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by Guy Millière • January 20, 2026 at 5:00 am
The EU sanctions have resulted in grotesque consequences for both men. Their bank accounts in the EU have been frozen. They cannot use their credit cards. They have no right to enter EU countries. Baud is subsisting on the food stored in his house in Belgium.... According to one report, "[h]is ability to travel inside the EU was revoked. He cannot even return to his own country." The French government, which sanctioned both men while providing no proof of guilt or affording them due process, has asked that the sanctions be extended to all EU member countries. While one might disagree with what the two men said and wrote, freedom of speech is, or should be, one of the fundamental principles of a democratic society, which France and the EU purport to be. France's request that the EU sanction "propagandists," and the EU's decision to take arbitrary measures without even asking France for any proof of wrongdoing or offering any kind of due process, signals that what is happening in France could easily spread to the rest of Europe. The EU already has in place crippling censorship measures for online media and social networks. The DSA [Digital Services Act] decrees that social media and websites must "police what they publish" or risk high fines. It is, of course, the European Commission itself that decides what is "illegal" or "harmful", so it can issue whatever judgments it wants. During the 2024 US election campaign, when Elon Musk said he would conduct an interview with then-candidate Donald Trump on X, the social media Musk owns, Thierry Breton, then European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services and the "mastermind" behind the DSA, sent Musk a letter saying that the EU could levy fines against X if the interview contained "illegal content." Musk, replying that he did not accept threats, went ahead with the interview. The EU promptly fined X €120 million (about $140 million) in December 2025 for breaching the DSA. Musk described the EU officials as "woke Stasi commissars" and added, "The EU should be abolished". The DSA was written by unelected, unaccountable, untransparent and irremovable senior EU officials, then voted in by the European Parliament, which has no real power and is just an approval body for what the European Commission decides. The DSA was not voted on by the national parliaments of EU member states. All citizens of EU member countries are now faced with a mandated requirement to which they never agreed. The European Commission, apparently not content with that, is reportedly planning to go further. It is preparing a new law, "Chat Control", which would allow the "automatic scan[ning] of private content (texts, images, videos) sent through messaging platforms such as WhatsApp and Telegram, or prompts sent to AI platforms (e.g. ChatGPT) [that] would take place 'client-side,' before its encryption, meaning directly on your phone, tablet or computer." The "Chat Control" software would then "forward any material flagged as prohibited to law enforcement agencies." This would herald potential total control of every online conversation and the impossibility of speaking freely without being monitored. Every effort is being made by those in power within the ruling structures of the EU to ensure that parties in favor of national sovereignty and opposed to uncontrolled immigration and the Islamization of Europe are kept out of power, despite the exploding support from voters. The fatal vulnerability of all democracies is that politicians are usually more concerned with seeking votes and keeping their jobs than about where their countries are going. Undermining freedom of speech, freedom of the media, and freedom of political choice -- as well as treating disagreements on important issues such as foreign policy, immigration, Islamization and national sovereignty as punishable crimes -- has become an integral part of the erosion of European civilization. The idea of democracy was born in Europe, but European countries and the EU are painstakingly throwing it away.
Every effort is being made by those in power within the ruling structures of the European Union to ensure that parties in favor of national sovereignty and opposed to uncontrolled immigration and the Islamization of Europe are kept out of power, despite the exploding support from voters. Pictured: The headquarters of the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium. (Photo by Emmanuel Dunand/AFP via Getty Images)
December 15. France. Two men, Jacques Baud and Xavier Moreau, who commented online about the war in Ukraine, discovered that they were among 12 people being sanctioned by the European Union for allegedly spreading propaganda for the Russian government. Some of the 12 people are propagandists, just not them. No evidence so far has proven that they had any ties with either the Russian government or Russian intelligence agencies.
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by Lawrence Kadish • January 20, 2026 at 4:00 am
Because we are a nation too often adrift from our own history, we do not know, or appreciate, that the United States has historically deployed military forces when the freedom of speech has metastasized into riots and street violence. Pictured: An armed man in St. Paul, Minnesota protests against the presence of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the city, on January 18, 2026. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Today's urban tour guides often pause before the stunning castle-like architecture of America's armories, those turn-of-the-last-century landmarks in many of our nation's cities. Once used as the home for local National Guard regiments, they remain dramatically impressive, becoming a new home to passing conventions and exhibits, theatrical productions, and even indoor motor sports. What is left untold is that these buildings were carefully sited in the center of key locations in those cities for the specific purpose of confronting the political street violence that was prevalent during that era. While President Donald Trump has recently pulled back from his intent to invoke the Insurrection Act that would send military forces into Minneapolis to confront a situation that threatened to cede control of the streets to a mob, the role of the military in America's urban centers can be found in every one of those "quaint" historic armories.
