More than 75 senior retired US generals, admirals, and military lawyers have signed an open letter rejecting claims that Israel committed genocide in Gaza, saying that the facts and applicable legal standard do not support such a finding. The signatories, including retired officers who commanded US armed forces in combat, wrote in the October 7 […]

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called on Tuesday for permanent Israeli sovereignty over territory held in Gaza and Lebanon, presenting territorial losses as a necessary penalty for enemies that initiate wars. “A side that started a war and lost it will lose territory to the victorious side,” Smotrich, leader of the Religious Zionism Party, told […]

Some 3,700 years ago, the Philistines of Gerar went after the patriarch Isaac, hitting him where it would hurt the most. They filled his father Abraham’s wells with dirt to drive him off the land. On Tuesday afternoon, on a hill above Alon Road in Binyamin, Isaac’s descendants met the same weapon in a deadlier […]

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the state memorial ceremony for the October 7 massacre at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on Monday afternoon, marking three years since the Hamas attack. Opening his remarks, Netanyahu addressed the bereaved families and said that he and his wife, Sara, stood alongside them in their grief. “Your grief is the […]