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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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by Amir Taheri • September 28, 2025 at 4:00 am
Lake Urmia, once the 18th largest in the world, seems to have gone for good. The position of scores of rivers is no better. One immediate effect is a steady drop in food production. Another cause of the current crisis, as mentioned by Pezeshkian, is population increase.
Over 40 percent of Iran's estimated 300 lakes and wetlands have either dried up or are on the way to becoming patches of desert within a decade. Lake Urmia, once the 18th-largest in the world, seems to have disappeared for good. Pictured: Part of what is left of Lake Urmia, on November 1, 2023. (Photo by Hamed/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
It was with a sigh of relief that the Islamic Republic of Iran's President Massoud Pezeshkian welcomed the new academic year and the start of autumn the other day -- relief that what is dubbed "the thirstiest summer" in Iran's long history was over. Only two months ago, he had warned that even Tehran, the capital city, may run out of water within weeks. The disaster he had predicted was avoided, but the factors that could have shaped it remain present. Iran today is running short of water. The latest figures published by the Ministry of Water and Power paint a grim picture. Most of the 80 dams across the country contain only 36 percent of their water-holding capacity. Of the nation's 31 provinces, only two have maintained the balance between water use and renewal of water resources.
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by Majid Rafizadeh • September 27, 2025 at 5:00 am
Oil sales are a lifeline for the Iranian economy, funding both domestic governance and external operations, including support for proxy militias. If these funds were curtailed, the regime would struggle to maintain its internal stability while simultaneously attempting to sustain influence abroad. Such an economic squeeze would heighten domestic discontent, increase political pressure on leaders, and force Tehran to consider its options in a more constrained and exposed position than ever before. Iran is apparently aware that it faces an administration under Trump that is determined to maintain the pressure until meaningful, verifiable changes occur. Tehran's desperation underscores the effectiveness of the strategy: when authoritarian regimes are confronted with coordinated, uncompromising pressure -- duress -- they are forced to confront their vulnerabilities and recalibrate their behavior. Understanding the "language" of authoritarian regimes has been a critical factor in Trump's success. Maximum pressure is not subtle; it is a direct communication that dictators understand. It combines visibility of consequences, clarity of demands, and the credible threat of continued escalation. For Iran, this has meant that there is no ambiguity about the costs of pursuing nuclear weapons, maintaining proxy operations, or destabilizing the region. Force, coordinated international sanctions, and strategic diplomacy have created an environment where the regime cannot rely on its previous strategies of coercion or intimidation. This approach demonstrates that sustained, multidimensional pressure can achieve outcomes that decades of negotiation and partial agreements could not. The future for the Iranian regime, under continued maximum pressure, depends on the EU maintaining a firm stance as well. Iran's nuclear program must be dismantled entirely, financial and military support for proxy groups curtailed, and no concessions offered that could weaken the credibility of the strategy. This historic moment represents an opportunity to reshape the region, limit the threats posed by Iran, and reinforce the principle that force, when applied strategically, remains a decisive tool in addressing state-sponsored aggression and nuclear proliferation – also in countries other than Iran.
The Iranian regime finds itself in a situation it has never faced in its more than 40 years of ruling. The pressures it is now under are the result of a coordinated and relentless approach by President Donald J. Trump. Pictured: Trump addresses the nation from the White House in Washington, DC on June 21, 2025, following the announcement that the US bombed nuclear sites in Iran. (Photo by Carlos Barria/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
The Iranian regime finds itself in a situation it has never faced in its more than 40 years of ruling. The pressures it is now under are the result of a coordinated and relentless approach by President Donald J. Trump, whose policies are systematically targeting every pillar of the Iranian state that supports its nuclear ambitions, regional influence and financial stability.
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by Drieu Godefridi • September 26, 2025 at 5:00 am
The climate of hatred and intimidation is so pervasive that, according to them, it is impossible to be Jewish on the ULB campus. One cannot speak or express oneself as Jewish — or simply be Jewish. Just being a Jew is condemned and subjected to violence. Finally, when Alain Destexhe, long-time Belgian Senator, sought to shed light on this choice by pointing to demographic developments at ULB, citing around twenty first names — without surnames — the university immediately, the same day, filed a complaint against him for "incitement to hatred". It is questionable how the observation of a demographic evolution — neither good nor bad in itself, but simply factual — could be construed as "hateful". So much for "free inquiry", the motto of the ULB. Out of conviction or cowardice, the Free University of Brussels seems to have chosen the path of complicity with Islamist anti-Semitism. Voices are now calling on the Belgian authorities and the European Union (notably within the Erasmus program) to take the necessary measures, including the complete withdrawal of funding.