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by Robert Williams • January 19, 2026 at 1:30 pm
Since the outbreak of full-scale war in April 2023, Muslim Brotherhood loyalists have not merely supported the Sudanese army — they have embedded themselves within its operational, intelligence, and political core. In effect, the war has allowed the [Muslim] Brotherhood's defenders to re-enter the state through the back door, under the cover of national defense. Politically, Brotherhood-aligned parties and media outlets have worked aggressively to undermine ceasefire efforts, reject negotiations, and delegitimize civilian alternatives, framing the war as an existential struggle against "foreign agents" and "enemies of Islam." This rhetoric is not incidental — it is designed to justify indefinite conflict while positioning the Brotherhood as an indispensable wartime ally. While the Brotherhood and al-Qaeda differed ideologically – with al-Qaeda preferring armed struggles and the adherents of the Brotherhood preferring gradual infiltration and political power – they converged tactically. Sudan served as a permissive environment where extremist networks could operate with minimal restraint. Under Brotherhood-dominated governance, Sudan hosted Osama bin Laden from 1991 to 1996..... The Brotherhood's relationship with Hamas further illustrates its role as a regional facilitator of militant movements. For Iran, Sudan offered geographic reach. For the followers of the Brotherhood, Iranian support provided leverage, resources, and regional relevance. Ideology proved secondary to shared enemies and mutual utility. [T]he Muslim Brotherhood is not an external influence on al-Burhan's regime — it is its ideological and organizational backbone. A regime such as Sudan's, whose core is built on a movement with a documented history of hosting al-Qaeda, financing Hamas, cooperating with Iran, and undermining democratic transitions, cannot serve as a reliable partner for stability. Sudan's war has many fronts, but its center of gravity remains the same. Until the grip of the Brotherhood's extremists on the state is broken, peace will remain elusive — and instability will remain policy.
At the core of the Sudanese military regime led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan lies a deeply entrenched ideological and organizational force: the revolutionaries of the Sudanese Muslim Brotherhood. Pictured: Al-Burhan speaks in Port Sudan, on February 17, 2025. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)
By any serious measure, the Sudanese military regime led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan does not operate in isolation. At its core lies a deeply entrenched ideological and organizational force: the revolutionaries of the Sudanese Muslim Brotherhood. While international attention has largely framed Sudan's war as a struggle between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), this binary obscures a more consequential reality. The conflict is also the latest chapter in the Brotherhood's decades-long project to dominate the Sudanese state — by force when necessary, by infiltration when possible, and by regional alliances when useful. The Brotherhood as a Wartime Power BrokerSince the outbreak of full-scale war in April 2023, Muslim Brotherhood loyalists have not merely supported the Sudanese army — they have embedded themselves within its operational, intelligence, and political core.
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by Khaled Abu Toameh • January 19, 2026 at 5:00 am
US President Donald J. Trump's plan for ending the Israel-Hamas war should have included a provision to stipulate the need for a different regime in Iran. That is the fastest, best and, unfortunately, the only way to eradicate Hamas and destroy "[a]ll military, terror, and offensive infrastructure, including tunnels and weapon production facilities" not only in the Gaza Strip, as stated in Trump's 20-point plan, but also the Middle East. Without Iran's support, there also would be no proxies – such as the Houthis, Hezbollah and Venezuela -- nor their alliances with Russia and China. Qatar and Turkey, longtime supporters of Hamas, have also been reinforcing the terror group with money and diplomatic backing. Both Qatar and Turkey -- followers, like Hamas, of the Muslim Brotherhood -- continue to host senior Hamas officials and operatives. That is why it does not seem a prudent decision on the part of Trump to have included Qatar and Turkey on his "Board of Peace" to oversee the postwar management of the Gaza Strip. In addition to Qatar and Turkey, Egypt, and Britain – which, sadly, has not been a dependable friend to Israel -- were appointed as members of the newly established Executive Committee of the Board of Peace, chaired by Trump himself. Providentially, the United Arab Emirates, which, despite extensive turbulence, has been an unwavering supporter of Trump, the US and the West, also serves on the Executive Committee. Like Iran, Qatar and Turkey have an interest in preserving Hamas's presence both as a political and military entity.... they are totally unlikely to participate in any effort to disarm Hamas or demilitarize the territory. The danger is that after Trump leaves office, these countries -- no friends of Israel --will be irresistibly positioned to attack it. Notably, no Arab or Islamic country has so far expressed the slightest readiness to play any role in forcing Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups to surrender their weapons.... After all, so long as terror attacks are directed only against Israel, Hamas and other terror groups in Gaza do not pose a direct threat to their regimes. With the mullahs still in place, there is every reason to believe that the strategic alliance within the "axis of resistance" -- Iran, Russia, China -- will also stay in place. Hamas still uses Iran for its weapons, military training and technology. Although Iran is reportedly bankrupt, the mullahs will continue to pour millions of dollars on Hamas and Hezbollah. Iran cannot afford to lose its two main proxies in the Middle East. It is crucial at this juncture to free the Palestinians from the boot of Hamas and the Iranians from the boot of the mullahs. The disappearance of both would do Trumpian wonders for the entire planet.
