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by Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury • July 18, 2025 at 5:30 am
Since the 2024 jihadist-backed political shift in Bangladesh, the nation has become fertile ground for Islamic extremism. Extremist groups now see an opportunity to dismantle secular governance and establish an Islamic theocracy under Muhammad Yunus. Both ISIS and Al-Qaeda are exploiting this instability to expand their regional footprint. The interim government led by Muhammad Yunus, faces multiple crises, including extremist violence, growing sectarian tensions, and rising threats to religious minorities, according to The Jamestown Foundation. Indian strategist Professor Brahma Chellaney described the situation as an "upsurge of radical Islamism" in Bangladesh, exacerbated by systematic attacks on minorities and the empowerment of previously imprisoned jihadists. Compounding these issues, jihadist leaders from Hamas and the Taliban have made high-profile visits to Bangladesh, receiving open support from pro-Islamist groups.
Since the 2024 jihadist-backed political shift in Bangladesh, the nation has become fertile ground for Islamic extremism. Extremist groups now see an opportunity to dismantle secular governance and establish an Islamic theocracy under Muhammad Yunus. Pictured: Yunus at a press conference in Dhaka on October 4, 2024. (Photo by Munir Uz Zaman/AFP via Getty Images)
A shocking revelation has emerged implicating Bangladeshi expatriate workers in the covert collection of funds for Islamic State (ISIS), Al Qaeda, and other militant outfits. This development raises urgent concerns across countries with large Bangladeshi migrant populations, including Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the United States, and nations in the European Union. Even more alarmingly, many of these workers are not ethnic Bangladeshis, but Rohingyas and "Stranded Pakistanis" (Biharis) who obtained Bangladeshi passports through illegal channels. Recent investigative reports published in Malaysian daily The Star, Singapore's The Straits Times, and leading Bangladeshi media confirm that the Royal Malaysian Police, through their Special Branch Counter Terrorism Division (E8), uncovered a group named Gerakan Militan Radical Bangladesh (GMRB). The group was actively raising funds to support ISIS cells in both Syria and Bangladesh.
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by Robert Williams • July 18, 2025 at 5:00 am
This time the lies are being fabricated by Iran and its proxy Hamas -- with the generous help of the "international community" not least the UN, the Red Cross and a variety of NGOS... It has apparently made no difference to mainstream media reporting that there is footage showing that Hamas deliberately shoots at Gazans waiting for aid, or shoots them as punishment for receiving it; or that local Gazans working for GHF have testified that Hamas deliberately targets the aid sites where GHF operates and that 12 of its local staff have been murdered, and others tortured; or that audio has been released in which a resident in Gaza explains how Hamas operates.... It has also apparently made no difference to the mainstream media that the Al-Hayat Al-Jadida daily newspaper in the Palestinian Authority, a self-declared enemy of Israel, has, in an article, "accused Hamas of murdering Gaza residents trying to get to the American food aid distribution centers established in the Gaza Strip."
Hamas wants to regain control of the humanitarian aid entering Gaza. These donations are now distributed by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which is backed by the US and Israel. Previously, aid was distributed via UNRWA, which is fully infiltrated by Hamas. Pictured: Gazans cheer after receiving food parcels from a GHF distribution point on June 26, 2025, in central Gaza. (Photo by Moiz Salhi/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images
When Iran's proxy Hamas, on behalf of Iran, invaded Israel to carry out the worst massacre against the Jews since the Holocaust, the thin civilizational veneer that used to stop most of "elite" society from displaying the ugliest parts of its Jew-hatred completely peeled off. It is now on full display, though still cloaked in the transparent pretense of "anti-Zionism." Its vilifications, falsely defaming the Jewish state and its inhabitants, embody echoes of Nazi propaganda. Since Hamas launched the Gaza war in October 2023, contemporary versions of the false accusation that Jews kill non-Jews to use their blood for ritual purposes have proliferated. It is a lie that was widely spread by the Nazis, especially by Julius Streicher, the propagandist and publisher of the Third Reich newspaper, Der Stürmer.
