Day: July 30, 2026

Maj. Gen. (res.) Gershon Hacohen has issued a stark warning about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ambitions to revive the Ottoman Empire’s regional dominance, including a claim on Jerusalem itself.  In an in-depth strategic analysis with the TOV Hebrew media network, Hacohen laid out a pattern of Turkish behavior, cross-border military expansion, sweeping maritime claims, and highly symbolic religious reversals, that he says amounts to a systematic project to project Turkish power far beyond its borders, reviving a 400-year Ottoman legacy (1516-1917) that once ruled almost the entire Middle East and stretched deep into Christian Europe.  That history is exactly …

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July 29, 2026 Within twenty-four hours, the shape of the Iran war became unmistakable. A reported contract placed as many as 400 Chinese-made air-defense systems on a possible route toward Iran. Then, at 8 p.m. Eastern Time on July 29, American strikes against Iran resumed. Between those developments stood President Trump’s meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu, Volodymyr Zelensky’s presence in Washington, Lindsey Graham’s funeral and a Senate vote joining pressure upon Russia and Iran. The immediate reason for the bombing was Iran’s attempted missile attack against American forces in Jordan. Yet the larger meaning lay in everything that had gathered around …

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Command centers and other sites hit, says CENTCOM; Trump said ‘exasperated’ by war’s lack of progress By ToI Staff, Jacob Magid Follow and AgenciesToday, 9:25 am A screenshot of video released by US Central Command on July 29, 2026, shows a strike on a target in Iran. (X screenshot) US Central Command carried out “a heavy wave of strikes” on dozens of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targets in Iran, it said early Thursday, a day after the Iranian military force targeted American troops in the region with ballistic missiles. CENTCOM described the strikes as “a powerful response to yesterday’s attempted Iranian attacks on US forces …

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This appears to be the first high-level meeting that Hayya has had since being elected to his new role on July 20. Hamas said Khalil al-Hayya had been elected head of its political bureau. Current leader of Hamas, Khalil al-Hayya (R), holds a press conference in Damscus, Syria.(photo credit: LOUAI BESHARA / AFP via Getty Images)BySETH J. FRANTZMANJULY 30, 2026 11:06 Turkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan recently met Khalil al-Hayya, the new leader of Hamas, according to Turkish state-run media reports. Anadolu Agency media in Turkey reported on July 30 that “Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met Wednesday with Khalil al-Hayya, the newly …

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On Wednesday, maritime security firm Ambrey said that a drone hit a US-owned gas storage tanker at the port of Damietta. (Illustrative) Fishing boats in Ezbet Al-Borg, the most famous place to sell fish in Egypt on July 2, 2024 in Damietta, Egypt.(photo credit: Ali Moustafa/Getty Images)ByJERUSALEM POST STAFFJULY 30, 2026 08:36Updated: JULY 30, 2026 10:46 The explosion of a US tanker at Egypt’s Mediterranean port of Damietta on Wednesday was the result of an Iranian drone attack, the New York Times reported on Thursday, citing two Iranians who requested anonymity.  The NYT‘s sources did not specify which group launched the drone, saying only that …

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