US President Donald J. Trump's plan for ending the Israel-Hamas war exposes the elephant in the room: the Iranian regime. Without Iran's support, Hamas would not have been able to transform the Gaza Strip into a large base for Jihad (holy war) against Israel. Pictured: Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, meets with Ismail Haniyeh, then leader of Hamas, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Ziyad al-Nakhalah, on July 30, 2024 in Tehran, Iran. (Photo by the Iranian Supreme Leader's Press Office via Getty Images)
US President Donald J. Trump's plan for ending the Israel-Hamas war should have included a provision to stipulate the need for a different regime in Iran. That is the fastest, best and, unfortunately, the only way to eradicate Hamas and destroy "[a]ll military, terror, and offensive infrastructure, including tunnels and weapon production facilities" not only in the Gaza Strip, as stated in Trump's 20-point plan, but also the Middle East.
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Iran's Strategy of Delay
The Islamic Republic is gambling on US attention on its brutality eventually subsiding
by Ahmed Charai • January 19, 2026 at 4:00 am
Millions of Iranians took to the streets demanding freedom, dignity, economic opportunity, and basic services that any responsible government should provide. According to multiple credible human rights organizations and international NGOs, the Iranian authorities killed and executed more than 3,500 innocent Iranians during the latest unrest. Thousands more were arrested, tortured, or disappeared. These killings were not spontaneous acts of crowd control; they were deliberate, systematic decisions taken at the highest levels of the state. Repression is not a policy failure of the Islamic Republic — it is its governing method. A regime willing to massacre its own citizens does not suddenly behave responsibly beyond its borders. [W]hen confronted with real pressure, Tehran recalculates. When pressure is lifted, it advances. This context also explains why repeated negotiations with Tehran have failed. The Iranian regime does not negotiate to resolve disputes; it negotiates to gain time. Agreements are used to relieve pressure, stabilize the regime internally, and resume hostile activities under new constraints. Time — more than ideology or diplomacy — is Tehran's most effective strategic weapon. Iran remains the central obstacle to any serious vision of stability, integration, and prosperity in the Middle East. No development strategy can succeed while Tehran continues to invest in repression at home and violence abroad. The Iranian leadership is betting — once again — on time, on US elections, on distractions. That bet must fail. The Iranian people deserve a future. The region deserves stability. And President Trump's leadership demands resolve.
According to multiple credible human rights organizations and international NGOs, the Iranian authorities killed and executed more than 3,500 innocent Iranians during the latest unrest. Thousands more were arrested, tortured, or disappeared. These killings were not spontaneous acts of crowd control; they were deliberate, systematic decisions taken at the highest levels of the state. Repression is not a policy failure of the Islamic Republic — it is its governing method. Pictured: Iranians protest against the regime on January 9, 2026, in Tehran. (Photo by MAHSA/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
Iran is not a conventional adversary operating within accepted rules of state behavior. It is a regime whose survival depends on repression at home, destabilization abroad, and the systematic manipulation of diplomacy. For more than four decades, Tehran has refined a strategy built on violence, delay, and deception, betting on Western hesitation, election cycles, and diplomatic fatigue to advance its objectives while avoiding consequences. The most recent wave of protests inside Iran exposed this reality with brutal clarity. These demonstrations were not ideological uprisings orchestrated from abroad, as the regime claims. They are rooted in daily hardship. Millions of Iranians took to the streets demanding freedom, dignity, economic opportunity, and basic services that any responsible government should provide.