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by Khaled Abu Toameh • July 17, 2025 at 5:00 am
Abbas cannot have forgotten the atrocities Hamas committed against his men during the 2007 coup. Some of his loyalists were dragged to the streets and lynched, while others were thrown from the high floors of tall buildings. In addition to the 2007 coup, Hamas, a few years later, was caught planning a second coup to try to take over the West Bank as well as the Gaza Strip. The calls for Hamas to "join political action" actually aim to legitimize the terror group and present its leaders as a bunch of politicians seeking seats in parliament and jobs in government, when the reality is anything but that. The international community, including the Trump administration, must not fall for this scam. Hamas was not established to serve as a "political party." Rather, the terror group was established with the main objective of murdering Jews through Jihad (holy war) and replacing Israel with an Islamist terror state. Instead of inviting Hamas to engage in political action, Abbas and other Palestinian leaders... should have outlawed Hamas a long time ago. That would send a message to all Palestinians that there is no room for genocidal Jihadist groups in Palestinian society. Apparently, Abbas and Rajoub's desire to destroy Israel is even stronger than their decades-long hatred of Hamas. Destroying Hamas's military capabilities is not enough. The group must also cease to exist as a "political" entity. The only politics Hamas is interested in is Jihad, destruction and death.
Destroying Hamas's military capabilities is not enough. The group must also cease to exist as a "political" entity. The only politics Hamas is interested in is Jihad, destruction and death. Mahmoud Abbas cannot have forgotten the atrocities Hamas committed against his men during the 2007 coup. Some of his loyalists were dragged to the streets and lynched, while others were thrown from the high floors of tall buildings. Pictured: Fatah gunmen guard the home of a senior Fatah official in the Gaza Strip on January 30, 2007, during the violent Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip. (Photo by Abid Katib/Getty Images)
According to reports in some media outlets, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has called on the Iran-backed Hamas terror group to "surrender its weapons to the Palestinian Authority." Abbas was quoted as saying: "Hamas will not rule the Gaza Strip." His comment came long after the current war, which began on October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas terrorists and "ordinary" Palestinians invaded Israel, and murdered 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals and wounded thousands. Another 251 Israelis and foreign nationals were kidnapped to the Gaza Strip, where 50 – alive and dead – are still held captive. Abbas made the statements on July 13 during a meeting in Jordan with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The Palestinian news agency Wafa reported:
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by Lawrence Kadish • July 17, 2025 at 4:00 am
A Trump MAGA program to develop nuclear fusion energy immediately -- to catch up to China and overtake it -- cannot be started soon enough. 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)
At first glance, it was another stunning triumph for President Donald J. Trump. The Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit on July 15 included more than $90 billion in "energy and AI investments," and high praise for companies that would build their own electricity plants to accommodate the doubling of electricity that it is estimated will be needed for Artificial Intelligence ventures to ensure that China will not end up overtaking the US in the fields of AI, energy and quantum computing. Oddly, the most significant innovation -- nuclear-fusion energy -- which is certain to drive the future of clean limitless, inexpensive energy for the future of AI technology to ensure America's dominance -- was not even mentioned.
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by Con Coughlin • July 16, 2025 at 5:00 am
Trump's change of heart on Ukraine is not only welcome, it could prove vital to improving Ukraine's hopes of ultimately emerging victorious from the conflict, not least because Trump's recent decision to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities has demonstrated America's willingness to use its overwhelming military superiority when required. At the same time, the ease with which US and Israeli warplanes were able to penetrate Iran's Russian-made air defences has been a humiliating experience for the Kremlin and its claim to rival the US in terms of military capability. At a time when Russia's weakness has been graphically exposed on the world stage, there is a golden opportunity for the Trump administration to drive home its advantage. It can do this by providing Ukraine with the sophisticated weaponry it needs to win the war in Ukraine, in the knowledge that Russian missiles and air defences are simply no match for America's superior military might. It would seem advisable for the future of Europe and the Free World to ensure that even a charming Putin – nonetheless a KGB graduate and serial mass-murderer in Grozny, Syria, Ukraine, not to mention his invasions of Georgia and Crimea -- is not allowed to emerge from this conflict before being thoroughly defeated.
