for his own people, the French. Pictured: Macron (center), Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer (left) and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a summit meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on October 13, 2025. (Photo by Suzanne Plunkett/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
On the eve of the Jewish New Year, when families across the world were preparing to celebrate renewal and resilience, French President Emmanuel Macron chose a different symbol. He formally recognized, at the United Nations on September 23, a so-called Palestinian state -- an act that emboldened Hamas, even as the 20 Israeli hostages still believed to be alive remained starved, tortured, and trapped in its tunnels in Gaza. Macron did not even have the decency to make his recognition of a non-existent Palestinian state contingent on Hamas releasing the hostages. Joining Macron in this narcissistic display were other small, soft leaders with large, hard Islamist constituencies -- Britain's PM Keir Starmer, Australia's PM Anthony Albanese, and Canada's PM Mark Carney -- who followed Macron's lead in granting international legitimacy to a cause dedicated to terrorism.
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by Amir Taheri • October 26, 2025 at 4:00 am
In the case of Machado, a case could be made to support her brave campaign to force an authoritarian regime to respect its own constitution by allowing free and fair elections according to the law of the land. "There is no need for anyone to be poor in a country as rich as ours," Hugo Chávez asserted. "Give me four years, just give me four years!" Well, Chávez had three times as many years and left Venezuela as poor, if not poorer, and certainly more divided than ever under Maduro, whom he called "my bus driver." Venezuela has headed the list of Latin American nations as far as capital flight is concerned. Over the years, something like $170 billion has been transferred by Venezuelans to foreign, mostly American, banks. The "Bolivarians" also spent billions helping Cuba and distributing free or cut-price oil to several countries, including some areas of the United States. Venezuela ended up with a shortage of gasoline, seeking emergency imports from far-away Iran. Bolivar wanted Latin America to seek allies among Western democracies, not the potentates of the Orient. Simón Bolívar wanted Latin America to compete with the United States by enhancing its own freedoms, improving its educational system, achieving economic growth, and developing its culture. Bolívar did not believe that seeking the destruction of the United States was a worthy goal for any sane person, let alone a nation. Bolívar died in 1830 and is buried in next-door Colombia, but never forgot Venezuela as the "jewel" in the crown of his long campaign for liberation. Had he been here today, he would have sent a bouquet of roses to Machado for her non-violent, but no less courageous, fight for freedom.
Pictured: Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado gives a speech during a protest called by the opposition on the eve of the presidential inauguration, in Caracas on January 9, 2025. (Photo by Federico Parra/AFP via Getty Images)
As might have been expected, the decision by the Nobel Committee in Oslo to grant this year's Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has raised a storm of controversy about an annual ritual that has been losing luster for years. Critics say the committee chose Machado, a staunch Trumpist, because it didn't want to anoint her idol. At the same time, choosing another "globalist left-winger" would have given some credibility to the charge that most Nobel prizes have become political trophies. One example: French President Emmanuel Macron's economic advisor was named a winner in economics. Even in science categories, prizes are distributed in a way to reflect geopolitics. In literature, the winner, at least for the past 30 years, has been a writer or poet with left-wing credentials and few readers outside the European champagne and caviar liberal elites.
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by Majid Rafizadeh • October 25, 2025 at 5:00 am
The United Nations was founded on the promise of upholding peace, justice, and universal human rights. Today, however, it appears less like a beacon of morality and more like a stage for savagery and hypocrisy. The UN is quick to condemn democratic nations such as the United States and Israel for defending their citizens and fighting terrorism, but goes out of its way to protect, coddle, and even elevate some of the world's most brutal and oppressive regimes — most notably Iran. The UN, which should be standing with the oppressed, is instead handing power and legitimacy to their oppressors. It is as if the UN places arsonists in charge of the fire department and then acts surprised when the firehouse burns down. The US should pay only for the programs it wants and get what it pays for, or at least, as US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz has suggested, pay only commensurately for UN support. The US needs to stop smiling, drinking coffee with murderers -- and especially funding them -- and instead stand shoulder-to-shoulder with those fighting for freedom. Until that happens, the UN will remain what it has sadly become: an expensive, corrupt horror show at the expense of humanity's most courageous people.
The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) again appointed representatives from the Iranian regime in February, to serve as "human rights experts." The irony could not be more striking — or disturbing. How can a regime that suppresses free speech, executes political prisoners and imprisons women for not covering their hair now sit in judgment of others on human rights? Pictured: Delegates and representatives attend the 60th session of the UNHRC, in Geneva, on September 8, 2025. (Photo by Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images)
The United Nations was founded on the promise of upholding peace, justice, and universal human rights. Today, however, it appears less like a beacon of morality and more like a stage for savagery and hypocrisy. The UN is quick to condemn democratic nations such as the United States and Israel for defending their citizens and fighting terrorism, but goes out of its way to protect, coddle, and even elevate some of the world's most brutal and oppressive regimes — most notably Iran. The UN, which should be standing with the oppressed, is instead handing power and legitimacy to their oppressors.