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by Pierre Rehov • January 18, 2026 at 5:00 am
"The ruthless slaughter of anti-government protesters in Iran appears to have stopped — but only because residents are being held hostage in their homes by machine gun-wielding security forces that have flooded the streets... 'There were tanks out — there's tanks everywhere'... 'There are no protests anymore because of massive killings. With 12,000 dead, people are terrified...'" — The New York Post, January 15, 2026. Iranians have learned through bitter experience that when executions are "paused," this does not mean they are canceled: they are "postponed" or carried out quietly, away from international scrutiny. What this episode ultimately exposed was not simply a tactical decision by one administration, but a structural failure in how the West approaches popular uprisings against entrenched tyrannies. Western leaders are adept at virtue signaling but conspicuously hesitant and fragmentary at follow-through. Expressions of solidarity are issued quickly; commitments to protection are hedged or left deliberately vague. The Islamic Republic understands this pattern intimately. It knows that it can absorb rhetorical condemnation, wait out media cycles, and then resume repression once attention shifts elsewhere. Tehran's temporary retreat on executions, whether genuine or tactical, fits neatly into this playbook. A regime that has survived more than four decades through systematic violence does not abandon its methods because of warnings. It adapts, recalibrates and seeks to reduce the immediate risk of foreign intervention while preserving its core mechanisms of control. The danger for the protesters is that external encouragement, when not backed by sustained pressure, can accelerate this cycle by convincing the regime that it must act more efficiently, more quietly, and more ruthlessly. [O]ppressed populations are encouraged [by the West] to rise, while those encouraging them retain the option to disengage.... By speaking openly about consequences and then stepping back once Tehran signaled a partial retreat, [Trump] exposed the limits of American power in a way that previous administrations often concealed behind bureaucratic language. Iran's regime has revealed, once again, the deadly trap at the heart of Western policy, seen in Ukraine as well as in the Middle East: a willingness to praise bravery without guaranteeing protection. Trump's handling of these crises should be read less as a simple failure or success than as a warning. Words can inspire, but they can also expose countless people to monumental danger. In Iran today, and Ukraine, the difference between success and disaster depends not on declarations, but on whether those who speak the loudest are prepared actually to follow through.
Tehran's temporary retreat on executions, whether genuine or tactical, fits neatly into this playbook. A regime that has survived more than four decades through systematic violence does not abandon its methods because of warnings. It adapts, recalibrates and seeks to reduce the immediate risk of foreign intervention while preserving its core mechanisms of control. Pictured: A public execution Mashhad, Iran on December 12, 2022. (Photo by Mizan News/AFP via Getty Images)
Iran's latest uprising began the way they always do: with humiliation in the marketplace, a collapsing currency, families unable to buy basic necessities, and a generation that has already lived through enough lies to recognize the smell of fear from the regime. What followed was the most serious nationwide challenge to the Islamic Republic since 1979: demonstrations spread across all 31 provinces, cascading through major cities and smaller towns alike, and then the familiar machinery of terror grinding into motion — live fire from police and regime militias, mass arrests, forced confessions, rushed trials, and the deliberate use of executions as a public "lesson."
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by Amir Taheri • January 18, 2026 at 4:00 am
The most remarkable feature of the year in question is Trump's success, perhaps unintentionally, in desacralizing power by opening it to the agora with TV cameras that delineate its contours. The 9-to-5 political day is gone. With Trump, we have seen the end, at least for the time being, of the era of grandiloquence in favor of simple, right-to-the-point quips that remind one of Gary Cooper in his Westerns. "We're locked and loaded!" is one example. He has shaken the United Nations by withdrawing from dozens of "international" agencies acting as gravy trains for the "progressive" elite of tax-exempt bureaucrats and technocrats, all card-carrying members of the Blame-America-First fraternity. Also shaken out of its slumber has been the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which had morphed into a lobbying and public relations outfit rather than a military machine to fight putative aggressors. Trump has persuaded NATO members that unless they are ready to at least wash their dishes, the American "room service" might not rush in the dinner trolley.
Pictured: President Donald Trump is sworn into office by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts as Melania Trump holds the Bible in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Julia Demaree Nikhinson/Pool/Getty Images)
This week marks the first anniversary of Donald J. Trump's return to the White House, and you may or may not want to celebrate. What you can't do is deny that it has been an exciting year. The first thing worth noting is that the year in question was different from the first year in Trump's first presidential term, which might be recorded as a case of organized chaos. In that year, the focus was on how and when Trump would stop his "you're hired, you're fired" show, which had been transferred from TV studios to the White House. This term, with a minor hitch caused by finding the proper slot for Mike Waltz, the presidential team was quickly mobilized to hit the road from day one. Early speculations about who could be the first to be kicked out faded within days.
