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by Uzay Bulut • October 13, 2025 at 5:00 am
Pakistan has for years been seriously repressing its minorities, political dissidents, human right advocates and journalists – even transnationally. Nevertheless, Pakistan continues to enjoy the benefits of the European Union's special incentive arrangement under its Generalized System of Preferences (GSP+). Journalists in Pakistan (and even the family members of exiled journalists) are subject to enforced disappearances. Journalist Asif Karim Khehtran and the brothers of U.S.-based exiled Pakistani journalist Ahmad Noorani were abducted in March 2025 and remain missing. A 2025 report by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom documented that more than 700 individuals in 2025 were imprisoned on charges of "blasphemy." This figure represented a 300% increase from the previous year. These acts are not isolated incidents but part of a broader campaign of religious "cleansing," driven by radical Islamist groups such as the TLP and facilitated by a legal system that criminalizes Ahmadi identity. Pakistan's fierce blasphemy laws continue to target religious minorities. The HRCP report documents that increasingly, minority individuals accused of blasphemy are lynched by mobs or murdered while seeking police protection.... The rise in hate speech, threats against judicial figures, and the politicization of bar associations only propel a dangerous tilt toward Islamic radicalism within state institutions. The police appear more interested in appeasing local Islamic strongmen and keeping things calm than in implementing the law and protecting minorities. The European Union should stand for the principles and ideals on which its Generalized System of Preferences was based. At present, it is simply furthering intolerable behavior and embarrassing itself.
Pakistan has for years been seriously repressing its minorities, political dissidents, human right advocates and journalists. Nevertheless, Pakistan continues to enjoy the benefits of the European Union's special incentive arrangement under its Generalized System of Preferences. Pictured: The EU's then High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Federica Mogherini and Pakistan's then Minister of Foreign Affairs Shah Mehmood Qureshi, give a press conference after signing the EU-Pakistan Strategic Engagement Plan in Brussels, on June 25, 2019. (Photo by Aris Oikonomou/AFP via Getty Images)
Pakistan is engulfed in a deepening crisis of religious intolerance and systemic persecution. This year has witnessed a disturbing surge of violence, discrimination and institutional complicity. Christian, Ahmadiyya and Hindu communities have particularly been targeted. Despite repeated calls for reform and international condemnation, Pakistan's failure to protect its most vulnerable citizens has left a trail of shattered lives, desecrated places of worship, and a society increasingly fractured by hate. Pakistan has for years been seriously repressing its minorities, political dissidents, human right advocates and journalists – even transnationally. Nevertheless, Pakistan continues to enjoy the benefits of the European Union's special incentive arrangement under its Generalized System of Preferences (GSP+). The contradiction was highlighted once again at the United Nations.
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by Lawrence Kadish • October 13, 2025 at 4:00 am
The only people who should be surprised that U.S. President Donald Trump was able to broker a peace deal in Gaza are the ones who continue to underestimate this man. Pictured: Trump greets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he arrives at the White House on September 29, 2025. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
The only people who should be surprised that U.S. President Donald Trump was able to broker a peace deal in Gaza are the ones who continue to underestimate this man. The fact is, his language is far more deliberate and far more calculating than what often appears to be "top of the mind" or extemporaneous. So when he told Hamas that if they did not come to the peace table, he would give Israel a free hand to "finish the job," the remaining leaders of that terrorist organization had to consider that Trump was telling them the game was up. It was diplomacy with a baseball bat. In this world, filled with despots, dictators and destructive leaders, as you will find in Iran, this tactic may be the only one that brings desired results. Here is another lesson being learned by world leaders.
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by Amit Barak • October 12, 2025 at 5:00 am
In recent months, we have witnessed a well-timed campaign led by the Palestinian Authority, civil society organizations and anti-Israel Christian elements – some of them declared anti-Semitic – to undermine the relations between the State of Israel and Christian communities around the world, especially evangelical and pro-Israel Christians whose long-standing support for Israel is not self-evident. Four notable events this year indicate the tremendous power of this campaign: The blood libel falsely alleging the burning of the Church of St. George in Taybe; an episode of the Tucker Carlson Show with an American nun who presented a series of anti-Semitic claims without any factual, historical or theological basis; the Declaration of the World Council of Churches in June 2025; a Palestinian food advertisement mocking Christianity. The World Council of Churches over the years has tried to wear the mask of a supposedly "neutral" organization. In light of the campaign, it seems that in this statement, the WCC has dared to say openly what it always wanted but previously did not dare to say. This group uses clear anti-Semitic messages, and... the expected response from the Israeli government was therefore to declare a ban on entry into Israel to any person who is a member of the WCC or to any activist in the illegal EAPPI program, which the WCC has been operating in Israel since 2002. But the government did not declare such a ban. While the Christian population is persecuted under the Palestinian Authority, outwardly it conveys a completely opposite image. This anti-Christian campaign in the PA areas did not reach the wider world or the international media. The events listed above are not accidental. They are part of a sweeping campaign run well by the Palestinian Authority, BDS organizations and anti-Semitic elements in global religious institutions, aimed at harming Israel's relations with the Christian world, weakening the support of Christians for Israel, and, through the churches, isolating Israel in the international arena.
