Israel
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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November 2, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Mark Levin spoke yesterday to the Republican Jewish Coalition’s 40th anniversary summit in Las Vegas. Tucker Carlson and his friends were of course top of mind. Mark takes up the path Carlson has gone down over the past few years and other matters we have noted here. Except for his optimism, I identify with just about everything Mark has to say in his patented style. I especially appreciate his discussion
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October 30, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Vice President Vance was the featured speaker at Turning Point USA’s event at the University of Mississippi yesterday evening. Standing in for Charlie Kirk, Vance took questions from students in the packed house. There is room for dispute, but I take it from the tenor of his remarks that he has a cold, cold view of Israel. He doesn’t talk about Israel as a key friend and critical ally in
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October 28, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Amit Segal reports in today’s edition of his It’s Noon In Israel newsletter (received a little over an hour ago): [T]he remains that Hamas returned to Israel overnight belong to the body of a hostage that Israeli forces recovered from Gaza in late 2023. To avoid confusion: when the body, belonging to Ofir Tzarfati, 27, was first recovered from Gaza, some remains were missing. Hamas has now handed over additional
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October 25, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Amer Ghalib is the mayor of Hamtramck, Michigan. He made a good choice when he endorsed President Trump in the 2024 election. Now President Trump has sought to return the favor by nominating Ghalib to be the United States Ambassador to Kuwait. Emily Jacobs has a detailed account of Ghalib’s confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this past Thursday here at Jewish Insider. Is Ghalib’s nomination a thank-you
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October 20, 2025 — Bill Glahn
I recommend reading the recent Douglas Murray book On Democracies and Death Cults (Harper, April 2025, 197 pages). It covers the war in Gaza and includes much direct coverage of the war by Murray in person. Its April 2025 publication date means that it doesn’t cover the most recent events, including the ceasefire and the war with Iran. But don’t let that put you off. The subtitle is “Israel and
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October 20, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Only yesterday terrorist operatives ambushed Israeli troops in Rafah, killing Major Yaniv Kula and Staff Sergeant Itay Yavetz, and wounding three others. The IDF responded with strikes on some twenty targets, mostly in the central part of the Gaza Strip, after which it announced that it will return to abiding by the cease-fire. The IDF attributed the attack to Hamas. The linked Times of Israel stories includes photos of the
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October 14, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Since agreeing to, and partially carrying out, a cease fire and return of Israeli hostages, Hamas has resumed its reign of terror in Gaza, with a series of public executions of political foes. President Trump is unhappy. He told reporters today that “They will disarm or we will disarm them.” The New York Post’s editorial board has questions: “We do not need to limit ourselves to the Israeli terms and
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October 14, 2025 — Scott Johnson
As they say, no Jews, no news. How else to explain the lack of interest in the rampage of murder committed by Hamas as soon as it could turn its attention elsewhere than the IDF? That’s the question that is raised by Adam Kredo’s Free Beacon story “Hamas Storms Through Gaza, Executing Opposition Groups in Attempt to Cling to Power.” Kamala Harris’s attention is also turned elsewhere. Anyone who paid
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October 14, 2025 — Scott Johnson
President Trump gave a historic and triumphant speech before Israel’s Knesset as the hostages were released yesterday. It is difficult to find a straight transcript of the speech at the usual locations I consult, such as the White House site and the New York Times. Roll call has posted a transcript of the proceedings in the Knesset here. Rev has posted a transcript of Trump’s speech here. The Rev transcript
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October 13, 2025 — Scott Johnson
President Trump announced his 20-point peace plan on September 29. He announced on social media: I am very proud to announce that Israel and Hamas have both signed off on the first Phase of our Peace Plan. This means that ALL of the Hostages will be released very soon, and Israel will withdraw their Troops to an agreed upon line as the first steps toward a Strong, Durable, and Everlasting
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October 12, 2025 — Scott Johnson
As part of the phase one deal brokered by President Trump between Israel and Hamas, Israel is to receive 20 living hostages taken by Hamas and 28 corpses of hostages killed by Hamas. Hamas gets 2,000 prisoners released from Israeli detention, 250 of whom are terrorists sentenced to life in prison for murdering Israelis. The New York Post has a good story on the terrorist murderers here. In his It’s
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October 9, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Amit Segal is the proprietor of the It’s Noon In Israel newsletter and one of Israel’s most knowledgeable journalists. In today’s newsletter — a few minutes old as I write — he declares “The Gaza War Is Over.” I have borrowed the thumbnail photo on the home page of a hostage family in Washington from today’s newsletter (photo credited to Amichai Stein). I thought readers might find his analysis of
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October 9, 2025 — Scott Johnson
President Trump made the news of the day with his announcement on Truth Social (at the bottome via the White House X feed). This is the text with my own comments interpolated: I am very proud to announce that Israel and Hamas have both signed off on the first Phase of our Peace Plan. This means that ALL of the Hostages will be released very soon, and Israel will withdraw
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October 7, 2025 — Scott Johnson
It is two years to the day since Hamas launched its invasion of Israel. The object was murder, torture, and the completion of the Nazis’ project of genocide. Support for Hamas’s project by the Nazis among us has served to clarify where we are today — not in a good place. In his foreword to The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William Shirer called “the capture of most
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October 5, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Former Mossad director Yossi Cohen has written the memoir The Sword of Freedom: Israel, Mossad, and the Secret War. The Free Beacon has just published a good review of the memoir this morning under the headline “Memoirs of a Mossad mastermind.” Cohen himself is out promoting the book in interviews that I have found of interest. West Point’s urban warfare expert John Spencer focuses on the Mossad’s astounding 2018 operation
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October 4, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Hamas has responded to President Trump 20-point peace plan with the statement below. The statement requires some interpretation. As far as I can tell, no one but President Trump reads this as an acceptance of Trump’s plan. The related Al Jazeera’s headline — we have Al Jazeera down as a more forthright Hamas supporter than the rest of the media — headlines its story Hamas agrees to parts of Trump’s
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