US President Donald Trump's belated realisation that Russian President Vladimir Putin is not interested in a peaceful resolution of the Ukraine conflict could finally provide the breakthrough Kyiv desperately needs to win the war. Pictured: Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, on April 26, 2025. (Photo by Office of the President of Ukraine via Getty Images)
US President Donald Trump's belated realisation that Russian President Vladimir Putin is not interested in a peaceful resolution of the Ukraine conflict could finally provide the breakthrough Kyiv desperately needs to win the war. Since returning to the White House in January, Trump has persisted in his belief that, because of the strong personal relationship he enjoys with Putin, he could persuade the Russian despot to agree to a lasting ceasefire. Back in February, Trump insisted that Putin was a man of honour who would abide by his undertaking to accept a ceasefire after the White House had published its own formula for ending the conflict, one that required Ukraine to accept Russia's illegal conquest of its territory.
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by Lawrence Kadish • July 16, 2025 at 4:00 am
Secretary of Energy Chris Wright could easily start assembling a Trump Manhattan Project for Nuclear Fusion Energy this week. If he did, he would no doubt find himself catapulted from stardom to superstardom, while at the same time serving his country, its global leadership and its president. Pictured: Wright stands behind President Donald Trump as he holds an executive order after signing a series of orders on American energy production, in the White House on April 8, 2025. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
While all eyes are focused on tariffs, deportees, taxes, and the stock market of course, President Donald J. Trump's cabinet choice currently positioned to emerge as the leading member of Trump's cabinet and the MVP of the Trump Administration's Golden Age of Energy is Secretary of Energy Chris Wright. Wright is already doing an exemplary job leading the revival of America's great asset, oil, to "Make America Great Again." By enabling lower prices, massive energy exports, and making the US not just energy-secure but energy-dominant, both he and Trump can be assured of success. However, the greatest leap to global preeminence for the United States, and as a stunning legacy for Trump and Wright, will happen if and when they succeed in catapulting America ahead of China in the newest global race for the only energy that is clean, inexpensive, and limitless: nuclear fusion energy.
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by Khaled Abu Toameh • July 15, 2025 at 5:00 am
Hamas has been demanding "clear guarantees" that any US-brokered ceasefire deal would ultimately lead to the end of the war in the Gaza Strip, meaning that the Israelis should stop defending themselves against attacks. Many Arabs seem to like starting wars -- such as the war of 1948, when five Arab armies invaded Israel on the day of its independence, and which they now call the nakba (catastrophe) -- but then getting angry when they lose them. "Once again, Hamas's spokesman – Izzat al-Risheq ... [insists] 'they will never surrender.' He speaks from comfort abroad, while Gazans starve in ruins.... This kind of language is only aimed to block any ceasefire that doesn't assure Hamas staying in power. Every time negotiations move forward, Hamas escalates the rhetoric and... prolongs this war." — Hamza Howidy, Gaza-born Palestinian human rights advocate, X, July 9, 2025. The terror groups' leaders.... are convinced that despite the death and destruction they brought on their people, they can continue ruling the Gaza Strip after the war. As long as Hamas and PIJ insist on maintaining their hold on power, the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have no future. The Trump administration needs to insist that all terror groups in Gaza be dismantled and driven out of power as part of any ceasefire deal with Israel. It is time that the Americans understood that the Palestinian jihadis pose a threat not only to Israel, but also to the US and its Arab allies in the Middle East, especially by inciting violence against them and carrying out -- or encouraging -- terrorist attacks against Americans and moderate Arab regimes.