Pictured: US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee is led on a tour of the Church of Saint George in Taybe, by the village mayor, Suleiman Khourieh (L), and others, on July 19, 2025. (Photo by Jaafar Ashtiyyeh/AFP via Getty Images)
From Taybe to Tucker Carlson, Palestinians are trying to drive a wedge between the Christian world and Israel, while Israel's government appears to be asleep on guard duty. In recent months, we have witnessed a well-timed campaign led by the Palestinian Authority, civil society organizations and anti-Israel Christian elements – some of them declared anti-Semitic – to undermine the relations between the State of Israel and Christian communities around the world, especially evangelical and pro-Israel Christians whose long-standing support for Israel is not self-evident. This campaign includes fake plots, media attacks, anti-Jewish and anti-Israel messaging, and incitement under the guise of religious discourse or human rights. Four notable events this year indicate the tremendous power of this campaign:
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by Amir Taheri • October 12, 2025 at 4:00 am
Without falling for anarchist fantasies, one might ask what governments, at least in Western democracies, do. The main thing they do is to take your money and spend it on your behalf the way they wish, including social bribes to their segments of the electorate. After two years of no real government, France is no worse than it was before the current "existential crisis" began. Needless to say, the widest choice of restaurants in the world continues to offer delicious food. Having virtually no government hasn't stopped the French tradition of anti-government riots either. We have had three in the last two months and will have another next week, even if a sixth prime minister is found. Who cares if there is no government; we must assert our Frenchness by rioting against the government. If there is no budget, the 2025 budget will be extended for 2026. Then what happens? To start with, there would be no new taxes, a relief to a society crushed by taxation. There would also be no new rules and regulations in the name of environmental, social and solidarity concerns, not to mention alternative lifestyles or compensation for real or imaginary victims. A useless but costly referendum in New Caledonia will also be scrapped.
Pictured: French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu arrives to deliver a statement at the Hotel Matignon in Paris on October 8, 2025. (Photo by Stephanie Lecocq/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
The following could have appeared in the small-ads section of one of the free newspapers distributed in the Paris Metro: "Desperately seeking a Prime Minister, contact Marianne." Marianne is the fictive damsel who serves as a symbol of the French Republic, in the form of statuettes at town halls and on postage stamps. Marianne's urgent demand is prompted by the resignation of Sébastien Lecornu, the fifth prime minister named by President Emmanuel Macron in just two years. (Lecornu was reappointed on October 10.) Lecornu's government set a historic global record of short-livedness by lasting just 820 minutes. The pattern established in the past two years shows that finding a prime minister is more and more difficult, as no one wants to be PM while everyone dreams of becoming president. And even if a new stopgap PM is found before this column appears, it is not certain he or she would do any better than his or her five immediate predecessors.
