Israel
March 6, 2026 — John Hinderaker
I saw a tweet this morning that said Esmail Qaani, the head of Iran’s Quds Force, had been shot by the IRGC because he was discovered to be an Israeli spy. Astonishing news. But now, an even more stunning revelation: Qaani was indeed a Mossad agent, but he was not shot. He is safe in Israel: 🚨 Breaking: IRGC Quds Force commander Esmail Qaani is confirmed safe in Israel 🇮🇱
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March 6, 2026 — Scott Johnson
If you are famliar with the Chabad branch of Judaism and know any members of Chabad, you might be mystified by the new front Tucker Carlson has opened in his war on Jews. It would be wrong to ignore him. This particular front may get some people killed. Opening X this morning, I see that Gad Saad addresses it in a (too) sympathetic post that omits the context of Carlson’s
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March 3, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Some say Israel has dragged the United States into the war on the Iranian regime. You know who they are, on the left and on the right. The Iranian regime has inarguably been at war with both Israel and the United States over the past 47 years. The combined American/Israeli response is overdetermined and overdue. So whose war is it anyway? In his Ask Haviv Anything podcast yesterday, Israeli journalist
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March 2, 2026 — John Hinderaker
No doubt there is much more to the story, but this is awesome: Years before the air strike that killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Israeli intelligence had been quietly mapping the daily rhythms of Tehran. According to reporting by the Financial Times, nearly all of the Iranian capital’s traffic cameras had been hacked years earlier, their footage encrypted and transmitted to Israeli servers. One camera angle near Pasteur Street, close to
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March 2, 2026 — Scott Johnson
The Iranian regime has chosen to expand the war by attacking every Arab country in the vicinity. It seems like a desperate gamble. If the regime survives, the new boss is going to have to learn to share the neighborhood. That’s a phrase President Obama himself applied to Israel for some reason. When the offensive was intiated this past weekend, I wanted to say that Obama was hardest hit. Former
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March 1, 2026 — Scott Johnson
I’ve inadventently turned this into Doran Sunday. Below is an interview Andrew Klavan recorded with Michael Doran this past Wednesday, before the demise of Ayatollah Khameni. Doran just posted it on X, where I first found it this afternoon. The video is also posted on YouTube under the title “How Eliminating Ayatollah Khameini Will Change The Middle East.” I found it of interest. In this interview Doran is looking ahead
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March 1, 2026 — Scott Johnson
The Hudson Institute’s Michael Doran elaborates on the joint aspect of the operation against the Iranian regime. It is the fruition of a beautiful friendship that President Trump has embraced: * * * * * The Israeli press is stressing a key difference between the June 2025 war and the present campaign: the United States and Israel are functioning as closely integrated allies from the outset. In June they operated
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February 28, 2026 — John Hinderaker
This morning the Israelis bombed Ayatollah Khamenei’s compound, where a meeting of Khamenei and other top regime leaders was believed to be taking place. Conflicting reports about the Supreme Leader’s status have since emerged, without any definitive news. A little while ago, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the Israeli people. Some excerpts: “This morning, Israel and the United States launched a joint operation to remove the existential threat to Israel
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February 28, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Following through on his public statements and other signs of impending action, President Trump announced the initiation of major combat operations against the Iranian regime overnight. He made the announcement in a video posted to his Truth Social account (below). Text of the president’s remarks is posted here. The Pentagon has denominated the action as “Operation Epic Fury” and Israel has named it “Roaring Lion” — this is an operation
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February 25, 2026 — John Hinderaker
I have been meaning to write about this story for a couple of days: “Scoop: Dems working on secret report found Gaza cost Harris votes.” Top Democratic officials who worked on the party’s still-secret autopsy of the 2024 election concluded that Kamala Harris lost significant support because of the Biden administration’s approach to the war in Gaza, Axios has learned. Why it matters: The Democratic National Committee’s research on what
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February 19, 2026 — Scott Johnson
With his voluminous expressions of concern about the treatment of Christians in Israel, one might have expected Tucker Carlson to venture beyond the confines of Ben Gurion Airport to check them out, if not to commisserate with them. However, that was not to be the case. He has yet to meet with Christians in Israel. Most recently, he flew in and out by private jet for an interview with U.S.
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February 6, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Our old friend Joel Mowbray — Joel, where have you been? — asks the question that occurs to me with respect to Vice President Vance’s amigo Tucker Carlson. Why the incessant lying about..well, you know who? 🚨 EXCLUSIVE — Tucker is at it again. Tucker just claimed that the Christian population of Israel has plunged since 1948. That is false. After Israel’s founding, there were 34,000 Christians. Today, there are
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January 23, 2026 — Scott Johnson
In It’s Noon In Israel newsletter this morning, Amit Segal reports the story below. I’m taking the liberty of quoting it for readers who may find it of interest. I can’t find it on his site. Readers can subscribe to the newsletter at the link. Segal writes: * * * * * New details emerge around the recovery of Oron Shaul’s body in January 2025. This operation is more spy
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December 28, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Is Tucker Carlson crazy like a fox or crazy like a psychopath? Following his descent into the gutter of anti-Semitic claptrap, I have long gone with crazy like a fox. I think his shtick is entirely calculated. He’s appealing to a particular audience. He hasn’t moved on from the anti-Semitic line that has worked so well for him, but Tucker has lately taken up the cause of Islam. We have
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December 19, 2025 — Scott Johnson
A sick thread now runs through the conservative movement. It runs from Candace Owens to Tucker Carlson and Carlson’s friends. One can see one symptom of the sickness in its treatement of the Jews. The sickness should be called out, confronted, and refuted. Ben Shapiro has an argument to make against the sickness. That’s what he did in the case he made against Tucker Carlson at the Heritage Foundation. There
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November 20, 2025 — John Hinderaker
President Trump knows something about bogus, politically-motivated prosecutions, so he sympathizes with Benjamin Netanyahu, who is going through the same thing Trump did. So Trump wrote a letter to Israeli President Isaac Herzog, asking him to pardon Netanyahu. The letter is embedded below. Trump wrote: I hereby call on you to fully pardon Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been a formidable and decisive War Time Prime Minister, and is now leading
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November 16, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Daniel Greenfield reports on a phenomenon that may not come as a complete surprise to Power Line readers. The alleged Gaza famine was mythical: After two years of barraging social media with lies about a famine in Gaza, Hamas propaganda channels are now trying to cover up their obesity by claiming that Israel is making them fat. One recent Hamas media story clamored that “they’re forcing us to gain weight,”
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