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by Majid Rafizadeh • January 17, 2026 at 5:00 am
When it comes to Iran... where ordinary, unarmed people demanding freedom are being beaten, tortured, imprisoned, and gunned down in the streets by their own leaders, this high-minded moral chorus has all but disappeared. The same institutions and voices that were so shrill and relentless when condemning Israel in the name of Palestinian rights are, when courageous Iranian lives are at stake, spectacularly non-existent. This double standard only exposes the bottomless hypocrisy at the heart of much contemporary human rights activism. The Iranian people, after weeks of being massacred in the streets, are still waiting for that "locked and loaded" promise that Trump keeps making but never delivers. To them, once again, as during the term of President Barack Hussein Obama, it must look as if their deaths do not matter, and do not trigger the same "moral reflex" as other conflicts. Is Trump really going to thwart the efforts of these unimaginably courageous people trying to rid themselves of a brutal despotism that has been attacking them for 47 years? The silence tells them that the human rights of the global liberal and leftist establishment are not truly universal at all -- but conditional, applied extremely selectively based on being paid and transported by professional organizers, as well as on often fabricated anti-American and anti-Jewish geopolitical narratives. Instead, what we see is -- nothing. A few indignant statements are released, carefully worded to be stripped of urgency. There are no mobilizations, no sense that what is happening in Iran represents a deadly emergency. This passivity contrasts with the manufactured energy poured into other causes. The moment outrage is selective, it is no longer moral; it is just political puffery. Women who resist are harassed, tortured, raped in detention or even killed. In recent uprisings, women have openly defied the regime. They have removed their headscarves and called for freedom while daring to imagine a life without fear. Many are today paying with their lives for their courage while the loud, fearless, sanctimonious "defenders of human rights" just shop at the supermarket. These protests are not just about Iran. They are about whether human rights are truly universal or just rhetorical twaddle deployed when one has nothing better to do.
The United Nations, prominent NGOs, liberal politicians, and left-leaning activist networks seemingly love to frame themselves as some kind of elevated moral conscience for the international system. When it comes to Iran, however, where ordinary, unarmed people demanding freedom are being beaten, tortured, imprisoned, and gunned down in the streets by their own leaders, this high-minded moral chorus has all but disappeared. Pictured: Iranians protest against their regime on January 8, 2026 in Tehran, Iran. (Photo by Anonymous/Getty Images)
The United Nations, prominent NGOs, liberal politicians, and left-leaning activist networks seemingly love to frame themselves as some kind of elevated moral conscience for the international system. They speak the language of "justice," "dignity," and "universal human rights," and insist -- sometimes with threats and violence -- that silence in the face of oppression is "complicity." When it comes to Iran, however, where ordinary, unarmed people demanding freedom are being beaten, tortured, imprisoned, and gunned down in the streets by their own leaders, this high-minded moral chorus has all but disappeared. If the slaughter has stopped, it is reportedly "only because residents are being held hostage in their homes by machine gun-wielding security forces that have flooded the streets."
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by Robert Williams • January 16, 2026 at 5:00 am
Despite encouraging Iran's protesters to carry on and assuring them that American "help is on its way," Trump has done nothing to compel the regime to permanently stop the killing or its other atrocities. The question becomes: Is Trump actually going to leave these psychopaths in power and effectively thwart the brave, unarmed Iranians from ridding themselves of an armed government that has been suppressing, torturing and slaughtering them in the streets over the past 47 years? For reasons that are entirely unclear, Trump already has a history, unfortunately, of rescuing the Iranian regime -- called by the US State Department 39 years in a row, since 1984 the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism. Trump first said he did not want regime change in Iran; then posted that he might want regime change if it could "Make Iran Great Again: MIGA!!!", before turning around, yet again, and reimposing the ceasefire. Trump also seems constantly to be "forgetting" that Iran has been attacking the US since 1979... Every US adversary -- from Russian President Vladimir Putin to Chinese President Xi Jinping -- can now assume that the Trump administration, while giving diplomacy so much of a chance that it is effectively no help at all, is primarily just huffing and puffing, while every US ally can now assume that the US no longer can be trusted. The Trump administration's dawdling appears virtually the same as that of President Joe Biden.... Such acoustics with no follow-up destroy US deterrence and paint the Trump administration as weak and dithering at a time when the future of American preeminence is at stake. That is a terrible look.