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by Majid Rafiadeh • October 11, 2025 at 5:00 am
As long as the Iranian regime finds avenues to export oil, it will continue to survive and expand its power. At the heart of the problem is Iran's largest oil export market: China. Nearly four-fifths of Iran's exported oil ends up in China.... Iranian officials have openly admitted that even if UN sanctions are reactivated, oil exports to China would continue. The key is not only sanctioning Iran, but also enforcing consequences against those who enable its oil exports. That means sanctioning third-party entities, shipping companies, and refineries that knowingly violate sanctions. China, as the largest buyer of Iran's oil, must face the full weight of international scrutiny and penalties if it continues to bankroll the Iranian regime. Beijing can import oil from alternative sources such as Saudi Arabia, the US, Iraq and the UAE, among others. Its continued purchase of Iranian oil is a political choice, not an economic necessity. The United States cannot and should not act alone in this effort. The European Union needs to take a much stronger stance as well. Finally, the argument comes down to one undeniable fact: as Iran continues to export oil, its regime will continue to survive and expand its power. If the West is serious about trying to "reform" the Iranian regime, it must focus on cutting off the oil that feeds it. This means coordinated US and EU pressure, real accountability for China, and relentless enforcement of sanctions against buyers and middlemen. "Reforming" the Iranian regime -- enticing them into the Abraham Accords under Trump's magnificent vision of "peace and prosperity" -- may not be possible. Iran's rulers appear to have an explicit agenda, which, as by now should be clear, does not involve either prosperity or peace for its citizens. If the US is intent on making only Iran's ruling class rich and prosperous, it is consigning the Iranian people to misery in perpetuity. One hopes that the US would not be as cruel as that. Only if Iran is seriously weakened will the Iranian people have a real chance to taste the freedom that so many in the West cavalierly take for granted, and only then will the world see genuine peace and security in the Middle East.
As long as the Iranian regime finds avenues to export oil, it will continue to survive and expand its power. Pictured: The oil tanker Fortune, one of five Iranian-flagged tankers that brought Iranian gasoline and oil derivatives to Venezuela in May 2020, is shown docked at the El Palito refinery in Carabobo, on May 25, 2020. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)
The reimposition of UN "snapback" sanctions on Iran is a welcome development, but, alas, insufficient. For years, Tehran has operated with relative impunity, ignoring restrictions and continuing to build its nuclear and ballistic missile programs while funding proxy terrorist groups across the Middle East. The renewal of these sanctions signals a recognition that the Iranian regime remains one of the gravest threats to regional stability and international security. While the sanctions are symbolically important, however, on their own they are not nearly enough. Just putting sanctions on paper does not set back Iran; what truly weakens it is cutting off its most vital revenue stream: oil. As long as the Iranian regime finds avenues to export oil, it will continue to survive and expand its power.
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by Drieu Godefridi • October 10, 2025 at 5:00 am
[T]he file justifying [classifying Alternative für Deutschland Party] as a "right-wing extremist" organization] has never been released. There is therefore a complete absence of adversarial proceedings. The AfD was never consulted, and even after the fact, it has no right to know why, on what grounds, on the basis of what evidence and documents, it was excommunicated from the German "democratic" sphere. How can the AfD effectively contest a classification when the documents remain secret so that it cannot even know what it is contesting? How can it challenge the term "far right" when it is not defined anywhere? The issue has never been law, but power: the determination of the ruling caste to cling to authority at any cost, even if it means criminalizing a quarter of the German population. In April 2025, for instance, a Bavarian court sentenced David Bendels, editor-in-chief of Deutschland-Kurier, to seven months' suspended imprisonment. His "crime"? Publishing a satirical image showing Interior Minister Nancy Faeser holding a placard reading "I hate freedom of opinion." The court convicted him of "abuse, defamation or slander against persons in political life." The Network Enforcement Act reinforces this censorship by forcing internet platforms to delete content under penalty of fines, thereby further eroding the freedom of expression "guaranteed" by Article 5 of the German Constitution. The quarantining of the AfD ensures that the left will remain in power indefinitely, regardless of election outcomes. This amounts to rule by a single "party" and a single ideology — that of the ruling caste. Democratic change through the ballot box in Germany is no longer possible. As if this were not enough, government circles are now openly considering banning the AfD altogether, under the fake pretext of "protecting the constitution." One cannot but recall Germany's Reichstag fire on February 27, 1933, set by a Dutch communist, which the Nazi Party instantly used as a pretext to suspend civil liberties and consolidate its domination of the German state.
Germany today offers the world a disturbing spectacle: a state in its death throes which, under the guise of democratic virtue, is sinking into authoritarianism. In today's Germany, the leading opposition party is not treated as a legitimate actor in the democratic process, but, without any due process, as an enemy within. Pictured: Alice Weidel, co-leader of the political party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), is seen on a monitor as she speaks at the party's convention on January 11, 2025 in Riesa, Germany. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
Germany today offers the world a disturbing spectacle: a state in its death throes which, under the guise of democratic virtue, is sinking into authoritarianism. The erosion of civil liberties is not occurring through a coup d'état, but by the slow accumulation of administrative, legal and police measures that shape the contours of a dictatorship as implacable as it is convinced of its own virtue. 1. The Classification of the AfD by an Administrative Agency In the spring of 2025, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV, Germany's domestic intelligence service) classified the political party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) as a "right-wing extremist" organization. This classification granted the authorities the power to place its members and supporters under police surveillance without prior judicial authorization, including measures such as intercepting private communications or the BfV recruiting informants within the party.