The Trump administration needs to insist that all terror groups in Gaza be dismantled and driven out of power as part of any ceasefire deal with Israel. It is time that the Americans understood that the Palestinian jihadis pose a threat not only to Israel, but also to the US and its Arab allies in the Middle East. Pictured: Gazans transport food aid distributed by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a private US-backed aid group, in the central Gaza Strip on June 8, 2025. (Photo by Eyad BabaAFP via Getty Images)
In separate statements over the past week, senior officials of the Iran-backed Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) said that their terror groups "will not surrender." The statements came as the Trump administration continued its efforts to end the war in the Gaza Strip and secure the release of 50 Israeli hostages held by the terror groups. Twenty of the hostages are believed to be alive, while the remaining 30 are presumed dead. The hostages were kidnapped during the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led invasion of Israel. At least 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals were murdered that day, and thousands wounded.
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by Gordon G. Chang • July 14, 2025 at 5:00 am
"Xi is obviously in some sort of trouble. The smoke keeps pouring out." — Charles Burton, Senior Fellow, Prague-based Sinopsis think tank, former Canadian diplomat, to Gatestone Institute, July 2025. The world is at great risk... if Xi is now engaged in no-holds-barred fighting for his political life. In this case — the most probable in my view — he might feel he has every reason to stop at nothing to save himself. It is apparent that Chinese agents are now in place in America. Toward the end of the Biden administration, U.S. Border Patrol officers noticed packs of military-aged Chinese males coming from Mexico, all outfitted in identical kit. Border Patrol apparently knew that some pack members had links to the Chinese military. In addition, Border Patrol suspects that China's military was orchestrating the infiltration. Why would Xi Jinping order an attack? Perhaps to show other Communist Party figures that he has the strength to take on the United States — or to create a crisis during which no one would dare to depose him.
Why would Xi Jinping order an attack? Perhaps to show other Communist Party figures that he has the strength to take on the United States — or to create a crisis during which no one would dare to depose him. Pictured: Xi speaks at the Great Hall of People, on May 13, 2025 in Beijing. (Photo by Florence Lo/Pool/Getty Images)
Rumors say mighty Xi Jinping will lose his Communist Party and Chinese state posts in the next few months. There is, however, also a large group of China watchers and academics who say that little or nothing is out of place and Xi is fine. Whatever the truth, the U.S. and other countries need to prepare for the regime to lash out without warning. Xi may now have reason to take the world by surprise. There are clear signs that Xi has lost control of the People's Liberation Army, the most important faction in the Communist Party of China. A series of articles, beginning on July 9 of last year, in PLA Daily, the military's main propaganda organ, praised "collective leadership," a clear criticism of Xi's one-man style of rule. At the same time, many of Xi's loyalists were removed from their posts.
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by Lawrence Kadish • July 14, 2025 at 4:00 am
Pictured: Employees of the Paris Air Show work on blocking and censoring the Israel Aerospace Industries exhibit, on June 16, 2025. (Photo by Mathieu Rabechault/AFP via Getty Images)
While much of the mainstream media failed to focus on it, the French government recently blocked off the exhibitions of all Israeli defense companies at this year's annual Paris Air Show, held last month. With echoes of the cynically rigged trial of Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish French Army officer falsely convicted of treason in 1895, the French exclusively targeted the Israeli displays amidst the many corporate booths displaying the military wares manufactured by defense firms from around the world. Israel Aerospace Industries CEO Boaz Levy told Aviation Week and Space Technology, "We are shocked by the behavior of the Paris Air Show organizers and the French authorities..." But perhaps we shouldn't be, because anti-Semitism has deep roots in France. Some historians believe that it was Dreyfus being "railroaded" to the infamous prison colony, Devil's Island, that helped inspire Theodor Herzl to found the modern Zionist movement in 1897.