Despite encouraging Iran's protesters to carry on and assuring them that American "help is on its way," President Donald Trump has done nothing to compel the regime to permanently stop the killing or its other atrocities. Pictured: Iranians protest against their regime on January 8, 2026 in Tehran, Iran. (Photo by Anonymous/Getty Images)
It has been nearly two weeks since US President Donald J. Trump threatened the Iranian regime with military intervention for killing its demonstrating citizens. "If Iran shoots and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue," the president wrote in a post on Truth Social on January 2, about five days into the Iranian protests. "We are locked and loaded and ready to go." Since then, according to Iran International, the regime has killed "at least 12,000," and according to CBS News, "possibly as many as 20,000 people." According to the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), as of January 14, "[at] 617 protest gatherings in 187 cities across the country, the arrest of at least 18,470 people [was reported]." On January 13, Trump wrote:
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by Bassam Tawil • January 15, 2026 at 5:00 am
Placing the Gaza Strip under the jurisdiction of an international body that includes longtime supporters of Hamas and other terrorists will unfortunately be even more disastrous than the 1993 Oslo Accord, signed between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). The last thing Israel and the US need in the Gaza Strip is another Oslo Accord-style counterfeit agreement. In reality, there are only two countries capable of carrying out this task: the US and Israel. Other countries -- not only Arab and Muslim, as Jordan's King Abdullah II warned, but also European, including, Germany, Italy, Britain and Canada -- clearly have less than no interest in actively combating terrorism in the Gaza Strip. [A]s Trump said about Venezuela, "We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and secure transition... We can't take a chance that somebody else takes over... that doesn't have the good of the... people in mind." If the US can run Venezuela or Greenland, or set up "security" for Ukraine consisting of US businesses, why not in the Gaza Strip -- smaller but geopolitically just as critical for the US -- as well? US and Israeli control of the Gaza Strip would, ironically, provide the least risk to all the parties involved -- most of all to the Palestinians of Gaza. Such an arrangement seems the only realistic solution that could lead to reduced violence and long-term regional stability. A joint US and Israeli security and business presence there could result at last in the emergence of moderate, pragmatic Palestinians. Such an outcome will certainly never take place if Qatar, Turkey, Pakistan or the Palestinian Authority are allowed inside the Gaza Strip. There is a far higher probability of accords being torn up and a new war launched after Trump leaves office. American or Israeli control of the Gaza Strip would not only prevent Palestinian terrorists from gaining more power and launching attacks again but also send a reassuring message to neighboring Arab and Islamic states that they would be able to rely on the US when it comes to combating Islamist terrorism against their own regimes as well. A strong US and foreign business presence, with the knowledge that these investments are safely protected, would not only create job opportunities and improve living conditions for local residents but could also make Gaza the spectacular "Gaza Riviera" it is waiting to become. At the moment, many countries are hardly rushing to invest in Gaza. If countries aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood were in charge, there would be no way of protecting their investment, or even enforcing law and order. If the US Administration thinks that an Arab and Muslim "Peace Board" will actually take any significant action to ensure that Hamas disarms and disbands, they are in for a nasty shock. The minute the first shot is fired, the last thing on the minds of the "Board of Peace" will be enforcing "Peace." After two years of death and destruction, many Palestinians would prefer to live under American or even -- without admitting it of course --- Israeli control, than under a terror group that has brought them nothing but death, destruction and a new nakba (catastrophe). Saudi Arabia and other Arab and Islamic countries would most likely be happy to be on the side of the "strong horse." Strange as it may seem, Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are popular among many Arabs and Muslims: they are viewed as reliable, sturdy and uncompromising leaders who can be counted on to keep their word. If Arab and Muslim states disagree, they are welcome to stay behind and watch the train leave the station. If not, the Gaza Strip and the "Board of Peace" will be just another failed experiment.
