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A public opinion poll published on November 14 showed that 75% of Palestinians support Hamas’s murder spree, including rape and beheadings, as opposed to only 13% who disapprove. Surprisingly, the poll found that support for Hamas and its “military operation” is even higher in the West Bank, where Abbas’s Palestinian …

OverviewThe southern arena: During the past few days the IDF forces continued operations at ShifaHospital and in several other neighborhoods in Gaza City. In the northern Gaza Strip theyoperated in Beit Hanoun, Zeitoun, Beit Lahia and Jabalia, and destroyed a Palestinian IslamicJihad (PIJ) post where they found a large quantity …

Hezbollah and Israel traded rocket and missile fire in areas near the Lebanese-Israeli border on Saturday, officials on both sides said, in the latest flare-up of violence which the United States worries will cause conflict to spiral in the Middle East. The Iran-backed Hezbollah said it shot down an Israeli …

Israel risks facing a long and bloody insurgency if it defeats Hamas and occupies Gaza without a credible post-war plan to withdraw its troops and move toward the creation of a Palestinian state, U.S. and Arab officials, diplomats and analysts said. None of the ideas floated so far by Israel, …

How Washington Can Stabilize a Transformed Region Before October 7, 2023, it seemed as if the United States’ vision for the Middle East was finally coming to fruition. Washington had arrived at an implicit understanding with Tehran about its nuclear program, in which the Islamic Republic of Iran effectively paused …

Although the UAE and Bahrain have formal diplomatic relations with Israel, and Saudi Arabia was considering such a move, Arab states in the region have their own reasons to be cautious. As Israel’s offensive in Gaza grinds on, World War III in the Middle East has not yet erupted. Iran’s …

Forty days into the Israel-Hamas war, the commander of Iran’s Quds Force promised the militant group that Iran “will do anything required.” Yet questions linger over Iran’s willingness to risk direct involvement. The head of Iran’s Quds Force, the powerful wing commanding its controversial foreign military operations, has assured the …

New rocket and drone attacks targeted US bases in Syria in the hours following the latest US airstrikes designed to dissuade the IRGC and its militias from continuing their attacks on American personnel. Bases used by the US military in Syria have come under four separate rocket and drone attacks …

These demonstrators, who appear to feel so virtuous, send a message to the terrorist groups that people in the West happily support violence, terrorism and the Jihad (holy war) not only against Israel and Jews, but also against Christians, all “infidels,” Europe, the United States and the West. Although many …

Sheikh Ibrahim Rida, an Islamic scholar at Egypt’s renowned Al-Azhar University, said on a November 6, 2023 show on Sada Al-Balad TV (Egypt) that the Jews are quarrelsome people who killed many prophets and spread corruption on earth. He said that no one should find it strange that they are …