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by Guy Millière • July 13, 2025 at 5:00 am
"We have imported another civilization."– Former MP Philippe de Villers, YouTube, "eight months ago." "[W]here do those who do this come from? And why are they still here?" -- Éric Zemmour, president of Reconquest, a right-of-center party he created in 2021. When he spoke out, he was sentenced to heavy fines, X, June 1, 2025. When illegal immigrants are arrested, all of them are given an "Obligation to Leave French Territory" (Obligation de Quitter le Territoire Français/OQTF) and ordered to leave France immediately. No one, however, including the police, deports them, so most do not go. France is being ravaged by the rise of Islam. The United Kingdom, with a smaller proportion of Muslims than France or Belgium, seems also to be undergoing a slow submission to Islam. Political parties in power for decades in all Western European countries -- except Italy -- seem deliberately blind to the danger facing them. Any party willing to take on the "great replacement," is deliberately kept out of power. The Dutch election will be closely watched. Wilders's chances of winning again in October could promise a revival for the Netherlands -- a second Enlightenment -- and a regeneration for Europe.
For years in France every celebration has led to riots, looting and violence. The police rarely intervene. If a rioter is injured by a policeman, the policeman could end up in prison. Arrests are few. Often those who are arrested are immediately released. Pictured: Riot police detain a man as Paris Saint-Germain supporters celebrate by rioting, after PSG won the UEFA Champions League soccer match, on the Champs-Elysees Avenue in Paris on May 31, 2025. (Photo by Lou Benoist/AFP via Getty Images)
Paris. June 21, 2025. Annual Music Festival. Ten years ago, orchestras played peacefully in the streets. Families strolled and stopped to listen. Security reigned and was taken for granted. In recent years, the atmosphere has changed -- radically. Families no longer go out. Young men coming from the Islamic suburbs flood the city, prevent musicians they do not like from playing by shouting insults and threats, and by attacking anyone who gets in their way. This year, more than a hundred rape complaints were filed with the police. Countless knife attacks have left dozens injured. Stores are looted. What took place in Paris also took place in every major city of France.
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by Amir Taheri • July 13, 2025 at 4:00 am
[T]he recent flare-up has deeper reason than a concern about Iran building a nuclear arsenal, something which all directors general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) from Hans Blix to Muhammad Al-Baradei and Rafael Grossi have repeatedly said they cannot confirm. Tehran's fourth demand may be the hardest for any American administration to even contemplate accepting: Accepting the Islamic Republic's right to "export" its model of governance, its Islamic values and its campaign for "global justice" just as the US does by propagating its values. In other words, Tehran says: Let us do what we please and we promise not to make the bomb that we have always said we never intended to build. [M]id-term election in the US... could transform Trump into a lame-duck president if Elon Musk's new political Tesla manages to rob the Republicans of just six seats in the Congress and two or three in the Senate. At the same time, Israeli Prim Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's numerous political enemies may eventually manage to bring him down. Thus, regime insiders believe it is imperative to prolong the current ceasefire, even through negotiations, until the two big clouds shaped like Trump and Netanyahu disappear like morning mist. The current political situation doesn't have only two sides: steadfastness and surrender. The third side is change, of course. which means giving the enemy a victory it didn't win with war.
With varying degrees of intensity and a diversity of locations, the war of Iran vs Israel and the US started more than four decades ago. Pictured: Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian watches a military parade during a ceremony marking the country's annual Army Day on April 18, 2025 in Tehran, Iran. (Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)
The recent attack by Israel and the US on parts of Iran's nuclear project has already been dubbed by some commentators as the Twelve Day War. However, that cut-off time was chosen by Tehran to back a claim that Iran managed to fight twice as long as Arab states led by Egypt did in the Six Days War of 1967. In fact, with varying degrees of intensity and a diversity of locations, this war started more than four decades ago when the new revolutionary authorities raided the Israeli diplomatic mission in Tehran and handed it over to PLO leader Yasser Arafat on a visit as special guest of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. A few months later, the new revolutionary regime repeated the exercise by raiding the US Embassy and seizing its diplomats as hostages.
