While Iran’s recent strikes show weakness, its threat of escalation is working

Under attack on its own soil, Tehran had to hit back directly rather than via proxy; though that didn’t scare Israel, Pakistan, or Islamic State, Washington is a different matter By LAZAR BERMAN  Today, 10:13 am   Head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Hossein Salami speaks during a funeral procession carrying the remains of […]

Netanyahu: No full Palestinian state, no ‘surrender’ in exchange for Gaza hostages

PM pushes back on White House vision of pathway to two-state solution and reports of a grand bargain that would end war, though he doesn’t rule out demilitarized Palestinian state By LAZAR BERMAN  Today, 11:55 pm Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks in a video statement, January 19, 2024. (screenshot) As US President Joe Biden’s administration […]

21 The Trumpet Judgments

Revelation 8:1 1And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour (KJV). From a position of extreme noise in all the earthly convulsions, the Lord takes us to complete silence in heaven for a half-hour. Now there is silence in heaven. All the heavenly […]

Airstrike targets car in south Lebanon — reports

Today, 1:55 pm   A car was hit in a suspected drone strike in Kafra in south Lebanon, Lebanese media reports. The village is part of the Bint Jbeil district, a Hezbollah stronghold. Large parts of Bint Jbeil were destroyed during the 2006 war between Israel and the Iran-backed terror group.

Hamas rejects Moscow’s request to release hostages ‘captured’ during Oct 7 attacks

Mousa Abu Marzook responds on the dual nationals, claiming ‘Israel attributes foreign citizenship to hostages and pretends they are no longer Israeli’ i24NEWS Hamas deputy chairman Mousa Abu Marzook rejected the possibility of freeing the last hostages holding Russian nationality, after heading a delegation of the terrorist organization to Moscow over the weekend. “Hamas doesn’t […]

Iran conducts satellite launch

Iranian media report the Soraya satellite was placed in an orbit at some 750 kilometers above the Earth’s surface. Israel National NewsJan 21, 2024, 6:53 AM (GMT+2) Iran said on Saturday it had conducted a successful satellite launch into its highest orbit yet, The Associated Press reported. The Iranian Soraya satellite was placed in an […]

Starling Meets Raven: Turkish FM Meets Hamas Chief Haniyeh

David Israel11 Shevat 5784 – January 21, 2024 Photo Credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90 Head of the Political Bureau of Hamas Ismail Haniyeh in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, November 23, 2019.     Our sages of blessed memory said (Bava Kamma 92b), “Not for naught did the starling go to the raven, but because it […]

Netanyahu opposes creation of Palestinian state after war, calls it a ‘security threat’

‘All territory we evacuate’ gives us ‘terror against us,’ says Netanyahu: ‘I tell this truth to our American friends’ All Israel News StaffPublished: January 19, 2024 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeated his opposition to the potential establishment of a Palestinian state, arguing that such an entity would threaten the Jewish state’s security and existence. […]

EU to hold rotating talks with Israel, Saudi, PA, Jordan and Egypt FMs

The EU holds that this resolution must be based on the pre-1967 lines with east Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state. TOVAH LAZAROFF JANUARY 20, 2024 22:49 Updated: JANUARY 21, 2024 00:10 European Union foreign ministers plan to hold back-to-back meetings in Brussels on Monday with their counterparts from Israel, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, […]

Saudi says escalating tensions amid Houthi attacks and US strikes are dangerous

The Saudi foreign minister said the kingdom believed in freedom of navigation and wanted tensions in the region to be de-escalated. REUTERS JANUARY 20, 2024 23:58 Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister said the kingdom was “very worried” that tensions in the Red Sea amid attacks by Yemen’s Houthis and US strikes on Houthi targets could spiral […]

Jewish Dems Slam Netanyahu Over Apparent Rejection of ‘Palestinian State’

Andrew Bernard11 Shevat 5784 – January 20, 2024 Photo Credit: Kobi Gideon (GPO) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers remarks on Jan. 18, 2023.     (JNS) Jewish Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives hit back on Friday over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s comments that seemed to rule out the creation of a […]

Iran vows revenge on Israel for strike that kills 5 guards in Damascus

Iran and its military allies in Syria have entrenched themselves in wide areas of eastern, southern, and northern Syria and in several suburbs around the capital. REUTERS JANUARY 20, 2024 20:00 Updated: JANUARY 20, 2024 20:02 Tehran vowed to carry out revenge attacks against Israel on Saturday after a missile strike flattened a building used […]

4 IRGC officials, including head of information unit, said killed in Damascus strike

Today, 11:37 am   People and security forces gather in front of a building destroyed in a reported Israeli strike in Damascus on January 20, 2024. (AFP) Four members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, including the head of their information unit, were killed in an alleged Israeli strike on Damascus, Reuters reports, citing sources […]

Sources say Iran Revolutionary Guards official killed in alleged Israeli strike on Damascus

Today, 10:38 am   An Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps official was killed in an alleged Israeli airstrike on Damascus, the Reuters news agency reports, citing sources in the regional pro-Syria alliance. The source says the multi-story building was used by Iranian advisers supporting Syria’s government and that it was entirely flattened. Local reports in […]