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by Khaled Abu Toameh • October 9, 2025 at 5:00 am
Qatar's rulers appear to see their mission -- with the aid of their Al Jazeera television empire, as well as big cheques -- as spreading radical Sunni Islam throughout the region and the world. Qatar has been Hamas's leading patron since 2007. Trump seems to be looking toward Qatar as one of the main funders that will rebuild Gaza. If Qatar's ruling family accepts this role, they will doubtless expect a role just as important in governing it, which could well include appointing who else might share that privilege. Candidates include the Palestinian Authority, the 2,000 returning terrorists, and, if not precisely Qatar's longtime client, Hamas, then "Son of Hamas," or "Hamas 2.0," or "Hamas the Sequel." One could call the enclave the "Democratic Republic of Gaza," but it would still be home to genocidal terrorist groups... How serious is Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas when he says that the Iran-backed Hamas terror group "will have no role in governance" of the Gaza Strip and it must hand over its weapons to the PA? Not even slightly. Put bluntly, Abbas is not interested in returning to the negotiating table: he has been waiting for the UN and other international parties to impose a solution on Israel, just as French President Emmanuel Macron so helpfully offered to do just last month. The recent one-sided recognitions of a "Palestinian state" by France, Britain, Canada, Australia and other countries only reinforced Abbas's determination not to resume any peace process with Israel. After all, why should he negotiate with anyone when the West is handing him a state on a silver platter without even a single condition attached? Trump's peace plan is peachy as long as Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Tony Blair are there to make sure everything stays in place. What, however, happens if and when they are not there anymore? A Middle East saying goes, "You have the watches, but we have the time." Abbas, and whoever succeeds him, will always prefer peace with Hamas over peace with Israel. He knows that Hamas continues to enjoy widespread support among Palestinians, most of whom, according to public opinion polls, are passionately opposed to disarming the terror group. Those who state that Hamas should not be permitted to play any role in governing Gaza after the war ends should also demand the exclusion of the PA and Qatar from such a process. Allowing either Qatar or Abbas's PA into the Gaza Strip will only pave the way for a new Hamas to enter through the back door.
Qatar's rulers appear to see their mission -- with the aid of their Al Jazeera television empire, as well as big cheques -- as spreading radical Sunni Islam throughout the region and the world. Qatar has been Hamas's leading patron since 2007. Pictured: Qatar's then Emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani holds hands with then Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh during their visit to the Islamic University in the Gaza Strip on October 23, 2012. (Photo by Wissam Nassar/AFP via Getty Images)
How serious is US President Donald J. Trump about his peace plan? While everyone is eager to celebrate the successful completion of Phase One, with the return of the Israeli hostages in exchange for 2,000 imprisoned Palestinian terrorists, the rest remains to be seen. The Trump Peace Plan began as an ultimatum: If Hamas would not release all the hostages within 72 hours, Israel would have the blessing of the US to "finish the job" full blast. It is admirable that Trump wants peace and that, in his first term, he astonishingly produced the Abraham Accords. Now, he has brilliantly secured an agreement for release of all the hostages by October 13. If, however, the negotiations continue to go in the direction they seem to be going in, peace is the last thing Trump will achieve.
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by Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury • October 8, 2025 at 5:00 am
The only just response to such barbarism [Hamas's October 7, 2023 invasion of Israel] must be unflinching: to rescue the hostages, hold the perpetrators and their sponsors to account, and refuse to normalize propaganda that celebrates murder and rape. Through its Al-Jazeera television empire, Qatar has promoted violent jihadist activity for Hamas and other Muslim Brotherhood-inspired terrorist groups. In addition, during the 2011 "Arab Spring," it virtually single-handedly whipped up unlimited jihadist propaganda to oust the Egyptian government. Continuing its terrorist financing, Qatar seems to be in the process of orchestrating yet another "Arab Spring", this time to oust the current government of Egypt. Qatar has already spent "nearly $100 billion" just in the US to gain influence there, according to MSNBC. For any future in a Gaza that actually hopes for real peace, it is crucial that Qatar be totally out of the picture. This combination -- of staged humanitarian pretenses fronting for violent networks -- is the new hybrid threat of our age. The Global Sumud Flotilla incident also highlights a deeper problem: selective outrage in which states and NGOs deploy the language of human rights in an unequal way. Democracies and civil-society actors should strip terrorists from their enablers, sanctuaries and financiers. Humanitarian language should not be weaponized to hide terrorism. For the hostage families still waiting, for the communities still grieving, and for the future of a rules-based international order, the only acceptable response to the October 7 atrocity is the application of justice, the dismantling of the terrorist networks that made it possible, and the refusal to tolerate any narrative that excuses or sanitizes savage, unprovoked cruelty.
