Monthly Archives: April 2025
Educating for Terror
In “Grim Lessons from Phase One of the Israel-Hamas Hostage Deal,” the Hoover Institute’s Peter Berkowitz discusses a new book by Eyal Tsir-Cohen, a former member of Israel’s negotiating team with Hamas: The Untold...
Elections in Canada: A Referendum on UNRWA
As Canadians cast their votes in the April 28 parliamentary election, a pressing foreign policy issue hovered over the Ottawa electorate:
Canada’s continued funding of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) – with no...
Israel will not forget about hostages or destroying Hamas, Dermer tells JNS
The Israeli government will finish the war against Hamas and return the hostages, Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer declared at the JNS International Policy Summit in Jerusalem on Monday night.
“There are people you’ll meet...
Noa Argamani wears yellow dress in touching hostage tribute for Time 100 red carpet
Former Hamas hostage Noa Argamani wore a stunning yellow maxi dress to the Time100 Gala in New York on Saturday in a touching tribute to those still held by the terror group.
Argamani has become one of...
‘I saw what radical Islam looks like’: Saudi blogger Loay Alshareef dismantles Hamas’ lies
"I've received death threats online, thank God they haven't translated into actual death threats yet," Loay Alshareef, the Saudi blogger who has become one of the prominent Arab voices defending Israel, shared. "But you...
Hamas claim that 70pc of Gaza dead are women and children ‘demonstrably false’
Claims by Hamas that 70 per cent of casualties in the Gaza conflict are women and children have been dismissed as “demonstrably false” in a new report.
The report by the Henry Jackson Society, a think tank,...
In reverse of a longtime stance, US says UN Palestinian refugee agency isn’t immune...
The Trump administration has decided that the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees is not immune from being sued, reversing the U.S. government’s longstanding position that the organization was protected from civil liability.
The Justice Department revealed its...
“When the World Closed Its Doors, the Dominican Republic Opened Its Arms”
On the golden sands of Alicia Beach, where the Caribbean’s turquoise waves crash against the shore, I found myself caught between two worlds: the vibrant life of the Dominican Republic today and the desperate...
It has been 10 days since Yaakov (Dry Bones) passed away
Sali, the LSW Posting for Yaakov. I was not able to make a blog posting till now. Our dear beloved Yaakov Kirschen passed away on April 14, 2025 at the age of 87. I...
New Internal UNRWA reassessment does not mention education, even though 58% of the 1.6...
António Guterres, the secretary-general of the United Nations, announced on Tuesday that he had named Ian Martin of the United Kingdom to head a strategic review of the impact and future of the U.N....