Placing the Gaza Strip under the jurisdiction of an international body that includes longtime supporters of Hamas and other terrorists will unfortunately be even more disastrous than the 1993 Oslo Accord, signed between Israel and Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). The last thing Israel and the US need in the Gaza Strip is another Oslo Accord-style counterfeit agreement. Pictured: Arafat stands next to a machine gun emplacement in 1983 in Lebanon. (Photo by Palestinian Press Office/Getty Images)
US President Donald J. Trump is expected to announce the formation of a "Board of Peace" to oversee temporarily the running of the Gaza Strip and manage its reconstruction. According to multiple reports, Qatar and Turkey are among several countries that have been invited to join the board. Both countries are widely known as major international supporters of political Islam, specifically through their historical and ongoing backing of terrorist and Muslim Brotherhood groups – including Hamas, which is currently ruling the Gaza Strip and has shown no signs of letting up. With countries such as these, it is, frankly, hard to see how the new board would be able to bring peace, security and stability to the Middle East.
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by Ahmed Charai • January 15, 2026 at 4:00 am
In invoking Jared Kushner, this father is not expressing envy of power or privilege, but of something far rarer: normality — a life in which one can plan, build, and hope without fear. [T]he Iranian people are not the regime. They are its first and greatest victims. One option merits serious and immediate examination: a constitutional monarchy rooted in the Pahlavi framework, adapted to the realities of the twenty-first century. The father who wrote that letter is not asking for a crown or a constitution. He is asking for dignity—for a system that allows him to work honestly, care for his parents, educate his children, and sleep without fear. Any political vision that fails to meet this fundamental human demand will fail, regardless of ideology.
One option for the future of Iran merits serious and immediate examination: a constitutional monarchy rooted in the Pahlavi framework, adapted to the realities of the twenty-first century. Pictured: A poster of Iran's exiled crown prince, Reza Pahlavi, put up by protesters outside the Iranian Embassy on January 14, 2026 in London, England. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
There are moments when abstraction collapses under the weight of lived reality — when a single human voice compels strategy to confront morality. Such a moment emerged when a letter written by an Iranian father, living inside Iran and addressed to Jared Kushner, circulated widely across the Abraham TV platforms, reaching more than 27 million viewers. Devoid of slogans and free of ideological posture, the letter articulated a truth that decades of propaganda have attempted — and failed — to obscure. The author did not write as a dissident intellectual, a political activist, or a partisan figure. He wrote as a father — a man anxious about rising prices, unavailable medicine, exhausted hospitals, and a future that feels increasingly foreclosed. His words carried no call for vengeance, no appeal for chaos, no revolutionary rhetoric. They carried something far more unsettling for an authoritarian system: quiet honesty. That is precisely why the letter matters.
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by Swedish Members of Parliament • January 15, 2026 at 3:00 am
Pictured: Iranians protest against the regime on January 9, 2026, in Tehran. (Photo by MAHSA/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
The Iranian people are once again engaged in sustained, nationwide resistance against the Islamic Republic of Iran, a regime that for more than four decades has relied on systematic repression, ideological coercion, and violence to maintain power. This uprising is not an isolated episode, but the continuation of a long struggle for national sovereignty, and democratic self-determination. Since the murder of Mahsa Jina Amini in September 2022, Iranian citizens from all regions have demonstrated extraordinary courage in confronting a state apparatus that employs arbitrary detention, torture, executions, and mass surveillance to suppress peaceful dissent. The persistence of these protests, despite brutal crackdowns, reflects a profound and irreversible rupture between the Iranian population and the ruling regime.
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by Robert Williams • January 14, 2026 at 5:00 am
"In the era of disinformation, obscurantists reject not only scientific evidence but also the progress of multilateralism.... They attack institutions, science, and universities. It is time to once again defeat the denialists." — Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, November 10, 2025. Get it? Those who disagree with the UN and WEF agendas on climate change, regardless of their scientific credentials, are "denialists" who must be "defeated." "The United Nations is trying to control what people can hear, read and think about climate change just when social media companies like Meta are reversing their years-long policy of 'fact-checking,' climate change policy debate—which Meta admits resulted in censorship... The proposal that taxpayers spend hundreds of trillions of dollars on poor climate policies is surely worth debate. The UN has no place suppressing that discussion." — Bjorn Lomborg, president of the Copenhagen Consensus, New York Post, March 6, 2025. "Most people there, overwhelming majority, they've never read anything. They get their speaking notes. There are speaking notes and this is the party line... Implement it and they know their job, you know, rests upon it. So, they're not going to read climate research. They're not going to go on an expedition to Antarctica or to the Arctic. They're not going to even look at real world effects...." — Desiree Fixler, whistleblower, former member of the WEF's Global Future Council on Responsible Investing, December 2025. Left out of these discussions, it seems, was any talk of nuclear fusion energy, "the holy grail of clean energy [that] promises abundant power without carbon emissions, long-term radioactive waste, or meltdown risk." Fusion energy, needed for the unimaginable amounts of electricity that will be needed to power AI and quantum computing -- is already under rapid development in China. If we do not urgently master nuclear fusion energy fast, the 21st century will belong to China.
