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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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by Khaled Abu Toameh • October 2, 2025 at 5:00 am
If anyone needs to apologize, it is Qatar, which has long been financing, hosting, and advocating for Hamas and other Islamist terror groups such as the Islamic State (ISIS) and Al-Qaeda. Qatar, in fact, needs to apologize not only to Israel, but to several Arab countries affected by the Gulf state's support for Islamist terror groups. "Qatar is now known as the world's safe haven for terrorist groups and militia leaders.... Evidence suggests that Qatar has directly armed or financed multiple Islamist groups in the region, undermining U.S. objectives in pivotal countries such as Libya, Egypt, and Syria by pushing those places toward violent extremism." — US Representative Doug Lamborn, 2015. Qatar is not – and never was – an impartial mediator in the Hamas-Israel war. As a longtime sponsor of the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist terrorist groups, Qatar's main goal is to ensure that Hamas, possibly under a different guise, continues to play a key role in the Palestinian arena. People who contend that Qatar might "change," thanks to the potential incentives of the Abraham Accords, appear afflicted with the same illusions as those who fantasize that the Palestinian Authority will reform. Sadly, the self-interested statements by French President Emmanuel Macron, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese have encouraged the terrorists and their sponsors to have renewed hope that they finally might be able to get rid of Israel, after all. In its perennial role as both the "arsonist and the firefighter," as with the Taliban in Afghanistan, there is every reason to assume -- unless someone emphatically stops them -- that Qatar will set about surreptitiously creating a "Hamas, the Sequel" the minute the weather improves.
If anyone needs to apologize, it is Qatar, which has long been financing, hosting, and advocating for Hamas and other Islamist terror groups such as the Islamic State (ISIS) and Al-Qaeda. Pictured: Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal meets with Qatar's then Crown Prince (today's Emir) Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani at the Royal Palace in Amman, Jordan on January 29, 2012. (Photo by Khalil Mazraawi/AFP via Getty Images)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly "apologized" to his Qatari counterpart for violating the Gulf state's sovereignty in Israel's September 9 strike against Hamas leaders in Doha. The alleged apology took place in a September 29 phone call arranged by US President Donald J. Trump. If anyone needs to apologize, it is Qatar, which has long been financing, hosting, and advocating for Hamas and other Islamist terror groups such as the Islamic State (ISIS) and Al-Qaeda. Qatar, in fact, needs to apologize not only to Israel, but to several Arab countries affected by the Gulf state's support for Islamist terror groups. US Representative Doug Lamborn wrote in 2015:
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by Alan M. Dershowitz • October 1, 2025 at 5:00 am
Lawfare and selective prosecution are fundamentally wrong. It would be best if neither side misused the legal system to "get" their enemies. The Trump administration obviously believes that asking nicely is not likely to work, and that those who distort the legal system by turning it into "lawfare" must be held to account in order to stop it.
Pictured: James Comey testifies via remote video link at a Senate hearing on Wednesday, September 30, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (Photo by Stefani Reynolds/Pool/Getty Images)
The ink was not even dry on the US Department of Justice's hastily drafted two-count indictment of former FBI Director James Comey when partisans chose sides. Most on the "left" insisted that this was a revenge lawfare indictment with no basis in law or fact. Many on the "right" saw nothing amiss, arguing that the defendant did in fact lie to Congress. The nonpartisan reality is that it is too early to make a full assessment of the merits or demerits of the case. The other reality is that the indictment raises several distinct if overlapping issues.
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by Gordon G. Chang • September 30, 2025 at 5:00 am
The [Washington Post] report, based on a study issued by the U.K.-based Royal United Services Institute, notes that China is undoubtedly planning an airborne assault on Taiwan. Trump's plan is not working. Russia's forces are making progress in Ukraine, and, viewing the response of the great democracies to his invasion as feeble, Putin is already taking on other neighbors. On July 2, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told Kaja Kallas, the EU foreign policy chief, that Beijing does not want to see Russia lose in Ukraine because then the U.S. would focus on China in East Asia. China, by implication, also wants to see the war drag on to tie down the United States. The West and friends are finally realizing how close they are to catastrophe.
Russia is providing equipment, technology, and training to China for an airborne invasion, the Washington Post reported on September 26. The report, based on a study issued by the U.K.-based Royal United Services Institute, notes that China is planning an airborne assault on Taiwan. Pictured: Russia's President Vladimir Putin meets with China's President Xi Jinping in Beijing on September 2, 2025. (Photo by Sergey Bobylev/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
Russia is providing equipment, technology, and training to China for an airborne invasion, the Washington Post reported on September 26. The report, based on a study issued by the U.K.-based Royal United Services Institute, notes that China is planning an airborne assault on Taiwan. The day before the Washington Post article, Reuters revealed that Chinese experts had traveled to Russia to help that country develop drones. According to the wire service, Sichuan AEE, a Chinese company, sold attack and surveillance drones to Russian company IEMZ Kupol through an intermediary sanctioned by the U.S. and the EU. The two reports highlight the close cooperation between Russia and China in military theaters around the world. These two aggressive states, from all appearances, have effectively formed a military alliance.