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by Pierre Rehov • October 24, 2025 at 5:00 am
The attack, lightning-fast and captured on surveillance video, shocked many, not merely because it was yet another terrible homicide, but because it has forced Americans to confront the failure of institutions meant to protect them -- the innocent -- as well as the cultural paralysis that prevents ordinary people from intervening, and the ideological narratives that try to erase both motive and responsibility. Multiple reports relate that as he exited the train after the murder, he said, "I got that white girl." These words, if confirmed by law enforcement, speak to a motive. At a minimum, they reflect the lens through which many now see such events -- not only as homicidal acts by dangerously unstable people, but as anti-white racist attacks that our culture will bend over backwards not to name. [A] responsible system would never have put him back among commuters in the first place. Zarutska's murder -- and the murders of Laken Riley, Jocelyn Nungaray, Rachel Morin, Kayla Hamilton, and, most recently, Logan Federico, among others -- were preventable. They happened because a constellation of decisions — judicial, bureaucratic, cultural — favored the ideology of leniency and the comfort of excuses over the duty to protect the innocent. "Bang! Dead. Gone. Why? Because Alexander Devante Dickey — who was arrested 39 Goddamn times, 25 felonies — was on the street," Stephen Federico, Logan Federico's father, testified before the US House Judiciary Committee. These youngsters are ignored by the political class to a degree that is almost criminal itself – after all youngsters do not vote. There never seem to be sufficient funds seriously to address problems of mental health. What our leaders, sadly, appear to be building are conveyor belts from probation to homicide. It is not cruel to confine a dangerous, mentally ill man to a secure hospital. It is cruel to return him to a city train with a knife in his pocket and a world of demons in his head. One can care about mental health while also insisting that dangerous people be confined. One can care about civil liberties while also admitting that leniency can kill. In elite discourse, naming or even speaking of anti-white hatred is now the ultimate taboo. It violates the moral arithmetic of a worldview that assigns all blame in a single direction. [T]he public are entitled to request that, when in doubt regarding to whom to afford compassion -- the suspect or the public -- in an ideal world it would be both, but in the real world, there is a case to be made for protecting the public. If compassion for the accused is not balanced by protection for the public, it is complicity. This double standard is not, regrettably, a figment of partisan imagination. It is a feature of a media ecosystem in which narrative precedes fact. The victims who count are those who confirm the story that powerful institutions already want to tell. Everyone else is an inconvenience. In the case of Zarutska, the media's hedging confirmed a suspicion deeply rooted in the American mind: that in the newsroom's moral calculus, and in a reverse-racism, some lives are still more equal than others. These reforms are not revolutionary. They are restorative. They assume what America once took for granted: that the state's first duty is for the "common defense;" that rights are matched by responsibilities, and that the innocent come first. Zarutska's murder has helped the country to remember what it had been taught to forget: that civilization is earned, every day, by people who make themselves responsible for one another. If and when Brown said, "I got that white girl," he did more than admit hatred. He exposed the obscene double standard at the heart of elite discourse. For years, we were told that speech could be violence, that silence could be violence, that thoughts could be violence — unless one could "relativize" the crimes away. This lie should now be at an end.
The murder in August of Iryna Zarutska has forced Americans to confront the failure of institutions meant to protect them -- the innocent -- as well as the cultural paralysis that prevents ordinary people from intervening, and the ideological narratives that try to erase both motive and responsibility. Pictured: Zarutska (at right in black baseball cap), seconds before she was murdered by Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr., who is seated directly behind her. (Screenshot from Charlotte Area Transit System surveillance video)
On the evening of August 22, 2025, a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee, Iryna Zarutska, boarded the light rail in Charlotte, North Carolina, on her way home from work. She had fled a war to find safety. She believed America would be a haven where a young woman could rebuild her life, learn English, and contribute honestly. Minutes later, she lay dying on the floor of that car, stabbed multiple times, bleeding out. The attack, lightning-fast and captured on surveillance video, shocked many, not merely because it was yet another terrible homicide, but because it forced Americans to confront the failure of institutions meant to protect them -- the innocent -- as well as the cultural paralysis that prevents ordinary people from intervening, and the ideological narratives that try to erase both motive and responsibility.