Pictured: Hamas terrorists on their way into Israel from Gaza Strip, on their mission to murder Jews, on the morning of October 7, 2023. (Photo by Said Khatib/AFP via Getty Images)
On October 7, 2023, an orgy of slaughter and sexual violence was unleashed on Israeli civilians. It was a measured, premeditated pogrom, broadcast with grotesque pride. The world watched as terrorists streamed their atrocities across social media, turning murder and rape into a live propaganda show. That day was not merely another episode in the long, tragic history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. It was an operational and moral rupture, a mass atrocity whose reverberations continue to shatter families. The event also exposes an international discourse in which moral clarity too often gives way to equivocation.
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by Nils A. Haug • October 7, 2025 at 5:00 am
South Africa has regressed into an ideologically-driven socialist-communist abyss of poverty, crime, corruption and systemic dysfunction at all levels: local, state and national – all in 30 years since the end of Apartheid. Once the leading economic power in all of Africa, South Africa is now regarded as the most corrupt country on the continent. It resembles a typical "banana republic" in some ways -- little different from other failed or collapsing states in the region, particularly its northern neighbour of Zimbabwe -- a Marxist dictatorial hellhole. The result of draconian labour laws is that the official unemployment rate exceeds 33% (more than 8 million potential workers), while the rate for unemployed younger workers exceeds 60%. These figures consistently rate among the world's highest and confirm for millions that they have little or no future prospects in their country of birth. As the deindustrialisation of Africa's most industrialised country accelerates, the unemployment rate will increase accordingly and even more people, to survive, will become reliant on government grants. The centralized ANC state then has citizens exactly where they want them – under their control and dependent upon the government for daily living. In this way future votes are secured, leading to the perpetuation of the ANC -- a typical seditious device to remain in power indefinitely, like other nations in Africa. Even the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), a radical far-leftist political party – that of "Kill the farmer, kill the Boer" fame – lament this economic catastrophe: "What we are witnessing is the destruction of the little industry South Africa has left, a collapse that will hollow out communities and deepen mass unemployment... The government cannot continue to wash its hands while South Africa's industrial backbone is dismantled." The irony of their complaint is seemingly lost on the EFF: it was their policies that significantly contributed to the economic demise and deindustrialisation of the country. The party's leader, Julius Malema, calls for supporters to "cut the throat of whiteness" and "shoot the Boer," while advocating land-grabs without compensation, particularly of white-owned farmland. The ANC's statement of intent sadly reveals that they will not waver from their ideological stance despite threat of sanctions and punitive US trade tariffs. The spokesman for the Institute of Race Relations, John Endres, commented about the ANC: "The party misses no opportunity to reaffirm its commitment to the National Democratic Revolution, a programme designed to turn South Africa first into a socialist and then into a communist state." "Instead of renewal, [the ANC] has chosen entrenchment. Instead of pragmatism, dogma. Instead of growth, redistribution without production. Instead of survival, an overdose of toxic ideology." – Hermann Pretorius, political commentator, September 7, 2025. The ANC is reportedly trying to forge a "deal" with Trump, to enlist deeper US involvement in South Africa. Its future should be of serious concern to its citizens and the West.
Once the leading economic power in all of Africa, South Africa is now regarded as the most corrupt country on the continent. It resembles a typical "banana republic" in some ways -- little different from other failed or collapsing states in the region, particularly its northern neighbour of Zimbabwe -- a Marxist dictatorial hellhole. Pictured: US President Donald Trump meets with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the White House in Washington, DC, on May 21, 2025. (Photo by Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)
Located at the tip of southern Africa and at a strategic junction of trade routes, South Africa has regressed into an ideologically-driven socialist-communist abyss of poverty, crime, corruption and systemic dysfunction at all levels: local, state and national – all in 30 years since the end of Apartheid. Once the leading economic power in all of Africa, South Africa is now regarded as the most corrupt country on the continent. It resembles a typical "banana republic" in some ways -- little different from other failed or collapsing states in the region, particularly its northern neighbour of Zimbabwe -- a Marxist dictatorial hellhole. An independent body, the South African Institution of Civil Engineering, "ten years ago rated South Africa's infrastructure as C, and now it has deteriorated to a D rating. On its current path, the country is heading towards an E, meaning unfit for purpose."