Has the Free University of Brussels (ULB) become a breeding ground for Islamist and anti-Semitic hatred in Europe? Pictured: Students from the ULB stage a sit-in during an anti-Israel march from the university campus to the Israeli embassy in Brussels, Belgium on March 25, 2025. (Photo by Bob Reijnders/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
The Free University of Brussels (ULB) has been making headlines in Europe. Law students decided to name their class after Rima Hassan, a French Islamist politician known for her anti-Semitic positions and her apologetics for Hamas and other terrorist organizations. That decision came against the backdrop of countless attacks and threats targeting Jewish students on the Brussels campus. Has the ULB become a breeding ground for Islamist and anti-Semitic hatred in Europe? 1. Anti-Semitic attacks
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by Bassam Tawil • September 25, 2025 at 5:00 am
"[Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas] has asserted his commitment to fighting hate speech and has promised a thorough overhaul of Palestinian governance." — French President Emmanuel Macron, speaking at the United Nations, September 22, 2025. Abbas, unfortunately, has been promising sweeping government and security reforms ever since he assumed power in 2005. Palestinians have yet to see even the slightest change in anything. [Abbas] had two entire decades to reform the PA, but did not seize the opportunity to end rampant corruption or make any changes in the PA that might be constructive for his people. Even the garbage disposal is toxic. The results of these polls show that a majority of Palestinians do not share the French president's optimism regarding the implementation of government, security and economic reforms. While Macron seems to have taken at face value Abbas's commitment to launch a "thorough overhaul" of the PA, most Palestinians, according to the polls, have not. Macron is overly optimistic, if not pathetically naïve, regarding the prospects of democracy in a future Palestinian state. Macron and other Western leaders, if they believe that the PA will change for the better, at least in the foreseeable future, are living in a fantasy world.... Even if a Palestinian state is created, it will be ruled either by Abbas's corrupt Fatah faction or Hamas. In contrast to idealists and politicians such as Macron, the UK's Keir Starmer, Canada's Mark Carney and Australia's Anthony Albanese, who are evidently terrified of their Muslim voters, the Palestinians at least are realistic. They are only too aware that their leaders will keep on providing them with nothing but anguish and misery.
French President Emmanuel Macron is overly optimistic, if not pathetically naïve, regarding the prospects of democracy in a future Palestinian state. Macron and other Western leaders, if they believe that the Palestinian Authority (PA) will change for the better, at least in the foreseeable future, are living in a fantasy world. Even if a Palestinian state is created, it will be ruled either by Mahmoud Abbas's corrupt Fatah faction or Hamas. Pictured: Macron meets with PA President Abbas at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on September 25, 2024. (Photo by Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images)
French President Emmanuel Macron, in his speech before the United Nations during the "High-level International Conference for the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution" on September 22, justified his decision to recognize a Palestinian state by arguing that Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas had promised "a thorough overhaul of Palestinian governance." Macron expressed hope that the new Palestinian state would protect "democratic expression":
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by Derek Levine • September 24, 2025 at 5:00 am
China recognizes the strategic value of these students. As American universities and laboratories are global leaders in advanced research, Beijing has developed a multifaceted strategy to acquire that knowledge. One element is the China Scholarship Council (CSC), which funds Chinese citizens to study in the United States, particularly in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) on the condition that they return home to serve China's scientific and technological ambitions. Espionage is an activity additionally concerning, as well as the role China's intelligence agencies play in recruiting ordinary citizens for it.... According to reports, the Ministry of State Security (MSS) and the Military Intelligence Department (MID) threatened Mr. Wu with serious prison time if he refused to cooperate. Complementing this is the Thousand Talents Plan, which offers lucrative salaries, research funding, housing benefits, and prestigious positions to overseas-trained students and researchers, incentivizing them to bring back advanced skills, technological expertise, and sensitive intellectual property. Intelligence officials see these initiatives as an encouragement of espionage. If the applicants were from a reliable ally, the situation might be different. However, China has already declared a "people's war" on the U.S. through the doctrine of "Unrestricted Warfare," first outlined in a 1999 publication by two PLA colonels. Although Trump has expressed hopes of turning the CCP into a partner, that goal has not been realized, and under the current Xi regime, meaningful cooperation remains highly unlikely. So why would the U.S. consider it an "honor" to admit 600,000 students who may seek to help China to achieve its ambition of becoming the dominant global power in the 21st century? Universities might understand that they are not operating in a vacuum; they are at the heart of a global competition where intellectual property, advanced research, and talent are critical assets. Protecting these assets means implementing robust safeguards, carefully scrutinizing foreign influence, and ensuring that the drive for tuition revenue never compromises national security. The future of America, as well as the West, depends on it.