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by Khaled Abu Toameh • September 29, 2025 at 5:00 am
The groups and their patrons in Tehran do not care if Palestinians in the West Bank are killed and displaced as a result of their terrorism. Iran's mullahs and their Palestinian proxies have only one thing in mind: murdering Jews and eliminating Israel. Those Western countries [France, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, among others]... have chosen to ignore that the PA is unwilling to confront the terror groups in the West Bank. In the eyes of the Iranian regime, Hamas and PIJ, these moves could not have taken place were it not for the October 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel. "Why are the countries recognizing a Palestinian state today? Before October 7, did any country dare recognize a Palestinian state? The fruits of October 7 are what caused the entire world to open its eyes...." — Ghazi Hamad, senior Hamas official, to Qatar's Al-Jazeera, August 2, 2025. Even if the war in the Gaza Strip ends, Qatar, Iran, Hamas and PIJ will never give up the fight to destroy Israel and replace it with a radical Islamist state. The attempt to transform the West Bank into a second base for jihad highlights that ending the war in the Gaza Strip will not end the dream of wiping Israel off the map.
As all eyes are fixed on the Hamas-Israel war in the Gaza Strip, the Iranian regime and its Palestinian terror proxies are working to move the fighting to the West Bank. IDF forces this month found dozens of rockets (pictured) and explosives in a building in the area of Ramallah. (Photo by IDF Spokesman's Office)
As all eyes are fixed on the Hamas-Israel war in the Gaza Strip, the Iranian regime and its Palestinian terror proxies are working to move the fighting to the West Bank. Recently, armed cells belonging to Iranian-backed Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) have escalated their terrorist attacks in the West Bank against Israeli soldiers and civilians. The Palestinian groups responsible for the death and destruction in the Gaza Strip over the past two years are even trying to fire rockets from the West Bank into the rest of Israel. The groups and their patrons in Tehran do not care if Palestinians in the West Bank are killed and displaced as a result of their terrorism. Iran's mullahs and their Palestinian proxies have only one thing in mind: murdering Jews and eliminating Israel.
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by Lawrence Kadish • September 29, 2025 at 4:00 am
We know China is investing enormous sums into fusion energy research that seeks to create a sustained reaction that would be channeled to create unlimited electricity. America must create technology that is far superior to China's tokamak fusion reactors. Pictured: China's HL-2M nuclear fusion device, at a research laboratory in Chengdu, on December 4, 2020. (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)
America's next great economic revolution -- to be spearheaded by President Donald J. Trump -- is currently being studied by the preeminent polling firm, John McLaughlin Associates. A poll will investigate America's next great economic and technological frontier: clean, limitless, inexpensive energy through nuclear fusion by a made in America nuclear reactor superior to China's tokamak. This new 21st Century Manhattan Project would entail a trailblazing, all-out effort to compete against Communist China, already investing billions into this field. Just as President Franklin D. Roosevelt headed the original Manhattan Project, when America raced to develop a nuclear weapon before scientists in Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan could unlock its enormous deadly power and use it against the Allies in World War II, Trump could usher in a new Clean Controlled Fusion Energy Revolution.
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by Con Coughlin • September 28, 2025 at 5:00 am
The main stumbling block to Trump's repeated efforts to end the conflict in Gaza, though, remains the fact that Palestinian leaders, and Qatar, have no genuine interest in negotiating a permanent peace deal with Israel. Qatar, as well as other Gulf States, which reportedly are expected to pay for the reconstruction of Gaza, will doubtless demand a role in its future governance. Such a concession, even if Israel were to monitor security, would be a monumental recipe for disaster. Qatar has a history of funding effectively all radical Islamic terrorist groups -- from ISIS to Al-Qaeda to Hamas to the Taliban --and appears solidly committed to furthering the policies of the Muslim Brotherhood. Even if Hamas is not included in a future Gaza, there is always room theoretically for a clone of Hamas with a different name. As Egypt and Islamist groups continue smuggling weapons into the "new" Gaza, there will undoubtedly be endless friction with Israel, not to mention the Palestinians whom the current negotiators insist stay in place. With sufficient incentives, many countries might be glad to spare them years of living in rubble. The best idea, and in the long run far less expensive militarily and diplomatically, would be if Trump would return to his original idea of Gaza as a kind of US-Israeli "Riviera" protectorate, preferably with a US military base. Then one would not even need any further Abraham Accords: a US military presence should be sufficient to deter aggression and keep peace -- as it has done so successfully in Qatar. Not all Arab states might like this approach. It certainly would deprive them of the opportunity, should the winds change, of trying again to destroy Israel. So even if, as Trump insists, Hamas is excluded from any future negotiations on the future of Gaza and the Palestinians, the likelihood of his administration having any positive talks with so-called "moderate" Palestinian leaders, such as Abbas -- or any prospects of a true, long-term peace if Arab countries are allowed to run Gaza -- sadly, the end to decades of hostility will continue to be non-existent.
The main stumbling block to President Donald Trump's repeated efforts to end the conflict in Gaza, though, remains the fact that Palestinian leaders, and Qatar, have no genuine interest in negotiating a permanent peace deal with Israel. 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)
There is one major drawback to US President Donald Trump's latest effort to end the Gaza conflict: Palestinian leaders and some Gulf Arab states -- in particular Qatar (such as here, here, here, here and here) -- have absolutely no intention of agreeing to, or implementing, a lasting peace deal with Israel. For nearly eight decades, Palestinian leaders have consistently rejected offers to end hostilities with Israel. While Mahmoud Abbas, the so-called "moderate" leader of the Palestinian Authority, has said he is willing to work with the Trump administration on a peace plan for Gaza, the chances of any negotiations with the Palestinians reaching a successful conclusion are remote if their track record is anything to go by.
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