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by Bassam Tawil • October 6, 2025 at 5:00 am
Both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority are not, and never were, interested in peace with Israel. The only peace they envision is one that would see Israel eliminated and replaced with an Islamist state, preferably, each with itself as the head. Trump is a man with good intentions, and his sincere efforts to end the war should be commended by all those who want to see an end to the death and destruction in the Gaza Strip. The US president, however, needs to bear in mind that both the Palestinian Authority and -- a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood organization -- were established with the sole purpose of waging jihad (holy war) to kill Jews and destroy Israel. Any proposal or deal that allows Hamas, the Palestinian Authority (or Qatar, but that is for a later date) to hold on to its weapons and maintain any form of presence in the Gaza Strip will only facilitate their plans to pursue jihad against Israel. As long as the Palestinian Authority, Hamas and other Qatari-promoted Palestinian terror groups exist, there will never be peace or stability in the Middle East.
Hamas and the Palestinian Authority have never recognized Israel's right to exist. That is why they have repeatedly rejected all attempts by Muslim and Arab states to make peace with the Jewish state. Pictured: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks at a press conference held at Algeria's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in December 2014. (Image source: Palestinian Media Watch) Any attempt to portray Hamas's purported acceptance of US President Donald J. Trump's proposal to end the war in the Gaza Strip as a sign that either the Palestinian Authority (PA) or the Iran-backed Palestinian terror group is now interested in peace with Israel is misleading and baseless. Both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority are not, and never were, interested in peace with Israel. The only peace they envision is one that would see Israel eliminated and replaced with an Islamist state, preferably, each with itself as the head.
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by Lawrence Kadish • October 6, 2025 at 4:00 am
Secretary of Energy Chris Wright believes the enormous resources of artificial intelligence will accelerate our ability to harness fusion power. He recently said: "I believe we will know the commercial pathway to fusion during the Trump administration." Pictured: Wright addresses delegates during the 69th regular plenary session of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria on September 15, 2025. (Photo by Joe Klamar/AFP via Getty Images)
Fusion energy skeptics consistently scoff at the notion that the technology required to create unlimited pollution-free power by superheating hydrogen atoms in a pressurized containment vessel is always "ten years away." There is no question that the requirements to create a sustained fusion reaction are daunting – and expensive. Yet the nation that solves the challenge will have access to infinite power that will allow it to dominate the globe, and apply it cleanly and limitlessly to literally everything and anything that requires electricity. The fusion skeptics are not only short-sighted but may also be absent an appreciation of how successful, strategic investments are made. Those who appreciate the dynamics of capitalism simply ask, "Where is the smart money going?" Consider the names of those who have put their money into fusion energy research companies.