The UN is shutting down criticism of the ongoing climate scam: At the UN Climate Change Conference (COP30), held in Brazil in November, several states endorsed the UN's "Declaration on Information Integrity on Climate Change," professedly a pledge to "fight false information about climate change." Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in his speech, said: "It is time to once again defeat the denialists." Pictured: Lula da Silva speaks at COP30 in Belem, Brazil, on November 6, 2025. (Photo by Pablo Porciuncula/AFP via Getty Images)
The UN is shutting down criticism of the ongoing climate scam: At the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30), held in Brazil in November 2025, several states endorsed the UN's "Declaration on Information Integrity on Climate Change, an initiative recognizing and trying to combat the rise in climate disinformation in media and politics." The UN declaration is professedly a pledge to "fight false information" about climate change. "In the era of disinformation, obscurantists reject not only scientific evidence but also the progress of multilateralism," said Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in his opening address at the conference. "They control algorithms, sow hatred, and spread fear. They attack institutions, science, and universities. It is time to once again defeat the denialists." Get it? Those who disagree with the UN and WEF agendas on climate change, regardless of their scientific credentials, are "denialists" who must be "defeated."
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by Pierre Rehov • January 13, 2026 at 5:00 am
Trump's executive order represents the most serious American effort in decades to confront Islamist political networks that, in Washington, had long been considered merely political differences rather than lethal security threats. Across the Atlantic... in the European Union and many of its major capitals, political Islam — often embodied by Muslim Brotherhood-linked organizations — remains part of an approach for a larger "dialogue with Islamists". Can you imagine a "dialogue with Bolsheviks" or a "dialogue with the Third Reich"? [T]he European Union has taken a far more cautious, at times permissive, approach, apparently preferring to regard Islamic extremists as potential voters. The West ends up assimilating into Islam, rather than the other way around. Rather than confronting liberal democratic values, these "entryist" actors advocate for "reinterpretations" that often blur the lines between religious freedom and political Islam. Many Muslims in the West, of course, just want an opportunity for a better life, but they are not the ones in the engine room, driving the extremist Muslim train. The agenda, according to Islam itself, consists of sharing Allah's precious gift of Islam (Dar Al Islam, the "Abode of Islam") with the rest of the world (the Dar al Harb, the "Abode of War," those who have yet to submit to Islam) -- either by infiltration or force. Finally – when everyone in the world has submitted to Islam, whether they wanted to or not -- then there will be "peace." That, evidently, is when the world will enjoy "the Religion of Peace." The result is a West that now follows two opposite paths. On one path, the United States under the Trump administration is moving toward clarity and confrontation, willing to codify ideological enemies and remove them from the political landscape. On the other path, Europe continues its policy of engagement, accommodation and submission, risk-balancing between wished-for civic inclusion and ideological risk. This split only serves to impede counterterrorism and jeopardize the West.
On November 24, 2025, U.S. President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order initiating a formal process to designate certain chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists. Trump's executive order represents the most serious American effort in decades to confront Islamist political networks. Pictured: Trump signs an executive order in the White House on December 15, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
On November 24, 2025, U.S. President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order initiating a formal process to designate certain chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists. The order directs the Secretaries of State and Treasury to assess Muslim Brotherhood chapters in countries such as Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon and take action under U.S. counterterrorism laws to deprive them of capabilities and resources — a move the executive order explicitly tied to national security priorities after the Hamas invasion of Israel on October 7, 2023 and its aftermath throughout the West. The order also sets a rapid timetable for recommendations on specific chapters. Trump's executive order represents the most serious American effort in decades to confront Islamist political networks that, in Washington, had long been considered merely political differences rather than lethal security threats.
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by Lawrence Kadish • January 13, 2026 at 4:00 am
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While we continue to focus on the enormous potential of fusion energy, it is important to consider the urgent needs of America's power demands. They are especially crucial when one appreciates that artificial intelligence (AI) is daily demanding inexpensive, reliable, abundant electrical power. Were we to fail, "AI" becomes little more than an abbreviation. The exponential growth of AI has created an unprecedented strain on our electrical infrastructure, making investment in power station reliability and upgrades not merely advisable, but absolutely essential. Those utilities that miss this priority literally put our nation at risk.
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