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by Majid Rafizadeh • July 12, 2025 at 5:00 am
President Donald J. Trump, through a bold and unapologetic foreign policy, has emerged in just a few short months, as the only leader in recent history capable of reshaping the region and challenging Iran's theocratic dictatorship with real consequences. His actions have already produced historic results... If Trump settles into believing that setting back Iran's nuclear program by a few years is enough, the world will soon fall into the very trap that Tehran has set. The regime will rebuild, rearm, and reemerge stronger, angrier, and even nearer to having its bomb. The world will then once again face the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran—with perhaps no leader to stop it. Now is not the time to offer the regime a lifeline in the form of negotiations or sanctions relief. The regime will doubtless try its old tricks—sending diplomats to Western capitals, promising temporary compliance, and begging for centrifuges for "peaceful energy" and a new "deal." This is a trap Any deal now will not benefit the United States. It will only help the Iranian regime recover, rebuild its economy, and ultimately return to its path of terror. The time has come to "finish the job." The Iranian regime must not be allowed to survive long enough to recover. The goal is not to delay the problem but to solve it.
President Donald J. Trump, through a bold and unapologetic foreign policy, has emerged in just a few short months, as the only leader in recent history capable of reshaping the region and challenging Iran's theocratic dictatorship with real consequences. His actions have already produced historic results. (Photo by Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)
It took decades — across multiple presidencies, wars, and failed negotiations — before the United States finally had a president who understood, with both clarity and conviction, how to confront the Iranian regime and transform the trajectory of the Middle East. President Donald J. Trump, through a bold and unapologetic foreign policy, has emerged in just a few short months, as the only leader in recent history capable of reshaping the region and challenging Iran's theocratic dictatorship with real consequences. His actions have already produced historic results — from crippling the regime's nuclear infrastructure to fostering unprecedented peace deals.
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by Robert Johnson • July 11, 2025 at 5:00 am
The Trump administration is being sent early warnings of the priorities of its possible "partner," Qatar, for the future of the Gaza Strip. "His Excellency" Mohammed al-Rumaihi, Qatar's former ambassador to the United States, and former Minister of Municipality and Environment, noted on July 5 that he is concerned about "keep[ing] the Palestinian cause alive – and its people," and slammed Israel: "No major capital—neither Beijing, nor Moscow, nor Washington—has labelled the Gaza campaign as 'systematic killing,' let alone moved to punish Israel under Chapter VII of the UN Charter." You are not left to guess which side of the conflict he is on. Meetings currently appear to be underway to create a possible "consortium" of Arab and Muslim nations to govern the Gaza Strip – basically leaving in place many of the same radical Islamic adherents of Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, of which it is an offshoot, as before -- most likely to make sure that Israel can be attacked again in the future as many times as necessary to ensure its extinction. "Qatar is at the top of funding terrorism worldwide, even more than Iran." — Udi Levy, former senior official of Israel's Mossad spy agency, who dealt with economic warfare against terrorist organizations, Ynet, April14, 2024. President Donald Trump -- whose initial instincts are often perfect until "advisors" try to talk him out of them – originally suggested an American-built "Riviera" on the Gaza Strip. Combined with a military base, it would greatly serve the interests of the United States as well as Israel – similarly to how the US stations the forward HQ of Central Command and Air Forces Central Command at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, to protect the oil-rich peninsula. American forces at Al-Udeid, the largest US military base in the Middle East, effectively serve as Qatar's private air-force. Qatar might even have snookered some US bureaucrats into thinking that they are doing the US a favor by allowing its troops to be there. Trump's original idea of a US "Riviera" in Gaza, stems from an "America First" point of view, may be the most constructive way to successfully deter further military engagement for the United States in the Middle East. At the moment, however, it is crucial not to allow Qatar, Egypt or any Arab state to get anywhere near Gaza. "His Excellency" al-Rumaihi from Qatar is clearly telling you so.