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by Raymond Ibrahim • October 5, 2025 at 5:30 am
"What we see in Africa today is a kind of silent genocide or silent, brutal, savage war that is occurring in the shadows and all too often ignored by the international community... [J]ihadist groups are in a position to take over not one, not two, but several countries in Africa.... It's very dangerous for the national security of the United States.... Christians are going to be targeted and destroyed." — Alberto Miguel Fernandez, geopolitical analyst and former U.S. diplomat, Fox News, August 7, 2025, Mozambique. The Islamic State (ISIS) released a newsletter praising its "mujahideen" [jihadists] for targeting and slaughtering the Christians of Democratic Republic of the Congo and Mozambique mentioned above, and urging followers to replicate these attacks in Europe.... It praises the massacres and beheadings of Christians inside churches, and attacks on Christian communities, all of which left "pools of blood." It calls on its followers to offer Christians three choices: "If they refuse Islam and the jizyah tax, the third option is murder." — MEMRI, August 8, 2025, Democratic Republic of Congo. "Our conquering ancestors ruled with swords, advancing legions and leading the way, until they terrorized the nations of their time, who came to them willingly or unwillingly, surrendering and submissive. This is the truth, and anything beyond it is false." — ISIS newsletter, reported by MEMRI, August 8, 2025, Democratic Republic of Congo. The "hearts still ache for revenge against the Christians of Europe. The call is still open to the heroes of Islam to attack them again and invade them in their own backyards and implement the divine rulings against them as their brothers did in Africa, and Allah will surely support those who support Him." — ISIS newsletter, reported by MEMRI, August 8, 2025, Democratic Republic of Congo. Below are some of the more notable incidents of the ongoing genocide being carried out against Christians in Nigeria.... "The herdsmen chased and shot at farmers as if they were animals." — morningstarnews.org, September 1, 2025, Nigeria. "The culmination of the efforts to stop the [church's] construction took place on Sunday, July 27, 2025. The construction committee was subjected to a mass lynching by government officials and residents...." — Rev. Puput Yuniatmoko, persecution.org, August 8, 2025, Indonesia. "While the language of the draft agreement [between Azerbaijan and Armenia] is general in nature, it mentions combating intolerance, racism, and violent extremism. Absent from the list of vices to be countered was religious persecution and ethnic cleansing — longstanding practices of the totalitarian Azerbaijan regime." — persecution.org, August 14, 2025, Azerbaijan. "During detention, we were forced to drink water from Lotas [vessels typically used in toilets]. One person would open their mouth while another poured water through the same vessel." — Zakria John, morningstarnews.org, August 20, 2025, Pakistan. "Nabeel Masih, a 25-year-old Christian from Lahore, died... after years of neglect, abuse, and lack of crucial medical care. At 16....Masih was accused by a man named Akhtar Ali of posting a blasphemous image on Facebook....Police had the image removed to prevent unrest, erasing the only evidence that could prove whether Masih had posted it. " — morningstarnews.org, August 20, 2025, Pakistan.
On August 13, Islamic terrorists of the "Allied Democratic Forces" disguised themselves as priests and choristers, and attacked the village of Mayi Moya in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Three Christians were murdered and eight abducted; shops and homes were looted and burned to the ground. Pictured: South African soldiers from a UN peacekeeping force conduct a security patrol in May Moya, on May 5, 2020. (Photo by United Nations/MONUSCO via Flickr)
The following are among the abuses and murders inflicted on Christians by Muslims throughout the month of August 2025. The Muslim Slaughter of Christians Mozambique and Democratic Republic of Congo: An Aug. 7 report highlights a series of brutal ISIS-affiliated massacres of Christians in both African nations. In Mozambique, the Islamic State Mozambique Province (ISMP) released photos showing operatives raiding villages, burning a church and homes, and beheading Christians. In Democratic Republic of Congo, at least 45 Christians were slaughtered. The images depict civilians' corpses and desecrated churches and Christian homes. Discussing these, geopolitical analyst and former U.S. diplomat Alberto Miguel Fernandez said,
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by Amir Taheri • October 5, 2025 at 4:00 am
Russia could theoretically be driven out of Ukrainian lands it occupies, including the Crimean Peninsula. But there is no guarantee that such an outcome would cure Russia's affliction with defensive expansionism and its thirst for revanchist response. And that refers us back to the Florentine clerk: Do not wound a deadly enemy and let him live! Either kill him or turn him into a friend. It is to Trump's credit that, unknowingly perhaps, he has pondered both options, with a tilt towards the latter.
Russia could theoretically be driven out of Ukrainian lands it occupies, including the Crimean Peninsula. But there is no guarantee that such an outcome would cure Russia's affliction with defensive expansionism and its thirst for revanchist response. Pictured: Cadets of the Admiral Senyavin Marine Technical Academy march at a ceremony in the Russian naval base of Kronstadt on an island off the Baltic coast near Saint Petersburg on October 3, 2025. (Photo by Olga Maltseva/AFP via Getty Images)
"Ha! Ha!" This was how, the other day in Moscow, Russian National Security Advisor Dmitry Medvedev reacted to a quip by US President Donald Trump asserting that Kyiv "can win all of Ukraine back to original borders where this war started." Dmitry Alexyevich, who once served as a parenthetic president of Russia, was seen in the West as a reformer who might lead his country into the European orbit, whatever that meant. Today, acting as deputy chief of Russia's National Security Council, he is President Vladimir Putin's bully boy, threatening Western nations with nuclear war. But is the idea of winning this war against Russia just another Trumpian flash of imagination, as was his assertion a year ago that he could terminate the war in a jiffy?