China's Thousand Talents Plan offers lucrative salaries, research funding, housing benefits, and prestigious positions to overseas-trained Chinese students and researchers, incentivizing them to bring back advanced skills, technological expertise, and sensitive intellectual property. Intelligence officials also apparently see these initiatives as an encouragement of espionage. (Image source: iStock/Getty Images)
In late August, President Donald J. Trump announced that up to 600,000 Chinese students would be allowed to study in the United States. He stated that without the revenue from full tuition and fees from international students, financially vulnerable schools could collapse: "I like that their students come here, I like that other countries' students come here. And you know what would happen if they didn't, our system would go to hell immediately. And it wouldn't be the top colleges, it would be colleges that struggle on the bottom."
This policy, however, has drawn criticism across the political spectrum, even from supporters of MAGA. They argue that it prioritizes tuition dollars over national security.
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by Gordon G. Chang • September 23, 2025 at 5:00 am
The shoal is especially strategic: It guards the mouths to both Manila and Subic bays. "The South China Sea is the key waterway that allows American naval forces to transit to and from allied nations in northeast Asia, southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Australia. The lynchpin of control over that body of water today is Scarborough Shoal." — James Fanell of the Geneva Center for Security Policy and co-author of Embracing Communist China: America's Greatest Strategic Failure, to Gatestone Institute, September 19, 2025. When Chinese leaders and flag officers saw Washington's failure to protect a treaty ally in 2012 at Scarborough, they began moving against Second Thomas Shoal and other Philippine reefs and islets in the South China Sea, went after Japan's islets in the East China Sea, and began reclaiming and militarizing features in the Spratly chain. The Obama team unintentionally legitimized the worst elements in the Chinese political system by showing everybody else that aggression worked. "The Obama administration's decision to allow China to take possession of Scarborough from our treaty ally Philippines emboldened China's Communist Party to take control of the entirety of the South China Sea." — James Fanell, to Gatestone Institute, September 19, 2025. At Scarborough, the Chinese feel they can pick on a weak state and get an easy and casualty-free win, something Xi Jinping may feel he needs at this moment. Taiwan, on the other hand, presents a much harder target. "If the war in Ukraine has taught us anything, it is that confronting adversaries at the first point of conflict is important, otherwise the enemy will fill the vacuum," he noted. "If the U.S. fails to defend our national interests at Scarborough today, we can be sure that America will be facing a violent People's Liberation Army at Guam, Hawaii, or even our West Coast in the not-too-distant future." — James Fanell, to Gatestone Institute, September 19, 2025.
Scarborough Shoal and nearby waters form the most dangerous hotspot in East Asia. China is looking to create a confrontation there. Pictured: A China Coast Guard ship (top) sails dangerously close to Filipino fishermen aboard two wooden boats (center), as a Philippine Fisheries and Aquatic Resources inflatable boat observes, near the Scarborough Shoal, in the South China Sea, on February 16, 2024. (Photo by Ted Aljibe/ AFP/Getty Images)
On September 16, Chinese and Philippine vessels collided near Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea. At the same time, two Chinese Coast Guard ships blasted the BRP Datu Gumbay Paing, a Filipino fisheries ship, with water cannons for almost a half hour. The belligerent action resulted in "significant damage" to the boat and injuries to a Philippine sailor. The incident occurred six days after China's State Council announced it was including the shoal, which Manila calls Panatag and Beijing terms Huangyan Dao, in a "national nature reserve." Both the Philippine and American governments announced their opposition to the Chinese action. Forget Taiwan. Scarborough Shoal and nearby waters form the most dangerous hotspot in East Asia. China is looking to create a confrontation there.
