The Vatican’s top diplomat on Monday condemned both Hamas’ “inhuman and indefensible” Oct. 7 attacks and Israel’s “ongoing massacre” in Gaza, warning that even legitimate self-defense cannot justify the destruction of a “largely defenseless population.” Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state and one of Pope Leo XIV’s advisers, …
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President Donald Trump issued a letter to the Hostages and Missing Families Forum on the second anniversary of the Oct. 7 massacre, thanking them for their appeal to the Norwegian Nobel Committee. “Since the abhorrent events of October 7, 2023, that saw families ripped apart, children torn from their parents’ …
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President Donald Trump celebrated “peace in the Middle East” after he signed the historic peace agreement that ended two years of fighting in Gaza. “At long last, we have peace in the Middle East, and it’s a very simple expression, peace in the Middle East,” Trump said during remarks at …
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Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman is optimistic that President Donald Trump’s newly-brokered Gaza peace deal could bring “a chance for enduring peace” to the Middle East, praising the first-phase agreement Thursday and crediting Trump’s leadership in ending the two-year conflict between Israel and Hamas. “I think it’s an incredibly comprehensive kind …
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President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace deal is earning him rare praise from critics, but he’s blasting Time magazine for what he claimed was an unflattering picture on its latest cover. “Time Magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, but the picture may be the Worst of All Time,” Trump …
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President Donald Trump will spend the first part of the week in the Middle East to oversee a historic peace deal between Israel and Hamas, a landmark agreement expected to end the two-year war in Gaza and bring home the remaining hostages. Before boarding Air Force One, Trump told reporters …
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Emmy Award-winning actress and pro-Israel advocate Patricia Heaton warned Americans that if they don’t speak out against rising antisemitism and anti-West propaganda following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terror attacks in Israel, the United States could face another 9/11. Heaton, along with “#EndJewHatred” and “The Lawfare Project” founder Brooke Goldstein, …
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The saying “If grief could be seen, the world would be covered in black” is often attributed to Francis Weller. For two years, Israel has been wrapped in black. Even when many hostages were freed, the shadow remained. It deepened whenever one of the hundreds of IDF soldiers killed in …
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CNN’s Christiane Amanpour said on Monday that her suggestion that Israeli hostages were treated “better than the average Gazan” was “insensitive and wrong.” Amanpour made her original comments on “CNN News Central” while reporting on the “joy” felt in Israel after the release of 20 Israeli hostages. She acknowledged the …
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A few weeks ago, Israeli-Palestinian peace seemed impossible. On Monday, President Donald Trump was in the Middle East, putting the finishing touches on his Gaza peace plan. It happened so fast, he made it look easy. But achieving peace was neither fast nor easy. It’s the result of a careful, …
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