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by Majid Rafizadeh • October 4, 2025 at 5:00 am
The Iranian regime is once again racing to acquire nuclear weapons. In doing so, it is turning to Russia and almost certainly looking toward China and North Korea for support. This is an immediate and existential threat to the United States, Israel, and the Free World. Tehran's repeated denials are lies, masking a clear and urgent drive to obtain nuclear capability as quickly as possible. Another urgent question: What would prevent Russia from going beyond civilian cooperation and helping Iran directly in its quest for a nuclear weapon? If Russia feels cornered by the West over Ukraine, it may see Iran's nuclear ambitions not as a liability but as a useful bargaining chip and a means to complicate U.S. and Israeli security calculations. For Iran, the shortcut to a nuclear bomb would not be to build everything from scratch, but to leverage these relationships, just as North Korea once did with Pakistan. The regime looks at North Korea and sees a model: once Pyongyang secured a nuclear arsenal, its survival was effectively guaranteed. On top of this strategic calculation is the regime's enduring ideological goal of wiping Israel off the map. For Tehran, even a single nuclear bomb would carry enormous symbolic and strategic weight. The United States, Israel, and Europe must not underestimate this danger. Iran's regime is racing against time, determined to achieve a capability that will guarantee its survival, give it leverage over its enemies, and help export its revolution.
The Iranian regime is once again racing to acquire nuclear weapons. In doing so, it is turning to Russia and almost certainly looking toward China and North Korea for support. This is an immediate and existential threat to the United States, Israel, and the Free World. Pictured: Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian looks on as a 'Qasem Soleimani' missile is displayed during a military parade in Tehran, on September 21, 2024. (Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)
The Iranian regime is once again racing to acquire nuclear weapons. In doing so, it is turning to Russia and almost certainly looking toward China and North Korea for support. This is an immediate and existential threat to the United States, Israel, and the Free World. Tehran's repeated denials are lies, masking a clear and urgent drive to obtain nuclear capability as quickly as possible. Earlier this week at the United Nations General Assembly, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian declared that Iran will "never seek to build a nuclear bomb." Iran's actions, however, contradict these words. On September 26, Tehran signed a staggering $25 billion nuclear agreement with Russia to construct four nuclear power plants in southern Iran.
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by Nils A. Haug • October 3, 2025 at 5:00 am
Raging against Israel are those hypocritical, self-righteous, self-seeking, egocentric, cowardly leaders: Emmanuel Macron (France), Keir Starmer (UK), Anthony Albanese (Australia), Mark Carney (Canada), Pedro Sanchez (Spain) and their ilk, seemingly without an ounce of integrity between them, supporting an avowed genocidal death cult that publicly expresses the desire to murder all Jews, Christians, and other "infidels," and take down the West. If you do not want to fight the invasions in your own countries, at least stand aside and do not obstruct someone else doing it for you. These feckless so-called leaders even fail to protect their own Jewish citizens from domestic terror. By so acting, and by legalizing Islamic Sharia law, they are oozing toward complete submission to the Islamist hordes they have encouraged to reside in their midst. In this way, as Trump cautioned, they are actively destroying their own nations and Western civilization itself. Sadly, suicidally, it is also about appeasing their radical Islamist voters – who will probably reciprocate, as Trump noted, by wanting more.
Raging against Israel are those hypocritical, self-righteous, self-seeking, egocentric, cowardly leaders: Emmanuel Macron (France), Keir Starmer (UK), Anthony Albanese (Australia), Mark Carney (Canada), Pedro Sanchez (Spain) and their ilk, seemingly without an ounce of integrity between them, supporting an avowed genocidal death cult that publicly expresses the desire to murder all Jews, Christians, and other "infidels," and take down the West. Pictured: Starmer meets with Macron on July 10, 2025 in London. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)
There are no longer gray areas in the implied intent of major Western nations, such as France, Spain, Portugal, Canada, the UK, Australia and others, to isolate or destroy Israel. Hamas and associated jihadist murderers are not Israel's primary enemies; rather, Israel's real enemies are its purported allies -- those Western powers seeking its demise by legitimizing a terror-dominated Palestinian state alongside, and within, the borders of the world's only Jewish homeland. Ironically, these are the countries Israel is defending as it fights a seven-front war, sacrificing nearly a thousand of its heroic soldiers. Israel is defending these Western nations against an invasion that President Donald J. Trump clearly warned is "not sustainable":
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