The Trump administration is being sent early warnings of the priorities of its possible "partner," Qatar, for the future of the Gaza Strip. Pictured: U.S. President Donald J. Trump speaks with Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad al Thani as he departs the Al Udeid Air Base on May 15, 2025, in Doha, Qatar. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
The Trump administration is being sent early warnings of the priorities of its possible "partner," Qatar, for the future of the Gaza Strip. "His Excellency" Mohammed al-Rumaihi, Qatar's former ambassador to the United States, and former Minister of Municipality and Environment, noted on July 5 that he is concerned about "keep[ing] the Palestinian cause alive – and its people," and slammed Israel: "No major capital—neither Beijing, nor Moscow, nor Washington—has labelled the Gaza campaign as 'systematic killing,' let alone moved to punish Israel under Chapter VII of the UN Charter."
You are not left to guess which side of the conflict he is on. He goes on to suggest "political engagement.... in negotiation rooms and policy forums."
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by Khaled Abu Toameh • July 10, 2025 at 5:00 am
"You [Israelis] represent the world of brotherhood, the world of humanity, their world of affection, the world of democracy, the world of freedom." — Hassen Chalghoumi, imam from France and head of the visiting delegation, at a meeting with Israeli President Isaac Herzog, July 7, 2025. When Muslims say they support the Palestinian "resistance," they are actually voicing support for terrorism and Hamas's October 7 atrocities against Israelis and others. Undoubtedly, there are some Muslims who are in favor of these kinds of visits and interfaith dialogue, but they either prefer to remain neutral or are afraid to voice their opinions in public. Muslims should applaud, not condemn, Muslim leaders who reach out to Israel and Jews and speak out against Islamist terror groups, for their own future: they can choose, instead of a life of fear a life of freedom, prosperity and opportunity.
A group of brave Islamic religious leaders from France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Italy and Britain who are visiting Israel this week are being condemned and ridiculed by many Muslims. The leaders are being accused of "treason" and promoting "normalization" with Israel. Pictured: The delegation tours the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, Israel, on July 8, 2025. (Photo by Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images)
A group of brave Islamic religious leaders from France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Italy and Britain who are visiting Israel this week are being condemned and ridiculed by many Muslims. The leaders are being accused of "treason" and promoting "normalization" with Israel. The Muslim leaders did not come to Israel to stand against Muslims or the Palestinians. Rather, they came with a message of peace, coexistence and tolerance. They came to Israel out of a belief that interfaith dialogue between Muslims and non-Muslims is imperative. Interfaith dialogue, which promotes peace and harmony, is important because it allows people to learn about different religions and cultures, and to appreciate the similarities and differences between them.
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by Amin Sharifi • July 9, 2025 at 5:00 am
Iran's suspension of cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is not a turning point. It is business as usual. Tehran's decades-long strategy -- deny, delay, deceive -- continues, and the West still refuses to call it for what it is: a slow-motion march toward nuclear capability.... It has never stopped. The problem is not that Iran has "suspended cooperation." The problem is that the West keeps treating each step as if it is a fresh crisis that can still be reversed with enough diplomacy. Iran will not stop, and diplomacy has an extremely low probability of working for a serious, long-term solution. Forty-six years of sanctions, deterrence, and inspections have all failed. Regime change appears the only realistic solution. It is what many Iranians still risk their lives demanding, what most of Iran's neighbors would welcome, and what the broader international community would ultimately benefit from.
Iran's suspension of cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is not a turning point. It is business as usual. Tehran's decades-long strategy -- deny, delay, deceive -- continues, and the West still refuses to call it for what it is: a slow-motion march toward nuclear capability. Pictured: Reza Najafi, Iran's ambassador to the IAEA, speaks to journalists shortly at the agency's headquarters in Vienna, Austria on June 23, 2025. (Photo by Joe Klamar/AFP via Getty Images)
Iran's suspension of cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is not a turning point. It is business as usual. Tehran's decades-long strategy -- deny, delay, deceive -- continues, and the West still refuses to call it for what it is: a slow-motion march toward nuclear capability. Some commentators are now warning that Iran has suspended cooperation and may finally pursue the bomb, as if that is not already taking place. Iran has been pursuing nuclear weapons for decades. It has never stopped.
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