Netanyahu defied attorney general’s directive by moving to appoint a replacement for Ronen Bar

All Israel News Staff | Published: May 23, 2025

Major-general rank awarding ceremony of David Zini and Nimrod Aloni, June 2023 (Photo by IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, CC BY-SA 3.0)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the appointment of active duty IDF Maj.-Gen. David Zini as the next Shin Bet chief, defying the instructions of Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara not to make a new appointment until the legal implications of a recent court ruling were clarified.

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By Andrea Widburg | Am Thinker | May 24, 2025

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Many pro-Israel people I know, both Jewish and non-Jewish, are deeply worried about Trump’s current Middle East positions. He’s marginalizing Israel in negotiations with Saudi Arabia, accepting on the government’s behalf a luxury plane from double-dealing Qatar, and handing money to the goons in Syria. At the same time, he’s seemingly freezing out Israel, to the great consternation of Israel and its supporters.

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FDD | May 23, 2025

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Peloni:  Interestingly no mention of Qatar in this article regarding foreign funding.  Trump is considering the expansion of this policy to other universities as well.

Jaryn Crouson | Daily Caller | May 22, 2025

A pro-Palestinian protest on the Harvard University campus on May 31, 2024, during Alumni Day. (By Kevin Payravi – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0)

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Thursday revoked Harvard University’s ability to host foreign students due to its “toxic campus climate.”

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by Rafael Medoff

Before Mrs. Tzeela Gez, the latest victim of Palestinian Arab terrorism, was even buried, the process of dehumanizing her was well underway.

Hananel Gez was driving his nine-months-pregnant wife to a hospital on May 14 to deliver their fourth child, when terrorists raked their car with gunfire.

The official Palestinian Authority news agency, Wafa, did not report the murder of Mrs. Gez. It did quote an Israeli cabinet minister calling for a forceful response to the attack—but it did not explain what he was responding to. That’s one way to dehumanize a victim—pretend she does not exist.

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Gil Troy | May 21, 2025

As my children donned their uniforms while going off to defend Israel, America, the West, after Oct. 7, I told them: “The morality of this war is clear. You do whatever you need to do to protect yourself, your buddies, your homeland.  I am not speaking now as a father, an Israeli, or a Jew – but as an American historian. I’ve studied how America fought in World War I and World War II, in Iraq and Afghanistan. Hamas started this war with a vicious attack. That puts the moral onus on them.

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Israeli PM defends humanitarian efforts and blames terror group for food theft and global misinformation campaign.

Israfan | May 23, 2025

Last night in Washington something horrific happened.

A brutal terrorist shot in cold blood a young beautiful couple – Yaron Lischinsky and Sara Milgrim. Yaron had just bought an engagement ring for Sarah. He was planning to give it to her in Jerusalem next week. They were… pic.twitter.com/FFdMwlacJ9

— Benjamin Netanyahu – ?????? ?????? (@netanyahu) May 22, 2025

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a forceful condemnation Thursday night against what he called a global misinformation campaign accusing Israel of starving children in Gaza. Speaking via video on X, Netanyahu asserted that such claims are “Hamas propaganda” and are fueling antisemitic violence most recently culminating in the murder of two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, D.C.

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And turned it into an advocacy group for Hamas supporters.

by Daniel Greenfield | May 23, 2025

(Photo by World Economic Forum – Flickr: George Soros – World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2011, CC BY-SA 2.0)

After a belated crackdown on campus antisemitism, some were surprised to see the Jewish Council for Public Affairs leading a campaign in support of college Hamas enthusiasts.

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Peloni:  US engagement with radical Qatar is isoloating other Sunni allies, forcing Saudi Arabia towards a harder stance, and giving Syrian minorities a sense of abandonment, save for Israel’s interventions.  It also undermines the US domestic agenda of fighting antisemitism on US campuses which Qatar funds.

What makes this even worse is the fact that the US could have its cake and eat it too with its position of dominance over Qatar, and instead they let Qatar act as if they are in the position of dominance as the Qataris are having their cake and eating it too. The implications of this tail wagging the dog is very worrisome, and the consequences of it are highly damaging to US interests in the region as explained by Wurmser.