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by Khaled Abu Toameh • October 23, 2025 at 5:00 am
"If we achieve a sovereign and independent Palestinian state that preserves the rights of the Palestinian people, then these weapons will be transferred to the Palestinian state and its army." — Abdul Jabbar Saeed, member of Hamas's political bureau, arabi21.com, October 16, 2025. Saeed dismissed the idea of deploying international forces in the Gaza Strip.... He also rejected the idea of excluding Hamas from playing a future role in the governance of the Gaza Strip. "Completely excluding Hamas from the scene is not possible," he stressed. The involvement of Qatar and Turkey in the Gaza Strip is problematic because the two countries have always been supportive of Hamas. Both countries continue to provide shelter to several Hamas leaders and act as if they are its attorneys by constantly defending the terror group while condemning Israel. The Saudis and Emiratis have reportedly notified the Trump administration that they would downgrade their level of engagement in the implementation of the Trump plan. Referring to Qatar, they warned that increasing the influence of "countries that destabilize the region" would derail the momentum of prosperity Trump has touted. A Saudi source warned that Qatar was expected to help Hamas maintain its presence and return at an opportune moment. Notably, in 2017 several Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt and the UAE decided to cut their diplomatic ties with Qatar over the Gulf state's support for Islamist terror groups, especially the Muslim Brotherhood. Saudi Arabia said it made the decision to cut diplomatic ties due to Qatar's "embrace of various terrorist and sectarian groups aimed at destabilizing the region," including the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamic State (ISIS), and groups supported by Iran in the kingdom's eastern province of Qatif. Egypt's Foreign Ministry accused Qatar of taking "an antagonistic approach" toward Egypt and said "all attempts to stop it from supporting terrorist groups failed...." Instead of insisting that Hamas lay down its weapons in compliance with Trump's plan, they are now talking about the possibility that the terror group would "freeze" its weapons.... It is worth noting that the Trump plan does not talk about a "freeze" of Hamas's weapons. Bahrain, for its part, blamed Qatar's "media incitement, support for armed terrorist activities, and funding linked to Iranian groups to carry out sabotage and spreading chaos in Bahrain" for its decision to cut diplomatic ties. Anyone who believes that Hamas will voluntarily give up its weapons is living in a dream world. For the terror group, this would be tantamount to suicide. The terms "demilitarization" and "deradicalization" do not exist in Hamas's lexicon. Worse, anyone who believes that Qatar and Turkey will force Hamas to dismantle its military infrastructure is also living in fantasy land.
Anyone who believes that Hamas will voluntarily give up its weapons is living in a dream world. For the terror group, this would be tantamount to suicide. The terms "demilitarization" and "deradicalization" do not exist in Hamas's lexicon. Pictured: A Hamas gunman stands in a crowd of human shields, in Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip on October 13, 2025. (Photo by Bashar Taleb/AFP via Getty Images)
According to US President Donald Trump's plan for ending the war in the Gaza Strip, "all military, terror, and offensive infrastructure, including tunnels and weapon production facilities, will be destroyed and not rebuilt. There will be a process of demilitarization of Gaza under the supervision of independent monitors, which will include placing weapons permanently beyond use through an agreed process of decommissioning." Since the announcement of the plan, however, Hamas officials have repeatedly emphasized that their Iran-backed terror group, which started the war by attacking Israel on October 7, 2023, has no intention of laying down its weapons. Hamas evidently wants to hold onto its weapons so that it can continue its Jihad (holy war) against Israel and ensure its own continued control of the Gaza Strip.
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by Con Coughlin • October 22, 2025 at 5:00 am
With counter-terrorism officials warning that the huge influx of illegal immigrants entering European countries could lead to further terrorist atrocities, [Elon] Musk's warning that the UK needed a "revolutionary government change" to tackle the migrant crisis could not be more timely. The ability of the UK security authorities to tackle the problem has been undermined by London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who claims that anti-Israel protesters who chant "From the river to the sea" are not anti-Semitic. Reportedly, supporters of Mamdani are "training 30 more people" to bring his policies to more American cities. There have already been countless instances of such Islamic violence in Europe and the US, including both World Trade Center attacks (1993 and September 11, 2001), as well as in the UK, Germany, France, Denmark, Sweden and Spain. The deeply disturbing trends in Europe... should serve as a warning to the US and its Western allies about the dangers of tolerating large-scale immigration, especially concerning migrants who struggle to impose Islamic sharia law and the judicial systems of the countries from which they came, rather than adopt the laws and values of the West.
Elon Musk's blunt warning that "violence is coming" to the UK because of its failed immigration policy dating back decades has turned out to be chillingly prophetic. Within weeks of his dire warning, two Jewish worshippers were killed and three others wounded in a terrorist attack on a synagogue in Manchester, carried out by a Muslim jihadi. Pictured: Police officers near the scene of the terrorist attack at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Manchester, England on October 2, 2025. (Photo by Paul Currie/AFP via Getty Images)
Elon Musk's blunt warning that "violence is coming" to the UK because of its failed immigration policy dating back decades has turned out to be chillingly prophetic. Within just weeks of the tech entrepreneur issuing his dire warning, two Jewish worshippers were killed and three others wounded in a terrorist attack on a synagogue in Manchester, carried out by a Muslim jihadi. The unprovoked attack, which took place on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, should serve as a warning to the US and other Western countries about the dangers of lax immigration policies. Jihad al-Shamie, the 35-year-old terrorist responsible for carrying out the Manchester synagogue attack, came from a family of Syrian immigrants who had lived in the UK since the 1990s and been granted British citizenship.
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