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by Daniel Greenfield • September 23, 2025 at 4:00 am
[I]t's also a new chapter for the people of England as a Pakistani Muslim woman who has made no secret of her hatred and contempt for them will now be empowered to persecute them using not only her control over immigration to displace them, but also her new arsenal of 'public safety', 'national security' and 'law enforcement' power to escalate her targeting of them. What sort of chapter it is can be understood from Mahmood's past declaration that "the people you see holding the English flag most of the time down my neck of the woods will be the EDL and they are white and they are male and they're bad people." The Home Secretary is responsible for law enforcement. These "white men" will be the ones she comes after. Mahmood had previously proposed banning offenders from 'pubs' instead of arresting them. This new twist on the Starmer regime's infamous two-tier policing would punish Englishmen while giving Muslims a pass. And implement Islamic Sharia law in the bargain. While Shabana Mahmood deemed English people terrorists, actual Muslim terrorists were another matter entirely.
Pictured: UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood (R) smiles for the camera at a cabinet meeting on September 9, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by Toby Melville - WPA Pool/Getty Images)
"For over two centuries, the Home Secretary has safeguarded the nation. Today, we begin a new chapter as we welcome Shabana Mahmood to the Home Office as the new Home Secretary," the British government announced. It is indeed a new chapter for the Pakistani Muslim politician, who took her oath of office on a Koran and who has now become the highest-ranking Muslim in the British government. And a new chapter for Islamic colonialism as seeing the white flag, 1,000 Muslim invaders crossed the Channel and invaded England on Mahmood's first day at work. But it's also a new chapter for the people of England, as a Pakistani Muslim woman who has made no secret of her hatred and contempt for them will now be empowered to persecute them using not only her control over immigration to displace them, but also her new arsenal of 'public safety', 'national security' and 'law enforcement' power to escalate her targeting of them.
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by Khaled Abu Toameh • September 22, 2025 at 5:00 am
Israel's airstrike in Doha was directed against Hamas leaders, not Qatar. There is no reason why the leaders of a terrorist organization, responsible for murdering thousands of Israelis and Palestinians, should feel safe anywhere. The war could have ended long ago had Hamas agreed to release the hostages, whom it should not have seized in the first place, lay down its weapons, and relinquish control over the Gaza Strip. Such a celebration could not have taken place without the approval of Qatar's rulers. Qatar's media especially Al-Jazeera, to this day, have been enthusiastically praising Hamas's attacks, as well. Qatar is not – and has never pretended to be – a democracy that respects and protects free speech and public freedoms. If Qatar's rulers were unhappy with the actions and presence of Hamas's leaders in their country, they would have stopped them or deported them long ago. The country's rulers, the Al Thani family... have placed Al-Jazeera at their disposal to spread their threatening and radical Islamist ideology. Much of it is based on eliminating Israel through Jihad. Notably, several Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Egypt decided in 2017 to cut their diplomatic relations with Qatar because it supports terrorism and extremist groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood. These countries issued a list of 13 demands, one of which, most prominently, was shutting down Al-Jazeera. Qatar is reportedly working to create a second Arab Spring to topple Egypt's government once again. Since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war, the network [Al-Jazeera] has banned any criticism of Hamas. In December 2024, even the Palestinian Authority, after accusing Al-Jazeera of broadcasting misleading reports and stoking divisions among the Palestinians, decided to ban Al-Jazeera in the West Bank. By failing to denounce Hamas and call on it to lay down its weapons and cede control of the Gaza Strip, the Arab and Islamic leaders actually sent a message to the terror group that it is right to continue its Jihad against Israel. It would have been more helpful had the Arab and Islamic leaders once again issued an appeal to Qatar to stop supporting Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. The reason Arab and Islamic leaders did not condemn Hamas is because they are afraid that Qatar will use Al-Jazeera to incite violence and terrorism against their regimes. Some of these leaders, in addition, including the United States, seem to be afraid of alienating a wealthy country such as Qatar.
Israel's airstrike in Doha was directed against Hamas leaders, not Qatar. There is no reason why the leaders of a terrorist organization, responsible for murdering thousands of Israelis and Palestinians, should feel safe anywhere. Pictured: Smoke billows after an Israeli airstrike on a Hamas leadership meeting in Qatar's capital, Doha, on September 9, 2025. (Photo by Jacqueline Penney/AFPTV/AFP via Getty Images)
Leaders of several Arab and Islamic countries held an emergency summit in Doha on September 15 to discuss Israel's "aggression" against Qatar. The reference was to the recent Israeli attack on senior Hamas leaders in Qatar. The summit was held at the request of Qatar, the only Gulf state that has long been providing shelter and financial and political aid to the leaders of Hamas, the Iran-backed terror group that carried out the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel. The assault resulted in the murder of more than 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals and the wounding of thousands. Another 251 Israelis and foreigners were kidnapped to the Gaza Strip, where 48 – dead and alive – remain in Hamas's captivity.
