More than 100 Democratic and Republican members of Congress sent a letter to the White House last Tuesday urging the Biden administration to take action to stop terrorist organizations from raising funds using cryptocurrencies. Despite the U.S. Department of the Treasury having just issued new sanctions against 10 groups linked to Hamas — an important
Latest Developments Israel evacuated 14 more northern border communities over the weekend amid increased Hezbollah threats from Lebanon. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Israel’s National Emergency Management Authority (NEMA) of the Ministry of Defense have now evacuated more than 120,000 people from more than 100 communities near Gaza and Lebanon due to threats from
Excerpt Last week Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo reportedly told House Democrats that the $6 billion ransom the Biden administration agreed to send Iran—oil payments that had been frozen in South Korea and released to Qatar—ostensibly to secure the release of five American-Iranian dual nationals had been refrozen. The action was provoked, the story suggested, by Tehran’s
Days following the October 7 terrorist attacks, carried out by Hamas in Israel, killing over 1200 Israeli citizens, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi to discuss “possible steps the countries can take to end the fighting between Israeli and Palestinian forces.” Raisi should not be the first person on Erdogan’s call sheet.
Washington and its European allies just declined to prevent the expiration of UN missile and drone penalties against Iran. That decision will likely spur more missile and drone testing, production and proliferation by Tehran — with direct implications for arming terrorist groups attacking Israel and Russia’s ability to wage war against Ukraine. The Biden administration must
Hezbollah has been increasing attacks on Israel in the last two weeks after Hamas carried out a massacre on October 7. The Hezbollah attacks are a result of Iran’s desire to create a multi-front war in the Middle East. Hezbollah is willing to risk the civilian towns and villages in south Lebanon as it has
*This article was originally published in Hebrew The world has become almost too comfortable attacking Israeli policies, especially as it relates to the disputed West Bank. Yet, the criticism goes beyond Israel’s military control of the West Bank. Entire movements have been built to delegitimize Israel, the homeland of the Jewish people, to a point
Latest Developments Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov intends to visit Tehran on October 23 as Iranian-backed threats against the United States and Israel increase in the Middle East. The visit follows Russian President Vladimir Putin’s trip to China and Lavrov’s trip to North Korea last week. Iran has supplied Russia with kamikaze drones that Moscow
Hamas launched a disinformation assault on Tuesday. Following a week of shock and outrage stemming from its Oct. 7 massacre of more than 1,400 Israelis, the terrorist group backed by Iran needed to turn the tide. The explosion at the Al Ahli Arab Hospital in northern Gaza provided the opportunity to win global sympathy and
Latest Developments Chinese diplomats arrived in Qatar on October 19 to kick off their own efforts to resolve the conflict between Hamas and Israel. Beijing’s Middle East envoy Zhai Jun met with his Russian counterpart Mikhail Bogdanov and Qatari officials in Doha, where they called for an immediate cease-fire while failing to condemn Hamas’s terrorist