Gatestone Institute

After bringing death and destruction on the residents of the Gaza Strip, the Iran-backed Hamas terrorist group is now trying to drag Arab Israelis and Palestinians in east Jerusalem and the West Bank into a violent confrontation with Israel. https://lnkd.in/ekEV472g

On April 12, eight Pakistani migrant laborers in Iran were murdered in their sleep by the "Baloch Nationalist Army" terrorist organization. And Iran's regime, days later, still has no answers, no arrests, no accountability. https://lnkd.in/eCDNnwzi

The Trump administration must not lose sight of the Iranian regime's history and intentions. Iran has mastered the art of prolonging negotiations: appearing cooperative while covertly advancing its strategic interests, especially developing ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons. The mullahs see their nuclear program as the key to their survival. https://lnkd.in/eZyRctmz

While President Donald Trump keeps offering perfect negotiating parameters, such as, "the Iran issue is easy to solve, they cannot obtain nuclear weapons," his statements always seem to be instantly undermined by officials in his administration. If this continues, the growing band of isolationists, both media personalities such as Tucker Carlson and people who occupy senior positions in the Trump administration, will have won the policy battle -- a victory that will seriously imperil the US and the wider world. https://lnkd.in/enKvVcUM

What new solutions has Steve Witkoff come up with? The Obama ones. Negotiate with terrorists. Pretend they're reasonable. Give them what they want. Act confused when it doesn't work out. https://lnkd.in/eHgsZ98h

The Texas House of Representatives passed a resolution officially recognizing March 23 as "Pakistan Day." Meanwhile in Pakistan, Christians were being arrested and sentenced to death for "blasphemy," and Muslims were abducting young Christian girls to sexually abuse, forcibly "marry," and coerce into converting to Islam. https://lnkd.in/ef8in6-S

A revolutionary, deadly, advance in China's offensive cyber-warfare capabilities that target US interests involves the stealthy insertion of potentially debilitating malware into the computer systems that control critical nodes of US infrastructure. The malicious code is designed to remain quiescent and undiscovered until China activates it during a future military confrontation with the US. https://lnkd.in/eKatJura

As the Hamas-Israel war continues in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has resumed its false claim – first propagated in 1929 by Adolf Hitler's subsequent ally, the Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini, and again and again after that -- that Jews are violently "storming" the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem and planning to divide it in time and space between Jewish and Muslim worshipers. https://lnkd.in/eUK5kDUi

The vast majority of Israelis seem finally to have understood that the goal of Palestinian organizations is not to create a state living in peace alongside Israel, but to destroy Israel. The West, wrote the columnist Melanie Phillips, needs "to take off its blinders, join up the dots and fight like Israel to survive." https://lnkd.in/eARsqbpS

Despite the great deal of sound and fury that it has generated, it is perhaps too early to assess the lasting impact of President Donald Trump's latest fireworks on tariffs. Trump also intends to go further by addressing other problems inherent in the global system, including the vulnerability of supply chains and the danger inherent in strategic dependency on foreign sources of vital goods and services. https://lnkd.in/e43Vy4Un