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by Jon Abbink • September 21, 2025 at 5:00 am
The Israel-Hamas-Iran conflict, still dominating world news, remains volatile. Anti-Israel demonstrations — often devolving into violent riots – have taken place in many countries in the past 23 months. October 7 did not happen because of the lack of a 'Palestinian state', but because of the existence of one: Gaza since 2005 has been fully under Palestinian control, and since 2007, fully under Hamas control. There has been no peace. Since 2005, more than 20,000 rockets and mortars have been fired from Gaza into Israel, a country roughly the size of New Jersey, along with at least 100 suicide bombings. How many rockets, missiles and suicide bombings would France, England, Canada or Australia tolerate? Proposals to make Israeli citizens defenseless against indiscriminate rocket fire are therefore tantamount to inviting mass murder. Hamas, on the other hand, has a straightforward policy of targeting Israeli civilians, obliterating Israeli communities and of using its own people as human shields and putting them in harm's way. So we seem to have here a serious case of mixing up the "good guy" and the "bad guy". While in any war there will be mistakes, Israel cannot simply be labeled the "bad guy". Apart from any country thus attacked having the right to forcefully act in self-defense, nowhere in history has any country gone to such pains as Israel not to harm its adversary's civilians. Nowhere in history have people under attack brought such amounts of humanitarian aid to the people under a regime trying to destroy them. The UN has admitted that 90% of what it tried to deliver was intercepted by "armed actors" before reaching its destination. The GHF has been vilified and falsely accused of killing Gazans. Israel has been accused of "targeting civilians" in Gaza (sadly, civilians were killed, as in any conflict, but Israel never targeted them as such); was "genocidal"... committed "ethnic cleansing", and so on. The waves of anti-Jewish hate-mongering, in fact, began even before Israel entered Gaza, and by now have become commonplace. Even large American teachers' unions, to their shame, have been spouting anti-Semitism. This rampant vilification, already seen at universities such as Harvard and Columbia, has become a serious problem... and urgently needs to be confronted. Israel is a state well-founded in international law. Its existence cannot seriously be a point of dispute. Israel has always wanted simply to be left alone. The Abraham Accords, politically stabilizing and economically beneficial both to Israel and several Arab countries, show that real peace can be achieved. It is revealing that no demonstrations criticizing Israel's campaign against the Iranian regime and its proxies have been seen in Arab countries. Today, the remaining hostages are being deliberately starved, given -- only occasionally -- contaminated water, and forced to dig their own graves. Palestinians, and least of all groups such as Hamas, have not expressed a clear desire to recognize and live in peace with a Jewish state in any borders. It now turns out, in addition, that the Trump Administration's "helpful" mediator, Qatar -- champion of virtually every Islamic terrorist group – instead of ordering Hamas to release the hostages, has been ordering Hamas not to release them. That there is no demonstrable will on the Palestinian side yet to accept a Jewish state and live in peace with it is also shown by the still existing "pay-for-slay" "jobs program" of Mahmoud Abbas's Palestinian Authority. A Palestinian state now would not only be a de facto reward for terrorism, it would also inspire other terror movements to intensify their violence. The lesson the terrorists would take home would certainly be, "Terrorism works, so let's keep on doing it." What the recent public demonstrations in the Netherlands and elsewhere show is mostly "selective outrage," morally and politically lopsided. There appears to be hardly any interest in reconciliation or efforts at dialogue, and more in condoning or stimulating antipathy against Israel.
The Israel-Hamas-Iran conflict, still dominating world news, remains volatile. Anti-Israel demonstrations — often devolving into violent riots – have taken place in many countries in the past 23 months. Some were even held on, or just days after, the Hamas massacres in Israel on October 7, 2023 - in support of the massacres. There have been so many events and social media statements that amount to vilifying Israel and the Jewish people. Pictured: Police officers chase rioters who attacked Jews and Israelis in Amsterdam on November 7, 2024. (Photo by Wahaj Bani Moufleh/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
The Israel-Hamas-Iran conflict, still dominating world news, remains volatile. Anti-Israel demonstrations — often devolving into violent riots – have taken place in many countries in the past 23 months. Some were even held on, or just days after, the Hamas massacres in Israel on October 7, 2023 - in support of the massacres. There have been so many events and social media statements that amount to vilifying Israel and the Jewish people -- too many "incidents" to ignore. As a Dutch academic, I plead here for less emotion and more dispassionate factual debate on this tragic conflict and about the need for honest solutions for both sides.
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