Peloni:  Howard Rotberg expertly captures both the paradox and the threat with which we are faced with any prospect of Palestinian self rule, be it in Gaza or in Judea & Samaria.  Indeed, given the degree of weaponization with which they have been trained as experts in the savagery which we have seen them achieve, how might it be anticipated that they might be prevented from manipulating any opportunity of self-rule towards the further pursuit of their psychopathic dreams of revisiting their fantasy of October 7 again and again.  Indeed, the divide which part their demonstrable psychopathy from rational civilized behavior is such that they can only be trusted to do as they have been trained.  Not in Gaza, and not in Judea & Samaria, should the perpetrators and celebrants of October 7 be granted self-rule, not for one day more.  Rather they should be facilitated towards emigrating somewhere more remote, where their tendency towards such radicalism as they have been weaponized might be overseen and redirected by a logical, relatable and responsible third party.  A scenario such as the Jordan Option could provide an ideal solution towards dealing with this paradox, where the Palestinians would be monitored and overseen, away from their intended Jewish prey by a ruling body led by Mudar Zahran, whose governance and survival would itself provide and require a zero tolerance for such Islamist radicalism as has been the effect of both Hamas and PA self governances, overseeing the whole-of-society effort of radicalizing Islamist training of the Palestinians by UNRWA.

Howard Rotberg

With every act of terror by the terrorist Palestinians, Americans, including Jewish Americans, parrot the idea that this proves that Palestinians deserve a state.  As we have seen in the case of October 7th, the more barbaric and obscene the terrorist attack, the more frantic these morally confused Americans, Canadians and Europeans become to reward these barbarians with a state, money, humanitarian aid and the welcome to immigrate to our cities and countries.

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PM says if Hamas surrenders, leaves Gaza, and releases all hostages, war will end

All Israel News Staff | Published: May 22, 2025

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a press conference Wednesday evening with Hebrew media, his first in almost six months, addressing several topics.

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Linda Goudsmit: History is repeating itself in President Trump’s latest trade deal folly with Islamic countries in the middle east. Long-term/short-term thinking is the ideological black hole of trade deals with Islamic countries in 2025, just as it was when Nixon/Kissinger opened trade with Communist China in 1971. Islamism and Communism are both binary, expansionist, socio-political, totalitarian ideologies of rulers and ruled. Whether religious or secular, they are both doctrinal variations on the supremacist theme of absolute totalitarian control. Like Communism, Islam has a long-term strategy and never ever varies from its ultimate goal of totalitarian control. Islam tells the world that there will be peace on Earth when all the world is Muslim. Communism tells the world that it is Communism’s destiny to rule the world.

The problem with President Trump making trade deals with Muslim countries, is the same problem Nixon/Kissinger had making trade deals with China. President Trump is thinking short term. His trade deals enrich the American side in the short term, and empower the Communist/Islamic side in the long term. China tried to collapse the United States with the wealth it amassed being America’s trading partner for 50 years––and the Muslim countries will do the same in the long run. Why? Because “Death to America!” is DOCTRINAL! President Trump is making the same mistake today that Nixon/Kissinger made 50 years ago. The difference today is that American technology will be used against us, not just the wealth that Muslim countries will amass by expanding their influence beyond oil.

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Peloni:  Mark Levin explains that the terror advocates walking the streets of America are not expressing free speech, but that they are carrying out an attack on the American people.  Seeing weakness in the US, Mark notes that terror networks in the US are targeting America and American civilization.  This is not about free speech but about the survival of the American Republic, and about the survival of Western civilization.  Jews have been seen to be unsafe in capitals across Europe and now this tragedy has been extended to the American capital as well.  He exclaims that it is time for action.  The onslaught against the US is being funded by Qatar and other countries, and the anti-American efforts are being aided by a complicit court system which is hamstringing the Administration’s efforts.  Explaining that these enemies are marching thru the streets of America unlike any group of Nazis have done in the past, unlike any Klansmand have in the past, calling for the destruction of America and the death of Jews with a sense of complete impunity.  Mark calls for the sealing of the border as Trump is doing, ending all investment and spending coming into the US from these terror states, unleashing the Israelis to utterly defeat Hamas,