Hezbollah orders its fighters to be on alert, Nasrallah says

Hezbollah’s Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah said yesterday that he had ordered the group’s fighters on the southern Lebanese borders to be on alert in order to be ready for any possible Israeli attack, Quds Press reported. “Some of the Lebanese political forces used our weapons as headlines for their electoral battles,” he said, referring to the […]

Another significant gas discovery found off Israel’s coast

May 9, 2022 Israel’s economy has received a significant enhancement by its gas discoveries, found in some 20 wells. By TPS A new natural gas reservoir has recently been discovered off Israel’s coast, giving another significant boost to Israel’s rapidly developing energy industry. The Greek Energean Oil and Gas plc. announced Monday that it made […]

The Doctrine of American Unexceptionalism

The Biden administration believes that soft power is smart and hard power is dumb. Our allies are paying the price. Michael Doran Writes The Struggle for Mastery in the Middle East  ·  Subscribe   Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping and former Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in June 2019. (Vyacheslav Oseledko/AFP via Getty Images) Russian leader Vladimir Putin was supposed […]

Will bill to force elections advance, signaling beginning of the end for coalition?

If Likud brings legislation for preliminary vote Wednesday and it passes, it must still clear further hurdles — but the momentum it creates could be fatal for Bennett’s government By Carrie Keller-Lynn Today, 9:05 pm   Carrie Keller-Lynn is a political and legal correspondent for The Times of Israel   The Likud-led opposition was still […]

Jordan’s FM says Jerusalem holy sites are ‘occupied Palestinian land’

After Bennett’s office denies deal with Amman to expand Waqf staff on Temple Mount, Ayman Safadi accuses Israel of impeding trust’s work and its ability to maintain security TOI staffToday, 11:56 pm Amid ongoing tensions in Jerusalem, Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said Tuesday that Israel has “no sovereignty” over holy sites in the city, […]

IAEA Says It’s Concerned About Iran’s Undeclared Atomic Work

By John Follain May 10, 2022, 5:09 AM EDT Share this article Follow the authors @JohnFollain + Get alerts forJohn Follain In this article 538604Z EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT Private Company The head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog said his agency was “extremely concerned” about undeclared uranium enrichment in Iran and that negotiations aimed at restoring […]

Survey Shows 75% of Israeli Arabs Believe Jews Have No Rights on the Land of Israel

David Israel9 Iyyar 5782 – May 10, 2022 HaBithonistim, an Israeli movement established in 2020 by retired senior members of the defense establishment (IDF, Shin Bet, Mossad, and Israel Police), on Monday released the results of a survey they conducted on the anniversary of the 2021 Operation Guardian of the Walls (ערביי ישראל: ליהודים אין […]

Biden’s Israel Policy has Made Things Worse .

Farley Weiss9 Iyyar 5782 – May 10, 2022   The Palestinian Authority under President Mahmoud Abbas has a longstanding law that provides financial incentives to murder Jews. This law, often nicknamed “pay-to-slay,” is perhaps the most heinous anti-Semitic law since the Nazi era. Under it, the P.A. budgets and disburses more than $350 million to […]